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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—Young people in an Aboriginal village in Australia have developed their own language, The New York Times reports. Warlpiri rampaku includes features of Walpiri, an indigenous language, English and Kriol, a language based on English that’s used by different groups of Aboriginal people. But linguists say the young people in the village of Lajamanu created their own words and grammar that make Warlpiri rampaku an entirely new language. “These young people have developed something entirely new,” linguis...
OGLALA, SD—Students at Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota are learning about solar energy. It started with a spark—an interest in green energy. This glimmer of curiosity led Lyle Wilson, an instructor at Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota and U.S. Army veteran, to start researching renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and geothermal. Now sparked by Lyle’s interest, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation are finding new possi...
WINNIPEG, MB—Providence University College and The North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS) signed an agreement in principle to offer a Bachelor’s degree in Community Development Studies. The program will be designed and delivered by Indigenous people and will provide learning-by-doing through incorporating a significant component of in-community internship. The degree will begin accepting students in the fall of 2013 with a program start Jan...
We will not be silent anymore of the wounds that ache us We will not fall victim anymore To the lie that enslaves us We need Your mercy to fall on the broken to rest on the weary soul We need a breakthrough in power and freedom to set free our prisoned hope We dare to believe We dare to believe That You’ll do what You said You would do We’re down on our knees We’re down on our knees This can’t be how You meant it to be We long to see We long to see A new release of Your pr...
CORNELLA DEL TERRI, SPAIN—In early June, Indian Life received an urgent request from David Frank of L’Arcada Camp in Spain, for a Native American person or couple to work with kids at the camp, sharing with the campers about Native American culture and giving their testimony. After a couple attempts to find someone, at the last minute, RainSong’s Terry Wildman put Indian Life in contact with Sean Stands Good Soukkala in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As we go to press, we have recei...
RAPID CITY, SD—Back in the days of the Viet Nam War, a kid who got into trouble could choose to go into the military or go to jail. Today that choice is no longer an option. According to US Army National Guard Sergeant First Class Richard Kirkpatrick, “Today we want the better people. We want the people who are there because they want to be.” Some of the youngest recruits join as a way to pay for college while learning a skill, and yet others are just looking to live a better...
For the many people that were disconnected from their culture, whether through boarding schools, adoption or a multitude of other reasons, a play is in development by professional Broadway actors with a full Native cast and input from the Blackfoot Tribe in Montana. The first reading of the show was done at “Native Voices at the Autry” in Los Angeles, a workshop where Indigenous people throughout the country participate in the development of Native theatre projects. Acc...
Frybread and grape Shasta soda—my first communion since moving to the rez. It had been a while. I shared this meal with a group of new friends—Native American Christians from Alaska, Florida, Hawai’i, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, and here in the Navajo nation, to name a few places. And there were a few bilagáanas, and those like me who are neither. We broke frybread together, youth and elders, each handing the elements to our neighbors. Our solemnity was punctuated only b...
BOISE, ID—In the spirit of collaboratively honoring the 2010 Memorandum of Agreement between Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and Idaho State University, in part to promote educational access, ISU Native American Academic Services and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes 477 Program announce the “Knowledge and Awareness Nexus” (KAN) pilot program. The KAN Project is a program for students interested in attending college for the first time or for those that are re-entering school after sever...
CUSTER, SD—The spirit of Crazy Horse was present during a recent Native American memorial and honoring horse ride. Lakota riders from various reservations in South Dakota banded together along with non-Native American riders to honor military veterans during the almost week-long journey. Pine Ridge, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations were well represented during the 140-mile ride, which kicked off June 29 in Pine Ridge. The Akicita Sungakan Okolakiciye, or W...
Quentin Harris (Salish) is a respected Northwest Coast First Nations artist and carver. He grew up on British Columbia’s coast in the town of Maple Ridge. He has been teaching Aboriginal art and culture for School District #42 for several years. His art is balanced between pushing the creative boundaries of Native art and his discoveries of spiritual truth. He is passionate about connecting First Nations’ arts and culture with Christianity. He would like to see First Nat...
Editor's Note: Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who claims Native American Ancestry, qualified for a spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic swim team. Ervin's father is Native American and African-American. OMAHA, NE--After one of the early rounds of the 50-meter freestyle here at the U.S. Trials, Anthony Ervin came out of the water and went over for one of those quicky interviews with NBC's Andrea Kremer. Everyone knows the deal. Except with Anthony Ervin, nothing is ever quite what you...
