The ICT Newscast for Friday, October 3, covers a Boston museum celebrating traditional ecological knowledge and Native radio stations at risk. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more.
- Bad River Band of Ojibwe Chairman Robert Blanchard remains concerned about the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.
- Two Wampanoag citizens are bringing traditional ecological knowledge to museum-goers in Boston, Massachusetts.
- WOJB serves the Lac Courte Oreilles Nation in Wisconsin, but funding cuts make for an uncertain future.
- Ernest L. “Ernie” Stevens Jr, a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, led the Indian Gaming Association for 20 years. He died September 26, at age 66. With his advocacy for sovereign nations, tribal gaming now represents the largest sector in the industry, according to the association.
- Charon Asetoyer, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, led the Native American Community Board on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota. With her husband, Clarence Rockboy, they advocated for reproductive justice, family safety, strong communities and culture with unrelenting passion and wisdom, through the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, according to the center.
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