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[RAPID CITY, SD] – First Peoples Fund, one of the oldest national organizations dedicated tosupporting Native American artists and culture bearers, proudly unveils its roster of 2024 fellowship recipients. Selected from a pool of exceptional candidates, fifteen (15) artists have…
Zayah Charles Webb, Nez Perce, age 3 months, our beloved son, brother, nephew, and grandson left us Saturday, February 17, 2024. Zayah was born October 19, 2023, alongside his twin brother Zakari Cloud Webb in Lewiston, Idaho, to Elijah James…
Jack Houston Bell (born Jack Fleming Austin Jr.) passed away peacefully at his Lapwai home on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, from prostate cancer. Jack was born on Nov. 2, 1953, in Midland, Texas, to Beatrice Sallie Payne and Jack Fleming…
Pamela Marie (Morris) Patterson, 62, a resident of Battle Ground, Wash., passed away peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, surrounded by her loved ones. Pamela, affectionately called Pam, Mama Pam or Zee, was born Jan. 6, 1962, to Dixie (Moffett) and…
Lapwai, ID – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this week that the Nez Perce Tribe (Tribe) was selected to receive funding through the newly created Wildfire Smoke Preparedness in Community Buildings Grant Program. The Tribe is one of nine…
Stevi Elaine Williams, 41, of Spokane, passed away Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. Stevi was born on Nov. 26, 1982, in Lewiston, to Becky R. Branstrom and Glen W. Williams. She attended the Upward Bound program at the University of Idaho…
Ronald T. Halfmoon, of Lapwai, passed Friday, Jan. 19, 2023. He was born on Feb. 28, 1931, to his father Otis Alphonses (Nez Perce) and mother Mary Joshua (Cayuse) Halfmoon, in Umatilla, Ore., and raised in Pendleton, Ore., an enrolled…
Erna Cromer passed away on Tuesday, January 2, 2024, surrounded by family at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston due to complications of Cardiac Arrest. A proud member of the Nez Perce Tribe. Erna was born in Lewiston on…
Freida J. Ellenwood (Hayes) also known as Shirley Jean Hayes flew away to God’s celestial shore on December 14, 2023. She was born on October 9, 1938 in the family home in Kamiah, Idaho to Rose McConville and Edward Hayes.…
Boise, Idaho 12/5/2023 Indigenous Idaho Alliance, an organization committed to empowering Indigenous communities, is thrilled to announce that tai simpson (niimiipuu-Black), a descendant of Chief Red Heart and co-founder of the Indigenous Idaho Alliance, has been elected as the Board…
