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Set on ice, ‘North of North’ warms the heart

1 week ago | ictnews.org | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTA hit in Canada, “North of North” is a clever, relatable comedy about a 27-year-old Inuk woman and her challenging relationships with her macho, soon-to-be-ex-husband Ting, troubled mother Neevee, adorable kid Bun, and surprise father Alastair. Set in an isolated Alaskan community, the show hits all the right frigid – yet warm – notes.
Set on ice, ‘North of North’ warms the heart

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTA hit in Canada, “North of North” is a clever, relatable comedy about a 27-year-old Inuk woman and her challenging relationships with her macho, soon-to-be-ex-husband Ting, troubled mother Neevee, adorable kid Bun, and surprise father Alastair. Set in an isolated Alaskan community, the show hits all the right frigid – yet warm – notes.
‘Courage’ brings hoop dancer’s story full circle

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTMany kids who grow up off the reservation don’t dream of going back to their people’s traditional ways. For Eric Michael Hernandez, Lumbee, who grew up in Southern California away from his tribe in South Carolina, the lure of a life in sports – first basketball, then football – was an early goal, until his uncle, champion hoop dancer Terry Goedel, Yakima, nine-time world champion, told him the reality of that life versus the life he could have as a hoop dancer.
INDIGENOUS A&E: Peltier pictured, liquid smudge, retro whimsy

2 weeks ago | ictnews.org | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTThe latest: Immortalized in silver plate, smokeless smudge, humor at the HeardAfter 50 years of incarceration, a recent photo shoot has yielded results that will last 1,000 years, with help from the former Secretary of the Interior. Shane Balkowitsch has been photographing hundreds of Natives for years using the complicated 1851 silver plate collodian method.
INDIGENOUS A&E: Peltier pictured, liquid smudge, retro whimsy

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTThe latest: Immortalized in silver plate, smokeless smudge, humor at the HeardAfter 50 years of incarceration, a recent photo shoot has yielded results that will last 1,000 years, with help from the former Secretary of the Interior. Shane Balkowitsch has been photographing hundreds of Natives for years using the complicated 1851 silver plate collodian method.
‘Drowned Land’ shines light on Choctaw water rights movement

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTIt took seven years for the feature directorial debut of Colleen Thurston’s “Drowned Land” to be completed, a journey that took her along with a community of people within her tribe, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and their fight to preserve water rights to the Kiamichi River.
INDIGENOUS A&E: Ghost writer, aunties and fashionistas, made for theater

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTThe latest: Rogue artist in the museum, NDN Vogue and fierce family, play explores real vs. fake. ART: Art inspired by Ghost DanceAs an artist who made his name painting (artful) rogue slogans in public, Jaque Fragua, Jemez Pueblo, has come in from the cold to produce Ghost Writing, a compelling, mid-career retrospective at the Plains Museum in Fargo, N.D., April 5-March 15, 2026.
INDIGENOUS A&E: Ghost writer, aunties and fashionistas, made for theater

4 weeks ago | ictnews.org | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTThe latest: Rogue artist in the museum, NDN Vogue and fierce family, play explores real vs. fake. As an artist who made his name painting (artful) rogue slogans in public, Jaque Fragua, Jemez Pueblo, has come in from the cold to produce Ghost Writing, a compelling, mid-career retrospective at the Plains Museum in Fargo, N.D., April 5-March 15, 2026.
‘Justice has prevailed’: Seminole Tribe wins $832M verdict against Wells Fargo Bank

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTA jury has awarded more than $800,000 million to the Seminole Tribe of Florida after finding that Wachovia Bank and its new owner Wells Fargo Bank charged more than $7 million in unauthorized fees and mishandled a trust fund set up for the tribe’s children.
‘Justice has prevailed’: Seminole Tribe wins $832M verdict against Wells Fargo Bank

4 weeks ago | ictnews.org | Sandra Schulman

Sandra Hale SchulmanSpecial to ICTA jury has awarded more than $800,000 million to the Seminole Tribe of Florida after finding that Wachovia Bank and its new owner Wells Fargo Bank charged more than $7 million in unauthorized fees and mishandled a trust fund set up for the tribe’s children.