September 27, 2012
Vice chairman of Pala Band jailed in public intoxication incident
Leroy Miranda, the vice chairman of the Pala Band of Mission Indians of California, was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, The North County Times reports. Miranda...
Mark Trahant: Indian issues play big role in South Dakota race
"South Dakota’s lone U.S. Representative is an important office for Indian country. The state that once sent a Lakota man, Ben Reifel, to Congress. Reifel once told me he was...
Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux man seeks 12th term on council
The following story was written and reported by Native Sun News Staff. All content © Native Sun News. Big Crow shooting for 12th term on OST Council By Native Sun...
Navajo activist won't give up fight over sewage at sacred site
A Navajo Nation man who's been arrested for protesting the use of reclaimed sewage at the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona plans to continue to fight for the cause....
NYT: Quentin Tarantino discusses race and racism in Westerns
"Any of the Western directors who had something to say created their own version of the West: Anthony Mann created a West that had room for the characters played by...
Sen. Brown was inside bar as aides were doing tomahawk chop
[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] Sen. Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) was inside a bar greeting supporters as his Capitol Hill aides were outside, making stereotypical...
Gyasi Ross: Sen. Brown's racist and anti-Indian campaign rally
[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] "Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts. Hold that thought, please—indulge me for a few minutes while we talk about discrimination,...
Sen. Brown warns staff over war whoops and tomahawk chops
[YouTube: Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop"] Sen. Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) said he reprimanded his staffers for making stereotypical "war whoops" and doing "tomahawk chops" at...
North Dakota tribal member charged for sexual abuse of minor
Nathan Dubray, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, has been charged with felony sexual abuse of an eight-year-old girl. Dubray, 27, faces life in prison if...
UND allowed to keep 'Fighting Sioux' logos at arena on campus
The University of North Dakota will be allowed to keep Indian head logos at its arena under a new agreement with the NCAA. The NCAA placed UND on its...
Testing shows presence of carcinogen in water in fracking zone
Testing of groundwater in Wyoming shows the presence of a carcinogen that's used in hydraulic fracturing, a controversial energy-processing technique that's commonly known as fracking. But only one well was...
Slain ambassador was descendant of Chinook Chief Comcomly
Chris Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was killed in an attack on September 11, was the great-great-great-great grandchild of Chinook Chief Comcomly, The Seattle Times reports. Comcomly...
Suzan Harjo: Race card comes out in Massachusetts campaign
"The senatorial race in Massachusetts is too close to call—between incumbent Senator Scott Brown, Republican, and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, Democrat—and could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate....
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