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A national center for Native radio and TV broadcasters is leading an effort to establish a national alert code for missing and endangered adults.
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An Indigenous author recently released a children’s book on the Jingle Dress Dance, which is a ceremonial dance of healing and prayer.
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The annual agricultural and ranching showcase in Denver promises to delight with everything from livestock to live music in its 118th season.
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A lifestyle and enduring relationship with horses lends to the popularity of rodeo in Indian CountryBorn out of necessity and in mastering skills that came as horses transformed hunting, travel and warfare, rodeo has remained popular in Native American communities. Grandstands often play host to mini family reunions while Native cowboys and cowgirls show off their skills roping, riding and wrestling livestock. It's a lifestyle that's connected to nature and community — values that Oglala Lakota citizen Jessica White Plume says run deep in tribal culture. With each competition, Native Americans make it decidedly theirs. Ornate regalia, blessings bestowed by tribal elders and tribes' versions of flag songs are as much staples as big buckles and cowboy hats.
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The Indian Health Service is working to provide tens of thousands of children’s books to Indigenous families across the U.S., including parts of the Mountain West.
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The film “Killers of the Flower Moon” has elicited strong reactions, especially from the people at the center of the narrative — Osage citizens. In The NoCo discusses some of their reactions with KUNC reporter Emma VandenEinde.
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Marisela Ballesteros ran unopposed for a seat on the Gunnison City Council earlier this month. She will be sworn in on December 12 as the first city council member from the Cora Indigenous group in the council's history.
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For decades, Native Americans were sent off to boarding schools run by the federal government or religious groups. They were stripped of cultural ties and forced to assimilate into an American lifestyle.
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Leaders from the Indigenous Resilience Center shared at the One Water Summit about their efforts to work with tribal communities on water audits, filtration systems, and other solutions.
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When water solutions are discussed, often utility and business leaders are in the room. But at the annual One Water Summit last week, Indigenous youth got a chance to weigh in.