Russell Means was mostly Wasicu, and he has not one drop of Oglala blood, a new book asserts.
A holiday song performed by Sihasin, a brother and sister duo from the Navajo Nation, has landed in a national advertising campaign.
The Dahl Arts Center near downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, is featuring the first ever Lakota father/son art exhibit.
Nominations for the 60th annual Grammy awards were released on Tuesday, with indigenous musicians again relegated to a single category.
As a child in the foster care system, Alberto 'Bert' Malcom, was bounced from family to family across South Dakota before being adopted to a family in Nebraska.
In Rivers, Wings & Sky, showcased at the 2017 South Dakota Festival of Books, poet Norma C. Wilson and artist Nancy Losacker reveal a shared passion for protecting the natural heritage of the Northern Great Plains.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe and the producers of the critically-acclaimed Wind River film have cut ties with a prominent Hollywood executive who has been accused of numerous incidents of sexual assault.
Activists who come to command without listening to those they’re ostensibly helping produce a devastation that makes the project of systemic oppression that much easier.
Racing Magpie owner Peter Strong sees art as a solution. A tool for communication, a vehicle for change.
The Standing Rock I knew was not a mystical place with a uniform perspective. It was a complex place—an experiment in love, hope, courage, and solidarity.
Warpath is an all-Native band from southern California that mixes heavy metal with traditional drums and rattles.
A decades-old mystery in New Mexico and the history behind it is gaining renewed attention thanks to Native filmmaker Chris Eyre.
The camps are gone now, but the awakening to protect the water, land, and tribal sovereignty continues.
Rapid City in South Dakota is becoming a haven for Great Plains art, including imagery reflective of and sacred to local tribes.
The American Museum of Natural History will work with tribes in the United States and First Nations in Canada to update its Hall of Northwest Coast Indians.
The American Indian Community Housing Organization and Honor the Earth unveiled a mural that demonstrates the resilience of Native women, Mary Annette Pember reports.
Poet and novelist Ray Young Bear, a citizen of the Meskwaki Tribe, has published two word-songs in The New Yorker.
The Black Hills Unity Concert honored several invited guests for their various contributions to tribal nations, community leadership and environmental activism.
A museum in Minnesota continues to face questions in connection with a controversial sculpture that depicted the execution of 38 Dakota men in 1862.
Eight citizens of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate are debuting their original compositions as part of the Lakota Music Project in South Dakota.
Andrea Page (Standing Rock Sioux) began researching her Sioux Code Talkers book more than 20 years ago.
A new film explores the final days of Sitting Bull although the primary character is a non-Indian woman who faced criticism for associating with the revered Lakota leader.
Growing up on the periphery of the Rosebud Reservation, artist Jane Seaton enjoyed a childhood unlike many others.
‘Wind River' is a film about marginalized death on Native lands, passing for entertainment for middle-class voyeurs often amazed that any Natives are still alive, Charles Kader writes on Indian Country Media Network.
Native peoples provide creative energies to the world, despite invasion and colonization, Peter d'Errico writes on Indian Country Media Network.
Wind River, a film set and shot on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, is opening in theaters this week.
Virgil Ortiz, an artist from Cochiti Pueblo, is debuting an ambitious new collection as part of a collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.
A new documentary about the influence of Indian musicians in popular music is playing in theaters in the United States and Canada.
Readers of Quiet Until the Thaw are going to find its contents rather familiar -- it's essentially a fictional account of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be taking testimony on the Indian Arts and Crafts
Act on Friday, July 7.
Even though you’ve never conceived of there being any other indigenous authors besides Sherman Alexie, does not mean that no other indigenous authors exist, Tiffany Midge writes on Indian Country Media Network.
Jimmie Durham’s indigenous identity has always been a fabrication and remains one, Cherokee artists, scholars and citizens write on Indian Country Media Network.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is hitting the road again, this time for a hearing on the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
From the beginning, when the Iroquois emerged as a distinct people thousands of years ago, they played lacrosse.
Using an early photographic process, Shane Balkowitsch hopes to connect what happened to the Dakota people 155 years ago with a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline today.
Terese Marie Mailhot made waves when she questioned whether Native people were unwilling to call out bad 'art' in the community and in media.
Are Native artists and media failing to produce substantive works? Terese Marie
Mailhot asks some tough questions on Indian Country Media Network.
The Billy Jack Walking Tall Gallery in Minneapolis came under fire last week for its recent exhibit Indian Uprisings by Minneapolis artist Vanessa Kills Twice.
The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline led to the creation of the Standing Rock Nation Film and Music Festival.
A. Paul Ortega, the Apache musician and traditional healer, died on May 17 at his home in Mescalero Territory in New Mexico.
A new film called 'Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation' explores the indigenous origins of lacrosse.
A new film called 'Mankiller' shares the remarkable story of the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation.
An appreciation of music, from the heartbeat in the womb to the guitars of Zappa.
Montford Johnson grew up an orphan in Indian Territory and went on to establish a large ranching empire in the 1800s.
While visiting the pristine homeland of his ancestors, Donald Montileaux reconnected to the folklore and lifestyle of the Lakota people.
Grassroots organization founded by First Nations artists synonymous with indigenous resistance.
Paul Gilk’s book is a must-read for any Native person looking to understand the origin of ‘civilization’ and its relentless assault on Native cultures.
Watch this movie to get inspired about saving seeds. And then do it.
Bird Cage Book Store features Native book titles of the Northern Plains, including children’s books, women’s literature, print on demand books and Native classics like Custer Died for Your Sins.
Many Wakanyeja (children) grew up listening to the chronicles of Iktomi the trickster when at bedtime the Unci (Grandmothers) would relate the escapades of this mischievous character.
'Killers of the Flower Moon' details the murders of dozens -- if not hundreds -- of Osage Nation citizens who were targeted because of their oil royalty payments.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will be featuring Native art more prominently in its American Wing.
Humanities professors, teachers and developers are never given credit for what they offer
Just over two decades ago Jacob Helvick was born to an adopted Lakota mother and raised in Humboldt, Iowa.
Three of the baskets are believed to more than a century old.
The Choctaw Nation's ties to Ireland go back to 1847, when tribal citizens donated their own money to help people thousands of miles away.
The late Blackfeet Nation citizen was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Indian trust fund lawsuit.
Native Sun News Today: Supply store for Lakota artists opens on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (03/14)
Lakota artists, an integral part of the economic mix on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, can now purchase their supplies closer to home.
The Water Protector Legal Collective has been providing =services for people who have been arrested in connection with the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Peter Cozzens’ book on Indian wars loaded with slight of mouth.
Vic Runnels passed away on January 29. He was a multitalented artist and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
'Book goes to the historical and political roots of international colonialism.'
'Native American actors deserve better Hollywood, and so do the legions of movie-goers.'
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