October 10, 2011
Opinion: Republican lawmaker no friend to tribes in Wisconsin
"Powerful special interests such as Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce have made no secret of their push to overturn regulations that protect people and the environment from the ravages of open...
Mark Trahant: Earmarks find their way into the federal budget
An amendment to the fiscal year 2012 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill -- today’s version of “earmarks.” There are many ways to look at America’s shift into the Era...
Review: Book tells struggles of Yosemite Indians in California
"Kathleen Hull’s Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California, above all, is a timely book, if not a necessary book. Timely in that current relations between...
Kevin Abourezk: Woman travels far to learn Omaha language
"In June, Barbara Salvatore Klopping asked her husband if she could load up the New York couple's two daughters and two horses and move more than 1,100 miles west to...
Levi Rickert: More American Indians need to be on the ballots
"With the brilliant colors of yellow, orange and red leaves on thousands of trees, autumn is a beautiful time of the year in Upper Michigan. Coupled with the shoreline of...
Opinion: Jacoby Ellsbury, Navajo, deserves MVP baseball title
"Jacoby MaCabe Ellsbury, the first Native American of Navajo descent to reach the Major Leagues and member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, is one of those rare athletes who...
GOP Rick Perry's great-great-great grandfather was Choctaw
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the current governor of Texas, has Choctaw ancestry, according to Archives.com. Perry's Indian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. His great-great-great grandfather...
Cherokee Nation begins counting of ballots for principal chief
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma began counting ballots on Sunday in the second election for principal chief. As of 3pm yesterday, Bill John Baker received 6,223 votes compared to 4,046...
Editorial: Clarity needed for disputes over tribal child support
"In a case that has done little to clarify the muddled laws that define Indian tribes' sovereignty, the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians in San Diego County is nevertheless to...
Charles Trimble: Two Oglala Sioux men earn places in history
News of Russell Means’ terminal cancer catches me totally unprepared. He’s one of those people I expected to live forever. Certainly, his name will live on in the annals of...
Tim Giago: Reflecting on enigmatic AIM leader Russell Means
Notes from Indian Country By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2011 Unity South Dakota As I look back on my life from the pinnacle of the seventh decade my reflections...
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