Tucker Louie McGee & Wade McGee
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Youth encouraged to make their ancestors proud
By LORI ANN EDMO
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FORT HALL — Have you made your ancestors proud today?
That is the question Native Elite 1 Inc. motivational speaker and athletic trainer Wade McGee asked Shoshone-Bannock Jr./Sr. High School students October 12 at an assembly where his son Tucker Louie McGee, an Idaho State University football player, also presented.
Wade McGee asked questions of the students to determine their knowledge of their ancestors or tribal history. (cont.)
In other news...
By KAYCEE DIXEY
Sho-Ban News
FORT HALL — Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Conrad Benally won Best Male Artist at the Native American Music Awards over the weekend.
It’s the second Native American Music Award he’s won.
Benally said, “Returning to the Native American Music Awards and seeing familiar faces was a warm welcome feeling. I was surprised on how many big artists were big fans of me and my daughter Mary, saying we follow you on your Facebook page and that they really enjoy our music and the power it holds to touch another’s heart and soul.”
He expressed how hearing these kind words from big artists made him smile from ear to ear. His brother Clarence Benally Jr., who accompanied them, said, “Wow, you and Mary are huge. People know you two. They all want autographs and pictures.” (cont.)
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, October 17, Tara Mac Lean Sweeney, a prominent Alaska Native leader and acclaimed businesswoman with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, was nominated to be the department’s next Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Sweeney, a member of the Native Village of Barrow and the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, would be the first Native Alaskan and only the second woman in history to hold the position. (cont.)
By LORI ANN EDMO
Sho-Ban News
FORT HALL — The Chief Mountain Hotshots – a wildland firefighting crew based out of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana — made a brief stop in Fort Hall October 11 on their way to fight fires in California.
The 20-person crew stopped for a break at TP Gas in Fort Hall and their superintendent Lyle St. Goddard took time to be interviewed. (cont.)
By YVETTE TUELL
Tribal Public Affairs
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona — The Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), held their annual tribal consultation meeting on October 3 and 4 in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
Fort Hall Business Council Chairman Nathan Small attended and offered the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes comments to the federal officials present. The OVW heard over 70 requests from tribal leaders to offer comments on their administration of programs and funding. (cont.)
Boise City Council Candidate Lisa Sanchez
at BSU Indigenous Peoples Day
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at Indigenous Peoples Day
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