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Vice chairman of Pala Band jailed in public intoxication incident (September 27, 2012)

Leroy Miranda, the vice chairman of the Pala Band of Mission Indians of California, was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, The North County Times reports. Miranda was arrested by San Diego County Sheriff's deputies early Saturday...

Mark Trahant: Indian issues play big role in South Dakota race (September 27, 2012)

"South Dakota’s lone U.S. Representative is an important office for Indian country. The state that once sent a Lakota man, Ben Reifel, to Congress. Reifel once told me he was a Republican because he had to be. He was from...

Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux man seeks 12th term on council (September 27, 2012)

The following story was written and reported by Native Sun News Staff. All content © Native Sun News. Big Crow shooting for 12th term on OST Council By Native Sun News Staff PINE RIDGE — A lifelong resident of the...

Navajo activist won't give up fight over sewage at sacred site (September 27, 2012)

A Navajo Nation man who's been arrested for protesting the use of reclaimed sewage at the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona plans to continue to fight for the cause. Klee Benally has stood in front of bulldozers and chained...

NYT: Quentin Tarantino discusses race and racism in Westerns (September 27, 2012)

"Any of the Western directors who had something to say created their own version of the West: Anthony Mann created a West that had room for the characters played by Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper; Sam Peckinpah had his own...

Sen. Brown was inside bar as aides were doing tomahawk chop (September 27, 2012)

[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] Sen. Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) was inside a bar greeting supporters as his Capitol Hill aides were outside, making stereotypical "war whoops" and doing "tomahawk chops," The New York Times...

Gyasi Ross: Sen. Brown's racist and anti-Indian campaign rally (September 27, 2012)

[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] "Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts. Hold that thought, please—indulge me for a few minutes while we talk about discrimination, outrage and offensive behavior. See, subjective tests for racial/gender outrage...

Sen. Brown warns staff over war whoops and tomahawk chops (September 27, 2012)

[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] Sen. Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) said he reprimanded his staffers for making stereotypical "war whoops" and doing "tomahawk chops" at a rally in Boston. "Senator Brown has spoken to his...

North Dakota tribal member charged for sexual abuse of minor (September 27, 2012)

Nathan Dubray, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, has been charged with felony sexual abuse of an eight-year-old girl. Dubray, 27, faces life in prison if convicted of two counts of gross sexual imposition. He told...

UND allowed to keep 'Fighting Sioux' logos at arena on campus (September 27, 2012)

The University of North Dakota will be allowed to keep Indian head logos at its arena under a new agreement with the NCAA. The NCAA placed UND on its list of schools with "hostile and abusive" Indian mascots. Through...

Testing shows presence of carcinogen in water in fracking zone (September 27, 2012)

Testing of groundwater in Wyoming shows the presence of a carcinogen that's used in hydraulic fracturing, a controversial energy-processing technique that's commonly known as fracking. But only one well was tested this time and it showed a lower level of...

Slain ambassador was descendant of Chinook Chief Comcomly (September 27, 2012)

Chris Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was killed in an attack on September 11, was the great-great-great-great grandchild of Chinook Chief Comcomly, The Seattle Times reports. Comcomly helped the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805. His skull...

Suzan Harjo: Race card comes out in Massachusetts campaign (September 27, 2012)

"The senatorial race in Massachusetts is too close to call—between incumbent Senator Scott Brown, Republican, and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, Democrat—and could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. But you can set your watch by this: no matter...
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