Aliyah Chavez
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Anchor + Managing Editor of the ICT Newscast @IndianCountry . Kewa Pueblo. Alum @Stanford . A forever New Mexican. She, her. ➡️ Rts ≠ endorsements.
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Native journalists in the White House. Let’s do it again someday!
@IndianCountry
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JUST IN: The Department of Interior is launching the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, an investigation that will aim to identify past boarding school sites, burial sites and locations, Secretary Haaland announced at the NCAI conference Tuesday.
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BREAKING: Mary Peltola (
@MaryPeltola
) wins special election for Alaska’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Peltola is Yupik and is the first Alaska Native to ever be elected to the U.S. Congress.
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President Biden has declared May 5, 2022 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
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(1/4) I am a Native reporter from Kewa Pueblo, a tight-knit village that is miles from where Rep. Deb Haaland is from at Laguna Pueblo. Our communities speak the same language & share many similarities. In my time covering Haaland, I've used this background to inform my reporting
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Utah women’s basketball star Alissa Pili (
@alissa_pili
) brought a crowd of Indigenous fans to Friday night’s game versus Arizona State.
The Samoan and Inupiaq forward stayed after the game for photos.
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Tuesday will be a historic day for Indigenous communities everywhere. Before you get your news from another publication, I kindly hope you'll consider reading and watching Indian Country Today (
@IndianCountry
), an all-Native news organization.
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President Biden has officially declared May 5, 2023 as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day ⬇️
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Coolest TikTok you’ll see all day.
Kansas state Rep. Christina Haswood (
@HaswoodForKS
) gets sworn into office wearing traditional attire and a “you are on Native land” mask.
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Here’s a short profile I wrote about Nathan Apodaca, Northern Arapaho and Mexican, a month after his newfound fame.
@IndianCountry
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There will now be six Indigenous voting members of the U.S. Congress.
➡️ Rep. Tom Cole, Chickasaw
➡️ Rep. Markwayne Mullin, Cherokee
➡️ Rep. Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk
➡️ Rep. Kai Kahele, Native Hawaiian
➡️ Rep. Yvette Herrell, Cherokee
➡️ Rep. Elect Mary Peltola, Yupik
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Shoutout to my nephew Brandon who created his own "Happy Janitor Appreciation Day" at school! He fed them lunch to say thanks. So proud! 😭😭😭
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I also hope you'll support the work of other Indigenous journalists who have been covering these stories for years. Tomorrow isn't just a big news day for us, it's the stories we live to report.
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida estimates they've delivered 35,000 bottles of drinking water to
#HurricaneDorian
victims. The tribe has been using their own helicopters and plane to make as many as three roundtrip flights a day to deliver supplies. Read more:
Seminole Tribe continues airlift of drinking water for fifth straight day. An estimated 35,000 bottles of drinking water delivered to Freeport on Grand Bahama Island. via
@IndianCountry
#ICTPressPool
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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Sunshine Sykes to serve as a U.S. District Judge for central California on Wednesday.
She is now California’s first ever Native federal judge. Sykes is a citizen of the Navajo Nation.
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The community of Gila River awaits remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris. This will be the first time a sitting President or Vice President has ever visited this tribal nation in Arizona.
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Together, team ICT has worked tirelessly for the Indigenous communities we serve, and I promise you won't get coverage like ours anywhere else.
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Tons of Native people in the East Room of the White House where First Lady Jill Biden hosts a celebration for Native American Heritage Month.
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Arizona State’s journalism school will hire a professor dedicated solely to focusing on news and media coverage of Native Americans. Their program will be the first in the country to do so! Read more:
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@Cronkite_ASU
creates the nation's first named journalism professorship to focus on the quality and quantity of Native American coverage in the media
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Somáh Haaland took to Instagram to bring us behind the scenes content of Secretary Deb Haaland’s swearing in today by VPOTUS. ⬇️
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Sec. Haaland: "I know that this process will be long and difficult. I know that this process will be painful. It won't undo the heartbreak and loss that so many of us feel, but only by acknowledging the past can we work toward a future that we're all proud to embrace."
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Our Interior Secretary is a Pueblo woman.
BREAKING: A majority of U.S. Senators have voted to confirm Deb Haaland as the nation’s Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American in history to lead a Cabinet agency.
Full coverage:
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Here’s an update from 96-year-old Diné grandma Annette Bilagody. She recently took a trip through the car wash and got a tasty treat.
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George Floyd's girlfriend Courteney Batya Ross just told CNN that Floyd was connected to the lakes around Minneapolis.
“I know he was connected to Bde Maka Ska,” Ross said. Bde Maka Ska was traditionally a place where Dakota people fished and harvested wild rice.
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If you read, liked or shared an Indian Country Today (
@IndianCountry
) story this week, thank you. ✨
There has been a ton of breaking stories lately: DAPL. Mascots. SCOTUS decisions & seeing y’all share the news stories written by Native journalists means a ton. It really does.
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” makes its Los Angeles premiere this evening at Dolby Theater.
A drum group is on stage before the movie starts.
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Vote totals according to Alaska Division of Elections:
Mary Peltola: 91,206 votes
Sarah Palin: 85,587 votes
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NM state Rep. Derrick Lente, Sandia Pueblo, begins his DNC roll call remarks speaking Tiwa.
He is the second consecutive Pueblo person to deliver New Mexico’s role call remarks at the DNC Convention:
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Vice-president elect Kamala Harris gives a shoutout to women of color in acceptance speech, and cites Native American women specifically. Not something heard very often.
#NativeVote20
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Life news on this day celebrating love 🥂
I married my best friend Teran (
@TeranAVilla
) on Saturday in Jemez Pueblo. We had a traditional Pueblo wedding surrounded by our loved ones. A day we’ll never forget.
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My story on ‘Molly of Denali’ was picked up by The Associated Press. It is the first PBS Kids cartoon to feature an Alaska Native lead. It was created by Native creatives... and I had the privilege to tell this story as a Native journalist. Wow. Chills.
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Cheyenne educator Henrietta Mann receives a National Humanities Medal from President Biden.
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Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says it has discovered 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in a press conference Thursday.
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Lots of Native people at the powwow this evening in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is hosting its annual Red Mountain Eagle Powwow. ⬇️
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Mary Peltola (
@MaryPeltola
) will fill the remainder of former Congressman Don Young’s term.
Peltola will be on the ballot again with Sarah Palin in November in hopes of being elected to a full term in the U.S. House.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (
@SecDebHaaland
) is on her first official visit outside of DC since being sworn in to the post in mid-March.
She’s meeting with Pueblo and New Mexico leaders in Albuquerque. Event beginning soon.
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Senator
@CoryBooker
found a dancing partner last night at the Meskwaki Powwow in Iowa. Her name is Ruby Rain Walker. She is Meskwaki, Jemez and Acoma Pueblos.
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Roselyn Tso was confirmed as the Director of the Indian Health Service on Wednesday.
The Navajo citizen will now oversee the healthcare services of 2.6 million Native people.
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Secretary Deb Haaland told me today her heart goes out to the family of Gabby Petitio, adding she’s doing “everything” to promote public engagement on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people at this same time.
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JUST IN: Members of the Native American Journalists Association (
@najournalists
) have voted to change their name to the Indigenous Journalists Association. The vote was 62 percent in favor.
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I am filling in as anchor this week on the Indian Country Today (
@IndianCountry
) newscast.
We film on the ancestral homelands of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh in Phoenix, AZ. Tune in!
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A record breaking first. The 2021 Caldecott Medal was awarded to a Tlingit illustrator for the book “We Are Water Protectors” — marking the first time an Indigenous person has ever won the prestigious award given by
@ALALibrary
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A new Native American judicial appointment from President Biden this morning.
Biden plans to nominate Cherokee citizen Sara Hill as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
This is his fourth Native judicial nominee.
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court upholds the Indian Child Welfare Act in a 7-2 decision. This is a huge win for tribal nations protecting Native American children.
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Officials in Alaska will release final vote counts for its special election on Wednesday afternoon.
Mary Peltola (
@MaryPeltola
), who is Yupik, is leading in initial results. If she wins, she will be the first Alaska Native ever elected to the U.S. Congress.
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I spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris one-on-one during her trip to the Gila River Indian Community on Thursday.
Tune into the ICT Newscast on Monday, July 10 to see our exclusive interview. 📺
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If anyone’s counting, that’s twice that Kamala mentioned Indigenous folx in her DNC acceptance speech.
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Late post from the “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiere to show this beautiful dress from Aconav (
@aconav_fashion
). It was so special to wear Pueblo designs in Hollywood!
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A newscast created by Indigenous journalists for Indigenous people.
The ICT Newscast will premiere on Tuesday.
You can watch us weekdays on the FNX network, PBS stations (check your local listings. If they don’t carry the show call them and ask) and online.
Join us tomorrow for the premiere of “ICT Newscast with Aliyah Chavez” and see a dream unfold for an award-winning Kewa Pueblo journalist.
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This weekend I will graduate from Stanford with a master’s degree. There are endless amounts of people to thank, but in the meantime, I will start with one: thank you, Stanford, for taking a chance on a rez kid with a dream to make her community better.
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@Stanford
features our own
@AliyahJChavez
(MA '19): A commitment to her Native American roots leads Stanford’s Aliyah Chavez to a journalism career: via
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For those of you wondering, Abby Roque is Ojibway from Wahnapitae First Nation.
Paving the way.
@abby_roque
is the first Indigenous woman to play for
@usahockey
at the
#WinterOlympics
.
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Could a Native woman succeed another in Congress? There's a chance. Acoma Pueblo attorney and politician Georgene Louis (
@GeorgeneforNM
) announced her candidacy as a Democrat to fill Rep. Deb Haaland's seat:
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First Lady Jill Biden has invited several guests to sit in her viewing box at Tuesday’s State of the Union address, including Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe citizen and educator Melissa Isaac.
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@JulianCastro
.
@JulianCastro
vows to appoint Native people to cabinet level positions, if elected. "I believe that an effective administration needs to look like America,” he says.
#NativeForum
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The sisters of incoming Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speak at a virtual celebration. "Daa'wa'eh," they tell supporters. It means thank you in Keres.
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Bernie has mentioned Native people twice so far in the
#DemDebate
. No other candidates have, but there’s still more debate to come.
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A dream come true.
I am absolutely thrilled to be named the permanent anchor of ICT’s newscast. Let’s do this,
@IndianCountry
!
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JUST IN: Reservation Dogs has been renewed for season two.
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Annette Bilagody made more a thousand dollars in an online sale that her granddaughter led. It was the largest profit she had ever made in her 96-year-old life. What was the first thing she purchased? A bucket of chicken from KFC. Phenomenal.
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President-elect Joe Biden cites Native people in acceptance speech too. Twice in one night ... and on primetime television.
#NativeVote20
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President Biden is appointing Rudy Soto (
@RudySotoIDUSA
) to serve as USDA State Director in Idaho, per the White House.
Soto is Shoshone Bannock.
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Pueblo leaders praised Rep. Haaland Tuesday, including New Mexico Indian Affairs secretary Lynn Trujillo of Sandia Pueblo.
"Our country has never seen a president's cabinet nominee begin confirmation in an indigenous language," she said, referring to Haaland's intro in Keres.
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Senator
@CoryBooker
spoke at the
#MeskwakiPowwow
in Iowa this evening saying he looks forward to, “seeing a nation where we honor all of our people.” He also took selfies with powwow goers and participated in an honoring song.
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Biden on missing and murdered Indigenous persons awareness day: “Our Nation’s failure to address this ongoing tragedy not only demeans the dignity of each Indigenous person who goes missing or is murdered — it undermines the humanity of us all.”
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It's official: Deb Haaland has Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's vote.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkoski of Alaska says she has "struggled" deciding how to vote.
Murkowski: "I do have my doubts ... but I have decided, I decided to support this nomination today to support the first Native American who will hold this position."
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#PersonalTweet
I am excited to share that I will be joining the
@IndianCountry
team as a reporter / producer after graduating from Stanford in June!
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@Indigenia
Funny you should mention. This is the first thing I saw on social media this morning:
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The Senate invoked cloture on Rep. Deb Haaland’s nomination to be Interior secretary by a 54-42 vote.
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More press passes to add to my collection.
@IndianCountry
is covering the two big Native conferences this week:
#RES2021
#NIGA2021
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It is day one of the Native American Basketball Invitational in Phoenix, Arizona. The tournament for Indigenous high school athletes attracts over 130 teams from various tribal communities.
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Hey
#NativeTwitter
, do you know of any colleges and universities (including private, public, tribal, etc.) that offer an orientation program for first year Native students? Let me know. I'm working on a story for
@IndianCountry
!
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It is nearly an hour and a half into the
#DemDebate
and there has been no mention of Indian Country yet despite a long conversation about America's racial divide and immigration. Will they mention us soon?
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Received my second vaccine dose at my tribe’s health center today. I felt extremely honored to do my part for my family and community. 🥺
Thank you to all who made these vaccines possible, including the many Native people who participated in the Pfizer vaccine trials.
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“Reservation Dogs” co-creator Sterlin Harjo: “The love for season 2 has been outstanding. Thank you to FX for ordering season 3, excited to bring you more laughter and love from the Rez. Ahoooo!”
@RezDogsFX
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The Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Indian Child Welfare Act is truly historic.
Over the past 6 months alone, lawmakers across several states passed ICWA laws, just to ensure Native children could stay with Native families in child welfare cases.
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Many wholesome moments during a
#WomensHistoryMonth
convo with Reps. Sharice Davids & Deb Haaland on IG.
Davids talked about the significance of Haaland's Interior nomination & how she'll miss her in Congress.
Haaland teased, "You won't have anyone to bring you PB&J sandwiches"
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A true legend in Indian Country.
Dr. Henrietta Mann is a Cheyenne educator and a founding president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. She is the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards and was even named a leading professor in the nation by Rolling Stone.
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To add some context, Judge Sunshine Sykes is now the seventh Native federal judge ever appointed.
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Sunshine Sykes to serve as a U.S. District Judge for central California on Wednesday.
She is now California’s first ever Native federal judge. Sykes is a citizen of the Navajo Nation.
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Celebrate
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
by supporting Native journalists.
You can start by reading, watching, following, uplifting and donating to Native news organizations like Indian Country Today (
@IndianCountry
).
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I will be asking a question at Friday’s press briefing for Indian Country Today (
@IndianCountry
). Tune in:
Tune in for a briefing with Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
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Secretary Haaland’s first day of work included a press briefing with 10 reporters from Native media.
The convo was organized by the Native American Journalists Association (
@najournalists
) & I felt incredibly honored to attend for ICT (
@IndianCountry
).
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President Donald Trump (
@realDonaldTrump
) met with the Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer (
@NNVPLizer2019
) and Gila River Governor Stephen Lewis (
@stephenroelewis
) during a trip to Phoenix on Tuesday. Read more:
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Today is Mary Peltola’s birthday, btw.
BREAKING: Mary Peltola (
@MaryPeltola
) wins special election for Alaska’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Peltola is Yupik and is the first Alaska Native to ever be elected to the U.S. Congress.
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Rep. Deb Haaland is a lead contender to become President-elect Joe Biden's Interior secretary. The reports come days after a large social media campaign from Indigenous leaders, advocates and Hollywood celebrities.
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Our team has reached out to the staffers of the Indigenous members of Congress to check on their well-being. We will update as we learn information.
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The newly crowned Miss Navajo Nation is on Thursday’s ICT Newscast.
In addition to winning the title, Valentina Clitso also won best butcherer, best traditional food, best essay and best skill.
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Native America Calling is one of the organizations who received a 2021 National Humanities Medal from President Biden.
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Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez (
@NezForAZ
) has announced his candidacy to run for a seat in the U.S. House.
Arizona’s 2nd Congressional district holds 14 of the state’s 22 tribes in it. Lots of Native voters here.
It is currently held by Republican Rep. Eli Crane.
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Native women are being led in an exercise of self-care. The group is tapping their heart and saying, “I am the medicine.” It is being led by Celina Mahinalani Garza, Kanaka Maoli.
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FX says the third season of “Reservation Dogs” will be available in 2023 on Hulu.
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Secretary Deb Haaland broke her left fibula after a hike in the Shenandoah National Park on Sunday, according to a statement from the Interior department.
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Native astronaut Nicole Mann (
@AstroDuke
) is the leader of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
This means she is responsible for all phases of flight, from launch to re-entry.
This will be Mann’s first space flight since becoming an astronaut in 2013.
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Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. is with various elected officials speaking with President Biden about infrastructure.
Hoskin, Jr: "This bill is important for the country but I want you to know this bill is important to me because you didn't forget Indian Country."
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My partner Teran (
@TeranAVilla
) is the first in his family to get a masters degree. Very, very proud of him! 🎓🙌🏽
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