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Photo: Voters at the Black Coal Senior Center say they are voting for tribal candidates and those that support tribal programs like public transportation. (Melodie Edwards / Wyoming Public Radio)
Voters in Alaska were not the only ones heading to the polls this week.
Primaries were also held Tuesday in Florida and Wyoming.
In Wyoming, some voters on the Wind River Reservation told Wyoming Public Radio that transportation to polling places remains an issue.
Voters also expressed a desire for more tribal candidates and greater representation of Native culture in schools.
Statewide, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, won her party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.
In Florida, state Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, scored an upset in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, defeating former national security official Alexander Vindman.
Nixon will face Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November.
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Florida, also won his party’s nomination for Florida governor.
California voters also went to the polls Tuesday in a special congressional election.
Dallas Cowboys rookie Shiyazh Pete. (Courtesy University of Kentucky Athletics)
It is NFL preseason and the Arizona Cardinals will take on the Dallas Cowboys this Saturday in Glendale, Ariz.
As KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, you might see a Navajo rookie take the field at State Farm Stadium.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is optimistic for this season.
“I’m even more excited today than I was when we started camp, that our team is going to be one that, if we can have some things go right for us, avoid some injury. We could really be something.”
Among those fighting to make the Cowboys’ roster is undrafted free agent Shiyazh Pete, who is believed to be the first Navajo player to sign an NFL contract.
“I was quite, quite a specimen. I mean, really, didn’t really have no one to kind of relate to in terms of height. I’ve always been asked questions of, you know, how tall are you? How’s the weather up there?”
Originally from Montana, the 6-foot-8 300-pound offensive lineman went to Shiprock High School on the Navajo Nation.
He then walked on at New Mexico State University before transferring to the University of Kentucky, eventually signing with the Cowboys this spring.
“It’s a great honor – to put on the star is again surreal. But again, I have to earn that star. I wouldn’t say I’m an official Cowboy yet.”
But Pete has that chance to prove he belongs on “America’s Team”.
Robert Nutlouis stands in a completed hogan in Navajo Nation. (Courtesy WGBH Educational Foundation)
A new PBS documentary is highlighting Indigenous scientific knowledge developed and passed down over thousands of years.
The NOVA special “Knowledge Keepers” explores how Native communities have used observation, experimentation, and relationships with the natural world to develop approaches to science.
The film looks at practices ranging from ancient sea farming and celestial navigation in the Arctic to ways of adapting to the harsh climate of the desert Southwest.
The documentary also examines efforts by Indigenous knowledge keepers to preserve those practices and how that knowledge could help address challenges today.
“Knowledge Keepers” was produced in partnership with Vision Maker Media and directed by Fort Yuma Quechan filmmaker Daniel Golding.
It premieres September 23 on PBS.
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