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Alaska Native man who alleged wrongful conviction in murder case

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Indigenous Chef Sean Sherman to Launch as First Expansion of Indigenous Food Lab Concept in Bozeman, MT

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Indigenous Chef Sean Sherman to Launch as First Expansion of Indigenous Food Lab Concept in Bozeman, MT

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Indigenous leaders from Africa, the Pacific and North America will gather in New York to reflect on the enduring power of ancestral knowledge

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Minnesota groups plan to build an Indigenous birth center

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Final defendant sentenced in local Indian Arts and Crafts Act case

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Meet North of North Star Anna Lambe, Breakout Actress of Netflix Inuit Comedy

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A new installation will retell the story of three Wyandot Nation sisters who defended a tribal burial ground in downtown Kansas City, Kansas

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UC failed to repatriate Native American human remains on time, state audit finds

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UC failed to repatriate Native American human remains on time, state audit finds

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Indigenous-led Edmonton production heads to New York City

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‘We’re preparing them for jobs that don’t even exist yet’ – New Fort Lewis president on opportunities, Indigenous heritage and first-gen students

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Explainer: How the U of M system endowment, mining industry benefit from seized Indigenous land

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The border issue Indigenous communities are talking about this election

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The Penn Museum Journal - A Visit to the Otoe Indians

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New Center Providing Comprehensive Youth Services Opens in Spokane

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YouTuber who left Diet Coke can for reclusive tribe arrested in India

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EdgeBeam and ATSC 3.0: A New Broadcast Frontier-But Will Rural and Tribal Communities Be Left Behind?

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Museum After Hours event honors Native Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui

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National Indian Health Board names permanent chief executive amid major change

  • Thanks for sharing! I had read a little bit about the difficulties in attempting to retain the traditional language, so I wondered if there were other struggles similar to we're facing here in the US. I know how you feel about the cultural food thing. I was lucky enough to be around traditional food and I'll admit it's a little emotionally hard to see people holding up frybread as the default example of what they think of "Native American" food, especially given its history.

  • Absolutely. OKC IHS does tons of good for the Native community and is the only one in the area. The next closest from the OKC area would be El Reno (~45 min away), but it's small. Anadarko or Watonga would be next and they're about an hour away and they're small, too. Hearing that it was being shuttered to recoup $120K was infuriating, but I shouldn't have been surprised they were willing to sacrifice lives for what is less than the average cost of a single home in the metro.

  • Those were both pretty cool reads. We have something similar to La Lechuza called a hatakchaya, which is a kind of witch. The Nahua associating owls with death is interesting, especially since they sound to be more positive than the stories I hear. For Choctaw, the owl is also closely associated with death in the sense they are considered to be harbingers. As you mentioned in a comment, there is actual differentiation. For us, the difference in what owl you see indicates things like the age of the person who will die. The one exception IIRC is the screech owl, which is seen as a sign of a murder has or will happen.

    Edit: Also, thanks for pointing out that they're climate change deniers. I definitely won't be posting any more articles from them.

  • I'm Choctaw and we're from the Southeast United States (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana), so owls are bad news. If you've ever watched the show "Reservation Dogs", there's a scene where the kids (I think they're Mvskoke/Creek) catch a glimpse of an owl and react in a typical way for kids raised traditionally: This scene (Youtube)