Ruth-Ann Thorne, a citizen of the Rincon Band of Luiseño/ Payómkawichum Indians in Southern California, owns several art galleries and now, a steadily growing beauty business. Thorne brand, N8iv Beauty, is the first skincare brand created by a Native woman and the first to be infused with acorn oil sourced from Tribal land. The brand utilizes traditional plant medicine in its skincare line and aims to propel Indigenous practices and knowledge to the forefront of the global beauty industry.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has confirmed to News 8 that the agency is exploring whether to bring criminal charges against a hunter who shot and killed a gray wolf earlier this year in Calhoun County.
TRAVERSE CITY — Sierra Clark brings a dark chapter of Michigan history into the light in her book “Ten Ancestors: One Journalist’s Intimate Investigation into Indian Boarding Schools.”
Though a Michigan hunter reported that he harvested a large animal in Calhoun County in January during a legal coyote hunt, subsequent genetic tests by the Mich