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WINNIPEG, MB-There's a young man who's been making waves in Winnipeg but this year he's going beyond the city. Michael Redhead Champagne, 27, was named one of the top three influencers under 30 in Manitoba, by the Winnipeg METRO. Already a motivating force in his neighborhood, the North End, 2015 could be the year, Michael or "M.C." could become a force across Canada. The creator of the Aboriginal Youth Opportunities (AYO!), his passion is to engage young people in their...
SULPHUR, OK-They were the metaphorical pickup trucks of their day. Native Americans used them to ferry families across rivers, move trade goods to market and a means of travel. Dugout canoes were difficult to fashion into water-worthy vessels. All were made from a single tree trunk, fire coals placed atop it and then the charred wood was hollowed out with an adze or similar sharp-edged tool made of stone, sea shells and, eventually, metal. In 2000, a group of Florida high...
RALEIGH, NC-Two members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are proud to carry on the fighting traditions of an ancestor who took up arms against the Confederacy. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kelvin Oxendine said his great-grandfather, Henry Berry Lowry, was known as the "Indian Robin Hood." Lowry rose up against the Confederate Home Guard from 1865 to 1872 to protect his land and his people from persecution. "Lowry and his gang helped lay the foundation of justice for my people, gi...
FLANDREAU, SD-The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe donated $10,000 to a food pantry in Moody County, South Dakota. The tribe presented the donation to the Bread Basket at its annual Thanksgiving luncheon. The pantry's director was surprised and extremely grateful for the funds. "We're happy to be able to do it. There was a story recently in the paper that the shelves were getting low and we definitely want to remember people throughout the area," President Tony Reider told The...
VANCOUVER, WA-Wiconi International announced the appointment of Casey Church to be the Interim Director, effective January 1, 2015. Church is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi of Michigan and his wife Lora Church, a member of the Navajo Nation. The Churches have been active members of Wiconi where they have led several activities at the Wiconi Living Waters Family Camp. In 2014, Casey was appointed as the Camp Director. "Casey brings many years of working alongside...
WINNIPEG, MB-According to the Canadian Press, mayoral candidate in Winnipeg's last election has stated that he is seeking the nomination of the Liberal Party in Winnipeg Centre riding in the next federal election. This means that he will be running against veteran Member of Parliament Pat Martin who is a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Ouellette, 38, is a rising star in Manitoba politics. In the mayor's race, he ran with just a small organization but still finished...
WASHINGTON, DC-The White House announced on November 10, 2014, that Dr. Suzan Harjo will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on November 24 at the White House. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private...
Chickasaw Cultural Center Celebrates 4-year anniversary, honored with travel website, newspaper awards Since it opened four years ago, more than 250,000 guests from around the world have visited the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. Many have been impressed with all aspects of the campus, from the natural stone and copper clad buildings to the peaceful trickle of the many water features. These visitors have helped the Chickasaw Cultural Center amass an impressive number of awards, honors and accolades. Three additional...
BEMIDJI, MN-Winds of Change magazine has named Bemidji State University one of the top 200 colleges in the nation for Native American students. The Winds of Change Top 200 Colleges for Native Americans list features schools where American Indians are going to school in significant numbers and where the community, Native programs and support are strong enough for these students to enjoy college and stay on to graduation. The list focuses on a college's native community and supp...
WINNIPEG, MB-Up and coming actress Misty Upham disappeared on October 5 and was later found dead. Actress Juliette Lewis believes that Miss Upham was murdered and she along with Misty's family is calling for an investigation into her murder. Upham appeared in over a dozen films including August: Osage County and Django Unchained. According to her family, she suffered from depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. However, they do not believe that the actress was suicidal.... Full story
CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, BOTSWANA-Hundreds of Bushmen have been beaten, arrested and abused in Botswana according to a recent report from Survival International. The report details over 200 cases of violent abuse recorded between 1992 and 2014, abuses such as a Bushman who died after being tortured; a child shot in the stomach after his father refused police entry to his hut without a warrant; and a Bushman who was buried alive for killing an antelope. Bushmen were illeg...
JUNEAU, AK-Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell finally signed a Native language bill, six months after lawmakers approved it. House Bill 216 designates 20 Native languages as official in Alaska. Parnell intentionally delayed signing it into law in order to present it during the Alaska Federation of Natives convention held October 23-25 in Anchorage. "It passed in April," Georgianna Lincoln, an AFN board member and former state lawmaker, told The Alaska Dispatch News. "One half a year...
CACHE, OK-The Comanche Nation of Oklahoma has offered to buy the Quanah Parker Star House, the home of famed Chief Quanah Parker that's fallen into disrepair: The Star House today belongs to Wayne Gipson and his sister, who inherited it from their uncle, who obtained it through a trade with Quanah Parker's daughter in the 1950s. Quanah's daughter left the future of Star House up to the Gipson's uncle. "... if anything is to be done with the Star House, she felt it would be up...
WINNIPEG, MB-Several hundred gathered at the University of Manitoba's Engineering and Technology Complex to hear Justice Murray Sinclair, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on October 30, speak and issue a challenge on how to alleviate the pain of victims of residential schools. "Things are going to change, and if they're going to change, we need to set the terms of what those future changes are going to result in," Sinclair said. "Reconciliation is...
PHOENIX, AZ-The Heard Museum is proud to present its 11th annual Spirit of the Heard award to Ernest H. Siva (Cahuilla/Serrano). The ceremony took place during the Arizona American Indian Excellence in Leadership Awards on November 4 at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas in Scottsdale, Arizona. "We are honored to bestow this award upon Ernest Siva for his lifetime accomplishments in sharing his deep knowledge of Serrano and Cahuilla language, culture and musical heritage...
MARYVILLE, WA-Leaders and members of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington expressed shock following a fatal shooting at a local public school that left three young people dead and three others injured. News reports identified the shooter as a 14-year-old tribal member who took his life after opening fire at the Marysville-Pilchuck High School on October 24. Two teen students were killed while three others-including two more tribal members-remained in the hospital in critical...
With the 2014 election only a week away, the National Congress of American Indians opened its 71st annual convention on October 27, in Atlanta, Georgia. The event drew thousands to an urban area not necessarily known for its Indian connections. But tribes from the South and Eastern regions provided a warm welcome to delegates as they prepared to hear from government officials on housing, education, health and other issues. The opening day agenda included Jodi Gillette, the Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs at...
WINNIPEG, MB-Métis lawyer Brian Bowman was sworn in as Winnipeg's new mayor on November 4, 2014. The former privacy lawyer's first speech as mayor was an emotional one. According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Bowman appeared "uncharacteristically nervous and choked up when speaking about his Métis heritage and honoring city hall's location in Treaty One territory." The new mayor was not the only Aboriginal candidate who ran for the mayor's office. Saskatchewan-born and raised i...
ANCHORAGE, AK-Thousands of Alaska Natives gathered in Anchorage October 23-25, for the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) annual convention, the state's largest convention of any kind. Some 5,000 people gathered at the Dena'ina Center in Alaska's largest city. This year's conference theme was "Rise as One" with emphasis on unity on issues like language, subsistence and child welfare. While these issues took up much of the discussion and debate, there was a lot of politicking...
WINNIPEG, MB-Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Commissioner and a former Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench associate chief justice Al Hamilton died on July 27 at the age of 87. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Hamilton became a lawyer and then court justice helping the province create its family court division. Perhaps his greatest achievement and the one he will be best remembered for was being co-commissioner along with Murray Sinclair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry (AJI). Hamilton...
TURNER, OR-Aldersgate Conference Center and Campground was once again the beautiful setting for 2014's "Wiconi Living Waters Family Camp" and "The Richard Twiss Memorial and 10th Annual Living Waters Powwow." A special time and place where people from all across Turtle Island of varied heritages, ages, and experiences come together for four days of teachings, testimony, storytelling, food, music, powwow and FUN. What makes this family camp and powwow unique? Jonathon Maracle...
"I love you, my girl!" That was the farewell spoken by Tina Fontaine's mother, who shares the name of her 15-year-old daughter whose body was found in the Red River on Sunday, August 17. Fontaine hadn't seen her daughter in two years. She choked on her words, letting her tears flow freely as she addressed more than 1,000 people at the Oodena Circle at The Forks on Tuesday evening, August 19. She described having detectives come to her door to tell her Tina was dead. The only...
The body of Faron Hall was found in the same river from which he rescued a teen and rose to national celebrity as Winnipeg's "homeless hero." He was recovered from the Red River on August 17, police sources confirmed. Foul play is not suspected. Hall, who was in his late 40s, rose to national prominence in 2009 after he rescued two people from the river in separate incidents, five months apart. His honors included medals, an endowment fund, a room at an expensive hotel,...
GJOA HAVEN, NUNAVUT-One of Sir John Franklin's ships has been found off King William Island in what is today Nunavut. The two ships in the Franklin expedition disappeared during a search for the Northwest Passage that went terribly wrong in 1846. Inuit oral history says that they saw two ships near King William Island. One that was crushed by the ice and the other drifted south. "It's proving the Inuit oral history is very strong," Louie Kamookak, a historian in Gjoa Haven,...
WASHINGTON, DC-Women warriors have always existed in many tribes across Indian Country. Their fearless feats in combat and security for their tribes have long been told in historic and contemporary storytelling. One such woman warrior who has Crow, Hidatsa, Gros Ventre and Northern Cheyenne heritage, has been recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change. "Champions of Change," honors veterans and their families who are doing extraordinary work across the country as le...
