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WASHINGTON, DC—Leaders of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma helped unveil the 1790 Treaty of New York as part of an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The treaty was the first agreement between the tribe and the newly-formed United States. It has never been displayed in public until now. “This is a historic moment recognizing the relationship we’ve had with the U.S. for a number of centuries,” Justin Giles, the interim director of the Muscogee Nation Cultural Center said in a press r...
TORONTO, ON-KAIROS Canada is hosting Time for Reconciliation to coincide with and complement the close of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), taking place May 29, May 30 and June 1 at Carleton University and Christ Church in Ottawa, Ontario. Time for Reconciliation's sessions and workshops are structured around three themes: Recognition and Reconciliation, Decolonization, and Honoring Indigenous Rights. Speakers include Marie Wilson, TRC Commissioner; Bisho...
VANCOUVER, WA-The countdown for Wiconi's 11th annual "Living Waters" Family Camp has begun. The camp begins on Thursday, July 23, and ends Sunday, July 26, at noon. According to Family Camp Coordinator Gary Eastty, everyone is invited and welcome. "There will be 'hanging out' recreational times, excellent teaching and fun activities for all ages." Registration for camp began on May 1, 2015. The theme this year will be the critically important topic of "Suicide Prevention"...
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, MO-On Eagles' Wings, the Native American outreach of Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, is calling all youth 15 to 35 to their 2015 Warrior Leadership Summit on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri from June 28-July 3. OEW is expecting teens and young adults from over 100 tribes to attend. This year's featured musicians and speakers include Trip Lee, Lacy Sterm (Flyleaf), Emcee One, Bobby Dean,TJ Valtierra, and Ron Hutchcraft. Register before June 18, $25; After $35....
BEMIDJI, MN-Beginning July 17, BSU's Niibinishi Gabeshi summer camp program offers a unique opportunity for students to capture the essence of Ojibwe culture with an intensive language program and reading sessions, workshops, and group conversations about shared assumptions regarding issues such as culture and communication. The two-week camp is offered as a pair of one-week sessions, July 13-17 and July 20-24; campers return home for the weekend between sessions. Campers...
VANCOUVER, BC-Rev. Ray Aldred has been appointed the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at Vancouver School of Theology. Ray is status Cree from Treaty 8 land in Northern Alberta. Born in Northern Alberta and raised in the country outside of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Ray's first pastorate was the First Nations Alliance Church of Regina, Saskatchewan. While pastoring there he served as the Director of the First Nations Alliance Church of Canada from 1996-2004. There he...
MONTGOMERY, AL-On the 50th anniversary of the world-altering Civil Rights march into Montgomery and Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech from the statehouse steps, The Reconciled Church movement-Christian leaders, nationally, from across denominational and racial lines, armed with a seven-point plan-continues the march to racial equity, peace and justice. "The Church sparked and stoked the Civil Rights Movement, and the march continues," Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor o...
RED VALLEY, AZ-Tragedy struck the Navajo Nation on March 19, as a domestic dispute turned deadly leaving Navajo Police Officer Alex Yazzie and his assailant, Justin Fowler, 24, dead. Two other Navajo police officers were wounded in the attack on remote highway Navajo Route 13. Navajo Police Officer Herbert Fraizer was shot in the shin and Officer James Hale was shot in the right leg. The tragedy began about six hours prior to the fatal shootings, when Jordon Fowler called the...
A literally unholy alliance composed of the loony left and some right-leaning libertarians has been peddling the idea that prostitution is a "victimless" crime. Willing seller and willing buyer and it's no business of ours, so stop enforcing vice laws. Except that's not the case at all. Young runaways are being forced into prostitution by evil human traffickers. A current hotbed for sex trafficking is North Dakota, where the oil drilling boom has attracted hordes of young and...
WHEATON, IL-The North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS) is coming to Wheaton College, Illinois, June 4-6, 2015, for their 12th annual symposium. This year's theme is "Theologies of Reconciliation: les sauvages et le sophistiqué." The purpose of each year's symposium is to facilitate open dialogue about various aspects of Indigenous history and experience in the context of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Symposium planners hope that participants will...
WASHINGTON, DC-The United States Senate unanimously passed an anti-human trafficking bill on April 23, intended to fight against the horrors of kidnapping and sex trafficking in the U.S. and throughout the world. The passage of this bill was delayed by the Democrats who obstructed allowing a vote on this legislation due to an anti-abortion amendment attached to the bill. S.178, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, creates a Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund to help...
WASHINGTON, DC-Each year, the President of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) presents the State of Indian Nations address to members of Congress, government officials, tribal leaders and citizens, and the American public. This year, President Brian Cladoosby delivered his address at the Newsmuseum across from the U.S. Capitol building. "I want to thank the Creator for this beautiful day," Cladoosby began. "...for allowing me the privilege of representing Indian...
OTTAWA, ON—A national roundtable discussion on missing and murdered Aboriginal women was held in Canada’s capital city on February 27. It was attended by three representatives of those who have relatives who were killed or are missing. Also in attendance were the premiers of Ontario, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories along with Canada’s Status of Women Minister Minister Kellie Keitch and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was invited but was not there. Hosted by the Assem...
WINNIPEG, MB-Métis MP Rod Bruinooge, 41, is leaving federal politics. He announced on January 7, 2015 that he won't seek re-election at the end of his current term. "It's hard not to be around for things," the Conservative Member of Parliament told the Winnipeg Free Press. "When I was first elected I didn't even have kids." He has an eight-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son. After the death of his father-in-law over the holidays, Bruinooge decided he wanted to spend...
When Winnipeg’s Inuit Art Centre opens its doors, it will be a lot more than a gallery. “It will be a place for learning, exploration, education, training,” says Winnipeg Art Gallery CEO, Stephen Borys. “Most importantly we’d like to think of it as a forum and a place for the Inuit voice to be heard in the South.” The Winnipeg Art Gallery already has 14,000 Inuit prints, carvings, statues and other art pieces, making up half of its entire collection. It’s billed as the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art in...
WINNIPEG, MB—In view of the recent report calling Winnipeg “Canada’s most racist city,” The Student Association at the University of Winnipeg has come up with an idea. UWSA President Rorie McLeod announced that they are proposing making taking a course in Indigenous Studies a requirement for all incoming students. New students to the university would be required to take three credit hours in Indigenous history and culture. This is as much as a semester-long course. This would be mandatory in order to graduate. If this pr...
WINNIPEG, MB—Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to decide if they are going to ask the Vatican to get rid of the “Papal Bulls of Discovery” from the 15th-century which gave explorers in those times the right to conquer the New World and Indigenous Peoples in those lands. Justice Murray Sinclair says they are considering making this request because of the impact that Residential Schools had on Aboriginal people and the part that the 1455 and 1493 Catholic decrees had played in all of this. The Commiss...
WOUNDED KNEE, SD-On the 124th Anniversary of the Chief Bigfoot Band Memorial Ride the riders arrived at the gravesite of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre victims on the Pine Ridge Reservation. This ride of over 150 miles began on the Cheyenne River Reservation and honors the more than 300 men, women and children slaughtered at Wounded Knee. Beginning with the shooting death of Sitting Bull on the Standing Rock Reservation on December 15, 1890, a small band of Hunkpapa left to se...
WATERLOO, ON—Christopher Alcantara, an associate professor of Political Science at Laurier, has been awarded the Canadian Studies Network’s Prize for the Best Book in Canadian Studies. Alcantara received the prize for his book, Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada, published in March 2013. The Canadian Studies Network, an organization that supports the scholarly study of Canada, awards the Prize for the Best Book in Canadian Studies to an author or authors whose work on a Canadian subject bes...
WASHINGTON, DC-The U.S. Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is the cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to...
WASHINGTON, DC-U.S. President Barack Obama announced an initiative on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, aimed at improving conditions and opportunities for American Indian youth, more than a third of whom live in poverty. Obama's Generation Indigenous initiative calls for programs focused on better preparing young American Indians for college and careers, and developing leadership skills through the Department of Education and the Aspen Institute's Center for Native American...
CLOQUET/CARLTON, MN-Over a wintery weekend in the middle of November 2014, over 155 Native American university students from 55 different tribal groups gathered from across Turtle Island at the Fond du Lac Tribal Community College in Cloquet, Minnesota for the annual conference of the Native Ministries of Inter-Varsity and Cru that's become known as WOULD JESUS EAT FRYBREAD? In addition to getting to know one another, and just having great fun, the students studied the life...
The Inuits are indigenous people that inhabit the arctic regions of Canada, the United States and Greenland and throughout history their very lives have been dependent on being able to correctly forecast weather.... and they are warning NASA and the world that global warming isn't the cause of what we are seeing with extreme weather, earthquakes and other events. The earth has shifted, tilted or as they put it, "wobbled" to the north and they all agree "Their sky has... Full story
WINNIPEG, MB-Saskatchewan's regional chief Perry Bellegarde won a decisive majority vote on December 10, 2014, when he earned support from 63 percent of Canada's chiefs to become the new Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations replacing Shawn Atleo who resigned last May over his support for the on-reserve education reform Canada's government was proposing. With 291 votes, Bellegarde came out ahead of Quebec's Ghislain Picard (136) and Ontario's Leon Jourdain (35). The... Full story
GRAND FORKS, ND-The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota is in the middle of an energy boom but tribal members say they aren't seeing any of the benefits. Blessed with oil-and-gas-rich shale formations underlying Fort Berthold, the MHA government collects about $25 million in royalties a month. All in all, the tribe has collected about $1 billion in oil money since the fracking bonanza took off in 2008. And yet life for much of the MHA Nation is mostly bleak. Pov... Full story
