One of our very own Dreamstarters, Aukea Ka’aekuahiwi of the 2019 Entrepreneurs class, is featured in West Hawaii Today; a Fresno school takes action to change their school mascot; and more in this edition of News You Can Use from Indian Country!
Imu blessing marks step toward dream of food sustainability | West Hawaii Today
North Kohala inaugurated a commercial imu in a ceremony in late November that advanced a years-long dream of local residents to help make the community food-sustainable, tapping a grant that had its origins in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, when Native American Billy Mills staged an upset victory in the m…
As Fresno High removes Native American mascot image, other local schools could follow
Fresno Unified School District board members voted to remove a mascot that depicts a Native American caricature, a movement that was headed by Valley natives.
Native American comic books bring new heroes to the Marvel universe
Marvel releases new comic book about indigenous heroes
Justice Department releases plan to address crisis of missing Native Americans
After a year of research, the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives published its report on the steps it will take over the next year to address the crisis of missing native people.
Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation
The bison circled four times around the holding pen, before the lead animals took them into the 3,400-hectare (8,500-acre) pasture, their new home on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The thunder of 400 hooves as they crossed through the gate gave way to the whir of c…
Apocalypse Then and Now
In March 2019, HuffPost sent me to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota, to cover the work of an affordable-housing program. My editors had a particular story in mind, and so I was dispatched to source the material to write it. The article would be a…
