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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...
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...
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
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...
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...
