By WINNIE KILLINGSWORTH
For The Spokesman Review
With a new year taking shape, Artist Claire Rae Edmo is starting on an adventure as the sƛ̓x̣etkʷ Artist-In-Resident with the Spokane Falls Community College Fine Art Gallery.

Since childhood, Edmo has always been creating art. From drawing “little stories or comic books” for her grandma as a child to taking every art class she could in high school, it was not a hard choice to pursue art in college.

“(Art is) what I wanted to do so I need to go for it, and I don’t regret it,” Edmo said. “I’d choose the same thing again.” (cont.)

By LIZZIE BOYD
Sho-Ban News
IDAHO FALLS — Blackfoot High School wrestler Keanna Conrad, Shoshone-Bannock, was named outstanding wrestler in the middle weights at the Tiger Grizz wrestling tournament Championships on January 17.

The Tiger Grizz wrestling tournament is a long running high school wrestling event that started around 1981 put on by Skyline High School in Idaho Falls. (cont.)

FORT HALL — The Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Library is honored to announce Dr. LaNada War Jack as its Author of the Month, recognizing her lifetime of leadership, scholarship, and advocacy for Native rights and self-determination.

Dr. War Jack, an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and a 2023 inductee into the National Native American Hall of Fame, is a nationally recognized Indigenous leader, scholar, and activist. She played a central role in the historic 1969 peaceful occupation of Alcatraz Island—an action that helped usher in the modern Self-Determination Era and reverse federal termination policies affecting Native nations. Her work has contributed to the recovery of millions of acres of land and the advancement of government-funded policies benefiting tribes nationwide. (cont.)