LIVEIct Newscast - Water Protector Honored
Oglala Lakota citizen Jim Warne was a talented and successful football player. He was recently inducted into the North American Indigenous Sports Hall of Fame. More important to him than accolades from the field is his work for the Oyate - his people. ICT's Stewart Huntington has this interview. In 1961, Alaska Natives from Inupiat and Yup'ik villages came together to oppose a crazy idea - a government plan to explode an atomic bomb in Alaska to construct a new port. That meeting would spark the creation of a newspaper and an Indigenous rights movement that will never be forgotten. ICT's Joaqlin Estus has the story. A Navajo water protector has won the 28th Heinz Award for the Environment. The prize includes a $250,000 grant. Nicole Horseherder is a co-founder of To' Nizho'ni' A'ni', or Sacred Water Speaks. She works to protect aquifers, streams and land that has been impacted by decades of coal extraction on the Navajo and Hopi nations. ICT's Mark Trahant has this interview.
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