January 31, 2025 issue
December 14, 2020 | www.ncai.org WASHINGTON, DC | The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) commends today’s announcement by the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Cleveland to retire its “Indians” name and mascot, which the team has used for more than a century. Cleveland arrived at this landmark decision following an extensive, multi-faceted process […]
‘I’ll be fierce for all of us’ By Aliyah Chavez, Indian Country Today | Dec 17, 2020 | Reprinted from indiancountrytoday.com Photo above: Rep. Deb Haaland, Laguna and Jemez Pueblos, is poised to be selected by President-elect Joe Biden to lead the Department of Interior. (Photo by Haaland for Congress) President-elect Joe Biden, in a […]
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Originally Published: November 3, 2020 | Reprinted from www.nhonews.com WASHINGTON — On Nov. 11, The National Museum of the American Indian will open the new National Native American Veterans Memorial. The moment will be marked with a short virtual message to honor the service and sacrifice of Native veterans and their families. The message will […]
Reprinted from Senator Chuck Schumer’s Facebook Page | December 7, 2020 Navy Veteran Annette Marie Repicci (right)—a member of the Seneca Nation—from Buffalo, New York served her country for 24 years, starting in 1988, working as Aircraft Division Chief, Flight Deck Coordinator, Quality Assurance Chief, and Senior Command Chief. Native Americans and Alaska Natives serve […]
Rte. 438 and Versailles Plank Road, Cattaraugus TerritoryPastor – Rev. David Rood | 941-5703, dgrood62@yahoo.com Submitted by Marilyn Anderson We have just come through the most unusual holiday season that many of us have ever experienced! Covid-19 presented us with challenges that we were not anticipating. Family gatherings were put on hold, sporting events were […]
Helping to make kids happy this holiday season! This year Franky Brown partnered with the Seneca Nation Child and Family Services to launch the 1st Annual Cousin Brownie Holiday Give Back to benefit Seneca families from the Allegany and Cattaraugus Territories. Their website (http://cousinbrownie.org/) was created to help buy Christmas presents from Amazon and have […]
Jeremy John, lead propulsion engineer for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory working on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), is interviewed in this recent story By Justyna Surowiec | Justyna.Surowiec@jhuapl.edu | November 24, 2020 | Reprinted from www.jhuapl.edu Pictured above: The DART team lifted the thruster bracket assembly off of the assembly table and positioned […]
Ralph Bowen gave his last interview in September for this article. He passed away on December 7 at the age of 98 By Leslie Logan | Special to Indian Country Today | Reprinted from indiancountrytoday.com | Sept 26, 2020 Pictured above: Ralph Bowen and family (Photo courtesy of the Seneca Media & Communications Center) Decorated […]
Survivors of Indian Boarding Schools and their descendants will receive Elder care packages from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Submitted by Vance Blackfox, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition | vblackfox@nabshc.org | December 1, 2020 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is sending 1,000 care […]