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Editorial: Yankton Sioux protest fails to keep peace (04/25)
"Members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe are in the midst of a passionate protest this week over a hog farm near Marty, which tribal members say will despoil the environment, ruin water resources and, in short, stink. The protest has...
Kevin Abourezk: Freedom for Leonard Peltier? (04/25)
"I had heard Leonard Peltier's name as a child. He was a warrior. A man who had sacrificed himself for the people. Who sat in a jail cell for a crime he did not commit. In college, I learned others...
Opinion: Cherokee Nation's boat of federal funds (04/25)
The following is the opinion of Steve Osburn, a Cherokee/Delaware from Oklahoma. When it comes to the Freedmen, Cherokee Nation Chief Chad Smith keeps saying "Let the courts decide this case," when they already have. The Cherokee Supreme Court ruled...
Opinion: The history of the Cherokee Freedmen (04/23)
"The Cherokee Freedmen are the descendants of African slaves who played an integral role in the Cherokee Culture during the 1700's and 1800's. Many of the Cherokee Freedmen Descendants of today are Cherokee by blood, many with actually more...
Editorial: Indian views needed in news media (04/23)
"Many of the South Dakota stories that need to be told most urgently arise from our Indian reservations. Journalists who have experienced the successes and failures and hopes and problems of reservation communities firsthand are uniquely qualified to tell those...
Opinion: Wiyot Tribe funerary objects not for sale (04/23)
"As the tribal historic preservation officer for the Wiyot Tribe, I am concerned with the sale of items taken from Indian graves during the early part of the 20th century. While grave robbing was both common and legal at the...
Editorial: Mashantucket Tribe builds bridges (04/22)
"It may be a small thing, this planned rebuilding of a bridge in Ledyard, but it sends a loud message that the relationship between the town and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe continues to move from confrontation to cooperation. For years...
Column: Indian mascots a national disgrace (04/21)
"What are today's students learning about U.S. history and what are they learning about real, living American Indian people? Do today's students believe that American Indians receive a free college education from the government? That all Indians are well compensated...
Editorial: Overreaction to Yankton Sioux protest (04/21)
"They came, it seemed, prepared to quell an uprising. As many as 50 patrol cars, more than police the entire state at any given time, showed up at a small, organized and peaceful protest of a hog confinement facility...
Column: Money trumps tribes in radio show dustup (04/21)
"Sometimes, money and ratings speak louder than words. So for better or worse, "Bob and the Showgram" was back on the air this week, despite what the host of the Triangle's No. 1 show facetiously called his "forced vacation" after...
Winona LaDuke: Native against Native on energy project (04/21)
"A power company now has the opportunity to pit Native against Native, thanks to a handful of former tribal chairmen. Firetail Energy Systems (represented by former Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal Chairman William Schumacher) and the Inter-Tribal Economic Alliance (represented by...
Steve Russell: Odds and ends and current events (04/21)
"I've been writing an opinion column for one publication or another for more than 30 years. When you have promised some editor a certain word count in a certain time, you keep your eyes open for inspiring tidbits, since nobody...
Julie Kitka: Nothing funny about violence against women (04/21)
Julie Kitka is president of the Alaska Federation of Natives. "On April 9, one of the radio personalities on the "Woody and Wilcox" show on KBFX 100.5-FM, made brutally offensive racial remarks on the morning show. The two were...
Yellow Bird: Program graduates Indian nurses at UND (04/21)
"As I arrived at the UND School of Nursing, I could hear the clatter of fixing and fussing that goes on when a new building is in the making. Pick-ups were backed up to the building, and men were...
Tim Giago: Indian health care a national tragedy (04/21)
Mycole James Ferguson and Leah Page will never grow up to find their potential in life. Both infants were stillborn one week apart on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Sadly, this is not an uncommon occurrence on this...
Sen. Murkowski: Alaska Native preventive care (04/18)
"We are all familiar with the saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” When it comes to healthcare in America, it shouldn’t be just a saying, but a rule to live by. Type 2 diabetes rang...
Yellow Bird: Recovering from brain aneurysm surgery (04/17)
"It’s been a long two weeks, but I am now coming out of a relaxed phase of recovery from hospitalization. I had surgery to correct two brain aneurysms. And — no pun intended — there are two things that...
Column: Oglala Sioux man was not just homeless (04/17)
"A few times a week, sometimes more depending on how the funds were holding up, George Chase Alone occupied a piece of Denver real estate called Indian Ridge. The homeless gave it that name. Take Speer Boulevard south and...
Jodi Rave: Clinton campaign falters on Indian policy (04/17)
"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton landed in Montana earlier this month to attend a round of fundraisers and rallies and to make campaign speeches at the annual Montana Democratic Party dinner. When I started making calls to Obama campaign organizers...
Editorial: Reconnect Navajo Nation to Internet (04/16)
"It is similar to a lost country, located in one of the wealthiest and tech-savvy countries in the world. Thousands of those who live within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation have no running water, no electricity and no telephones....
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