U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to serve second term Arts & Entertainment News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Miss Indian World Cheyenne Kippenberger and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, shown here at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki-Museum’s lecture series Nov. 22, 2019, will both be back for second terms in their respective roles in 2020-21. (Photo Beverly Bidney) Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) will serve a second term as the U.S. Poet
Discussion to be held about disestablishment of tribe in Massachusetts News by The Seminole Tribune - May 4, 2020May 12, 2020 Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (Mashpee Facebook) Leaders of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (Massachusetts) will discuss efforts by the Interior Department to disestablish the Tribe's reservation. The 60-minute listening session will be held May 4 at 2 p.m. It will feature Cedric Cromwell, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Nation, and Jessie little
BIE officials consult with tribes on distribution of COVID-19 funds Education by The Seminole Tribune - May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Tony Dearman (Cherokee) is director of the BIE. (BIE photo) Bureau of Indian Education officials held a town hall-style webinar April 30 to discuss federal funding for the needs of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic. BIE funded schools, like others across the U.S., faced abrupt school closures in March that will likely
Honorable mention honor for Silas Madrigal Sports by The Seminole Tribune - May 1, 2020May 4, 2020 Silas Madrigal, center, and the Okeechobee High boys basketball team had plenty of reasons to smile in the 2019-20 season as the Brahmans went 26-3 and won a district title for the second straight year. (Kevin Johnson photo) OKEECHOBEE — Some of the key players in Okeechobee High School boys
Vietnam War veteran Don Osceola, 77, passes away Community News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - April 30, 2020May 4, 2020 Don Osceola (courtesy photo). Vietnam War veteran Don Osceola, who grew up on the Big Cypress Reservation, passed away April 29 at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood from complications related to the coronavirus, according to a press release from Seminole Tribe spokesman Gary Bitner. The release stated that Osceola, hospitalized since
FGCU establishes athletics hall of fame Sports by The Seminole Tribune - April 30, 2020May 5, 2020 Florida Gulf Coast University fans get revved up for a game at Alico Arena. (Linwood Ferguson/FGCU Athletics) FORT MYERS – The Florida Gulf Coast University’s athletics program has created a hall of fame. Its first inductees were a slam dunk. The school’s legendary “Dunk City” men’s basketball team, which reached the Sweet 16
BIE, Education Department to hold session on CARES Act Education by The Seminole Tribune - April 30, 2020May 5, 2020 Ron Lessard (Mohawk), acting executive director, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education. (Photo NationalService.gov) The Bureau of Indian Education and the Department of Education will hold a joint Tribal listening session April 30 at 12 p.m. (ET). The discussion will be about the $153 million in emergency coronavirus
Support programs for Tribal tourism focus of April 17 webinar News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Pilar Thomas (Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona) A webinar to discuss the support programs for cultural Tribal tourism will be held April 17 at 12 p.m. (ET). Indian law and policy attorney Pilar Thomas, a law partner at Quarles & Brady in Tucson, Arizona, will provide an overview and assessment of
UNITY to hold Facebook Live program for Native youth Community News by The Seminole Tribune - April 16, 2020May 5, 2020 United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) will hold a program on Facebook Live on April 16 at 3 p.m. The program is being held in conjunction with UNITY’s 44th birthday. This is a kick-off to a virtual 44-day challenge for Native youth. UNITY, the largest Native youth leadership development organization,
NLC hosts youth poster contest Arts & Entertainment Community by The Seminole Tribune - April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 HOLLYWOOD – The Seminole Tribe’s Native Learning Center is holding a poster contest for all Tribal youth titled “What Home Means To Me.” All forms of art are welcomed, but it needs to be poster-friendly. Posters must be original art work. Markers, paints, crayons, colored pencils, beads and fabric can