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COMMENTARY: Excuse me, are you sitting in my seat?     Yes. Tis the season when I nag you about voting. You do realize that there is a tribal primary going on, right? And three of the six communities have enough candidates to participate in the primary. My community only has four certified candidates, so I am not getting to vote, but that doesn’t keep me from itching to do so. I like to vote. I want to vote. I am not jaded by anyone’s perception of a rigged system or the folks who bloviate about “they are going to do what they want, and nothing can change that”. If we all think that...

4:58 Skyler Lomahaftewa is a Basalt resident and a member of the Uncompahgre band of the Ute tribe. In the winters, he gives snowboard lessons at Aspen Snowmass and in the summers, he does audio-visual work for events like Food & Wine and the Aspen Ideas Fest. Every year around this time, Lomahaftewa goes back to the Northern Ute Reservation in Utah, where he grew up, to prepare for the annual Bear Dance. Now he’s trying to bring the spring tradition back to the Roaring Fork Valley. “I often think about my connection here to this Valley as historical Uncompahgre Ute homelands, and being a...

Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk: Deb Haaland’s nomination represents a moment of healing for Indigenous people and the land This Feb. 21, 2021, photo shows a billboard in Billings, Montana, displays support for New Mexico U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, who has been nominated to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior. Native Americans will be watching her confirmation hearing closely on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to lead the agency that has broad oversight over tribal affairs and energy development. (AP Photo/Matt Brown) By Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk | Sp...

Christiansburg businesswoman Marie March announced Thursday that she is seeking the Republican nomination to run for the state House seat that Del. Nick Rush, R-Christiansburg, is leaving. March’s announcement came after Rush, who has served five terms as the 7th District representative, announced Wednesday that he won’t run for office again in November. March, 43, owns the sister restaurants Due South BBQ and Fatback Soul Shack, located on Christiansburg’s Roanoke Street. She also invested in Christiansburg business incubator Bear Dance Market. March and her family live in Flo...

31/12/2020 13:06 The passage to a new year has been accompanied since ancient times by customs and rituals that are being observed even to this date, particularly in Romanian villages, as reported by AGERPRES. Reputed ethnologist Ion Ghinoiu, PhD, Professor and scientific secretary of the "Constantin Brailoiu" Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy, coordinator of the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas, writes in the volume "Romanian Holidays and Customs" (ELION Publishing House, 2003) that New Year's Eve celebration "is nothing more than a funerary ceremonial of Geto-D...