March 21, 2025 ICT Newscast
Haskell Layoffs, Spirit Lake Land Back, Oscar Nominee Julian Brave NoiseCat
This week on the ICT Newscast: Layoffs spark outcry at Haskell Indian Nations University. Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota celebrates the return of ancestral lands. A Native filmmaker makes Oscar history with a powerful residential school documentary. Plus, Indigenous students build community through celebration, and a new Native restaurant in Portland puts First Foods front and center.
In this week’s ICT Newscast:
0:00 ➡️ Intro
0:23 ➡️ Haskell Layoffs Shake Campus – Students respond to sudden staffing cuts linked to Trump administration policy.
3:17 ➡️ Spirit Lake Nation Celebrates Land Back – A former tribal chair shares the meaning of the moment.
4:40 – Language Break: Ojibwe – “Mino-giizhigad noongom” means “It is a good day today.”
5:18 ➡️ Canada’s New Prime Minister – Mark Carney’s promises to Indigenous communities.
7:44 ➡️ Julian Brave NoiseCat on “Sugarcane” – A powerful story of trauma, truth, and healing through film.
16:10 ➡️ Montana Round Dance – College students build bridges through tradition and celebration.
18:16 ➡️ Alabama Tribe’s Food Sovereignty – Poarch Creek Tribe opens meat processing plant to serve tribal and neighboring communities.
21:04 ➡️ Language Break: Hawaiian – “He aliʻi ka ʻāina, he kauwā ke kanaka” means “the land is chief, man is her servant”
21:49 ➡️ Javelina in Portland – Chef Alexa Numkena-Anderson opens a restaurant celebrating Indigenous cuisine.
26:20 ➡️ Closing
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Did the film change how you think about residential schools or intergenerational trauma? Share your thoughts, reflections, or what stood out most to you in the comments.
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@IAMMEmae
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
I thank you Father God for restoring land back to your tribe and ask you to continue to do so for your glory.
I was given a vision and a word for my first Nations brothers and sisters on July 3023
You are going home.
Take back my land
I am preparing your garment.
The souls are my souls.
I prepare the moccasins to take my authority with you. They hold my spirit.
I AM them
Revive My Spirit as I AM
See
Sow
ME
I see them.
I see them, My Tribe!
I am calling My tribe back to me.
Come to the well, It is primed,
drink of my revival waters,
New life,
New water,
New wine.
Step up and be My Holy Spirit People!
@ctheo2020
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Shout out to the PNW!
@keenansmith1021
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
When i sold food in Lame Deer i made mostly food for diabetic and kidney failure. Healthy and tasty.
@marvajean2000
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Nina was'te ye.
@tyefighter2005
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
I wish I could give you all 10,000 likes. Native power!
@gemapolo2847
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
❤
@leechalepah9130
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
First of all the round dance came from the taos peablo, those songs came from the blue mountain. Best do research
@JeremiahBMarry
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Did you know the "Declaration of Independence" protects the People's Right's of America and it's illegal to to prevent the Rightful Owner of Ownership by Inheritances with Data Breaching into "Personal Client Account" by "Consolidated Billing Information". A consolidated bill is entering into a legal agreement that a business has to protect a clients account by laws. "Personal" information meaning by laws when your "not given permission" by laws when that's of Data Breaching and illegal if by Federal Mail. Federal laws are important especially when we have Support of our Soldiers that across seas that receive Federal Mailing Services and With Military Support even if you don't stand for that having Military Family m
Members across that have family and friends here back home still need our support. Thank you for your support and service
@kiasax
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Every Native person needs to be paying attention to the horrors of the Trump administration.
It's insanity.
Blessings to you all and wado to ICT for this great service.
@nativeandindigenuscraftcre433
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Hi thanks for sharing an update on these subjects matters and is good and bad thing i understand what is what with indigenous people in general includes myself know it kayenkeha is language that i speak beside English language thanks for sharing word of the day on here good luck ict news
@epmcguire9983
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
What did separation of church and state mean? We used to be taught by the church (school), so what was meant was "The state should not be involved with education!" Why they can control what you learn! GET THE FEDERAL/STATE OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS! This is a good thing… remember the Ghost Dance. America and Canada are part of Turtle 🐢 Island! We are getting back control over Turtle Island. I have been working on This project sense the ceremony that "Woyetan ey Whomany" gave me in 2011 at Wounded Knee River on his property. Thanks to Jeremy that made it all possible! All the paperwork is done… we are waiting for Tunkasila who knows the timing. Omakiyo yo Ata tehiya, tehiya mankelo hey! Wowilak Lightfoot
@dtsosie5836
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Navajo here, does Javelina sell tees or coffee cups?
@norrisrobinson2349
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
We the people united we stand the people united can never be defeated take action now stop the far right austerity 💥 the resistance 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 mmiw
@LiviaPlisic
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
i am not indigenous but i wish you all the very best and many many blessings . sincere greetings from italy…..
@lorrie3478
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
❤❤❤
@gloriabegay6641
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Maybe your generation can rename us properly. Indian is a term used by Columbus, and should not be honored.
@ancestralabundance
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Blessings to all Indigenous people.
@Oslya1
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Mango Mussolini
@steveoizumi
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
I am only half Indian, yes, Indians have trauma in their DNA…brave of the young people to do this for their boarding school parents,
@rebeccaelle135
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
i am glad ICT is here.
@steveoizumi
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 am
Sorry, I'm creating space on you tube now so I can make videos, and my smile not as white as it used to be, I shoulda listened to the dentist back den, he said my teeth gonna be hard keeping white with coffee and the chewing tobacco but anyway, there is PhD UNM Apache that it taking the narrative for down here, I'm just trying to stay hydrated 😅
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