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Looking for Indigenous history? ‘Shekon Neechie’ website recentres Indigenous perspectives

Shekon Neechie: An Indigenous History Site is a website created by seven established Indigenous scholars on June 21, 2018. Among our editorial board, four hold research chair positions and two direct academic units of Indigenous Studies at Canadian universities.

The Conversation

Latino advocates in California call on president Biden to protect Chuckwalla lands

They met with President Joe Biden's administration and members of Congress in Washington.

Latin Times

Canadian woman gets three years’ jail in first ever sentencing for a ‘Pretendian’

Karima Manji, whose daughters accessed over C$150,000 in benefits for Inuit residents, pleaded guilty in February

The Guardian - US

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Brats, dragons and supermodels – what to see and listen to this week

In 2022, it was estimated that more than 4,200 cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women remained unsolved in the US. To make a film that explores this injustice with dignity and authenticity is no mean feat. To make a film that does so, and still has the joy of…

The Conversation

Fancy Dance on Apple TV+ review: Lily Gladstone proves she doesn't need Scorsese to shine

Gladstone and young co-star Isabel Deroy-Olson are superb as a Native American aunt and niece kicking against the system in new Apple TV+ drama

Evening Standard

Fancy Dance film review: heartbreaking but beautiful tale draws attention to the struggles of reservation life

Fancy Dance is a powerful, disquieting film. Written, directed and acted by Native Americans, it gives an unflinching view of life on the rez (reservation). Writer and director, Erica Tremblay (of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation) does not shy away from showing the darker side of things, including the frequent murder of…

The Conversation

Water-rich Gila River tribe near Phoenix flexes its political muscles in a drying West

The Gila River Indian Community near Phoenix has one of the largest shares of Colorado River water flowing through Arizona

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Fancy Dance review – Lily Gladstone shines in knotty Native American family drama

Film-maker Erica Tremblay tells a thoughtful tale about a woman’s battle to care for her niece against backdrop of the authorities’ ambivalence towards Native American peoples

The Guardian - UK

Native American ceremony will celebrate birth of white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park

Ceremonies and celebrations are planned near the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park to mark the recent birth of a white buffalo calf in the park, a spiritually significant event for many Native American tribes

The Independent UK

Bad Press review – Native American journalists’ thrilling battle for free speech

This documentary’s plunge into the fight to regain editorial independence for Oklahoma’s Muscogee Nation is a murky, twisty tale

The Guardian - UK

'We Are Not Trash': Horrors Suffered By Canada's Indigenous Women

A mountain of windswept garbage. But when "we're being disposed of like garbage in landfills, that clearly says something is very wrong in this country."

International Business Times

Indigenous data sovereignty can help save British Columbia’s wild salmon

Non-Indigenous scientists increasingly realize that Indigenous data are key to solving today’s environmental challenges.

The Conversation

Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago

Illinois is poised to right a 175-year-old wrong by returning land in northern Illinois guaranteed to a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chief in 1829

The Independent UK

‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

The film-maker talks about her friendship with her debut feature’s star, and why the industry has woken up to her culture’s storytelling

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Native tribes on banning Kristi Noem from reservations: ‘She’d be charged with trespassing’

The far-right governor’s comments about Indigenous Americans have crossed a line for all nine tribes in her state

The Independent UK

It's the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere

It is the longest bridge ever built in Peru, a massive structure of cement and iron spanning the Nanay River as it connects to untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon

The Independent UK

Indigenous women in Ecuador take on soccer by inventing a sport: handball in traditional skirts

In the Indigenous community of Turucu, near the active Cotacachi volcano in northern Ecuador, soccer had always been a man’s thing

Salon

The haunting of Reagan's corruption

For the last 40 years, it has been a slide down a slippery slope into authoritarianism and ignorance

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US admits dams in Pacific north-west have devastated Native Americans

US says dams killed off salmon, inundated villages and burial grounds, and spirited wealth away from tribes

The Conversation

‘Decolonizing Lens’: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews

Decolonizing Lens is a film and discussion series based in Winnipeg that brings together Indigenous filmmakers, their films and audiences as a form of public education.

The Independent UK

‘Fancy Dance’ with Lily Gladstone balances heartbreak, humor in story of a missing Indigenous woman

In “Fancy Dance,” Lily Gladstone stars as Jax, who is searching for her missing sister and caring for her young niece

The Independent UK

Prestigious Dulwich prep school drops Native American house names after cultural appropriation complaints

The houses have been renamed after mythical creatures

The Independent UK

Through connection to their land, Tarahumara runners are among Mexico's most beloved champions

They were born to run

The Independent UK

A few midwives seek to uphold Native Hawaiian birth traditions. Would a state law jeopardize them?

A group of midwives who focus on traditional Native Hawaiian birth practices are trying to block a Hawaii law that requires midwives to obtain licenses

The Independent UK

Report uncovering biased policing in Phoenix prompts gathering in support of the victims

Supporters of over two dozen alleged victims of civil rights violations at the hands of Phoenix police plan to speak out a day after a scathing Justice Department report

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