2nd January 2026

'Woman of the Year' Reconnects with Her Native Language and Culture

A series of tragedies in LaRae Wiley’s family separated her from her Indigenous Sinixt culture when she was 13 years old. Her Auntie Gale was the victim of a still unsolved murder, and both her grandmother and great-grandmother died, taking their fluency in the Salish language with them.

14th May 2025

Academy Award Winner Mahershala Ali

You could say that 38-year-old Mahershala Ali owes his acting career to his grandfather. A gifted athlete from Hayward, California, Ali attended St. Mary’s College on a basketball scholarship. His grandfather told him, “If you graduate with a 3.0, I’ll give you $5,000.”

2nd January 2026

Ernestine Hayes: ‘Let’s Be Human Together’

Ernestine Hayes (Tlingit) never finished 10th grade. But she certainly made up for it in her 50s, when she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alaska Southeast, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage and began her journey as an award-winning writer.

Indian Country Today • 26th February 2018

Famous Dave's Founder Dishes on BBQ and Life

He’s been called “America’s Rib King,” “The Pit Master” and you could even say he’s a grilling guru. No matter what the nickname, one thing is certain: Dave Anderson, a citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, knows his barbecue!

2nd January 2026

Emmy Award-Winning Indigenous Filmmaker Opens Up the Lens on His Life and Career

Little did 10-year-old Ivan MacDonald know that when he would tiptoe downstairs in the middle of the night, while his family slept soundly, to watch movies on satellite TV ― such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Blue Velvet” ― that this sneaky indulgence would profoundly impact his life one day. Now at 35, MacDonald (Blackfeet Tribe) has become a masterful documentary filmmaker and Indigenous storyteller.

4th September 2024

A 100-Year-Old Penobscot Vet Returns Yearly to Normandy to Commemorate D-Day

In 1943, Charles Norman Shay, a 19-year-old Native from Indian Island, Maine, was a combat medic who was part of the first wave of infantrymen that arrived aboard small landing craft on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. He saved many men that day, pulling them out of the water and nursing their injuries, while dodging heavy enemy fire.

2nd January 2026

Traditional Carver Shapes Hawaiian Culture for Generations to Come

Gordon King Kai, better known as “Umi,” has carved a highly respected name for himself for making authentic, one-of-a-kind, traditional Hawaiian implements and weapons. What started as a hobby “out of curiosity” eventually grew into the Kai Kompany, launched in 1990.

ICT • 7th January 2026

Exclusive Interview with Olympian Billy Mills About the Pechanga Powwow

This year, the Annual Pechanga Powwow is expected to draw more than 75,000 visitors from all over North America to the Pechanga Reservation Festival Grounds in Temecula. Honorary MC of the event will be Olympian Billy Mills, the come-from-behind Native American gold-medalist at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.

ICT News • 6th May 2016

The Ties That Bind Heroes

Ninety-two-year-old Roy Huff of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a World War II veteran. I am a 50-something single mom from California who never fought in a war, unless you count a tumultuous 10-year marriage. So, what on earth could we have in common, besides our Oneida heritage? Cue the grandfathers.

OC Family Magazine • 18th February 2018

Tommy Lasorda on Life, Love and Baseball

There's an old saying, "When you try to embrace all of mankind, you sometimes forget your wife." Nothing could be further from the truth for Tommy Lasorda, baseball's favorite blue blood who managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for 20 career-defining years.

2nd January 2026

Natasha Smoke Santiago: Shaping the Future of Haudenosaunee Pottery

Natasha Smoke Santiago (Akwesasne) is one of only 15 working Haudenosaunee potters across the U.S. and Canada. “When part of your culture, like pottery, goes away, you usually don’t get it back. But my colleagues and I are proud to be bringing the practice out of retirement, proud to be piecing together the knowledge that was once very common in our communities."

15th May 2025

A Place in the Sun: Wahoo’s Owner Hooks His Dream Home

They don’t know it yet, but when Wing and Reanea Lam finally move into the seaside villa they’re building in Newport Beach, I’m moving in, too. I didn’t realize I had a dream home until I walked through the $1.3 million duplex they’re converting into a 3800 sq. ft., four-bedroom, four-bath, single-family masterpiece right next to the river jetty and within 100 yards of the sand.

2nd January 2026

Cara Flores: Empowering the Pacific

Half a century ago, Guåhan’s jungles were full of bird songs. That’s how her CHamoru elders remember it, says Cara Flores, an Indigenous filmmaker who is proud to be the first-ever Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow from the U.S. territory of Guam (Guåhan), the southernmost island in the Marianas archipelago in a subregion of the Pacific known as Micronesia.

St. Mary's College • 18th February 2018

The Accidental Artist

Lisa Congdon never meant to be a fine artist, illustrator or even an author. But fate had different plans for this history major and former elementary school teacher.

First Nations • 22nd May 2025

TJ Young: The Raising of a Totem Pole Artist

Master totem pole carver TJ Young is renowned in many Alaskan communities for carving traditional Haida totem poles and canoes, alongside his brother. The brothers have created some of the most talked-about, three-dimensional totem poles in Alaska, ranging in size from 7 feet to 40 feet tall. U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland attended the raising of his totem pole honoring victims of Indian boarding schools.

Native Business Magazine • 2nd June 2021

The Sioux Chef

When you think of Native American cuisine, what comes to mind? Indian tacos? Buffalo burgers? Frybread? While beloved by many Natives and certainly tasty, these dishes are not the traditional foods of Indian country.

3rd June 2025

An Unimaginable Loss Has Made Kids Safer

Erin Runnion was thrust into the public spotlight for the worst of reasons. On July 15, 2002, her 5-year-old daughter, Samantha, was snatched, kicking and screaming, out of her front yard by a sex offender and found murdered days later. Her story shook the entire nation and brought to light the frightening reality that there are evil people living among us whose singular purpose is to harm our children.

ICT News • 30th March 2017

Mackinac Island Finally Telling Native Side of History

Agatha Biddle is not exactly a name that rolls off the tongues of historians or history teachers. But Eric Hemenway is working hard to change that. The director of archives and records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Harbor Springs, Michigan, is teaming up with Mackinac State Historic Parks to retell the story of Mackinac Island from a Native perspective—Biddle’s.

First Nations • 22nd May 2025

Anna Brown Ehlers: A Tlingit Master Weaver

Anna Brown Ehlers has created dozens of Chilkat blankets for ceremonial and cultural uses over the last 40 years. Her one-of-a-kind creations are on display in museums and in private collections all over the country, such as the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Burbank, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and throughout Alaska.

6th May 2025

2024 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow Audre Etsitty

Audre Etsitty loves horses. These beautifully muscular, four-legged teachers, companions, and helpers have always been a part of her life. “I grew up in a deeply rooted agricultural family. We dry-land farmed, rodeoed, and raised livestock,” she shares with First Nations. Her grandfather and uncles roped calves, and she started performing in rodeos when she was only 9 years old.