Extraordinary talent throughout Indian Country

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Friday, May 5, 2023 – On the weekend edition of the ICT Newscast, extraordinary Indigenous talent has many forms. The Gathering of Nations is much more than a powwow. Native fashion takes off, Native Sounds on the radio, and elders hit the nets. And remembering missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Tribal and First Nations leaders were in Washington, D.C., last week for meetings of the International Joint Commission. That is the body that oversees the 114-year-old treaty governing the waters that straddle the Canada and U.S. border. Communities in British Columbia, Washington state, Idaho and Montana have been contending for decades that toxins are leaking into their watershed from coal mining operations in the province’s Elk Valley. Chairman Tom McDonald of the Confederate Salish-Kootenai Tribes was there.

The country’s first Alaska Native Congress member has just completed her first hundred days in office. ICT’s McKenzie Allen-Charmley has this interview with Rep. Mary Peltola.

The 2024 Presidential race is shaping up to be a repeat of 2020. ICT regular contributor Holly Cook Macarro joins us once again to review it all. She is a partner with Spirit Rock Consulting and a board member of IndiJ Public Media, ICT’s parent company.

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