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2 weeks ago | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus |Nika Bartoo-Smith |Nora Mabie
Posted inNews Arielle ZiontsKFF Health News WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes from her house. Instead, she’s driving more than three hours round trip for her appointments. The hospital, Winner Regional Health, recently joined the increasing number of rural hospitals shuttering their birthing units.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTANCHORAGE, Alaska — Delegates to the Alaska Federation of Natives convention voted to oppose a measure Saturday that would do away with the state’s open primaries and ranked choice voting. AFN delegates represent nine Alaska Native regional and 154 village for-profit corporations, 174 federally recognized tribes, and nine regional non-profit entities. Ranked choice voting allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
ICT StaffThe National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, which is the highest honor in folk and traditional arts in the United States, was awarded to 10 artists, including three Indigenous artists, on Sept. 17. In recognition of each artist’s excellence, lifetime achievements, and contributions to the nation’s traditional arts heritage, they received $25,000. The head of the NEA, Maria Jackson, presented the awards at the Library of Congress.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTA leader in the national and regional tribal housing arena has passed away. Brook B. Kristovich died on July 13, 2024 at the age of 61. He was Nishga and Ingiluk Athabascan and was an enrolled member of the Native Village of Napaimute in Alaska. Kristovich took on leadership roles in the National American Indian Housing Council as well as regional housing authorities in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTOn Monday in Milwaukee, the Forest County of Potawatomi signed a compact with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Compacts are funding agreements that give tribes more autonomy in managing services for their citizens’ needs. The Potawatomi are the fourth tribe to sign a compact with the transportation department and the first Wisconsin tribe to do so. The four compacts were all done through the Biden-Harris administration.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
sourcenm.com | Joaqlin Estus
by Joaqlin Estus, ICT, Source New Mexico August 9, 2024 The harvesting and sharing of the bowhead whale is at the heart of Iñupiat culture and needs to continue, said several speakers at a reception hosted by U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on July 30. Sullivan held the gathering and a strategic meeting as the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (EWC) prepares to ask the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to renew Alaska’s subsistence whaling quota for six more years.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTThe harvesting and sharing of the bowhead whale is at the heart of Iñupiat culture and needs to continue, said several speakers at a reception hosted by U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on July 30. Sullivan held the gathering and a strategic meeting as the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (EWC) prepares to ask the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to renew Alaska’s subsistence whaling quota for six more years.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
alaskabeacon.com | Joaqlin Estus
In Interior Alaska and northwest Canada, temperatures were in the pleasant 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit range in July, but climate change is affecting nearly every aspect of life, said Gwich’in Council International board member Evon Taa’ąįį Peter, who is Neetsaii Gwich’in and Koyukon Athabascan. For one thing, he told ICT, more than 60% of the forest lands of the Alaskan Gwich’in nation have burned in wildfires in the past 10 years.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTANCHORAGE, Alaska — A village is suing to get more safeguards and a more in-depth environmental analysis of an open pit mine and transportation corridor to an ore-processing mill in Interior Alaska. The Manh Choh (or “big lake” in Athabascan) gold mine is already operating and, in fact, recently poured its first gold bar. Tracy Charles-Smith, who is Upper Tanana Athabascan, is president of the federally recognized Native Village of Dot Lake.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus
Joaqlin EstusICTIn interior Alaska and northwest Canada, temperatures are in the pleasant 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit range but climate change is affecting nearly every aspect of life, said Gwich’in Council International board member Evon Taa’ąįį Peter, who is Neetsaii Gwich'in and Koyukon Athabascan. For one thing, he told ICT, more than 60 percent of the forest lands of the Alaskan Gwich’in nation have burned in wildfires in the past 10 years.
