Already running low on supplies and thin on emergency management infrastructure, temperatures as low as minus-55 wind chill will hit several South Dakota tribes especially hard.
In a section of the draft labeled “notable adjustments,” the standards tout an expansion on both South Dakota and Native American history and civics for elementary school students.
Sanford Health’s Program for Addiction Recovery provided Tanner Lene a way to connect to a heritage he’d left largely unexplored, as he began to learn Ojibwe and join classes taught by elders and knowledge keepers on traditional medicines and art.
The 85-year-old pope is making the week-long apology tour of Canada to fulfill a promise he made to Indigenous delegations that visited him this year at the Vatican, where he made the initial apology.
The first full day of his Canadian tour will be dedicated to indigenous peoples and the apology, with a Mass to be held in Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium on Tuesday.
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By Philip Pullella and Anna Mehler Paperny / Reuters
Following the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools in Canada earlier this summer, activists and tribal governments in North Dakota are hoping to build on the newfound national attention on American boarding schools to investigate and memorialize their legacy.
A team that is guided by Native Americans will explore how to enhance the lives and opportunities for Native American in the area by studying the impacts of cultural genocide brought about by U.S. policy. The school received $275,000 this spring from the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to use over the course of three years for this project.
"Indigenous Impacts: How Native American communities are responding to COVID-19" takes a deep dive into the effects of the coronavirus on Native American communities and individuals, and looks at how they are battling against the pandemic and the unique problems it poses to their people.
A new special report from Forum News Service aims to shine a light on the unique issues facing Native American communities during the pandemic and the resilient people meeting them head-on.
