The Edgar Award, as Denver author and Edgar finalist David Heska Wanbli Weiden puts it, is “like the Oscars for crime writers. It’s like our National Book Award.” So it was a big deal when Weiden’s thriller
Winter Counts was shortlisted. It’s an even bigger deal that he’s only the second Native American writer to be named a finalist in the prize’s storied history.
Not that the Edgars are the only organization recognizing Weiden’s work far from it. He’s already won a Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, and the Western Writers of America presented his book with the Best Contemporary Novel and Best Debut Novel awards. Still pending is a cornucopia of other awards: the Barry, the Thriller, a Colorado Book Award, a Reading the West prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Weiden is going to be busy and he might want to be making space on his fireplace mantel for all those pen-shaped trophies and whatnot.
Hollywood Reporter: Victoria s Secret has pulled footage of a model wearing a Native American headdress from the [2012] broadcast of its annual fashion show after several groups complained. In the fashion show, which took place Nov. 7 and will air Dec. 4 on CBS, Karlie Kloss modeled a leopard-print lingerie set while wearing the headdress, also known as a war bonnet, along with turquoise jewelry and fringe-adorned heels. On her blog
Native Appropriations, which covers the way indigenous cultures are portrayed in pop culture, blogger Adrienne K. wrote that Victoria s Secret was guilty of “egregious cultural appropriation, stereotyping and marginalizing of Native peoples.”
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Meade, Todd County teachers now receiving COVID-19 vaccinations
Mike Moen, Greater Dakota News ServiceMarch 12, 2021Local
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RAPID CITY, S.D. – South Dakota teachers can now get their COVID vaccinations as new eligibility phases kick in.
In a state that prioritized reopening schools last fall, educators are expressing relief – including those who kept working under distance-learning models. Teachers are in the latest priority group for vaccinations, according to the state health department.
Either through the Federal Pharmacy Program or through state providers, staff across the state are taking advantage – including Carol Waider, who teaches second-grade in Meade County.
She said throughout the academic year, she’s felt a lot of pressure to follow safety protocols so she could keep going into the classroom.