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The Cheyenne River Youth Project Hosts “Rolling Rez Arts”

Published May 2, 2017 First Peoples Fund’s mobile arts unit provided three evenings of valuable art instruction for  CRYP’s teen arts interns. EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA — On April 18-20, the Cheyenne River Youth Project®  welcomed the First Peoples Funds’ Rolling Rez Arts mobile unit to the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation. Visiting artist Wade Patton and First Peoples Fund Coordinator Bryan Parker…

More than 100 Indigenous women in N.L. murdered or missing, meeting told

A shocking number was revealed at meeting in St. John’s Wednesday: more than 100 Indigenous women and girls are estimated to have been murdered or gone missing in Newfoundland and Labrador.

“It is a big issue, and that’s the point,” said Angus Andersen, who hosted the gathering of about a dozen people at the St. John’s Native Friendship Centre.

“A lot of people seem to brush the idea of some Inuk, when they are missing or murdered, it just tends to be brushed under the carpet and I’m hoping this inquiry will shine a light on that,” said Andersen, who organized the meeting on behalf of two national Inuit organizations, Tungasuvvingat Inuit and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

The meeting was held so that Inuit people in St. John’s could present their ideas about how the upcoming federal Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry should be organized.

Long-running, complicated problems

Participants said the problems that have resulted in murdered and missing Indigenous girls and women are long-running and complicated.

[IMAGE: Angus Andersen is originally from Nain but he lives in St. John’s.]

They talked about the toxic effects of centuries of racism, sexism and colonialism. They also talked about the daily challenges that Inuit people in Labrador face, such as expensive housing, food and substance abuse.

One participant described alcohol as a “weapon” that’s damaged traditional cultures.

Andersen’s grandmother is one of the 100 women who were killed or went missing. She was murdered more than three decades ago. Andersen said her death was not dealt with properly.

“It was not. No. Even though they solved that mystery,” he said.

“Still it was an issue that should not have happened like too many families in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut, there are too many cases that have been brushed under the rug by justice, by social services, and there are a few cases that people still don’t know about,” he said.

‘Take our suggestions seriously’

Andersen wants the inquiry to address the concerns of Indigenous people.

“I hope that than any government that takes part does take our suggestions seriously and follow up what we want because it is important to us to have our ideas heard and used because too many times the justice department has investigated and then just said ‘case closed’,” he said.

From December to February, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu toured the country to meet with the families of murdered or missing Aboriginal women and girls, seeking their input on what a national inquiry should look like and what it should attempt to accomplish.

Bennett said in February that they’ve heard from 1,300 people, many of whom believe police have ignored their concerns about missing or murdered loved ones.

The Liberal government hopes to have the inquiry up and running by the summer but it must first decide what the inquiry’s mandate should be.

Bennett said it requires a balancing act to ensure the inquiry’s focus isn’t too narrow or too broad.

A 2014 report by the RCMP concluded 1,017 Aboriginal women had been murdered between 1980 and 2012, and that another 164 were considered missing.

Indigenous women make up 4.3 percent of the Canadian population but the report found they account for 16 percent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women.

Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper resolutely refused to launch a national inquiry into the issue, arguing that Indigenous women need action, not more studies.

Descendants of a bison herd captured and sent to Canada more than a century ago will be relocated to a Montana Native American reservation next month, in what tribal leaders bill as a homecoming for a species emblematic of their traditions.

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Pequot Museum to Open on April 1 for the 2016 Season

Celebration to include a Native New Year Clambake   Published March 20, 2016 MASHANTUCKET, CONNECTICUT – The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center announced today that it will reopen for the 2016 season on Friday, Apr. 1, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at its state-of-the-art, 308,000-square-foot complex located on the scenic Pequot Reservation. To celebrate the re-opening, on Saturday, Apr.…

Haskell Indian Nations University Women’s Basketball Drop Heart breaker to Dakota Wesleyan in First Round of NAIA National Tournament

Tyler Sumpter (Paiute) led the Lady Indians with 19 points in the Indians loss to Dakota Wesleyan in 1st round of the NAIA National Tournament. Published March 10, 2016 SIOUX CITY, IOWA – The Haskell Indian Nations University basketball record setting season came to end in the first round of the women’s 2016 NAIA Division II National Tournament Wednesday morning at the Tyson Events Center in…

Bernie Sanders Meets with Kansas Tribal Leaders during Campaign Stop at Lawrence

Democratic party presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, met with Kansas tribal leaders on Thursday. Photo by Burton Warrington Published March 4, 2016 LAWRENCE, KANSAS — Two days before Saturday’s Kansas caucus, Democratic party presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders took his campaign to Lawrence, Kansas. There he met for some 20 minutes with tribal leaders from the four…