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  • Indigenous women reclaim traditional birthing practices

    February 17, 2024 |

    ICT News |

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    Response Location: United States, South Dakota

    In rural areas where obstetric care is hard to access, Indigenous women are opting for traditional birthing practices and building a community around pregnancy and childbirth education. Groups like the He Sapa Birth Circle and the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board provide spaces for Indigenous parents to seek advice, receive support and education and get connected with traditional care options.

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  • Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

    February 09, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Siquijor

    A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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  • Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

    January 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States, Arizona

    In an effort to address a lack of broadband access, Indigenous communities are working together, and with local organizations, to acquire funding to bring internet access to their communities and close the digital divide.

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  • Harvesting Amaranth, a Superfood of Indigenous Agriculture

    January 09, 2024 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    The Qachuu Aloom Mother Earth Association is a farming collective bringing together the Mayan Achi people in Rabinal, Guatemala, and farmers in Ithaca, New York, to share and preserve ancestral knowledge of growing amaranth. The ancient grain is nutritious and resilient to climate change.

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  • Native teachers build nations: More Indigenous people are training to be teachers in Arizona

    November 18, 2023 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Indigenous Teacher Education Program at the University of Arizona trains budding educators to better support students in Tribal communities, with the goal of increasing the number of Indigenous teachers in the school system. Since launching in 2018, the program has produced more than 50 graduates.

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  • Indigenous Gardens Cultivate Healing

    November 09, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Corvallis, Oregon

    Colleges like Oregon State University (OSU), are re-indigenizing the campus landscape to create a welcoming, healing space and stop the further erasure of Indigenous culture and presence on college campuses. OSU created an ethnobotanical garden, full of Native plants and crops, as well as an Indigenous center for students and staff to gather on campus. These gardens and Indigenous spaces help to show the community how Native plants can sustain people and OSU plans to continue improving its cultural offerings by installing Native signage around campus and holding Indigenous cultural burnings.

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  • To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

    November 06, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Kitwanga, British Columbia

    In partnership with Indigenous-led fisheries, researchers in British Columbia deployed an artificial intelligence system to automate the counting of Pacific salmon during their migration. The AI-based tool, which analyzes underwater video, can identify some species of fish with 90 percent accuracy, and Indigenous stewards who participated in the pilot project said not having to count salmon manually freed them up for other important projects.

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  • A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom

    November 06, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    To better serve Indigenous students, Durango School District 9-R has created an advisory council for Native American parents, designated specific staff to help support Native students, and developed an Indigenous language course where they can reconnect to their culture by learning Diné Bizaad. Students report that the course is more engaging than learning about Navajo history via a textbook, and the district has shown progress in closing opportunity gaps for Indigenous students, with all of its Indigenous seniors graduating last year.

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  • Native health program celebrates first four graduates

    September 26, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    The University of North Dakota’s doctoral program in Indigenous health, which is the first of its kind, takes an interdisciplinary approach to help students apply their research and academic knowledge to real-world projects in Indigenous communities. The program’s first class of graduates completed the program in 2023, with 60 more students currently enrolled.

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  • The Rise of Indigenous Doulas

    September 21, 2023 |

    Native News Online |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In an effort to reduce maternal mortality for Native mothers, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services provides free physical, emotional, educational and spiritual support to Indigenous mothers and their families throughout the entire pregnancy and birth process. Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services emerged in 2019 and since then its team of five Indigenous doulas has provided culturally-relevant care to more than 150 pregnant Native women with a maternal and infant mortality rate of zero.

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