Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

Senator Walsh Aims To Increase Employment In Indian Country

Each year, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation awards NACF Artist Fellowships to honor American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists making a significant impact in their discipline and who have the potential to be or already are powerful voices in the arts.

From a national call for entries, peer panels select the year's top entries in the disciplines of Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Traditional and Visual Arts. Fellowships provide Native artists the opportunity for study, reflection, experimentation and discovery, with awards of up to $20,000 per artist.

A student at a Phoenix high school had an Ibuprofen in her pocket so the school decided to strip-search her. She had a feeling that this violated her rights, but she didn't know for sure, so she let them continue the search.

That's why Mary Beth Tinker wants students to know their rights. Tinker is touring the country now to advocate for students rights, especially First Amendment rights.

For one brief shining moment, the world's largest frybread sizzled triumphantly in its giant custom-made pan.

About 1,200 competitors are expected to take part in a multi-sport competition honoring one the greatest athletes from the 20th century. The 3rd annual Jim Thorpe Native American Games will be staged June 8-14 in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Senator Jon Tester, Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, is proposing a straightforward solution to rebuild schools and improve education in Indian Country.

The 2009 Recovery Act authorized Indian tribes to issue bonds that would raise capital to build new schools and renovate existing ones. The Interior Department, however, did not set up an escrow account to allow tribes to take advantage of the support.

At an early age, Kristin Olson revealed a love for cooking.

She remembers sitting on the counter by her grandma Anna Marie, mixing up cookies and punching down bread dough—just the beginning of her culinary calling.

That calling has provided "Bison: My Way!"—a cookbook filled with unique bison recipes.

Miss Indian World 2014-2015 Taylor Thomas, was given a royal homecoming on Thursday, May 1.
A video of the crowning opened the event and was viewed before a room full of community members from Fort Hall and surrounding areas. As the clip announced Thomas the winner, the crowd within the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel and Event Center erupted in cheer; reenacting the enthusiasm that echoed within The Pit on April 26.

Thomas and her escort James Tone entered the room as Spring Creek Singers offered an honor song.

The Albany lacrosse coaches stared at a small projector screen, searching for the black streak of a three-foot-long ponytail swooping toward the goal.

They were watching Lyle Thompson, an Onondaga Indian from upstate New York, who has become a Wayne Gretzky-like figure in collegiate lacrosse. Last year, his sophomore season, Thompson finished one point short of tying the N.C.A.A. single-season record with 113 points on 50 goals and 63 assists in 17 games while leading SUNY Albany into the postseason for the first time since 2007.

The Cherokee Immersion Charter School graduated its third group of Cherokee speakers Tuesday.

The school, which is operated by the Cherokee Nation, held its sixth-grade graduation Tuesday night in the Sequoyah High School gym.

The graduating students have been taught the importance of preserving the Cherokee language as part of their cultural identity. Students speak only Cherokee while they learn grade level state standard curriculum and also learn to read and write the 86-character Cherokee syllabary.

The 'Aha Punana Leo's Hawaiian language nests preschools have just been awarded the world's first accreditation of an early education program conducted through an endangered and indigenous language by the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). A distinguished review team of experts that included international educators from countries with records of high academic achievement in multiple languages, such as Scandinavia and New Zealand, conducted the newly established process of accreditation for preschool through high school. The accreditation serves as the base from which WINHEC seeks to develop distinctive support for indigenous early education. As the first in the world with this international accreditation, Hawai'i's Punana Leo preschools are setting the bar for early childhood education in indigenous languages around the globe.

Turning on the lights or opening the fridge are things many of us take for granted. But if you've never had electricity, they might seem like luxuries. Now, for dozens of families on the Navajo Nation, those luxuries are becoming a reality. As Arizona Public Radio's Aaron Granillo reports, more than 60 families will soon have electricity for the first time in their lives.

Margie Tso has a beautiful view from her family ranch on the Navajo Nation, just southeast of Page.

April Bracker, a senior at Tuba City High School and the daughter of Ruby and Davey Bracker, beat 16 student welding competitors to take first place in the 11th Annual SkillsNATIVE (Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education) competition.

Bracker competed against students from eight other area high schools including Chinle, Ganado, Monument Valley-Kayenta, Pinon, Red Mesa, Tuba City, Valley-Sanders and Window Rock in Gas Metal Arc Welding. She received a scholarship to attend Tulsa Welding School after she graduates this May.

Attorney Ryan Dreveskracht discusses why skateboarding is so popular among youth in Indian Country:

Skateboarding provides Native youth with freedom — the freedom to take control of their lives, their bodies, the world around them, and their futures.