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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...
