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As attorney general of the Navajo Nation, Ethel Branch '08 aims to strengthen tribal law and native voices

Nike N7 has just named the latest successful Native person to its roster of N7 ambassadors, professional female volleyball player and model Lauren Schad. Schad is a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She began playing at age 14, then played for the University of San Diego until her professional career began in 2016.

The word Ah-Shi is a Navajo word. It means: This is me; this is mine.

To Ahsaki Báá LaFrance-Chachere, wellness implies an integrity of self. As a half Navajo and half African American woman, raised in Besh-Be-Toh on the Navajo Reservation in Northeastern Arizona, she desired to see more people of color represented in the luxury beauty market.

Countdown. There are now less than 100 days until Election Day. That means little time for campaigns to reach every possible voter or to raise money to get their message out.

The elections are 100 days away and there are far more than a hundred stories. Stories about candidates. Stories about races where the Native vote can make a difference. Stories about registration drives -- and making sure that Native Americans have access to ballots.

Michelle Guzman dances at powwows, and this summer, the University of Montana staff member has been running into Native American students who have been enrolled at the flagship.

Guzman, the new director of American Indian Student Services, takes full advantage of the encounters, at times far from Missoula, and relayed one recent example of an exchange:

Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) has been awarded $66,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through its Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (NANH) grants program.

The grant funds will be used to complete a storage assessment and improve ongoing collection care of objects of cultural patrimony, sacred objects, and funerary objects.

Twenty youths from 19 communities across Alaska gathered at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program building to work on model kayaks. The kayak-building assignment is one of the hands-on projects that are part of the five-week summer mathematics program at ANSEP. The students can earn college-level credit in math after completing the program.

Cherokee Nation Foundation has added yet another scholarship opportunity benefiting Cherokee students through a newly established endowment created by Kerry and Deborah Bowers, of Henderson, Nevada.

The endowment was created through CNF’s “Leave a Legacy” matching program to honor the late Senior Master Sgt. Texie C. Taylor and her service with the United States Air Force.

More Native American students in Montana say bullying is an issue at their school than their white peers. Sue Reynolds thinks a heavy dose of cross-cultural education could change that.

The Lakota Dream Museum & Monument is set for a Grand Opening next month in Rapid City.

Organizers say that the Lakota Dream Museum and Monument is set to be the first “Lakota owned and operated, museum and cultural education center”, ever. While this fact is a wonderful accomplishment. Adonis Saltes, of the Wicahpi Dopa society, and one of the driving forces behind its creation says that the value of having a place like this is bigger than any accolade.

University of Alberta doctoral student and Rhodes Scholar Billy-Ray Belcourt won Canada's most illustrious poetry honour—the Griffin Poetry Prize. Belcourt, 23, is the youngest person ever to win the annual prize.

When Iqaluit bluesman Josh Qaumariaq and comedian Vinnie Karetak were tasked with creating a video about the importance of preserving Arctic ocean critters, they had just one little problem.

They didn’t know anything about the subject.

Six weeks covering Native Americans at Standing Rock, North Dakota, protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline presented a unique opportunity to get to know many of the people who took a stand there.

Lakota medicine man Ivan Lookinghorse from Cheyenne River Reservation south of Standing Rock Reservation was one of them.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, on June 11, that asked Washington state to remove culverts that block the migration of salmon. The ruling has significant implications for Northwest Coast tribes, whose main source of food and livelihood is salmon.

The legal decision stems from the 1855 Stevens treaties when Northwest Coast tribes retained the “right to take fish” from their traditional homelands. Fighting to protect salmon habitat, however, is more than just upholding tribal rights. Salmon is viewed as sacred.

During a March meeting, Cherokee speakers added 88 newly translated words to the tribe's language. The new additions contain science, art and grammar terminology, which will be added to a terminology booklet.

Just a few steps into the woods, everything changes.

On the rocky beach at Berners Bay, clumps of seaweed dried in the sun as people chatted and the engine from the catamaran was still audible. But stepping into the quiet, cool shade of the spruce trees was like stepping back in time.

Federal officials mistakenly published confidential information on locations and descriptions of about 900 ancient cliff dwellings, spiritual structures, rock art panels and other Native American antiquities in Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management posted a 77-page report online that included unique identifiers for priceless artifacts as it prepared to auction the most archaeologically rich lands ever offered for industrial use. The report exposed ruins spanning 13,000 years of Native American history to vandalism and looting, and experts say the BLM violated federal regulations that prohibit publicly sharing information about antiquities.

Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday, clearing her path to becoming the nation's first Native American congresswoman.

Haaland, a former state party chair, defeated Damon Martinez and Antoinette Sedillo Lopez in their bids to represent New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.

The district encompasses Albuquerque and is solidly blue ? it's rated D+7 by the Cook Partisan Voter Index ? so Haaland is all but certain to win in November when she takes on the lone GOP candidate in the race, Janice Arnold-Jones.

Ironworkers union chapters from around the northeast U.S. and Canada came together for the 16th Ironworkers Festival, held on a hot, sunny and windy July 21 at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort.

This year's Ultimate Ironworker honor went to Devis Caceres from Local 580, New York City.