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A Montana State University undergraduate has received a Udall Scholarship, putting him one step closer to his goal of developing renewable energy projects for the benefit of his southeast Montana community.

Getting the award "really fulfills a longtime dream," said Kyle Alderman, a junior majoring in electrical engineering.

To the Lakota, the giving of horses marked important events such as honoring or remembering a relative, the identification of a warrior society, ceremonial dances or any other type of celebration. Thinking back to older relatives’ artwork, Star Comes Out remembered horse regalia that were intricately beaded to honor and adorn the horse.

The Notah Begay III Foundation is hosting a national competition for Native youth to design a mobile APP focused on improving the health and nutrition of Native youth- designed by Native youth. We are now accepting applications. This competition is open to individuals or teams of Native youth, 13-18, experienced in coding, design, and digital media and/or mobile technology.

Keeping Culture Alive

Culture equals identity. When a culture disappears, so does a people.

Many of us fail to realize what that would mean for us, for our families. Think of the family recipes, the customary songs and dances, the familiar expressions, the holiday traditions—lost.

The Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute and the Walmart Foundation have announced a nearly half-a-million dollar grant to support Native youth from ages 18 to 24 participating in an emerging leaders program called Fresh Tracks.

The Bay Area Book Festival inaugurates a multi-faceted partnership with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria to bring you Native authors and issues and to help build a new generation of Native writers.

To most spectators, the term "Olympics" means world-class swimming competitions, downhill skiing or the 100-meter dash.

But near the Arctic Circle, a different type of Olympics for young people pays homage to the region's subsistence hunters and the methods they've used for centuries to feed their families and stay alive in harsh conditions.

Cherokee Nation citizen and licensed practical nurse Dora Luna is receiving national recognition for her successes in the health care field after participating in the CN Career Services’ employment and training programs.

The National Indian and Native American Employment and Training Conference chose Luna, of Claremore, as this year’s Outstanding Participant. Only one candidate from across the U.S. is chosen for the award annually.

It's one thing for students to learn about science and technology in their classrooms, but it's another to give them the chance to take what they learn in textbooks and work together to create something entirely new and inspiring.

To maximize training opportunities for people engaged in sustaining and advancing indigenous culture, the Institute of Museum and Library Services is providing up to $75,000 in scholarship funding for eligible applicants to attend the conference.

Climate change concerns, preserving Indigenous languages and storytelling though music and art were just a few topics at the 46th annual Symposium on the American Indian held April 16-21 at Northeastern State University.

A course created one year ago by the University of Alberta was the most popular online course in Canada in 2017, and is already making inroads into how Canadians understand the history of Indigenous people.

The American Indian Library Association (AILA) will provide a library school scholarship to a qualified American Indian individual in the amount of $4000 for the 2018-2019 academic school year.

The Encore! Performing Society on April 8 previewed its reimagined production of "Four Moons," which highlights the careers of five Native American ballerinas.

Since the arrival of European colonizers in the Western hemisphere, Native American tribes have suffered in every imaginable way. This marginalized group of people has endured everything from cultural death to literal death and, in recent decades, have begun dealing with the death of their tribal languages.

In fact, seen from a certain perspective, it’s mundane. A canoe, drifting down the river. Crystal Conant steered the craft, fighting a bit to keep the vessel moving in the direction of her will. No different than a thousand other trips taken down the Spokane River.

Growing up in Montreal, Rhonda Oblin Cooper never got the chance to learn how to prepare a moosehide — a skill practised by her people for thousands of years.

Now 42 years old and living in the Cree community of Waswanipi, in the James Bay region of Quebec, Oblin Cooper is busy learning the skill and showing it to her 16-year-old daughter, Tyra, at workshops organized by the community's cultural department.

Imagine a group of American Indians proposing to unearth the remains of soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., put the bones in boxes and take them back to Montana for storage and to be studied. "Afterward, we'll let you guys know about this," said Michael Black Wolf, tribal historic preservation officer for the Gros Ventre-Assiniboine tribes in northern Montana. "We'll take your comments into consideration."

As steam formed inside a rusty oil tank, Alfie Jacques crafted wooden lacrosse sticks at a barn down a dirt driveway on the Onondaga Nation reservation a few miles south of Syracuse University.

The tank in question measures a few feet wide and about 8 feet long. Its temperature was set so high that steam shot out of the 1,000-liter drum filled with water. Jacques, 69, stuck a piece of wood into the tank, pulled it out and bent it.

A cookbook devoted to indigenous foods in Minnesota and the Dakotas has won a prestigious James Beard award.

"The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley and published by University of Minnesota Press, won in the American cookbook category. The James Beard Foundation announced its book and media awards on Friday. The annual awards honor contributions to food and dining in the U.S.

New research shows tribal forests in northern Wisconsin have older trees, and better plant diversity and tree regeneration than surrounding state or national forests. Researchers with Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Ecology and Society.

You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre-colonial place names and stories. And every place we occupy was once the homeland for other people, most of whom didn't leave willingly.

Whose land are you on? Start with a visit to native-land.ca.

A play long criticized for its racist depiction of indigenous people has been re-imagined for the Oakmont Regional High School stage.

Sixty-seven students are acting in the school's sold-out production of "Peter Pan," which, according to history teacher and director of theater Jeffrey Aubuchon, avoids stereotypes when depicting native characters.

Diné College is getting a facelift thanks to several grants that funded several capital improvement projects like the renovation to the Student Union Building (SUB) and new construction of 32 family housing units at its main campus in Tsaile.

In the Ojibwe communities of northern Minnesota, basketball is huge. As the popularity of the game continues to grow, basketball presents an increasing number of opportunities for young athletes and the communities they represent. The following is the first of a three-part series detailing how basketball has provided a path to higher education for Ojibwe peoples in the region.

The state of Minnesota was really first introduced to Red Lake basketball during the 1997 state tournament, when the Red Lake Warriors faced off against the Wabasso Rabbits, a school from the southern part of the state, which ironically derives its name from the Ojibwe word for rabbit, "wabooze."

Like his former Panther teammates and their predecessors, Brady Fairbanks is another Cass Lake-Bena alum who has achieved great things. A former McDonald's All-American nominee and second team all-state athlete, Fairbanks led the Panthers to the state championship game in 2007, where they lost to Ellsworth on a three-pointer in the final seconds. Like the Red Lake vs. Wabasso game in 1997, the Cass Lake-Bena vs. Ellsworth game is considered to be one of the greatest in state tournament history.

The frustration filmmaker Michelle Latimer felt over how Indigenous filmmakers are often outgunned by bigger production houses when it comes to obtaining the rights to successful novels by Indigenous writers led to her latest project: adapting Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster for the screen.

As the sun poked through the trees of Yosemite Valley on a recent morning, a handful of men in plaid shirts, thick vests and baseball caps gathered beside a picnic table where smoke billowed from a stone-size bundle of burning herbs.

Climate change concerns, preserving Indigenous languages and storytelling though music and art were just a few topics at the 46th annual Symposium on the American Indian held April 16-21 at Northeastern State University.