March 7, 2011
Opinion: Fighting Sioux name not an honor to Native Americans
"How does one, in fact, honor our Native American neighbors through the use stereotypes? Frankly, I still await conclusive proof from nickname supporters as to exactly what they do to...
Arizona tribes to benefit from $33.6M in federal broadband funds
Four tribes in Arizona will benefit from $33.6 million in federal broadband funds. The Tohono O'odham Utility Authority will receive $17.4 million to install at least two wireless towers and...
Alaska Supreme Court supports Native villages in ICWA matters
Alaska tribes should be able to initiate child custody proceedings under the Indian Child Welfare Act, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday. A group of tribes sued when the...
Mark Trahant: Policy will costs thousands of Indian Country jobs
Finally the economy seems to be creating jobs again. Last week a federal jobs survey showed an increase in 222,000 private sector jobs, a full year of growth that...
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe launches House of Seven Generations
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington has launched the House of Seven Generations, its online museum. The site will preserve the tribe's history and tradition through photographs, video and other...
United Methodist Church donates $50K for center at Sand Creek
The United Methodist Church has donated $50,000 to help build the Sand Creek Massacre Learning Center in Colorado. Col. John M. Chivington led the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, where...
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe security officer reports UFO encounter
A security officer for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe came into contact with a UFO and two aliens, according to the Mutual UFO Network. The man left his job at...
Letter: Tribes ignored as lawmakers fight to keep Fighting Sioux
"The North Dakota House recently passed House Bill 1263, which has been referred to the North Dakota Senate for review and possible passage. The bill seeks to legislate the permanent...
Book Review: Chief Leschi and 'Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek'
"When Isaac Stevens, territorial governor of Washington, implemented plans to move the Nisquallies from their ancestral lands to reservations in 1853, Chief Leschi turned from "good Indian" to incendiary....
Book Review: Siletz restoration in 'The People Are Dancing Again'
"When the U.S. Congress began terminating American Indian tribes during the 1950s -- ending the special relationship between formerly sovereign tribes and the federal government -- many Indians thought...
HCN: The story of Radmilla Cody, an unusual Miss Navajo Nation
"Radmilla Cody knows the way home. It's not an easy journey. The dirt roads are canoe-shaped and gouged by rain. They curl around hills and plunge into deep draws, finally...
Senate Indian Affairs Committee sets budget hearing next week
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold its first oversight hearing of the 112th Congress next Tuesday, March 15. The hearing will focus on the Obama administration's fiscal year 2012...
Column: Charles Eastman introduced world to Indian health care
"Ancient cultures viewed health as a kind of oneness, a harmony between body, soul and mind, and between man and the cosmos. It involved a spiritual approach to physical life—one...
Column: An Indian perspective on Santa Fe's 400th anniversary
"Of the several fine books recently published honoring the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe, one of the most challenging to my mind is White Shell Water Place,...
Tim Giago: Indian tribes the easy victim in national budget crisis
You can see it in the eyes of veteran Indian policy makers all across America because most of them have been there and done that: they are survivors of the...
Vi Waln: Yankton Sioux Tribe fights state to protect reservation
Oppression is a word used by Indian people on a regular basis, I believe. My favorite online dictionary lists one definition of oppression as “an unjust or cruel exercise of...
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