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October 26, 2023
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‘Our children came home with moccasins’
By Charles Fox, Special to ICT
Beaded moccasins confiscated from a Native boy at the Carlisle school more than 100 years ago finally return to their homelands … continue reading
Kelley Bova, right, receives a hug after speaking to a group of elders at the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota on Sept. 23, 2023. Bova, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, brought home a pair of moccasins that had been confiscated from a Native boy at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania more than 100 years ago. They were repatriated to the tribe along with the remains of two students who died there in the late 1800s.
By Joaqlin Estus
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was in Alaska as part of her latest Road to Healing tour … continue reading
Detail of the Boarding School Healing Totem Pole, carved by Joe and T.J. Young, Haida. The lower portion of the pole represents a bear holding on to her cubs. Next comes a raven transforming into a human, with a male figure nestled beneath it and two children above it. The children represent the future of people being able to see far and live with their feet in two worlds, both the past of our ancestors and the present.
GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Treaty rights at center of lobster, fishing dispute in Canada
By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending October 22, 2023 … continue reading
Members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation attend a ceremony on the the wharf in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, to bless the fleet before it launches its own self-regulated fishery on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. The First Nation says a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, known as the Marshall decision, granted the Mi’kmaq the right to catch and sell lobster outside of the regular fishing season.
ICT Newscast with Aliyah Chavez
Osage tragedy on the big screen
On the red carpet and Osage consultants who worked on the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ Wab Kinew takes office as the 25th Premier of the Province of Manitoba … continue reading
“Killers of the Flower Moon” opened this past weekend. The film is based on the murders of Osage tribal citizens in the 1920s.
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