After nine years of leading the Autry Museum of the American West, its president and CEO is retiring. Rick West is also the founding Director of the Smithsonian
The healing efforts of Indian Country
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today, we hear from Native leaders who sum up COViD responses, as well as repatriation efforts in California. Plus how creativity heals in a pandemic.
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A slice of our Indigenous world
The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma is lending a hand to help with the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
A church in Oregon gives back land to the original tribal owners.
New York city Public schools will celebrate Indigenous Peoples and Christopher Columbus.
Indigenous lawmakers have made a lot happen in the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency.
Celebrating Native American women
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today, the Colville Tribes celebrate a milestone. And we salute the mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters and grandmothers.
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May 7, 2021
Rodney Cawston is the Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. He joins the show to talk about an important anniversary for all Native Americans.
On the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Mary Kathryn Nagle, who is Cherokee, joined the show to talk about the continuing crisis. Shari Pena, who is Cherokee, is a wife and the mother of four who has always wanted to have a large family. Shari said she and her husband Hyrum wanted to be foster parents long before they had biological children.
Those are our people
Weâll tell you what the University of California Berkeley has in its collection and what one tribe is doing about it. And Kolby KickingWoman has more on two Supreme Court cases involving Indian Country.
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May 3, 2021
More than a dozen years ago the Phoebe A. Hearst museum fired its anthropology team that was supposed to be monitoring human remains and said it had a final inventory of some 2000 human remains and funerary objects. All of those remains and objects are associated with the Chumash people. Even now the tribe has said the University of California Berkeley is a “documented bad actor” that continues to deliberately obstruct repatriation. Today we speak with Chairman Kenneth Kahn of the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians.
A plan for tomorrow s leaders
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today we re jam packed with incredible Indigenous people who are helping Indian Country to succeed.
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Apr 30, 2021
Peggy Flanagan, who is White Earth Ojibwe, shares some of her personal highlights while serving as Minnesota s 50th Lieutenant Governor. Ruth Buffalo of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, speaks with us about the effort to get public schools in North Dakota to teach American Indian history and the many people who helped to make it a reality. Mary Kim Titla, who is San Carlos Apache talks about her magical experience with UNITY, INC and continuing its 45 year commitment to Indigenous youth.