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Culture Watchlist: ‘Native American Food Sovereignty, Explained’ 07.12.2024 Kamiah Koch Culture , Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist As the summer sun shines, plants like corn, berries and squash are growing and beginning to ripen here in the Willamette Valley. According to Mohawk and Mi’Kmaq Tribal member Tai LeClaire, Indigenous agricultural systems have contributed more than 60% of all the food that is consumed today. It includes foods like the corn, berries and squash …
/articles/2024/07/12/watchlist-native-american-food-sovereignty-explained/Culture Watchlist: ‘Chinookan Plank Houses - Native American Domestic Architecture & Culture’ 02.14.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist As many Tribal members know, wintertime is a time for “ikanum” or storytelling. The Grand Ronde Tribe annually hosts a story night in the achaf-hammi plankhouse to continue this tradition. Other Pacific Northwest Tribes host events in their respective plankhouses during the cold months. One plankhouse in the region belongs …
/articles/2023/02/14/watchlist-chinookan-plank-houses-native-american-domestic-architecture-culture/Culture Watchlist: ‘Native American fashion aims to reclaim its culture with authentic designs’ 06.14.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Coincidently, four days before Smoke Signals published a video on Friday, June 2, explaining how to make a ribbon skirt, PBS News Hour shared a video on a growing resurgence in Native American clothing designs. Kaomi Lee, the narrator of the PBS video and a reporter for Twin Cities PBS, introduces Adrienne Benjamin …
/articles/2023/06/14/watchlist-native-american-fashion-aims-to-reclaim-its-culture-with-authentic-designs/Culture Watchlist: ‘A History of the Muckleshoot Canoe Journey’ 07.31.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist While canoe families are underway on the annual canoe journey, the Muckleshoot Tribe posted a video to its YouTube channel explaining the history of the Muckleshoot Canoe Journey. Muckleshoot is the host Tribe for the 2023 canoe journey and canoes are expected to land on Alki beach in Seattle on Sunday, July 30. Executive Director of Culture …
/articles/2023/07/31/watchlist-a-history-of-the-muckleshoot-canoe-journey/Culture Watchlist: ‘The Living History of Native Gatherings’ 08.31.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Powwow season is upon us and while many Tribal members don't need an explanation for what a powwow is, many non-Indigenous people do. This became evident to Smoke Signals recently when an outside organization asked us, “What exactly is a powwow?” NBC News answered this question in an eight-minute video published in early 2023 called, “The Living History …
/articles/2023/08/31/watchlist-the-living-history-of-native-gatherings/Culture Watchlist: “The Osage murders and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ ” 10.31.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist On Friday, Oct. 20, “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered in the United States. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the movie is based on true events and follows members of the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on their reservation in 1920. Shortly after the Osage received their wealth from the oil, the murders began. Before the movie …
/articles/2023/10/31/watchlist-the-osage-murders-and-killers-of-the-flower-moon/Culture Watchlist: ‘Native Americans victimized by massive insurance scheme in Arizona’ 12.14.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist The Grand Ronde Tribe just held its first Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Dinner on Friday, Dec. 1. This event was hosted by the Tribal medication-assisted treatment facility, Great Circle Recovery. Great Circle Recovery Operations Director Jennifer Worth has spoken with Smoke Signals about how drug addiction …
/articles/2023/12/14/watchlist-native-americans-victimized-by-massive-insurance-scheme-in-arizona/Culture Watchlist: ‘Homecoming | Buffalo Return to Indigenous Lands’ 01.12.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Until 2021, the city of Denver used to auction off buffalo from its mountain parks to maintain a healthy population. In 2021, they changed directions and began transferring the buffalo back to Indigenous lands. A PBS video, “Homecoming | Buffalo Return to Indigenous Lands,” published in December 2023, shares the significance of this transfer …
/articles/2024/01/12/watchlist-homecoming-buffalo-return-to-indigenous-lands/Culture Watchlist: Mexican drug cartel targets six Native American reservations in Montana 02.15.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist “It’s as if fentanyl is raining on our reservation,” Blackfeet Nation Tribal leader Marvin Weatherwax Jr. said in an NBC interview. NBC News visited the Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation earlier this year to report on the Mexican cartel’s increased presence on Montana’s six Tribal reservations. NBC reporter Cynthia …
/articles/2024/02/15/watchlist-mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana/Culture Watchlist: ‘An expression of love’ 02.29.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist A Smarthistory YouTube video pans to a 19 th century cradleboard with bright red wool and colorful beads on display in the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Choctaw Nation Tribal member Dr. Chelsea Herr provides a voiceover in the video with curators Jack and Maxine Zarrow, and art historian Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, explaining the materials in a cradleboard, how …
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