Paul G

Time to fill out your brackets and try to predict the winner of the 2024 NCAA Basketball Tournament for men and women! PowWows.com is hosting a special challenge for our readers. You can have up to 3 different brackets in each division. My South Carolina Gamecock Women’s Basketball team is ranked….

The Webby Awards is the leading International Awards organization that honors excellence on the internet, especially in digital arts and sciences. Webby nominees are picked out as one of the five best in the world in a specific category. These include Features, General Video, Video Series and Channels, Performance and….

Join Paul G for an interview with several members of the Native American Women Warriors. Native American Women Warriors (NAWW) encourages recognition for Native American women veterans and active duty who served and continue to serve in every branch of the armed forces. Our goals are to assist our fellow….

Wakonda Forever! Black Panther became a major hit shortly after its release in 2018 and got us all hooked. From its writing to directing and acting, the movie won many hearts globally and held special importance for the Black and African American communities.  In 2019, it was nominated for 7….

A still from Fancy Dance by Erica Tremblay, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by the press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs…..

The Cherokee Nation is the largest of three Cherokee-recognized tribes in the US. Recently, dreams came true for the 48-year-old Oklahoma Cherokee citizen and school teacher, Jerod Phillips, when he was selected to act as a down-judge official for the 2023 Super Bowl. Even though this is his 7th season….

Grease is a romance movie that has won our hearts ever since its release. But what is more exciting is an all-Indigenous production of the musical that represents the culture and talent precisely – Bear Grease takes a twist on the conventional story of high school love. Bear Grease is….

Over 20 years ago, Brock Mitchell captured a photo of his skateboarder friend, Kyle Young Pine. The black and white photo later became a blueprint for an inspiring documentary. The photo featured a young, smiling First Nations skateboarder based in Okotoks, Alta. Behind that smile hid despair and trauma. Kyle,….

We are proud of Nicole Aunapu Mann, the first Native American NASA astronaut to go for a spacewalk. She, alongside Koichi Wakata of Japan, was assigned to install support brackets and struts for new solar panels that will launch during the upcoming summer. This is part of NASA’s continuing effort….

Finally!  Justice is served! The Canadian government recently agreed to pay over $2 billion to Indian residential school survivors to compensate for a lawsuit. The lawsuit aims to settle abuse experienced by students of Indian residential schools. For a little historical background, the lawsuit was filed in 2012 by 325….

Join Paul G for an interview with Jennifer Younger. Raised in the Southeast Alaska town of Yakutat, Jennifer was surrounded by nature and traditional ways of life. Jennifer is Tlingit of the Eagle Kaagwaantaan clan and now calls Sitka, Alaska home. Jennifer draws inspiration from traditional Tlingit formline designs, historic….

In the earlier half of January, the University of Mary became the subject of an online stir when it prohibited the Native American practice of smudging. You may be thinking, “Isn’t this no-smudging policy a violation of religious freedom?” Yes, it certainly is. The action hurt the sentiment of many,….