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Ja:goh Grace Gregoire

Congratulations on making the Spring 2021 Dean’s list with a 4.0 GPA and for making the Summer 2021 Dean’s list with a GPA of 4.0 as well. Ja:goh! Submitted by Eva Capasso(Grace is the granddaughter of Eva Capasso)

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Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

Exhibition on display September 25 – December 12, 2021 at The Carlos Museum Source: https://carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/eachother-marie-watt-and-cannupa-hanska-luger Above: Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) and Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Each/Other, 2020–21. Steel, wool, bandanas, ceramic, leather, and embroidery thread. © Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt. Photography © Denver Art Museum Each/Other: Marie Watt […]

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The prognosis for a lingering pandemic

COVID-19 variants, booster shots and combating vaccine hesitancy By Dean S. Seneca | September 20, 2021 | indiancountrytoday.com Photo above: Dean S. Seneca receives his 1st dose of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. As we edge closer to entering the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we as a nation are facing a combination of […]

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Questions and concerns relating to CANCER?

Reach out to David Silverheels with any questions and concerns relating to CANCER Updated contact info posted below: Do you have questions about cancer, concerns related to cancer, or just want to talk about how we may be able to help you? Do you have a family history of cancer, had a recent abnormal test […]

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Emergency Broadband Benefit

The Emergency Broadband Benefit (“EBB”) to help households struggling during the pandemic The Emergency Broadband Benefit (“EBB”) is a temporary Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) program to help households struggling to afford internet service during the pandemic. This new benefit will connect children to school, seniors to telemedicine services, and New Yorkers to jobs and other […]

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Honor past princesses, but retire the ‘Indian Princess’

My near-princess experience and my hope to elevate Native women’s contributions and achievements By YANENOWI LOGAN | Reprinted from indiancountrytoday.com Photo: Yanenowi ‘She Guards the Corn’ Logan (Courtesy image) Yanenowi Logan – Seneca Nation of Indians, New York State Fair Indian Village Princess An annual highlight of Labor Day weekend at the New York State […]

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Clothing & Household Item Drive

The Native American Heritage Association was started in 1993, by David G. Myers, as a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to helping Native American families in need, living on sovereign lands in South Dakota and Wyoming. (naha-inc.org) Their mission is to help as many families as possible with basic life necessities and self-help programs. In support […]

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Language Immersion

By Nicole Martin What does it take to become a speaker of a language you were not raised up with from infancy and how long would it take to become proficient? Naturally language transmission happened being surrounded in the community by loved ones where we learned from watching and mocking others on their sounds and […]