WASHINGTON, D.C. As a national leader in behavioral health, the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is proud to partner with our member organization the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) in hosting the inaugural National Tribal Opioid Summit, August 22-24 at the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state. The summit,
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Making sure no one in South Dakota goes hungry is not just a passion for RF Buche. He considers it a moral obligation. It’s why the fourth-generation president of the GF Buche Co. – which operates Buche Foods supermarkets and Gus Stop convenience stores among its retail ventures – strives
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John Echohawk (Pawnee), was awarded the 2023 ABA Thurgood Marshall Award. (Courtesy photo) DENVER—Called a “beacon of light for advancing the cause of civil rights” by the American Bar Association (ABA), John Echohawk (Pawnee), was awarded the 2023 ABA Thurgood Marshall Award for being a “Native American rights trail blazer”
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Lester Runsabove LAME DEER, Mont. – Maggie Runsabove, Northern Cheyenne/Sioux of Lame Deer, Montana is a grieving mother, as is the rest of her extended family. On June 7, 2023, her son Lester Runsabove, age 41, an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe was brutally attacked in Billings by
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Robbie Robertson died on August 9, at his home in Los Angeles, at the age of 80. In the heart of every Native is a storyteller, and not surprising for tribal people with only an oral tradition to explain to the generations to come who they were, what they believed.
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Hundreds of indigenous bikers from all over the world gathered for the third annual Veteran Warriors Ride during the Sturgis Bike Rally. Riders gathered at the Bandshell in Rapid City to host a meal for homeless veterans. (Photo by Teko Alejo) STURGIS – On August 11, in Sturgis at the
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Cemetery at St. Labre Indian Mission in Ashland, Mont. now known as Northern Cheyenne Tribal School where an investigation into unmarked graves will commence. (Photo courtesy Northern Cheyenne Tribe) LAME DEER, Montana – Beginning with a letter dated July 12, 2023, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe (NCT) formally offered its technical
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With the smell of burning sage in the air, students at Wakanyeja Tokeyahci Wounspe Ti gather around the drum for their morning song. For these students, practicing Lakota traditions and speaking their ancestral language is the norm. Whether they know it or not, they are at the forefront of a
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Two Cheyenne River Lakota elders were hosts and active participants in the Native American-Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreat 2023 Wolakota Makasintomni Awachekiyapi Praying for Sacred Harmony and Worldwide Peace. Manny Iron Hawk (Titunwan Okowozu) and Renee Iron Hawk (Tituwan Oohenumpa) of Red Scaffold, South Dakota, welcomed a total of about
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RAPID CITY – Friends of the Children announced that National Director of Tribal Programs Tasha R. Fridia, J.D., Pejuta Cangleska Win (Sacred Medicine Circle Woman), is among the first cohort of 100 emerging changemakers selected to participate in the Obama Foundation’s Leaders USA program. The Obama Leaders program is a
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