Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Search Results for: april 12
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Blackfeet members can register to vote without having to leave the reservation
Indian Health Service official discusses reform at hospitals in Great Plains area
Lakota language teachers, speakers, and learners work to keep language alive
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Native leaders call for federal investigation into police shooting death of Navajo woman
Chief Wahoo faces new challenge as baseball season begins for Ohio’s Cleveland Indians
Lac du Flambeau woman named first female general in Wisconsin Army National Guard
Friday, April 1, 2016
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Sicangu leader says Black Hills peak will always be known by its traditional Native meaning as board decides name
Voting advocates take part in New Mexico convention to learn ways to get out the Native vote in tribal communities
Monday, April 20, 2015
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Metis Nation of Saskatchewan in Canada closes its doors after reported political infighting
Alaska Native leaders and advocates praise effort to keep Native children with Native families
Oklahoma tribe to host event in observance of National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Lower Brule vice chair discusses leadership after recent death of chairman
Advocates raise awareness of violence against Native women in Oklahoma
Gila River tribe holds event for new low-power digital TV station
Friday, April 3, 2015
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Paiute Chairwoman Ousted After Accepting Gifts From Washington NFL Team
Tribes In South Dakota Praise VAWA
Activists In New Mexico Work To Abolish Columbus Day
Alaska’s Native Voice: Live From NYO 2024
Stay connected to National Native News and KNBA throughout the weekend for our 2024 Native Youth Olympic Games coverage.
Join the KNBA news team for the statewide broadcast of “Alaska’s Native Voice: Live from NYO 2024”.
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC) and Native Voice One (NV1) are bringing the energy and personality of NYO to the radio.
Tune in live to radio stations across Alaska or stream on KNBA.org Thursday through Saturday at 12:00 p.m. (AKDT).
Day One
The program features interviews with athletes, coaches, fans, and other attendees.
The traditional games, which were originally depended on for survival, continue to develop the strength and skill of generations of Alaska Native people. The NYO carries on the games by encouraging young people to strive for their personal best.
View this post on Instagram
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
A pandemic-era program that helped low-income people keep up with their water and sewer bills is running out of funding.
Montana Public Radio’s Aaron Bolton reports this comes as a federal report shows rural and tribal households have long struggled to keep their taps on.
Congress’ water utility assistance program supported over 8,000 Montana households and ran out of money last year.
A separate pool of water assistance funding for tribes is close to running dry, too.
A federal report found tribal families are more likely to be in debt to their water utilities and owe more money.
It also found that rural households experience higher disconnection rates for non-payment.
Patricia Courchane with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes says the water-assistance program was a lifeline for those families, but adds that it’s also helped households on well water.
“You have bacteria or something like that in your water and you aren’t able to drink it, you can get a bottled water system in your home through this program.”
Courchane says the tribes have about half of the roughly $600,000 they received left.
She says families could struggle to afford clean drinking water once that funding runs out.
Federal agencies are asking for public feedback on five potential plans for managing Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah.
KUER’s David Condos reports for the Mountain West News Bureau on the collaboration with tribes.
The plans are the result of a first-of-its-kind collaboration between federal agencies and five tribes to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into the monument’s management.
Ruben Pacheco is with the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition.
He says this is especially historic because public lands across the West often overlap with ancestral homelands.
“So ensuring that tribal perspectives are meaningfully involved in the protection of these lands is a way to respect tribes, and it’s a move towards what we consider repairing historical injustices.”
The plan preferred by the partnership is option E, which would limit some cattle grazing, off highway driving and camping.
Rachel Wooten is with the Bureau of Land Management office in Monticello.
She says the best way for people to make sure their voices are heard is to study the plans before responding.
“Opinions are valuable, but the most helpful comments are the ones that provide new information, provide specific information about a use or an area that we might not have known or considered.”
The agencies will launch a series of meetings to answer questions about the plans starting in April.
In New Mexico, during a ceremony in Albuquerque last week, former Cochiti Pueblo Governor and U.S. Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran Dr. Joseph Suina was presented with service medals he earned in the 1960s.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) helped retrieve the medals, which were stolen in the 70s in a house break-in.
Sen. Heinrich also honored the veteran last week on the Senate Floor talking about his medals, which included the Purple Heart.
“Dr. Suina also earned the following awards: the Combat Action Ribbon, the Marine Corp Good Combat Medal, the National Service Defense Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Rifle Sharp Shooter Badge, Pistol Expert Badge. He also earned a Gallantry Cross Medal from the Republic of Vietnam. I was deeply honored to help retrieve these medals to recognize Dr. Suina’s incredible bravery and sacrifice.”
Dr. Suina was also recognized for his advocacy, especially for raising awareness of PTSD.
Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily and stay up-to-date on the 2024 Native Vote. Sign up for our daily newsletter today.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Researchers at Avera are working to understand factors underlying maternal health care for Native Americans in western South Dakota.
Most counties west of the Missouri River are considered a maternal health care desert.
As South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s Lee Strubinger reports, that means women live more than 100 miles away from medical providers that specialize in delivery.
Distance, weather, transportation, and trauma are just a few of the barriers standing in the way of pregnant Native American women needing or wanting prenatal health care.
That’s coupled with a lack of providers West River — both in reservations and in the Black Hills.
Dr. Amy Elliott is a chief research officer at Avera McKennon.
She describes the issue bluntly.
“It’s crisis levels. With the lack of obstetrics providers especially on the western side of the state. How do we find solutions, not just for recruiting more people, but also do we have to think a little bit different about how we deliver care?”
According to the South Dakota Department of Health, from 2012 to 2021, American Indians made up 20% of all live births, but 44% of all pregnancy-associated deaths.
Dr. Elliot and others want to fully understand what’s causing that issue, and others.
Dr. Elliot says a lack of data hinders insight into understanding causes or generating solutions.
“An advantage of being in a health system is we have access to quite a bit of data and we also have close partnerships with the Department of Health, Great Plains Tribal Leaders Board and other agencies around so we’re able to help maybe combine different data streams that haven’t been combined before.”
That, Dr. Elliot hopes, will lead to lasting and systemic change in better health outcomes for Native women on the great plains.
A new documentary Bad River spotlights the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa — and the tribe’s David vs. Goliath battle against the Line 5 pipeline.
Lina Tran of WUWM in Milwaukee reports.
The Bad River Band is up against the Canadian energy company Enbridge.
Twelve miles of pipeline runs through the Bad River reservation.
It’s a fight the Band says is necessary to defend Lake Superior from the aging pipeline. And protect the lake for future generations.
RunningHorse Livingston is a Bad River member featured in the film.
“We’re fighting this battle for water, but it’s really a battle for our home. And keeping it safe and keeping it beautiful, the way that it has been for forever.”
The film says there’s no evidence the Band ever consented to the pipeline. A federal judge ruled that Enbridge is trespassing and has three years to shut it down.
The film argues this is only the latest chapter in the tribe’s long fight for sovereignty.
Here’s producer, writer, and director Mary Mazzio.
“And you know, long after this challenge, there will be another one, because that’s just the history of who we are as a country. This is a very, very precarious situation happening in real time.”
Erosion near the banks of the Bad River has stoked the Band’s concerns that the exposed pipeline could rupture.
Their urgency grows as climate change makes extreme rainfall and flooding more and more likely.
The film started screening March 15 in select theaters.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Kiowa Tribe in Oklahoma are hosting a veterans benefits event on April 5.
Tribal Veteran Service Officers and other advocates are expected to be onsite at the tribe’s community center to assist veterans, spouses, and widows with VA claims.
According to the VA, collaborations with other tribes across the country are in the works to hold similar events.
Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily and stay up-to-date on the 2024 Native Vote. Sign up for our daily newsletter today.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- Next Page »