The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces significant challenges when it comes to food security. A recent Washington Post article highlighted these issues, focusing on RF Buche, owner of the reservation’s only full-service supermarket. Buche struggles to keep prices affordable as inflation and supply chain disruptions drive costs up. With unemployment near 80% and over...
Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to provide the latest status of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission aboard the International Space Station. Audio of the media teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website: Participants include: Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial...
New 66-foot-wide antenna dishes will be built, online, and operational in time to provide near-continuous communications services to Artemis astronauts at the Moon later this decade. Called LEGS, short for Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, the antennas represent critical infrastructure for NASA’s vision of supporting a sustained human presence at the Moon. The first...
Cyber attackers are experimenting with their latest ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia and South America before targeting richer countries that have more sophisticated security methods. Hackers have adopted a “strategy” of infiltrating systems in the developing world before moving to higher-value targets such as in North America and Europe, according to a...
Fertile Ground Advocacy Campaign Continues to Drive Native-Led Policy Change LONGMONT, Colorado (June 4, 2020) – First Nations awarded seven grants through the Fertile Ground Advocacy Campaign to support Native American-led efforts aimed at advancing new policies and innovative policymaking approaches that benefit Native American nutrition and health. These new...
Although summer is often a quiet time at Red Cloud, this month brought the sounds of new construction to campus. With the support of generous partners and supporters from across the country, Red Cloud has officially begun to build new housing on its main campus, designed specifically for faculty and staff. According to Executive Vice President Robert Brave Heart Sr...
Last week, the South saw several landmark progressive wins—not only on down-ballot races and ballet referenda in historically blue states and much-contested Georgia, but also in firmly red states like Tennessee. Despite a Republican majority vote for the presidency, the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office reported a 31 percent increase in democratic voter...
Memorializing the victims of genocide is essential to the Yazidi community, many of whom remain displaced within Iraq more than eight years later. The final design for the cemetery and memorial was selected through extensive consultations with survivors both displaced and returned and aims not only to honor those who were lost, but also to act as a catalyst for the...