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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....
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...
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...
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...
CANNON BALL, ND-U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made a historic visit to Indian Country on June 13, meeting with youth and attending a powwow hosted by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. The Obamas touched down in Cannon Ball, a small community on the reservation, around 2:49 p.m., not far behind the official schedule. "I never thought I'd see a president landing in our front yard, you know?" Alycia Yellow Eye told The Grand Forks Herald.... Full story
OTTAWA, ON-The highest court in Canada issued a landmark decision June 26, 2014, recognizing Native title in British Columbia and defining what it means. The Tsilhqot'in Nation, a coalition of First Nations, laid claim to about 656 square miles (1,750 kilometers) in the western region of the province. The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed their title to the land and said they have a right to use, enjoy and profit from it. "In simple terms, the title holders have the right to...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM-Chester Nez-the last remaining original Navajo Code Talker-went to receive his reward on Wednesday, June 3rd. Sources close to the family say that Nez died peaceably. He was 93 years old. The Navajo Code Talkers are credited to have helped change the face of World War II, using their native Navajo language as a basis of communication between American forces. The code developed-a combination of Navajo and secret words-was never broken by the Japanese forces. As...
WINNIPEG, MB-In late March, Phillip Flett, known to a number of INDIAN LIFE readers, passed on to his heavenly home. He was well-known for his singing and had been nominated for an Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award a couple years prior. His funeral was held at First Nations Community Church in Winnipeg on March 26. Our condolences and prayers are with his family....
Gaborone, Botswana-President Khama of Botswana, has banned all hunting nationwide, even for Bushmen who hunt to feed their families-but an exception is being made for trophy hunters paying up to $8,000 to hunt giraffes and zebras. Wealthy tourists are being invited to travel to Botswana to hunt big game on private ranches that have been exempted from the ban. But Bushmen from Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, who have hunted with spears, bows and arrows for thousands...
VANCOUVER, BC-The recent screening of a film that reveals through disturbing eyewitness accounts the horrors of the residential school system could become a catalyst for healing between First Nations peoples and Asian evangelicals. "People have been working hard at that already," says Daniel Louie, pastor of Urban Village Church, "but this is one of the first times I've seen it most publicly brought to the front. I don't think that necessarily big events fix things, but I thin...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM—The world’s largest gathering of Native American and Indigenous people took place on Thursday, April 24, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 31st Annual Gathering of Nations, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in the North America, again hosted tens of thousands of people and more than 700 tribes from throughout the United States, Canada, and around the world. The three-day event included more than 3,000 Native American singers and dancers co...
Charisma, culture and cuteness abounded at Hard Rock Live when 31 girls and 10 boys graced the stage in full Seminole garb to vie for the Little Mr. and Miss Seminole titles. After the judges' votes were calculated, Madasyn Osceola, 7, of Big Cypress, took the Little Miss crown and Roberto Benard, 7, captured the Little Mr. title. "It's great to have all this support encouraging this kind of participation because it's really great to start young," said Miss Seminole Tia...
QUITO, ECUADOR (ANS)-The first believer among the Waodani, previously known as Auca, language community in Ecuador, Dayuma Caento, died on March 1, 2014. According to a missionary prayer update from Wycliffe Associates, she was approximately 80 years old. In 1956, five missionaries lost their lives attempting to make contact with this group. Two years later, God used Dayuma to open the way for Elizabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint to begin language work among the Waodani. Dayuma...
OTTAWA, ON-If you were born in Canada before 1980, you will most likely remember what's now become known as "The Sixties Scoop." This is when thousands of First Nations babies and children were adopted out to non-Native families. These victims are now adults and from all accounts, many if not all, bear emotional scars from this major event in Canadian history. They now want the Government of Canada to apologize as they have done to former students of Residential Schools....
OTTAWA, ON-Shawn Atleo has resigned as Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations over the federal government's proposed overhaul of Aboriginal education. The AFN chief announced his decision at a news conference in Ottawa on May 2. Chiefs from across the government have been divided over the Canadian government's First Nations education bill and Atleo had faced calls for his ouster on social media and criticism from some regional chiefs over his support for the overhaul....
