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Indigenous Peoples are among the vulnerable ones when it comes to climate change, and the Obama Administration is using its designated ‘Extreme Heat Week’ May 23-27 to help those on the front line adapt.
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Allison Renville of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate gifts Bernie Sanders with beaded moccasins and sweet grass.
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The White House will be hosting the United State of Women Summit this July 14th. Win a ticket!!
A view of the community of Fort Yates and the Missouri River, which surrounds it. The Tribe has stated that if the Missouri River waters were contaminated, the environmental impacts to the Standing Rock Reservation would be devastating.
2. Native Cooking: B Is for Bison! Try It Over Salad
3. Bill to Help Native Children Considered in Congress
Courtesy U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) bill to improve the lives of Native American children was considered on Wednesday in the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs.
4. Featured Photo: Hereditary Chief Phil Lane at Global Canoe
5. Native American Rock Music
1. Ken St. Marks: NMAI’s Meet Native America Series
Chairman Ken St. Marks, Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. January 2016, Box Elder, Montana.
2. Video: Drone Films Spellbinding Dance of Blue Whale Mother and Calf
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Crew of a boat trolling for poachers in the Antarctic Ocean spotted a rarely seen blue whale and her calf, and sent a drone to get this footage.
3. 6 Prop Bets on Super Bowl 50: Will Beyoncé Culturally Appropriate?
Photo courtesy culturalappropriators.tumblr.com
Beyonce, above, dons a feather headdress. She is slated to perform at halftime during Super Bowl 50 on February 7.
4. Orange Crush: Omaha Tribe Issues Invitation to Peyton Manning for Superbowl 50
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“OMAHA” As Peyton Manning leads the Denver Broncos into Sunday’s 50th Super Bowl against the Carolina Panthers, the Omaha have extended an invitation to Manning to visit the tribe’s homeland in Nebraska.
5. For Diné Beader, Business Is Good During Playoff, Super Bowl Season
Photo courtesy Lilah Sandoval
Lilah Sandoval, Diné, beaded this Bronco medallion. Sandoval was born and raised in Denver, and said a large number of Native Americans in Denver are Broncos fans.
6. Gyasi Ross Schools Mackelmore: White Privilege, White Guilt, and the Role of White Allies
Wesley Roach, Skan Photography
Gyasi Ross just dropped a new track called White Privilege 3.
7. Native Humor: Pow Wow Jokes and More Stick Figure Indian Cartoons
Vincent Schilling
This episode of Native Humor: Pow Wow Jokes and More Stick Figure Indian Cartoons, brought to you by Vincent Schilling.
8. Hilarious! Comic Jonny R. aka ‘The Ojibwe Outlaw’ is Fostering a Career in Laughs
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He is Hilarious! Known as Jonny R., or the Ojibwe Outlaw, the 39-year-old is entering his seventh year in comedy.
9. To Know Where You’re Going, Learn Where You Came From
10. The Revenant’s Elk Dog: A Conversation with Duane Howard
Kimberley French ©Twentieth Century Fox
Elk Dog portrayed by Duane Howard on the site of ‘The Revenant’
1. Native American Holidays and Traditions
2. The History of the Soyaluna
4. 11 Recommended Books: Retired Teachers Donate Hundreds of Books to Red Lake Nation College
Photo by Michael Meuers
Ruth and Leo Soukup posing with the 700 books they donated to Red Lake Tribal College discuss who “snagged” who when they met at Ponemah in 1979 as teachers.
5. Climate Change and the Seventh Generation: Navajo Environmentalist Ann Marie Chischilly at COP21
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Ann Marie Chischilly, executive director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)
6. Recovering Ancestors and the Sacred
AP Photo/Francois Mori
“The human rights issue of repatriation is not limited to the United States, and extends internationally, which has been recognized by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
7. Judging ‘Indian Character’ in Nebraska v. Parker
8. Native American Christmas
9. Native American Night Before Christmas (2006)
10. O Holy Night – Sung by Rhema Marvanne
1. Tats Incredible: The Revival of Indigenous Ink
2. Gold King Mine Could Have Been Prevented
Courtesy La Plata Office of Emergency Management
The Animas River as it appeared on August 6, 2015, a day after a contractor working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accidentally let loose three million gallons of toxic sludge. The river flows through the Southern Ute Tribe reservation.
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as Bernie Sanders, left, and Martin O’Malley prepare before a Democratic presidential primary debate, Saturday, November 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa.
4. Native Fashion Movement Celebrated at Peabody Essex Museum
Courtesy Orlando Dugi, Sante Fe
Dress designed by Orlando Dugi, Navajo. Cape and dress from “Desert Heat” Collection, 2012. Paint, silk, organza, feathers, beads, and 24k gold; feathers. Hair and makeup: Dina DeVore. Model: Mona Bear.
5. Indians Still Lagging on Home Ownership
6. Obama Doesn’t Understand American Indian History
7. Treaty Rights Triumph: First Nation Peel Watershed Protectors Win Against Yukon Government
The Yukon government wants to allow up to 80 percent of the pristine Peel watershed developed for mining and other interests. Four First Nations say no.
8. Native American Indian Spirit of Meditation
1. How to Force the Telecoms to Deliver Fiber-Optic to Reservations
2. #Redskinsnomore: A New YouTube Video Breaks New Ground
3. Saving Native Languages and Culture in Mexico With Computer Games
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4. Seneca Presidential Candidate Named to Smithsonian Repatriation Committee
5. Report Says More Than 2,000 Native American Mascots Are Not Contested
