Welcome to the April 17 edition of News You Can Use! This week we are highlighting the Yuchi Language Project, one of Running Strong’s partners, who is featured in a national article about preserving Native languages; we mourn the death of one of the first leaders of the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance; visit a 17,000-year old Indigenous rock painting in Australia and more in this week’s News You Can Use!
‘Race against time’: Pandemic propels fight to save Native American languages
Covid hit Indian Country hard. As elders die, tribes are fighting to preserve their languages. Congress is sending cash.
LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard, Leader of Standing Rock’s Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Passes On
FT. YATES, ND—LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, one of the leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal citizen and an undisputed Lakota historian, passed away on Saturday from brain cancer. She was 64.
A century of federal indifference left generations of Navajo homes without running water - New Mexico In Depth
When Julie Badonie was growing up in the small Navajo community of Tohatchi in the 1940s, her father drove a horse-drawn wagon early each morning to a nearby spring. There, he filled wooden barrels with water the family would use that day to drink, cook, and wash. Badonie, the youngest of seven chi…
A Push to Move the Golf Course Atop a Native American ‘Stonehenge’
Historians hoping to preserve the ancient Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, as a UNESCO World Heritage site face a problem: the golf club that leases the property.
