- 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:
- A new substance abuse campaign is aiming to address drug use among Native youth in Oklahoma. The Association of American Indian Physicians has collaborated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for the project.
- A Federal government lawsuit is accusing a Wisconsin town of trespassing on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. The U.S. Department of Justice says the town, also named Lac du Flambeau, did not renew access easements with the Nation a decade ago.
- Diversity in Hollywood is slowly, but surely, increasing. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it has new standards for a film to be eligible for an Oscar for Best Picture. The film must have at least one of the lead actors, or significant supporting actors, be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
- There is a new legacy stone at the entrance of the Oklahoma History Center to honor N. Scott Momaday. The Kiowa author who was the first Indigenous person to receive the Pulitzer prize. He has received many recognitions in his life, including the National Medal of the Arts and the Academy of American Poets Prize.
- The work of a Spirit Lake Dakota artist and storyteller is being honored. Marlena Myles has been awarded $50,000 from the Knight Foundation for its Arts and tech fellowship. Myles’ most recent project is in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is a permanent digital installation called “The Dakota Spirit Walk.” Users point their phone along the 27-acre path while spirits are overlaid on the screen.

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