The Indigenous cafe using native cuisine to help its chefs fight addiction
“We’re trying to find ways to combat diet-related diseases among the people. A lot of us are related to people who have diabetes, hypertension. We want to reach out to more of the people and say, ‘Come buy your food here. It’s right here, locally grown, and this is way better than what we have in the stores.’”
– Ciara Minjarez, educational outreach coordinator
Indigenous people from Canada, U.S., meet in Saskatoon to sign treaty aiming to restore bison
The first signatories to the treaty — members of different nations in North America — put their names on the document in 2014 at the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, with the goal of allowing the free flow of the animals across the international border and restoring the spiritual and cultural connections between bison and Indigenous peoples.
Biggest Weight Gain Now Comes Early in Adulthood
More than half of Americans in the representative sample had gained 5% or more body weight during a 10-year period. More than one-third of Americans had gained 10% or more body weight. And nearly one-fifth had gained 20% or more body weight.
What causes mass shootings? Mental health failures or poor gun laws?
“No one who commits a violent act is mentally well,”
– Beth McGinty, a mental health and substance abuse policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Supreme court expands states’ power to prosecute crimes on tribal lands
A US supreme court decision on Wednesday that allows state prosecutors to pursue criminal cases for crimes committed by non-Native persons against Native persons on tribal land has spurred condemnation from tribal leaders and members – who have described the ruling as an attack on their autonomy.
With $1B in recovery funds, Navajo Nation will upgrade infrastructure and create new jobs
Leaders said the lack of infrastructure, families living in multigenerational homes and underlying health issues contributed to the spread of the virus, which has to date taken over 1,800 Navajo lives.
When it comes to Indian Boarding School Graves, Tribal Spiritual Law is Shunned as Repatriations Continue to Fail Some Tribes
In 1879, Carlisle Barracks became the site of the nation’s first government-run Indian boarding school. It was operated by the Department of the Interior until 1918. Under the motto of “kill the Indian, save the man,” it tried to forcibly assimilate 7,800 Native American children from more than 140 tribal nations through a mix of Western-style education and hard labor. At least 186 children died there, of disease often made worse by poor living conditions and abuse.
Skiing on a sacred mountain: Indigenous Americans stand against a resort’s expansion
At the center of the Snowbowl controversy is the resort’s snowmaking operations, an increasingly necessary tool as climate breakdown causes snowfall to be less predictable. Snowbowl manufactures its artificial snow with reclaimed water from Flagstaff’s sewage system, a method approved by the forest service as part of an earlier resort expansion plan in 2005. It was the first resort in the country to use reclaimed water for snowmaking; since then a ski area in Montana and one in California have also adopted the practice.
Mental health needs among children on the rise
The hours spent on direct mental health support have steadily risen since the 2018-19 pre-pandemic school year. (Graphics by Rachal Elliott/Community Impact Newspaper)
EPA commits to better water, wastewater services in Alaska Native villages
EPA and partners have also renewed the Tribal Infrastructure Task Force to improve federal coordination efforts to deliver water infrastructure and financial assistant to Alaska Native villages and American Indian tribes.