Irvine-based Andrea Grant is a Canadian-born writer and multimedia artist of mixed-blood Coast Salish Native ancestry.
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Lily Gladstone + Elle
Lily Gladstone covers Elle Canada March issue.
Columbus/Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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By Reb Czukoski Today is Columbus Day, October 11th. Columbus day is a U.S. holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October each year to mark the landing of Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492. This holiday is oftentimes associated with days off for most schools and businesses, and in some areas parades and street […]
Spiro Exhibition
Ancient Mysteries Revealed: Groundbreaking Spiro Exhibition to Debut at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum The Spiro site contained one of the greatest collections of prehistoric American Indian artifacts ever discovered in the United States. The Spiro Mounds are one of the United States’ most important ancient Native American sites, as well as an […]
Native Peoples’ Perspectives Toward COVID-19 Vaccine
Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) released a study with the first-ever national data regarding American Indian and Alaska Native peoples’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about a COVID-19 vaccine. The study surveyed American Indians and Alaska Natives across 46 states—representing 318 different tribal affiliations—to gather information ranging from individuals’ willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to […]
Remembering Melvin Sampson
Marvel’s Indigenous Voices
Marvel announced a new, special series of variant covers written and drawn by the comic book industry’s biggest indigenous artists for MARVEL’S VOICES: INDIGENOUS VOICES #1. One of the artists included in the project is Jeffrey Veregge, who recently finished an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Veregge will provide the […]
Octavia Spencer × Ruderman Family Foundation
Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer today joined the Ruderman Family Foundation in calling on the entertainment industry to increase the casting of people with disabilities, including in on-screen roles that portray characters with disabilities. “Casting able-bodied actors in roles for characters with disabilities is offensive, unjust, and deprives an entire community of people from opportunities,” […]
Native American Rights Win in Court
By Eamonn Burke In a major win for Native American rights, the Supreme Court decided in a ruling yesterday that roughly half of the state of Oklahoma are Native American conservation lands. The case was brought about by a convicted rapist named Jimcy McGirt, a member of the Seminole nation, who claimed that he could […]
