Today, catch up on some of the stories we’re following from Indian Country. This week, learn why Indigenous people have been showing their support of Ukraine by wearing what is known in many communities as “kokum scarves,” read about Minnie Hollow Wood, a Lakhota woman, who resisted the U.S. Calvary and fought courageously amongst her people to protect their homeland, and more in this week’s News You Can Use from all over Indian Country!
Indigenous people showing support for Ukraine by wearing ‘kokum scarves’ – National | Globalnews.ca
Indigenous people across Canada have been showing their support of Ukraine by posting photos and videos of themselves on social media wearing what is known as “kokum scarves.″
Minnie’s War Bonnet: A modern Native warrior woman
It was 1979 when my mother decided to leave the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. My mom had just traded her 1964 Ford Mustang to my Uncle Bob for two Amtrak
How Native Youth are Learning and Building Confidence through Digital Storytelling
Native American students across the nation face certain educational challenges that their non-Native classmates may not experience. Native students have less access to Advanced Placement or college prep courses in high school, are less likely to have family members that attended college and are more…
‘No More Stolen Sisters’ highlights the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
U.S. Army Corps works with tribe to improve wild rice
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers researchers are working with the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and other Native American tribes to help improve wild rice productivity, the corps said. The work of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, located in V…
The US will now break out jobs data for Native Americans | CNN Business
In May 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered the worst US jobs report on record: 20.5 million jobs had been lost in the previous month and the national unemployment rate had hit 14.7%. But Native Americans saw their jobless rate soar even higher, to a staggering 28.6% that April.
