April 15, 2024
Toni Wakemup (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa) was at her tribe’s Mid-Winter Powwow — an event she helps organize — last year when she received a text message that would change her life.
Currents
WASHINGTON — In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently.
From Our Partners
California Indian Nations College (CINC), in collaboration with Kumeyaay Community College (KCC) and the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities (White House Initiative), hosted its inaugural Native American/Indigenous Education Summit on March 22-23, 2024. The event took place inside the Santos Manuel Student Union Building at California State University of San Bernardino (CSUSB).
Growing up Native can be hard. Because my skin was dark, in second grade kids told me, “You look dirty.” I felt different, like I didn’t belong.
Opinion
Opinion. In recent weeks, the national media has highlighted the fact Americans seem to have amnesia about the Trump presidency.
Guest Opinion. Cherokee Nation is on the leading edge of health care for Native peoples. Thanks to our investments in world class care, we operate the largest tribal health system in the United States. Cherokees and other Native Americans come from across the country to get medical care at our facilities.
Sovereignty
The remains of 11 Native American children who died more than a century ago at a government-run Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania will be going home to their closest living relatives this September, the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries announced in a federal notice on April 9.
Fourteen tribal nations, tribal schools and colleges, and state organizations will initiate community projects to capture, preserve, and educate about the impact of the Federal Indian Boarding School era, thanks to $411,000 in funding announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 10.
Education
Center will hold open house featuring tours, food and music on April 3
The American Indian College Fund invites Native Americans working in academia to participate in Indigenous higher education policy listening sessions. The information gathered during the listening sessions will help future Native higher education policy.
Arts & Entertainment
ALLENDALE, Mich. — Hundreds gathered this past weekend in the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) fieldhouse this past week in Allendale, Michigan, near Grand Rapids, for the 2024 "Cele brating All Walks of Life" Powwow .
Ruth-Ann Thorn, a citizen of the Rincon Band of Luiseño/ Payómkawichum Indians in Southern California, owns several art galleries and now, a steadily growing beauty business. She currently resides in Paloma Valley where her family has lived since time immemorial. In 2018, she moved back to the reservation to take care of her father, and while there, found her passion for reconnecting with her roots and serving her people.
Health
Environment
The United States Department of Justice filed an Amicus Brief on April 10 siding with Wisconsin’s Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in their belief that Line 5— a huge underground pipeline carrying fuel from Wisconsin to Canada— trespasses on Native land.
The Makah Indian Tribe of Northwest coastal Washington just received a nearly $300K boon from the federal government to bolster its climate change readiness with ocean mapping.