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He is a U.S. Navy veteran from World War II, a Cherokee historian and storyteller, an Indian ballgame caller, a Cherokee first language speaker, and soon he will be a doctor. EBCI Beloved Man Jerry Wolfe is set to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Western Carolina University during their spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 6 at 10am in the WCU Ramsey Regional Activity Center.

Nani Chacon, originally from Chinle now in Albuquerque, first started painting at age 16 as a graffiti artist. "My interest in art came from a very urban experience." She said representational figurative painting as "classical" and is "technically challenged by the figure;" however she wants her figurative subjects to tell as deeper story.

Although he was told it was “just a phase,” Josh Crumley said he never felt comfortable wearing girl’s clothes. As he grew older, Crumley said being called a girl started to feel like an insult. “I never felt like I was meant to dress like a girl,” he said. “It just never felt comfortable to me. I felt like who I was on the outside wasn’t who I was on the inside.”

Keisha PaulMartin's first name means "joy," but her early teens were anything but happy in Attawapiskat, the remote Ontario First Nation that drew national attention with its mass youth suicide attempt in April 2016.

When she was 13, in 2010, Keisha tried to take her own life. Her older sister found her in the bathroom after she had slit her wrists.

Millbrook First Nation teen is carrying his stellar play during the major midget hockey season on to a more elite level after being called up by the Truro Bearcats during their playoff run.

G Blackmore led the Nova Scotia Eastlink Major Midget Hockey League in scoring this season with the Pictou County Weeks, notching 75 points in just 37 games.

When Isabelle Dyment first stood in front of a classroom, she had no college degree, no teaching certificate and no experience. That was five years ago, and Dyment was hired to teach kindergarten at Ayaprun Elitnaurvik, a Yup'ik immersion school in Bethel, Alaska. A mother of seven and a fluent Yup'ik speaker, Dyment was terrified that first day she became an Alaska teacher.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's Akwesasne Cultural Restoration (ACR) Program announced the latest recipients of settlement funds to support cultural projects in the Akwesasne Community. The Akwesasne Freedom School's Language Nest, Akwesasne Cultural Center, and Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment will each receive $100,000 in Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Settlement monies to support their work through the end of 2018.

Last year five Native American tribes in Washington state managed to repatriate the remains of the “Ancient One,” as they called him, or “Kennewick Man,” as scientists called him.

For the tribes, the Ancient One is to be revered as a human ancestor. But for the scientists, the rare specimen of a 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man was important to understanding the history of North America.

The lifetime passion and dedication of basketball opened up a once-in-a-lifetime over-seas opportunity for Polson High School Senior Lauren Lefthand. However, the chance to go to Australia this summer did not come from winning championships or winning games for that matter; it was from the skills she gained as a person on the court.

Joshua Nelson remembers visiting his uncle's home as a kid and seeing American Indians on TV. Sometimes they were the real deal — actual Native American actors. Other times they were white faces hiding behind red paint. Either way, they would catch a bullet courtesy of John Wayne more often than not.

In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups.

The three-day council held was organized by Hugh L. Scott, a 77-year-old U.S. Army General who had spent a good portion of his career in the American West, where he observed and learned what users called Hand Talk, and what is today more broadly known as Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL).

The Osage Nation recently received an internet access grant of nearly $3 million dollars to provide broadband services to the Grayhorse area, a traditional Osage Nation community on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. Selection for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Community Connect Grant is the culmination of the hard work, dedication and vision of many Osage Nation employees and Grayhorse Community supporters. Funds from this grant will be utilized to establish an Osage Nation owned broadband company that will deliver high-speed internet services to Grayhorse and the surrounding area.

I was told by several people that the Crow hand game was difficult to explain, but that once I'd watched a few rounds it would start to make sense.

I suppose it did, sort of in the way that the one cricket game I ever watched had begun to make some sense by the time it ended.

High in the sky and walking on six-inch steel beams is where ironworker Ambrose Steah, 33, keeps things in perspective: A better life for his kids. The single father of two has been "dancing with death," as he put it, since he was 18 years old.

On April 3rd and 4th, hundreds of student speakers and learners of Native languages from all over the state and other locations including one as far as Michigan, gathered at Sam Noble Museum in Norman for the (ONAYLF).

Students representing languages from different Oklahoma-based tribes also competed, but the CICS and Grand View students placed in numerous categories, taking home first-, second- and third-place trophies.

Taelor Barton grew up watching her grandmother, Edith Knight, cook. Those cooking sessions inspired Barton to become a chef and share her talent in creating food.

"My grandma did indeed have a huge part in me choosing to be a chef later on in life. It was something that we always did together," the 26-year-old Cherokee Nation citizen said.

The Tiwahe Foundation in the Twin Cities has given Bernie a grant to expand his Native American and First Nations-themed emoji designs to Android applications for use by Google's mobile devices.

Bernie launched the first release of his Indigemojis designs in October 2016 through Apple Inc.'s iOS platform that is exclusive to Apple's iPhone, iPad and iTouch mobile devices.