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Delina White and her daughter Sage Davis walk the runway at Quincy Hall April 25 at the Native Nations Fashion Night after showing the Restorative Apparel Co-Design Collection. The designs represent relationships, connection to the land, community, spirituality, identity, healing and sustainability, using primarily upcycled and natural materials. (Bella Haveman, special to ICT)
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Fashioning identity

By Bethel University
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Isabella Star LaBlanc’s character in “True Detective” protests a mining operation in Alaska. While playing Leah Danvers, LaBlanc returned to what it felt like to be 17, but with a new confidence and passion to be heard. “Isabella is a prime example of an artist who is always trying to uplift and speak to challenge perceptions about Native people in a way that's about leaving the art form a better place for all people,” actor and playwright JuCoby Johnson said. (Courtesy photo by Michele K. Short, HBO)
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Representing generations

By Bethel University
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Telling stories through art

By ICT
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Kansas Begaye of Rio Rancho was crowned Miss Indian World at the Annual Gathering of Nations pow wow in 2013
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40 years of Gathering of Nations

By ICT
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Cherokee and Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson (Photo courtesy of Timothy Schenck)
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Choctaw artist to represent US at Venice Biennale

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Senior Artistic Producer Charli Fool Bear sits outside Gremlin Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota as guests show up to watch Bear Grease on March 7, 2024. The theme was “Aunties Night”, so women arrived with their family members to enjoy the production. (Kathryn Kovalenko, Bethel University’s journalism program)
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A sacred space

By Bethel University
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Costumes from 'Killers of the Flower Moon" are on exhibit at ASU Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise Museum in Los Angeles. (Sandra Hale Schulman, ICT)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Oscar fashion, Diné designs, basket cases

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Talk of the Stacks with Tommy Orange and Louise Erdirch on March 19, 2024. Event held by Friends of the Hennepin County Library and Birchbark Books. (Photo by ©Rick Orndorf)
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Tommy Orange blends art and truth in new novel

By Kalle Benallie
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William Prince, left to right, Julian Taylor, Allison Russell, Aysanabee, Shawnee Kish and Logan Staats perform a tribute to Robbie Robertson at the Juno Awards, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Indigenous musicians bring home record wins at Juno Awards

By Miles Morrisseau
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Gregg Deal performing in Colorado in 2023. His band, Dead Pioneers, has performed a handful of shows but hasn't yet looked at nationally touring. (Photo by Jason Myers)
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Punk band not afraid to be 'bad Indians'

By Asa Thomas Metcalfe
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Demian DinéYazhi’s word play work called "we must stop imaging apocalypse_genocide + we must imagine liberation" is on display at the Whitney Museum in New York City. (Photo courtesy of Whitney Museum)
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The Wrap: NYC art, western art, tribal music

By ICT
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Osage singers and dancers perform “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The song is from “Killers of the Flower Moon” and was nominated for a 2024 Oscar for Best Original Song. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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A long history of Indigenous film snubs

By Miles Morrisseau
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The textile-based work of Marie Watt, Seneca, is featured at Print Center New York through May 18, 2024, in "Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation," the artist’s first traveling retrospective and the first to reflect printmaking in her ambitious interdisciplinary work.(Photo courtesy of Argenis Apolinario)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Textile art tales

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Kiawentiio Tarbell arrives at the premiere of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Kiawentiio bends water in ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’

By Kalle Benallie
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A collage of important Native women in filmmaking highlights the speakers at the Matriarchs of Cinema/Women of Influence event set for March 1-8, 2024, as part of the Native Women in Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Native Women in Film & Television)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Native women in film, western music, theater songs and Vegas murals

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Kali Reis, Wampanoag/Cape Verdean, in a scene of "True Detective: Night Country." (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery)
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Kali Reis goes toe-to-toe with Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective’

By Miles Morrisseau
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Writer/producer Sierra Teller Ornelas, left, and writer/actor Jana Schmieding are working together on a new Native sitcom, "Bonnie," about a reservation auntie. CBS has ordered production of a pilot that will determine whether the series will be picked up by the network. (Photo courtesy Sierra Teller Ornelas and Jana Schmieding)
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Native comedy duo team up for new sitcom pilot

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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The comedy troupe 1491s have a new play, “Between Two Knees,” that is set to premiere Feb. 3 in New York City at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center. The play looks at events in Indian Country that occurred between the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and the American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. (Photo illustration courtesy of Perelman Performing Arts Center)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Comedy theater debuts in NYC, beyond ‘Killers,’ and music breaks the ice

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Diné musician and activist Jeneda Benally celebrates with her shelter dog, Mr. Happy Face, after he was crowned the World's Ugliest Dog on June 24, 2022, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Mr. Happy Face, a cross between a Chinese Crested and Chihuahua, died on Dec. 20, 2023 of complications from old age, after spending the last two years of his life with Benally raising funds to help shelter and rez dogs. (Photo courtesy of the Sonoma-Marin Fair)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Farewell to a beautiful 'ugly' dog and more

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in "Echo." Photo courtesy of ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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Marvel Studios spotlights Indigenous antihero in ‘Echo’

By Kalle Benallie
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Sunrise featuring a local group of Apache Crown Dancers, who performed a ceremony at the base of the mountain, at opening day for the 2023/24 season. (Photo courtesy of Sunrise Ski Resort)
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Ski season begins at Indigenous-owned ski resorts

By Kalle Benallie
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Anishinaabe comedian Paul Rabliauskas takes the lead in "Acting Good," the top-ranked television series on top-rated CTV Comedy Channel in Canada. The series, in its second season in 2023, is drawing rave reviews and laughs among Indigenous viewers and others with its look at the fictional northern Manitoba community of Grouse Lake, based loosely on Rabliauskas' life. (Photo courtesy CTV)
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‘Acting Good’ is Canada’s funniest TV show. Get in on the joke

By Miles Morrisseau
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Diné textile artist and weaver Naiomi Glasses, seated in center, has been tapped as designer Ralph Lauren’s first Artist in Residence for the collaborative Polo Ralph Lauren x Naiomi Glasses Collection. The photo includes the cast from the promotional campaign with such high-fashion Indigenous models as Quannah Chasinghorse and Phillip Bread. The collection was unveiled Dec. 5, 2023, and will be spread out over 2024. (Photo by Ryan RedCorn, courtesy of Ralph Lauren)
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Designer fashion, an indie film and LA film fest awards

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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