January 31, 2012
Witness list for hearing of Senate Indian Affairs Committee
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding a hearing this Thursday on three bills. The bills are: S.1739, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act; S.356, a bill to...
Editorial: Clean air, energy and tribal water rights colliding
"That's why the Chandler Chamber of Commerce had CAP board President Pamela Pickard speak at an economic forum last week. Pickard told the crowd of businesspeople that the U.S. Environmental...
Wanted posters issued for three Native Mob gang members
The U.S. Marshals Service in Minnesota is seeking the public's help in locating three members of the Native Mob who were indicted as part of a major takedown of...
Lou Diamond Phillips cast as Indian best friend in TV series
Actor Lou Diamond Phillips, who has claimed Cherokee ancestry, has been cast as the Indian best friend in the TV series based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire book series....
Brenda Golden: SPIRIT and NAACP discuss shared priorities
"The Oklahoma State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) joins the Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Treaties (S.P.I.R.I.T.) in fighting for civil rights in...
Bear River woman faces manslaughter in death of baby son
A member of the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria in California has been offered a plea deal for the death of her six-week-old son. Prosecutors want Maggie...
Julianne Jennings: Cherokee Freedmen struggle continues
"It has been one year since the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen won their long dispute against a constitutional amendment that terminated them as citizens from the Dawes Rolls—only later...
Native Sun News: Tribal health group wins immunity decision
The following story was written and reported byJesse Abernathy, Native Sun News Editor. All content © Native Sun News. Ron His Horse Is Thunder Donald Warne RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA...
Commodity 'spam' linked to rise in diabetes among Indians
Consuming commodity "spam" increases diabetes among American Indians, according to a study being published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. As part of the Strong Heart Family Study, researchers...
Shoshone-Bannock players asked to take breathalyzer test
Two Indian students from a high school on the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho were asked to take a breathalyzer test at a basketball game earlier this month. After receiving...
NPR: Native Americans as slaves, slave owners in Michigan
"Tiya Miles is the chair of the Afro-American and African Studies Department at the University of Michigan. We met with her before when she won a 2011 McArthur Fellowship, widely...
Chelsea Vowel: The do's and don'ts of Native appropriation
"Cultural appropriation is a seriously hot-button topic. It ranges from the aggressively entitled stance of, “I can do whatever I want!” to the perpetually angry approach of “everything is cultural...
Levi Rickert: NMAI's 'Horse Nation' exhibit a must see in DC
"Upon the opening of the "A Song for the Horse Nation" exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington last October 29, I did a book...
Officials worried about increased sightings of isolated tribe
Officials in Peru are concerned about an increase in sightings of an isolated tribe. A year ago this month, Survival International released the first known photos of the Mashco-Piro Tribe,...
Gyasi Ross: Counting all the real Indian people on Facebook
"Facebook has replaced pow-wow parking lots, Haskell, AISES/NCAI/other major Indian conferences and Santa Fe Indian Market as the leading place for Indian singles to snag up their prospective mates. If...
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