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This week's stories: Program aims to help parenting skills in the Native community; First recipient of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American visual artists; Osage Nation releases language app; Native Women Business Summit set for this spring; 100,000th Cherokee citizenship photo ID card issued. Native News Update with anchor Kimberlie Acosta from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Shane Davis, a fractivist from Colorado. Shane is working with Winona LaDuke from the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation, on the fight to keep extractive fuel industries from damaging the environment.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Ernie Stevens Jr., NIGA Chairman. Ernie shares his views on his re-election as chairman of the Nation Indian Gaming Association; Economic development in Indian Country and the ongoing battles to protect tribal sovereignty and mother earth.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Winona LaDuke of Honor The Earth. Winona is a Harvard educated Economist from the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation talking about the fight to keep extractive fuel industries from damaging the environment.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Ernie Stevens Jr, Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association. Ernie talks about the value of Indian Gaming dollars, Internet Gaming, Taxation and Economic Development; along with family values and the work ethics handed down from his parents and grandmother.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Denise Pictou Maloney about the missing and murdered women of Canada. Denise is the daughter of the late Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a Native American rights activist who was murdered in the 1970s by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Brought to you by American Indians Against Abuse, Inc (AIAA) and the National Indian Gaming Association.

Winona LaDuke, the Executive Director of Honor the Earth speaks at the end of a day of discussions on TEK - Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin Oct. 14, 2016. LaDuke talks extensively about Extreme Extraction, the aging fossil fuels industry, renewable energies and her battle against dirty oil, dirty pipelines and dirty politics.

Old Ways, New Battles Wild Rice as Anishinabe Prophecy - 6min 19sec Join Native American Educational Technologies, Inc (NAET) with a four segment, twenty-five minutes of video reviewing treaty battles that are helping preserve the pristine water and environment in Northern Wisconsin from mining, CAFOs, Pipelines and other activities dangerous to the clean water in our communities. These four segments feature several of the many figures and people who have assisted in the battles to protect the environment. Figures like Harvard Economist Winona LaDuke, former Bad River Chair Mike Wiggins, Paul DeMain, Bad River elder Joe Rose, Dylan Jennings, Fred and Mike Tribble of Lac Courte Oreilles and others.

Old Ways, New Battles: Treaty Rights support of the Environment - 8min 33sec Video #1 - Join Native American Educational Technologies, Inc (NAET) thru four segments with twenty-five minutes of video reviewing treaty battles that are helping preserve the pristine water and environment in Northern Wisconsin from mining, CAFOs, Pipelines and other activities dangerous to the clean water in our communities. These four segments feature several of the many figures and people who have assisted in the battles to protect the environment. Figures like Harvard Economist Winona LaDuke, former Bad River Chair Mike Wiggins, Paul DeMain, Bad River elder Joe Rose, Dylan Jennings, Fred and Mike Tribble of Lac Courte Oreilles and others.

This video has scenes from Sunday December 4th when the build-up of 15-20,000 people took place in anticipation of the deployment of veterans to the front line to confront ParaMilitary forces of the Morton Country, North Dakota police who had shot people with water cannons in freezing temperatures, several different kinds of rubber bullets at the faces of water protectors and journalists, and injured individuals by shooting concussion grenades into crowds and people. Law enforcement officials were found to be lying on several levels and during incidents in which live video and recordings, proved their denials false. It also has scenes from Monday Dec. 5th, the day when the potential conflict would have occurred except for a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to deny the drilling easement permit, and when a huge and brutal blizzard moved in. This is not a video of the battles for the Standing Rock or the blockaded 1806 Highway bridge seen in this video, nor the illegally active drilling pad, but a look at

Old Ways, New Battles Maple Syrup Production as Resistance and Sovereignty - 5min 18sec Join Native American Educational Technologies, Inc (NAET) on this four segment, twenty-five minutes of video reviewing treaty battles that are helping preserve the pristine water and environment in Northern Wisconsin from mining, CAFOs, Pipelines and other activities dangerous to the clean water in our communities. These four segments feature several of the many figures and people who have assisted in the battles to protect the environment. Figures like Harvard Economist Winona LaDuke, former Bad River Chair Mike Wiggins, Paul DeMain, Bad River elder Joe Rose, Dylan Jennings, Fred and Mike Tribble of Lac Courte Oreilles and others.

During the 2011 Native American Journalists Association national conference held Florida, panelist Attorney Barry Bachrach, (who once represented Leonard Peltier), journalist Paul DeMain and the daughter of Annie Mae Aquash discuss the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash by members of the American Indian Movement in 1975. Leadership members of AIM, came to believe that Aquash may have been in informant, and Peltier had bragged to Aquash about killing FBI agent Ron Williams at close range. Aquash also knew about the 1973 murder of black civil rights activist Perry Ray Robinson inside Wounded Knee 1973 by an AIM security crew that, included Carter Camp, Dennis Banks, Stan Holder and Leonard Crow Dog.

Video #2 - Old Ways, New Battles Harvest Education Learning Project (HELP) Camp - 9min 5sec

Dr. Arne Vainio is a Medical Doctor practicing on the Fond du Lac Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Minnesota. He is a member of the Mille Lacs Band while his wife is from Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe. Dr. Vainio has become well known for his column in news From Indian Country and the production of the movie on Native male health issues called "Walking Into the Unknown." This video was produced in 2010.

On February 21st, 2011 Denise Pictou Maloney made a presentation at the University of Tennessee at Martin for the 11th annual Civil Rights Conference regarding her mothers murder case. In December of 1975, her mother, Annie Mae Pictou Aquash was murdered by members of the American Indian Movement on the Pine Ridge Reservation based on orders from the leaders of AIM who alleged that she was an FBI informant.

Charlie Hill, Oneida comedian is interviewed by Dale Kakkak at his families homestead in Oneida, Wisconsin about his life as an Indigenous comedian

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with poet Denise Sweet. Denise shares her poetry, her love for words, the Gathering of Words Conference, the importance of water and the issues of mining in the Great Lakes region. Brought to you by NAET and Freshwater Future "Ensuring the Healthy Future of Our Waters."

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Trina Wheeler, the wife of Yakama businessman, Delbert Wheeler, a descendant of Chief Kamaiakun, who continues his fight over treaty rights, trade and commerce guaranteed under the Yakama Treaty of 1855. Trina talks about family, community and culture on the Yakama Reservation.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Yakama businessman, Delbert Wheeler, a descendant of Chief Kamaiakun, who continues his fight over treaty rights, trade and commerce guaranteed under the Yakama Treaty of 1855.

IndianCountryTV.com correspondent, Kimberlie Acosta talking with Alice Skenandore (LCO Ojibwe), founder and director of Wise Women Gathering Place located on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin. Talking about the history of the organization and its support from the Ford Foundation. As well as her involvement with the International Indian Treaty Council. IndianCountryTV.com is located on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation at Reserve, Wisconsin.