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2 weeks ago | 
ictnews.org | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICT ALBUQUERQUE — Becoming Miss Indian World opens doors. You travel a lot, meet new people and have the chance to represent your tribe and Indigenous people. This year, Dania Wahwasuck, Prairie Band Potawatomi, was crowned Miss Indian World 2025-2026 at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She said the title isn’t about her but representing her people. “I just want to make my Anishinaabe people proud.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTAs one student put it, an auntie is going to guide Fort Lewis College “toward the world we want to see” after the college appointed its first Indigenous president. Heather Shotton, the incoming president, is tremendously honored. She was unanimously appointed on April 11 by the college’s board of trustees.
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3 weeks ago | 
ictnews.org | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTAs one student put it, an auntie is going to guide Fort Lewis College “toward the world we want to see” after the college appointed its first Indigenous president. Heather Shotton, the incoming president, is tremendously honored. She was unanimously appointed on April 11 by the college’s board of trustees.
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1 month ago | 
ictnews.org | Jourdan Bennett-Begaye |Kalle Benallie |Kevin Abourezk
Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Kalle Benallie and Kevin AbourezkICTWASHINGTON — All Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and Haskell Indian Nations University employees who were part of the federal layoffs on Valentine’s Day have been offered their jobs back, ICT learned.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTThree tribal nations and five Native students are suing the United States Department of Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs in response to staff cuts at the Bureau of Indian Education and in the schools they fund and operate. In February, the bureau terminated a significant number of employees in the Bureau of Indian Education that helped operate schools in lieu of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to reduce federal staffing.
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2 months ago | 
ictnews.org | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTThree tribal nations and five Native students are suing the United States Department of Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs in response to staff cuts at the Bureau of Indian Education and in the schools they fund and operate. In February, the bureau terminated a significant number of employees in the Bureau of Indian Education that helped operate schools in lieu of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to reduce federal staffing.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Kalle Benallie
ICT The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday to hear from leaders of Indigenous organizations about issues that are the most important to them so the committee can decide what Native policy issues to prioritize.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTThe Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday to hear from leaders of Indigenous organizations about issues that are the most important to them so the committee can decide what Native policy issues to prioritize. Newly installed Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski began the hearing by addressing how the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget directives have affected federal funding for tribes and tribal programs.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
ictnews.org | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTThe Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday to hear from leaders of Indigenous organizations about issues that are the most important to them so the committee can decide what Native policy issues to prioritize. Newly installed Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski began the hearing by addressing how the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget directives have affected federal funding for tribes and tribal programs.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
ictnews.org | Kalle Benallie
Kalle BenallieICTALBUQUERQUE — Seventeen-year-old Cheyenne Anderson has a mission of advancing accessibility and representation, through art, to bigger audiences. So far, she’s been doing well. In October 2024, the White House Gender Policy Council chose Anderson as part of former First Lady Jill Biden’s “Girls Leading Change," recognizing the impacts young women are making in their communities.
