June is National Indigenous History Month. To celebrate our accomplishments CBC Indigenous is sharing stories highlighting First Nations, Inuit and Métis trailblazers in law, medicine, science, sports — and beyond. Perseverance is what comes to mind when Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin reflects on Indigenous peoples and the law. Perseverance, she says, is the thread uniting Indigenous […]
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Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice could thunder down and imperil […]
Survey Says Nearly Two-Thirds of South Dakota Educators Use Indigenous Standards
This article was originally published in South Dakota Searchlight. Survey results indicate nearly two-thirds of South Dakota public school educators are teaching the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, but the number of respondents is lower than the last survey. The essential understandings are a set of standards approved in 2018 for teaching students about Native American […]
Indigenous Clovis, Hanford students were blocked, at first, from wearing traditional regalia
High school graduation is usually a joyous, celebratory moment for students and their families. Yet, for some Indigenous students, it has become a time of stress over what students are allowed to wear at graduation ceremonies. Students, like Jennie Rocha from Clovis, were told they could not wear Indigenous regalia customized by their tribal family […]
Albuquerque market highlights Indigenous businesses
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local business is helping Indigenous businesses throughout Albuquerque. On Sunday, they used a mini-market to do so. Home Grown Trading Post near 4th and Menaul invited about 16 indigenous vendors to the parking lot of their shop. 2024 Special Olympics NM Summer Games come to an end From Native American dresses to […]
Buffalo project helps restore prairie while reconnecting indigenous tribes with heritage
A late-morning mist drifting over a herd of shaggy buffalo ambling across a quiet prairie in northwest Indiana creates an iconic scene harkening back to before Indiana became a state in 1816. But this is 2024. And these buffalo are part of a unique project spearheaded by the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy. While […]
Indigenous girl missing from Cimarron Hills
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is asking the community for help locating an indigenous 15-year-old girl missing from the east side. The CBI sent a Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Leah Black, who was last seen on Thursday, May 23 at 5 p.m. walking south on Constitution Avenue. She is missing […]
Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia amid deadly unrest and indigenous frustration
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long sought independence. “He will go there tonight,” government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot said after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday where the president […]
Red Lake’s Holly Cook Macarro brings Indigenous advocacy to Washington
May 15—It felt surreal, to say the least, for Holly Cook Macarro to be sitting between two U.S. presidents, visiting and sharing a meal in a room full of famous and prominent individuals during a White House State Dinner. Cook Macarro couldn’t help but think back to where she had started — growing up in […]
‘Much more to do’ to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, U.S. Attorney’s Office says
May 6—GRAND FORKS — U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, in recognition of National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, spoke about the federal government’s ongoing efforts and concerns for public safety in Indigenous communities. “There is still so much more to do in the face of persistently high levels of violence that tribal […]
Over 100 people attend day honoring missing and murdered NM Indigenous people
May 5—At about 3:45 a.m. Aug. 1, 2021, Geraldine Toya was sleeping at her Jemez Pueblo home when she got the phone call any parent dreads. Toya said an Albuquerque police officer told her that her daughter, Shawna Toya, 40, was dead. Geraldine said Shawna was found unresponsive in a vehicle at an Albuquerque park […]
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Epidemic is Real in Indian Country
Opinion. Native News Online’s most read article this past week was not about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) epidemic that has gripped Indian Country. Instead it was about South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem, who killed a dog because she deemed the pup untrainable to become a hunting dog. Yes, she is the same […]