by Heather Steinberger | Mar 16, 2021 | Indian Country News
“A fierce Indigenous woman is now the caretaker of the nation’s public lands and waters for the first time in U.S. history. “Deb Haaland was confirmed as the nation’s 54th Secretary of the Interior in a 51-40 vote Monday, making her the first Native...
by Heather Steinberger | Mar 15, 2021 | Indian Country News
“One of the coolest names in Lancaster-Lebanon League boys basketball this season resides in the Pequea Valley School District, where the varsity roster includes 17-year-old guard Gary Bad Warrior. “The junior moved to Lancaster County over the...
by Heather Steinberger | Mar 11, 2021 | Indian Country News
“Tribal groups in Panama are celebrating a victory for their rights to control some of Central America’s largest forests — a victory that could benefit conservation throughout the region. “The landmark ruling, by the country’s Supreme Court, upholds a...
by Heather Steinberger | Mar 10, 2021 | Indian Country News
“There’s a saying in Indian Country: either you are at the table, or you are on the menu. “Appointments by the Biden administration now in the works would put American Indian and Alaska Native people very much at the table, including posts where Native...
by Heather Steinberger | Mar 1, 2021 | Indian Country News
“A new program launched by South Dakota State University in partnership with the Indian University of North America focuses on ecosystem sustainability from a Lakota perspective.”...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 28, 2021 | Indian Country News
:It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a laconic, evasive passerby who defies Olympic idealizing. A breakfast of...
