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The Bad River Band is demanding accountability after Line 5 construction crews breached a Wisconsin aquifer, raising concerns for the tribe’s waters and wild rice.

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Line 5 pipeline construction crews breach Wisconsin aquifer - ICT

The Bad River Band: ‘We've been worried about is exactly this’

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 18h

The Indian National Finals Rodeo celebrates 50 years as Native cowboys and cowgirls from across the U.S. and Canada head to Las Vegas to compete for world titles Oct. 13–17.

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Let ‘er buck: Indian National Finals Rodeo celebrating 50 years - ICT

Founded in 1976, the INFR brings Native cowboys and cowgirls from across the country and Canada to Las Vegas to compete for world championships

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seventy years after federal relocation promises brought Native people to Chicago, a Native-led housing project aims to provide affordable homes and space to sustain community connections.

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Chicago housing project aims to fulfill 70-year-old promise to Native people - ICT

False pretenses lured thousands of Indigenous people cities, a new effort works to take a healing step

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tribal leaders in the Pacific Northwest are urging voters to vote early and hand deliver ballots to official drop boxes amid concerns about late postmarks and rejected mail-in ballots.

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Tribal leaders message for mail-in voting: vote early, hand deliver to ballot drop box - ICT

Voting concerns central theme at Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians annual convention

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Through walks and vigils, Indigenous communities honored boarding school survivors and called for remembrance beyond Sept. 30.

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Orange Shirt Day: ‘education was used as a weapon against us’ - ICT

Indigenous communities honor boarding school survivors, victims

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Caskets bearing the three Alaska Native students were carried out of a white ceremonial tent on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds on Wednesday, Sept. 30, after a distinguished transfer ceremony returning the remains to their families.

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A somber Remembrance Day begins the journey back to Alaska for three students who died while attending Carlisle - ICT

A formal ceremony marked the return of the students’ remains to their families and tribes, who are taking them home after more than 100 years *Updated

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Orange Shirt Day events will be taking place across the U.S. and Canada recognizing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring the children of the Indian boarding school era.

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‘Somebody has to remember them, and we're going to do it’ - ICT

This week, communities across the United States and Canada will honor students who attended Indian Boarding Schools.

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Homelands Powwow is helping Stockbridge-Munsee citizens reconnect with their ancestral land in Massachusetts, and this year nearly 200 plan to make the journey from Wisconsin.

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‘Coming home to our ancestral land’ - ICT

Homelands Powwow rekindling Stockbridge-Munsee ties to Hudson Valley, western Massachusetts

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Communities will gather for Orange Shirt Day tomorrow to honor boarding school survivors and remember the children who never came home. Find an event near you in ICT’s 2026 list.

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2026 Orange Shirt Day event list - ICT

Thousands of people across Turtle Island will gather to remember, grieve, educate, mourn those who survived and are victims of Indian boarding and residential schools

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An ICT investigation identified 14 girls who died while attending a federally funded Indian boarding school in Milwaukee and were buried in a cemetery where many graves remain unmarked.

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Eleven graves of Indian Boarding School students uncovered

The graves of at least 11 Indigenous girls who died while attending a federally funded Indian Boarding School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been identified.

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At a reunion near Standing Rock, water protectors honored those they lost and shared how the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline changed their lives.

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Water protectors return to Standing Rock for healing - ICT

Hundreds of water protectors gathered September 17-20 in North Dakota to remember the 2016-2017 Standing Rock uprising

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At a reunion near Standing Rock, water protectors honored those they lost and shared how the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline changed their lives.

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Water protectors return to Standing Rock for healing - ICT

Hundreds of water protectors gathered September 17-20 in North Dakota to remember the 2016-2017 Standing Rock uprising

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Tohono O’odham Nation is fighting a planned border wall that tribal leaders say would divide families, restrict access to health care and damage sacred sites.

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Border wall threatens tribe’s way of life - ICT

Trump administration plan would split the Tohono O’odham nation apart, damage sacred sites, tribal leaders say.

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sky Hopinka’s new powwow documentary, a retrospective by Cree Métis siblings and a bronze tribute to Los Angeles mountain lion P-22 lead this week’s Indigenous arts and entertainment roundup.

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INDIGENOUS A&E: People who powwow, sibling art, mountain lion immortalized - ICT

A biweekly column from ICT with the latest news from the arts and entertainment world

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Four Alaska Native students who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School are being returned home, including Tummassak, whose family connection was uncovered by a researcher studying her photograph.

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‘Patient, gentle and brave’: An unexpected clue leads to family for an Alaska Native student who died at the Carlisle school - ICT

Repatriations continue with the remains of four students from Alaska finally headed home after more than 100 years

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After winning two Manitoba Country Music Awards, Desiree Dorian of Opaskwayak Cree Nation is bringing her songs and stories to First Nations schools across northern Manitoba, where some students are seeing their first live concert.

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Award-winning country singer takes music, dreams to northern First Nations - ICT

ICT catches up with Desiree Dorian after a school performance at Misipawistik Cree Nation, a stop for Manitoba’s Country Female Artist of the Year as she tours First Nations

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana has partnered with Kalshi to launch the first tribal prediction market app, even as other tribes challenge Kalshi’s operations on tribal land in court.

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Louisiana-based tribe becomes first to enter into prediction markets - ICT

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana announces Kalshi partnership

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Native candidates across the political spectrum are bringing distinct values and policy priorities to their campaigns, challenging the idea that any one candidate can represent all of Indian Country.

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A different kind of Democrat (or Republican) - ICT

ANALYSIS: Candidates bring their values, personal brands into a campaign

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump administration tariffs are creating new challenges for Indigenous businesses across Canada, renewing focus on the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business’s “Buy Indigenous” campaign.

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‘Uncertainty’: Trump tariffs bring new focus to Canadian council's ‘Buy Indigenous’ campaign - ICT

The Canadian Council for Indigenous Business works to help Indigenous businesses find new markets

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Indigenous New York Fashion Week made history in its second year as the first Indigenous-produced event listed on the official New York Fashion Week calendar.

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Indigenous New York Fashion Week returned for second year - ICT

The event continues to evolve, starting by joining the official New York Fashion Week events

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fifteen years after Tanya Nepinak disappeared, her family and supporters marched through Winnipeg to demand a search of the landfill where her remains are believed to be and bring her home.

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Families, supporters mark 15th year of Indigenous woman’s disappearance - ICT

The remains of Tanya Nepinak are believed to be in Winnipeg landfill

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ella Cara Deloria devoted decades to documenting Native languages and cultures, leaving a body of work that scholars continue to draw from more than 50 years after her death.

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LEST WE FORGET: Ella Cara Deloria - ICT

The Yankton Dakota anthropologist/ethnologist/author produced decades of work studying Native languages

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

North Dakota tribes are returning to federal court to challenge a legislative map they say was intentionally designed to weaken Native voting power.

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North Dakota tribes will re-argue their voter discrimination case - ICT

‘North Dakota intentionally packed and cracked Native voters to weaken our political voice’

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival is showcasing 11 features by Indigenous directors while creating space for emerging filmmakers to find community within the industry.

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2026 Toronto International Film Festival expands the breadth of Indigenous films, talent - ICT

The festival helps Indigenous filmmakers ‘find their community’

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lindsay LeBorgne watched the World Trade Center towers collapse from half a world away, then returned days later to help clear the remains of buildings his Mohawk family had helped construct.

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Mohawk Skywalker reflects on 9/11: ‘Everything looked like a moonscape’ - ICT

9/11 anniversary is personal for a fourth-generation Mohawk ironworker who helped build the World Trade Center towers

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Georgina Lightning, a trailblazing Cree filmmaker and mentor who helped carve a path for generations of Indigenous creatives, is being remembered as a “true matriarch” following her sudden passing at 63.

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‘True matriarch’: Producer, writer, director Georgina Lightning dead at 63 - ICT

Indigenous film and television community mourns sudden death of Georgina Lightning

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

UPDATE: Another Indigenous congressional candidate has been added to ICT’s 2026 election tracker, with Bill Hill, Dena’ina Athabaskan, advancing in Alaska and bringing the number headed to November’s general election to 10, half of whom are women.

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10 Indigenous congressional candidates move forward to general election - ICT

UPDATED: Half of the candidates running for Congress are women

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Three National Archives locations holding critical Bureau of Indian Affairs records are reportedly set to close as soon as Oct. 1, leaving tribal leaders without clear answers about where the records are going or when they will be accessible again.

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‘These records are priceless’: 3 National Archives locations set to close without tribal consultation - ICT

The Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco National Archives contain incredibly important Bureau of Indian Affairs documents and are reportedly closing as soon as Oct. 1

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nine Indigenous candidates have advanced to November races for federal office, including Mary Peltola and Peggy Flanagan, who could make history as the first Indigenous women elected to the U.S. Senate.

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9 Indigenous congressional candidates move forward to general election - ICT

More than half of the candidates running for Congress in the 2026 midterm election are women

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Montana state officials and tribes have reached a landmark settlement that would require public schools to fully implement the state’s constitutionally mandated Indian Education for All program, including stronger accountability and tribal consultation.

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Montana state officials, tribes agree to settle Indian education lawsuit - ICT

The settlement would require public schools to fully implement mandated programs to teach students Indigenous culture and history

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Democrat Tom Begich has withdrawn from Alaska’s governor’s race and endorsed Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, leaving him as the only Democrat on the ballot as the party hopes to flip the governor’s seat for the first time in nearly 25 years.

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Democrats aim to unite behind one candidate in Alaska governor's race as they hope to flip the seat - ICT

'Rather than competing over visions that share so much in common, we are choosing to put our strength behind a shared vision for Alaska'

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dolly Parton is being remembered across Indian Country for decades of support for Native communities, including bringing free books to Indigenous youth through her Imagination Library.

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Dolly Parton remembered across Indian Country for sharing love of books - ICT

Parton’s Imagination Library provided free monthly books to Native youth in over 100 tribal communities for decades

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Line 5 oil pipeline remains shut down in northern Wisconsin and construction on its 41-mile re-route around the Bad River Reservation has paused following a gas leak caused by an Aug. 25 crash.

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Line 5 shutdown continues, re-route project pauses following gas leak - ICT

All construction has stopped on a 41-mile re-route of a crude oil pipeline around the Bad River Reservation

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