- Today kicks off the first day of the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
- Well, Tribes are getting more than 73-million dollars in grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development... to help them meet the needs exposed by the pandemic.
- Honoring Native warriors who served … the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs paid his respects during last Thursday’s veterans day, at an event at the National Museum of the American Indian.
- Well, go dust off your moccasins!  

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A slice of our Indigenous world (Nov. 15, 2021)

ICT newscast headlines for today:

- Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives is aiming to extend a year end deadline for spending CARES funding by Alaska Native corporations and tribes. 
- In eastern Washington state, work is being stopped after ancestral remains were discovered at a construction site.
- In Minnesota, the White Earth Nation could be the center of a big renewable energy project.
- A new report by the Ms. Foundation for Women is calling out the lack of philanthropic investment in Indigenous women and girls.
- A school in Utah is naming a Native student to homecoming royalty for the first time in its history.

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A slice of our Indigenous world (Dec. 13, 2021)

ICT newscast headlines for today:

New data is showing a sharp decline in the Russia’s Indigenous population. Of Russia's 47 officially recognized Indigenous groups, over two thirds have dropped in size. Indigenous Russian nations include the Kereks of Chukotka, Nenets from the Russian Arctic and the Evenks in Siberia’s Yakutia region.

The drum and dance troupe Yellow Bird Productions recently partnered with the Superstition Mountain Museum in Arizona to host a Native arts festival. ICT’s Ripley-Simone Kennebrew has the story.

In Australia, a new referendum to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have representation in parliament is on thin ice. This general vote seeks to add language to the country’s constitution so that Native people have a voice in law making. 

In Chile, a teenage rapper is using her talent to advocate for Indigenous rights. MC Millaray uses her lyrics to highlight the 500-hundred-year struggle of Indigenous people in Chile against European colonization.

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