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Crow Creek Sioux Tribe calls for boycott in honor song flap (05/17)
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is calling for a boycott of Chamberlain, South Dakota, after the school board refused to allow an honor song at the high school graduation ceremony....

MPR: 22 graduates complete tribal administration program (05/17)
University of Minnesota Duluth graduates 22 in Master of Tribal Administration and Governance program: Tiger Brown Bull has traveled great lengths to earn his masters degree. In two years he...

KUOW: Indian parents protest move of heritage program (05/16)
KUOW reports on controversial changes to the Indian education program in Seattle, Washington: The latest Seattle School District plan to move the American Indian Heritage program to Northgate Mall has...

Alex Alvarez: Allow eagle feathers at high school graduation (05/15)
Alex Alvarez, a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, says Indian students in Alabama should be allowed to wear eagle feathers during graduation ceremony: On May 1, the...

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe helps dedicate Sitting Bull center (05/15)
A view of the new Sitting Bull Visitor Information Center in Fort Yates, North Dakota. Photo © Sitting Bull College The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Sitting Bull College...

Kevin Abourezk: Saginaw Chippewa Tribe reclaims ancestors (05/15)
Kevin Abourezk reports on the repatriation efforts of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan: Charmaine Shawana plans to get up early Wednesday and drive nearly 12 hours west to...

WyoFile: Program puts more Indian teachers in the classroom (05/14)
WyoFile reports on a teacher training program based at the Wind River Tribal College: A weekend at college is business as usual for the group of 24 working adults who...

School board won't allow honor song at graduation ceremony (05/14)
The Chamberlain Board of Education in South Dakota voted 6-1 against allowing an honor song at the high school graduation ceremony. Indian students, many from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe...

Duane Yazzie: School district must listen to Navajo concerns (05/14)
Duane "Chili" Yazzie, the president of the Shiprock Chapter on the Navajo Nation, airs concerns with the Central Consolidated School District in New Mexico: I made a scene at the...

Exhibit explores collector who built museum with Indian bones (05/14)
Inside the museum made of bones. Photo from Catalina Island Museum Blog A new exhibit at the Catalina Island Museum in California explores a collector who looted Indian graves...

USET: Education Department holds listening session for tribes (05/14)
News from the United South and Eastern Tribes: The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is holding a Tribal Consultation and Listening Session today leading up to the United South and...

KPBS: California State University promotes Luiseno language (05/14)
California State University San Marcos helps keep Luiseño language alive: At the center's graduation ceremony this year, the school also got to unveil Cal State’s newest How to Access College...

Native Sun News: Center provides support for urban Indians (05/14)
Students studying to take their GED tests agree that it is difficult under the best of circumstances. But of those who come into the Career Learning Center in Rapid City, many have their own set of challenges.

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe invites public to reburial ceremony (05/13)
The Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan is hosting a repatriation ceremony on Friday. The tribe is reburying the remains of 11 ancestors. The ceremony will be held at the Nibokaan...

Cherokee professor brings unique perspective to social work (05/13)
David A. Patterson, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, brings a unique perspective to social problems facing Indian Country. Patterson, who has Cherokee ancestry, struggled with substance abuse...

Vi Waln: Teachers put Indian students' mental health at risk (05/13)
Vi Waln on teachers who are affecting the well-being of Indian students: There is one teacher at a local middle school whose behavior was recently brought to my attention. He...

Native Sun News: Graduates honored at feathering ceremony (05/13)
A celebratory 'Liliilililililiil!' rang out through the Surbeck Ballroom for the four School of Mines Native graduates.

Jodi Gillette: Another year of Let's Move! in Indian Country (05/08)
Jodi Gillette, the Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs at the White House, on the two-year anniversary of Let's Move! in Indian Country: I recently had the honor of...

Alcatraz occupation inspired late George Paul Horse Capture (05/07)
George Paul Horse Capture, a respected museum curator who died last month at the age of 75, was inspired to change his life by the takeover of Alcatraz in 1969....

Study claims Native languages linked to Eurasian languages (05/07)
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims seven language families, including Inuit–Yupik, descend from a common language that was spoken about 15,000 years ago. Researchers...

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