Bismarck Public Schools introduced Tomi Cimarosti as the new Indigenous Education Director on May 13. Cimarosti has worked at BPS for three years as a prevention and relationship education program, PREP, facilitator, behavioral specialist, and family engagement liaison. She is a ... Read More
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Kate Gates and Brett Alberts of the Agricultural Research Service harvesting Arikara squash. Photo Credit/ Claire Friedrichsen
Kate Gates and Brett Alberts of the Agricultural Research Service harvesting Arikara squash. Photo Credit/ Claire Friedrichsen
Kate Gates and Brett Alberts of the Agricultural Research Service harvesting Arikara squash. Photo Credit/ Claire Friedrichsen
Dr. Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills recalls when her grandfather, Gerard Baker, shared with her some ... Read More
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Buffalo’s Fire Publisher Jodi Spotted Bear and Bismarck Documenters Program Manager Alicia Hegland-Thorpe discuss the Bismarck Documenters on Prairie Public’s Mainstreet. (Photo contributed by Buffalo’s Fire)
Buffalo’s Fire Publisher Jodi Spotted Bear and Bismarck Documenters Program Manager Alicia Hegland-Thorpe discuss the Bismarck Documenters on Prairie Public’s Mainstreet. (Photo contributed by Buffalo’s Fire)
Buffalo’s Fire Publisher Jodi Spotted Bear and Bismarck Documenters Program Manager Alicia Hegland-Thorpe discuss the Bismarck Documenters on Prairie Public’s Mainstreet. (Photo contributed by Buffalo’s Fire)
A nonprofit online news outlet is working to put the public back in public meetings. ... Read More
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Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Chair Mark Fox speaks during an event at the Capitol on March 22, 2024. On Tuesday, Fox said he's "extremely disappointed" with a change of position North Dakota is taking in a court case involving Fort Berthold. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Chair Mark Fox speaks during an event at the Capitol on March 22, 2024. On Tuesday, Fox said he's "extremely disappointed" with a change of position North Dakota is taking in a court case involving Fort Berthold. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Chair Mark Fox speaks during an event at the Capitol on March 22, 2024. On Tuesday, Fox said he's "extremely disappointed" with a change of position North Dakota is taking in a court case involving Fort Berthold. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
Attorneys for the state of North Dakota have taken the unusual step of asking the ... Read More
The Minneapolis American Indian Center's two-year renovation is now complete. The redesign reflects both a sense of belonging and history and showcases ways the Minneapolis Indigenous community embraces its future. The happy chatter of excited visitors filled a large rotunda inside ... Read More
Hundreds of people listen to executive director Mary LaGarde welcome guests to the grand re-opening of the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Wednesday. (Ben Hovland, MPR News)
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen committed to Lake County Commissioners on Monday, April 29, he would support legislation to fund law enforcement on the Flathead Indian Reservation and would serve as a mediator between the county and the governor’s office. Knudsen ... Read More
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At 80 years old, Leonard Peltier is approaching what may be his last attempt at freedom. On June 10, the Anishinaabe elder will participate in what may be his final parole hearing. Peltier is currently serving two consecutive life sentences after ... Read More
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the White House in Washington, D.C. for the Free Leonard Peltier 79th Birthday Action on September 12, 2023. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
INDIANAPOLIS – A national commission is calling on the federal government to declare a “Decade of Action and Healing” regarding the public safety crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples. The commission issued a report listing its many findings, including ... Read More
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Leta Killer arrived with a purpose in attending the Faceless Doll Project. The event in Bismarck, N.D. marked the National Day of Awareness for Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons. For the first time in her life, she would share her ... Read More
Leta Killer (center) came out to the Faceless Doll Project in Bismarck on May 4 to tell the story of her two relatives who had been killed. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame
Bismarck Public Schools’ Indigenous Education Director Sashay Schettler is stepping forward from her current position to help lead American Indian education initiatives for North Dakota. In an interview with Buffalo’s Fire, Schettler said she wasn’t looking for a new job, “but ... Read More
Sashay Schettler visits the North Dakota State Capitol on March 5, unaware that she’d be chosen to be the assistant director for the Office of Indian and Multicultural Education. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame
Sacheen Whitetail-Cross was a high school senior in 1998 who wanted to learn her Lakota language. She couldn’t find any options. McLaughlin High School in South Dakota only offered Spanish as a language course. Not being able to formally study ... Read More
Sunshine Archambault will be instructing beginner Lakota/Dakota at the language institute this summer. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame
Two Native American lawmakers voiced frustrations Wednesday with repeated reports of racist behavior at school events and urged more accountability from North Dakota education officials. The legislators — Rep. Jayme Davis, D-Rolette, and Rep. Lisa Finley-DeVille, D-Mandaree — had no shortage ... Read More
Reps. Lisa Finley-Deville, left, and Jayme Davis. (Photos provided by the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
On the morning after spring prom, Nicole Alkire woke up to a text from her teenage daughter, a junior at Flasher High School. When she clicked on a link her daughter sent her, she saw a video of Native cultural ... Read More
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