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Marty Two Bulls: Oglala Sioux Tribe faces dilemma on alcohol (08/09)
Marty Two Bulls discusses the upcoming vote facing members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

Dalton Walker: NCAI and google start Indigenous Mapping Day (08/09)
Dalton Walker on the first-ever Indigenous Mapping Day, a partnership between the National Congress of American Indians and google.

Gyasi Ross: Nez Perce Tribe shows true leadership with protest (08/09)
Gyasi Ross praises leaders of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho for standing up to a megaload shipment that went through the reservation this week.

Darren Bonaparte: Mohawk perspective on Two Row Wampum (08/09)
Darren Bonaparte shares a Mohawk perspective of the historic Two Row Wampum Belt:

William Old Chief: Corruption ignored on Blackfeet Reservation (08/09)
William Old Chief, a former chairman of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, says corruption on the reservation is being ignored.

Slate Editor: No longer using name of Washington football team (08/09)
Slate Editor David Plotz explains why the publication will no longer use the name of the Washington professional football team.

Sharon Day: Walking the rivers to raise awareness of pollution (08/08)
Sharon Day, the executive director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force, discusses environmental activism.

Editorial: Federal recognition changes a threat to Connecticut (08/07)
Connecticut newspaper questions proposed changes to the federal recognition process at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Editorial: Transfer finally puts ancestral land in hands of tribes (08/07)
Oregon newspaper welcomes return of ancestral land to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians.

Peter d'Errico: Stolen children a common practice in a dirty war (08/07)
Peter d'Errico compares boarding schools and the taking of Indian children to the dirty war in Argentina.

Ivan Starr: Alcoholism largely ignored on Pine Ridge Reservation (08/07)
This week I am focusing on the issue of alcoholism (drug-ism also). It is widespread yet largely ignored. It touches every individual regardless of how rich or poor one is and irrespective of degree of Indian blood.

Editorial: Umatilla Tribes call for help with abandoned horses (08/06)
Newspaper says Congress should heed call of Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to address wild horse populations.

Editorial: Reservation voting centers deserve a fair answer (08/06)
Newspaper wonders why South Dakota Board of Elections won't authorize voting centers on reservations.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota tries to curb Indian vote (08/06)
Stephanie Woodard discusses efforts to suppress the Indian vote in South Dakota.

Steven Newcomb: Freeing tribes from centuries of colonialism (08/06)
Steven Newcomb discusses how tribes can assert independence in light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Raymond Foxworth: Improve health through food sovereignty (08/05)
Raymond Foxworth of the First Nations Development Institute praises the Navajo Nation Council for considering a bill to impose taxes on junk food.

Brandon Ecoffey: Oglala Nation must move on Black Hills claim (08/05)
Over the course of the last four years, the Oglala Sioux Tribe along with other members of the Oceti Sakowin have focused the majority of their energy on topics that have included the Cobell settlement, ICWA, the Wounded Knee sale, stopping the Keystone pipeline, shutting down White Clay, legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, gaming, prairie dog control, honoring Hugo Chavez, and the usual run of the mill intertribal and intercommunity petty politics that seem to consume a huge majority of the council’s time.

John Christian Hopkins: Navajo Nation moves on its own time (08/05)
John Christian Hopkins spends some time with the Navajo Nation Council.

Marc Simmons: Tribe massacred its own for religious treason (08/05)
Historian Marc Simmons writes of genocide committed by members of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.

Opinion: Lessons in changing climates from ancestral tribes (08/05)
Writer says climate change caused ancestral Pueblos to move out of cliff dwellings in the Southwest.

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