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A big thanks to reader Danielle Rose Spears for pointing us to this incredible video of the Pechanga Pow Wow put up on Vimeo by user Ret DiCe.
This really well edited film manages to convey the heart and soul of the Pechanga pow wow in Temecula, California in a few short minutes.
Steve Newcomb, (Shawnee/Lenape) delivers the North American Caucus intervention at the 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on this morning at the U.N. headquarters in New York, New York. The UNPFII began May 7 and continues through May 18.
The video for Nelly Furtado’s single “Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)” has been released, and for fans of hoop dancing it’s a great tribute to the skills of champion hoop dancer Tony Duncan and his brother Kevin (both San Carlos Apache/Arikara/Hidatsa).
The Popocatépetl volcano (the word is Aztec for “smoking mountain”) has been spewing ash, rocks and other material for nearly two weeks now, so prominently that a NASA satellite caught the ash plume from space. The video below is compiled from a week of observation between April 14 through 22. The famous volcano is 40 miles from Mexico City, the nation’s capital, and the region is inhabited by at least two million Indigenous People.
Thanks in part to a routine shopping trip, Lisa Odjig was able to display her hoop dancing talents to a national audience. Odjig, an Odawa-Ojibwe who lives in Toronto, auditioned for and became a featured performer for Canada’s Got Talent.
Meet Lil’ Bear and Tala, a grizzly bear cub and wolf pup who were filmed six years ago romping around together in the former Woodland Zoo gift shop in Farmington, Pennsylvania six years ago. Amazingly enough, according to this video, these two are still pals today! Prepare to set your cute-o-meter to “Awww!”
We interrupt your day to bring you this heartwarming video of a golden retriever doing what we’d like to think we’d all do in a situation like this: help.
