
Nora Mabie
Indigenous Affairs Reporter at Montana Free Press
Indigenous affairs reporter @mtfreepress [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
milescitystar.com | Nora Mabie
When Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck’s colleagues at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition traveled to Washington to digitize Indian boarding school records, Beck asked them to search for their late great-aunt, Irene Wall. Wall, who was Blackfeet and grew up in Browning, attended Chemawa Indian School in Oregon in the 1950s with her sister. Sifting through thousands of boarding school records at the National Archives in Seattle, Beck’s colleagues found a letter, dated Nov.
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3 weeks ago |
fairfieldsuntimes.com | Nora Mabie
When Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck’s colleagues at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition traveled to Washington to digitize Indian boarding school records, Beck asked them to search for their late great-aunt, Irene Wall. Wall, who was Blackfeet and grew up in Browning, attended Chemawa Indian School in Oregon in the 1950s with her sister. Sifting through thousands of boarding school records at the National Archives in Seattle, Beck’s colleagues found a letter, dated Nov.
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3 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Nora Mabie
When Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck’s colleagues at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition traveled to Washington to digitize Indian boarding school records, Beck asked them to search for their late great-aunt, Irene Wall. Wall, who was Blackfeet and grew up in Browning, attended Chemawa Indian School in Oregon in the 1950s with her sister. Sifting through thousands of boarding school records at the National Archives in Seattle, Beck’s colleagues found a letter, dated Nov.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcmontana.com | Nora Mabie
HELENA, Mont. — When Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck’s colleagues at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition traveled to Washington to digitize Indian boarding school records, Beck asked them to search for their late great-aunt, Irene Wall. Wall, who was Blackfeet and grew up in Browning, attended Chemawa Indian School in Oregon in the 1950s with her sister.
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4 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Nora Mabie |Kaiden Forman-Webster
Members of Montana’s American Indian Caucus say the 2025 legislative session may have been the group’s most successful yet. The state’s American Indian Caucus is an organized group of about a dozen Native American lawmakers who work together to advance legislation they say is good for Indian Country, guided by the principle that what’s good for tribal communities is good for Montana as a whole.
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NEW: Federal cuts halt an Indian boarding school digitization effort. Tribal leaders say the cuts disrupt critical healing processes and keep the general public from learning the truth about what happened at these schools. https://t.co/IykF381Hpt #mtnews

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NEW: Members of Montana’s American Indian Caucus say the 2025 legislative session may have been the group’s most successful yet. https://t.co/nOEPQYNtDI #mtpol #mtleg