Northern Cheyenne Inaugurates new council

Northern Cheyenne Inaugeration Parade. (Photo courtesy Facebook) LAME DEER – On Monday, November 18, 2024 though the weather was slightly against the celebratory Victory Parade held at 9:00 a.m., the remainder of the 2024 Inaugural festivities to swear in the newly elected Tribal President, Vice President, Tribal Judges and half

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 22, 2024

Remembering Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Eastern Washington University celebrates Native American Heritage Month by honoring Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. As Eastern honors National Native American Heritage Month this November, we hope you might join us in celebrating the memory of the late Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, an EWU scholar who gained national prominence for her role in advancing academic

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 22, 2024

Yellowbird Life Ways Center holds Traditional Feast

Yellowbird Life Ways Center holds Traditional Feast Fans of gourmet food would have easily coughed up $500/plate or more to partake in the Food Sovereignty Celebration held at the Blessed Sacred Catholic Church on Sunday evening, November 17th. Instead, the gourmands were regular Northern Cheyenne people (about a hundred or

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 22, 2024

FREE Daily Mindfulness Exercises

In partnership with The Cleveland Orchestra, there are FREELY available 40+ weeks of daily mindfulness exercises. The exercises are available as YouTube videos, about 5 minutes long each, and designed to facilitate brain development with music and mindfulness instruction. The exercises were developed for ages preschool through 12th grade, but

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Shared by United Resource Connection November 21, 2024

How would Project 2025 affect Native communities?

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP) Besides promising federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, Trump’s campaign has not established a solid

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 18, 2024

Native American Heritage Month: resources for celebrating

In 2018, Isabella Aiukli Cornell (Choctaw) used her prom dress to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Red represents the movement to end this crisis. The dress designer, Della BigHair-Stump (Crow), included a cultural diamond pattern on the top, representing the diamondback rattlesnake. The Choctaw Nation

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Renewed drilling means huge costs for taxpayers

Musk oxen in the snow, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BLACK HILLS – A Trump Administration means prosperity for the energy industry. Capitalists have been poised to reap the benefits of an upcoming boom fortified by even fewer regulations. The implications for the mineral-rich

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 18, 2024

FREE ‘Rethinking Thanksgiving’ webinar offered

FREE ‘Rethinking Thanksgiving’ webinar offered SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Catalyst Project invites any and all to join their annual “Rethinking Thanksgiving” webinar, this year titled “Dismantling Colonial Myths, Uplifting Indigenous Rights and Honoring Mother Earth.” The webinar is offered virtually at no cost on Sunday, November 17, 2024, starting

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Shared by Native Sun News Today November 18, 2024