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Native singer from Canada rising on country charts (04/02)
Crystal Shawanda, an Ojibwe from Canada, is being hailed as a rising star on the country music scene. Shawanda, who grew up on the Wikwemikong Reserve on Ontario, is currently featured in a County Music Television show called "Crystal:...
Film explores Indian boarding school experience (04/01)
“Older than America" is a new film that explores the Indian boarding school experience from a contemporary point of view. Georgina Lightning co-wrote, directed and starred in the movie. She drew on her father's time at a boarding school...
Bill strengthens Alaska Native authentic arts program (03/31)
A bill awaiting the signature of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) strengthens and modernizes the Silver Hand Program. The program began in 1961 as a way to authenticate Native art. But some requirements -- such as a minimum blood...
Indian museum in Oklahoma seeks $45M from state (03/26)
The American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City is asking state lawmakers for $45 million to move construction forward. Overall, the facility needs $150 million. The 300-acre site will feature a museum, a welcome center and private development. Construction began...
Gallery replaces statue considered offensive (03/20)
A gallery in Rapid City, South Dakota, has replaced a statue that some felt was offensive and racist. The Prairie Edge Trading Co. & Galleries unveiled "Hunkayapi," or "Tying on the Eagle Plume." It depicts a Lakota naming ceremony,...
Pearl Jam guitarist visits Pine Ridge school (03/20)
Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard made a surprise visit to the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Gossard performed a small concert for students and played with Golden Warrior, a blues band from...
Sherman Alexie: I'm the real Sherman Alexie! (03/14)
"Whenever I read locally, fans will often wait outside the bookstore to greet me, to have a few minutes of private time, to give me gifts or tell me secrets or make offers or demand favors. It’s the price...
Museum to showcase Indian 'New Deal' artists (03/12)
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is featuring the works of Indian artists who worked under the federal government's New Deal program. At least 30 Indian artists in New Mexico took...
NMAI aims to let tribal people tell their stories (03/12)
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is putting its exhibits in the hands of tribal people. The permanent "Our Peoples" exhibit covers the histories of tribal people throughout the Americas. The curators come from the...
Faking It: Why do writers pretend to be Indians? (03/10)
"Margaret B. Jones, the author of Love and Consequences, is hardly the first person to have invented an Indian self and a past. Her memoir tells of her upbringing as a half-white, half-Indian foster child by a black family in...
Book recalled after 'Native' author exposed as fraud (03/04)
Riverhead Books is recalling all copies of “Love and Consequences," a memoir about a half-Native girl who grew up amid gangs and violence in Los Angeles, after its author was revealed to be a fraud. Author Margaret B. Jones...
ICT: An interview with the Diva, Arigon Starr (02/27)
Indian Country Today interviews Kickapoo/Creek entertainer Arigon Starr about her new project -- "Super Indian," a comic book and radio program about a very special hero. Indian Country Today: Which came first, comic book or radio play? Arigon Starr:...
Contest seeks the next 'Powwow Idols' (02/20)
Two drum groups are competing for the chance to Indian Country's next "Powwow Idols." Standing Horse from South Dakota and Wind Eagle Singers of Wisconsin are the final two competitors. They were among 14 drum groups that entered the...
Taos Pueblo musician tickled by Grammy win (02/12)
Taos Pueblo musician Robert Mirabal was told his recordings weren't "traditional" enough to qualify for a Grammy nomination. So he created a new character called Johnny Whitehorse and recorded an album with more traditional flute sounds. And "Totemic Flute...
Johnny Whitehorse wins Native Grammy award (02/11)
Johnny Whitehorse won the Best Native American Music Album at the 50th annual Grammy awards on Sunday. Whitehorse, a creation and character of Taos Pueblo artist Robert Mirabal, won for "Totemic Flute Chants." The album features 12 songs in...
West spent more on travel than fellow directors (02/04)
Former National Museum of the American Indian director Rick West spent more on travel and was away from Washington, D.C., more than any other Smithsonian director. In his last year as director, West took 30 trips and was away...
FBI raids museums in probe of looted artifacts (01/25)
The FBI raided four museums and one gallery in southern California as part of a probe into stolen Native American and Asian artifacts. Authorities appeared to mainly focus on Asian artifacts. But some Native items were allegedly taken from...
Louise Erdrich: Short story in The New Yorker (01/24)
Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich's short story, The Reptile Garden, has been published in the January 28 issue of The New Yorker. She's been published in the magazine more than a dozen times. "In the fall of 1972, my parents...
Cherokee Nation council passes arts and crafts act (01/24)
The Cherokee Nation council has passed its own version of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. Anyone who sells art within the Cherokee Nation must be a Cherokee citizen or a member of a federally recognized tribe. Cara Cowan-Watts, a...
Gover thinks few will remember West's spending (01/21)
When Kevin Gover took control of the National Museum of the American Indian last month, his arrival was soon overshadowed by controversy over spending by his predecessor. Gover, a member of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, tells The New...
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