August 29, 2011
Uprising: Hopi Tribe fights to keep wastewater off sacred site
"Dozens of Indigenous residents have turned out for protests and direct actions, and 26 participants have been arrested since July 26 in defense of the mountain known as the Peaks...
SCPR: Company wants delay on quarry mine near sacred site
"Riverside County planning commissioners will consider postponing a decision Wednesday on whether to approve a contested quarry project near Temecula. Liberty Quarry would cut into the foothills a few miles...
Native Sun News: Marc Wisecarver up for hearing on probation
The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman. All content © Native Sun News. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA –– Human rights defenders are calling on the public to...
Mark Trahant: Cutting federal budget will cost human services
It sounds reasonable: Why not just cap federal spending? Make every agency operate with the money that’s already there. This notion has common-sense ... yet it is impossible in practice....
Column: Exhibit shares ties between Native and African lives
"The last Suquamish tribal member fluent in Lushootseed was Lawrence Webster, who some might have called a black man. His family story introduces "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas,"...
Turtle Talk: Justice Thomas and his radical vision of Indian law
'Much is being made of Justice Thomas as a rising leader in the Roberts Court, which quietly says a great deal about the incredible conservatism of the Court right now....
Editorial: White House promising more help for tribal colleges
"South Dakota has a strong and fascinating Native American history. We need to ensure a rich future, too. One where we learn from the mistakes of our country and state...
North Dakota tribe set to open $20M health facility in October
HEAVY HEART: George Gillette, second from left, chairman of Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, and other tribal officials at the 1948 signing of the Garrison Dam...
History: Quaker man abandoned beliefs to fight in Indian wars
"A very tough Civil War soldier from Centerville rode with Custer ... and died at the hands of the very people he was intent to slaughter. Major Joel H. Elliott...
Robert Pahre: National parks too often show our history wrong
"National parks are America’s great outdoor classrooms, and they attract about 300 million visitors a year, from school groups to senior citizens, mountain climbers to families in minivans. The vast...
Peter d'Errico: 'Special rights' a loaded term in Indian Country
"We’ve all heard references to the ‘special rights’ of American Indians. Sometimes, it’s an affirmation of Indian nationhood; other times, it’s an attack on Indian sovereignty. Given these two ways...
Freedmen seek appeal for loss of Cherokee Nation citizenship
Freedmen descendants are hoping to maintain their voting rights in the upcoming Cherokee Nation election for chief. About 2,800 Freedmen were stripped of their citizenship by the tribe's highest court....
Column: Elem Pomo Nation battles developer over sacred site
"The oldest human remains so far discovered in California belong to the Elem Pomo Nation, who have lived on the eastern and southern shores of the Clear Lake basin for...
Opinion: A slow and painful death for 'Fighting Sioux' nickname
"So the last hurrah has been heard for the University of North Dakota’s Sioux logo and nickname. The future legislative vote to give power over the logo to North Dakota’s...
Opinion: Ishi, the 'last' of Yahi people, one hundred years later
"This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of Ishi, the last "wild" North American Indian. In 1970, I was in the fifth-grade and we studied California Indians....
Books: Diane Wilson explores 'soul wounds' after Dakota wars
"In "Spirit Car," which won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for memoir, Diane Wilson explored her Native American ancestors who survived the Dakota War of 1862. She traced how her...
Steven Newcomb: Greed motivated taking of indigenous lands
"“America” also results from two words being joined together: Ame (love) and rica (riches, wealth). In the Portuguese language for example, ame is the command form of love, or, in...
Tim Giago: Lionel Bordeaux still a visionary for tribal colleges
“Butch” Felix, the Lakota Eyapaha (Master of Ceremonies) for the 39th Annual Graduation ceremonies of Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation, stood at the podium and after glancing behind...
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