National ribbon skirt day
Hey there News River readers,
This week, we share stories celebrating the first-ever National Ribbon Skirt Day on January 4th, a deep dive into the complexity of recovering Indigenous-made items from private art auctions, and how Canadian truth and reconciliation experts can assist Sámi advocates as they begin their own truth and reconciliation processes in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.
Read on, stay curious, and feel free to reach out if we can make our news curation more impactful for you!
Here's what else you may have missed in Indigenous news:
Many non-Indigenous folks are familiar with the names of Indigenous Peoples because global brands "borrowed" them to sell their products. Take the Apache as an example, whose name has been co-opted to sell military equipment and software. Industry group Natives in Tech delves into the latter in their latest blog post.
In land-defender news: Grist explores how strict regulations fail to protect Indigenous land in the Amazon, and the RCMP's "community-industry response group" has spent over $50 million enforcing injunctions obtained by the forestry and petroleum sectors...with little oversight and accountability.
Some topics are so contentious, we hardly dare to touch them in our News River. But this time, we needed to get to the bottom of the real debate heard at powwows and dinner tables from coast to coast – do raisins belong in bannock?
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