The mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is taking action following the indictments of three people for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act by selling fake goods.
A handful of extras, portraying Native American characters, walked off the set because they were disgusted by grotesque or stereotypical portrayals.
A story that activist Frank LaMere wrote about liquor problems in Whiteclay, Nebraska, has been set to music,
The name Edward S. Curtis immediately invokes spirited discussions amongst Native and non-Native artists, scholars and just plain folks who are attracted to the historic, romantic and nostalgic.
Princess Angeline, who was the eldest daughter of Chief Sealth, was the the subject of first Curtis photo in 1896.
With the holiday season almost here the Lakota Hope Wreath Project has arrived just in time to supply customers with decorations and local workers with income.
Several tribes have protested auctions of their cultural patrimony but authorities in France have refused to stop the transactions.
More than 70 jewelers, potters, painters and other Native artists are showcasing their works in Washington, D.C., and in New York City.
Charles 'Chuck' Trimble has spent a lifetime commenting on and spreading a message about Lakota people to mainstream society for decades.
The Indian people are reduced to such a level of beastly subhumanness that I found myself actually, unconsciously mentally rooting, at some points, for the developers to wax victorious.
The two-part mini-series debuted on the National Geographic Channel to favorable reviews.
We do have star power in our communities and in my humble opinion these songs are good enough to be on the national charts.
The California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center and the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians are hosting the event.
The tipi was the primary choice of residence for many of the Great Plains tribes.
After nearly three decades and countless memories, Sioux Trading Post Manager, Michael Lekberg of Prairie Edge Trading Co. and Galleries in downtown Rapid City is retiring.
The Retired FBI Agents Association complained about the paintings at the Washington Department of Labor and Industries.
'Afro Native Narratives' aims to bring the discussion of Black Native identity to the forefront and bring forward the faces of Black Natives who continue to embrace the traditions of their ancestors.
One hopes there was a long and complicated discussion about the placement of the first painting that greets visitors at the entrance of the Kay WalkingStick exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian.
The First People’s Fund has created a mobile arts center for artists that will help to bring customers, artists, and culture bearers together in a new and innovative way.
'Tribal Police Files' is being produced by Steve Sxwithul'txw, a former tribal police officer.
Customers were sold jewelry made by members of the Navajo Nation. The items were really produced in the Philippines.
The author, activist and feminist recommends two books for people who want to know why Indian history and culture isn't being taught in America.
The museum pays particularly close attention to contemporary Indian artists through its exhibitions and a residency program.
A reception for five contemporary Native artists offered a glimpse into the Obama administration's impact in Indian Country.
Everyone thinks they know George Armstrong Custer, whether from school reports or TV and movies or crossword puzzles.
It shouldn’t surprise you that since I like horror movies, I’m a fan of Eli Roth. Wait, let me correct that. WAS a fan.
Dan Snyder views the racist mascot as part of his 'identity,' writer Mike Freeman asserts.
Politics, greed and Native American artifacts provide a sturdy foundation for the compelling debut by John Fortunato, the latest winner of the Tony Hillerman prize.
A petition calling on the cast and crew of 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' has garnered more than 55,000 signatures.
The second annual Native Food and Wine event takes place October 16 in Santa Fe.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was filmed at Diamond Tail Ranch, a private property located near two Pueblo reservations.
'The Green Inferno' not only trivializes grassroots efforts to draw attention to the plight of Amazonian tribes, it further entrenches the understanding that tribes are uncivilized relics from the past.
The Deadwood Jam this year opened up with Lakota blues front man, Brandon Sprague (Minnicoujou Lakota) of the Brandon Sprague Blues Band.
Akwesasne TV will offer a mix of news, entertainment and cultural programming.
With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, the film is a remarkable feat of historical research, documenting the shift from nuanced silent-era heroes to the Western’s 'noble savage' stereotype, leading up to the burgeoning Native independent scene.
The Guaridan Box draws from the artist's Nooksack and Chinese heritages.
Plans for the Catawba Studios include sound stages, a hotel, a cultural center, a school for film and music and retail and office space on 124 acres on the reservation.
The fictional Blood and Oil centers on oil development in the home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.
Tribal leaders, military generals and ordinary civilians sat for portraits in the Washington, D.C., studio of Alexander Gardner.
Kumiko Noguchi received approval from the California tribe to study its history.
Terry Lee Whetstone pleaded guilty to violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act and will remain under probation for three years.
Guatemala selected Ixcanul, filmed in the Kaqchikel language, while Venezuela chose DAUNA. Lo que lleva el rio, a film mostly in Warao.
The film explores how Catholic Church documents from the 1400s have shaped federal Indian law and policy.
The case of the great Sioux Nation exemplifies the persistence among Indigenous nations and Communities to protect their sovereignty and cultures.
The market runs Saturday and Sunday and the powwow takes place on Saturday.
The 2015 edition of The Best American Poetry includes a poem by a White writer who submitted his work under the name Yi-Fen Chou.
Artist Jeffrey Veregge is part of the creative team behind the relaunch of Red Wolf by Marvel Comics.
The 31-year-old photographer has traveled more than 250,000 miles and taken thousands of pictures of tribal members across the nation.
The film lineup includes the acclaimed Songs My Brother Taught Me. The frybread contest offers $1,000 in prize money.
Thunder was in the original version of Killer Instinct but came with a somewhat stereotypical appearance.
Participants from coast to coast gathered at the second annual Unity Concert for the Black Hills, which brought some 50 musical acts to an outdoor stage here on the banks of Elk Creek.
Isaiah Tootoosis landed the role of Young Hawk in The Revenant after a 15-minute audition.
Debra White Plume spent the past seven years of her life doggedly making a feature documentary that premiered just in time to serve its purpose.
A new documentary, Rising Voices, tells the story about the struggles to save the Lakota language.
Why just feature tribal savages of long ago when you can set the story in modern times and show the tribe actually eating people?
A play based on a controversial blood study involving the Havasupai Tribe of Arizona is running at the Duke on 42nd Street in New York City.
Imagine that you have to prove your ethnicity when filling out a census form and myriad other forms posing that question in American society
Over 3,500 dancers from 50 countries participated in the World Hip Hop Dance Championship.
I finally broke my silence and good news I have been holding in for a couple of months.
A new documentary, American Native, traces the New Jersey tribe's ongoing struggle.
Aalayna Spence competed as her chosen gender in two talent competitions in Manitoba.
The Washington Red Clouds takes inspiration from a prominent Oglala Lakota leader from the 1800s.
Leah Arcand and Joi Arcand drew the attention of producers after posting pictures of themselves dressed like some of the characters in the show.
Madeline Sayet was selected as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2011.
The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra received $60,000 from the tribe last year too.
Local students and books lovers will be presented with a unique opportunity to hear from two talented local Native authors at this year’s South Dakota Festival of Books.
Everything from traditional hunting techniques to the effects of climate change to the creation of art gets explored.
The 6,252 square-foot 7th Generation Cinema will generate jobs, revenues and opportunities on the reservation.
Students from across the country came to Pine Ridge to share, to learn and to work together for the 14th annual program.
The Third Annual Gathering of People, Wind and Water, a Native art market and cultural celebration drew more than 4,000 visitors to the heart of downtown Rapid City.
Once a lawless town illegally acquired during the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 through the broken Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Deadwood has since become a booming tourist destination and continuing economic commodity of South Dakota.
The Catawba Studios could include sound stages, a hotel, a cultural center and a school for film and music.
The cast for the dubbed version of Finding Nemo features 11-year-old Quinton Kien.
The Journey museum in Rapid City is playing host to a young emerging Lakota artist.
Actor claims the film will be 'pro-Indian' and won't depict Indian people in an unflattering way.
Angel Reddest, the owner of Nunpa Theatre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, really loves the movies.
PEN America guest editor Natalie Diaz talks to poet and musician Joy Harjo. A member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation, Harjo lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
She was just 12 years old when she made her first star quilt. Now at 28, one of her beautifully handcrafted signature star quilts will grace the walls of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Indian.
Finding artists in Lakota Country is fairly easy, finding one who is female and a grunge rocker is far more difficult.
Students from the Little Wound School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota work with actress Irene Bedard.
The Native DJs are showing some love to the legendary musician and activist.
The attorney and author is garnering critical praise for ISSKOOTSIK, his first release.
Terry Lee Whitstone is accused of violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
The book, to be released in May 2016, tells the story of a young boy with the same name as his father.
Chief Bill Harris can't share details due to a non-disclosure agreement but the project could bring a significant economic development boost to the reservation.
While her musical influences come from all over the place, she filters them through her creativity to express deep thoughts and feelings.
The first He Sapa Center for Performing Arts Northern Plains Art Market opened with the artistry of top notch up-and-coming Native American musicians.
The Freedmen are fighting to retain citizenship rights in the Cherokee Nation.
Primary Stages in New York City will host 'Informed Consent' from August 4 through September 13.
The Red Cloud Indian Art Show is the largest and longest running Native American art show of its kind in the country.
As a Navajo actor, I've learned where Hollywood likes to stick its 'Indian' roles—and where to find real Native American creativity onscreen.
Oglala Lakota College opens its 12th Annual 'A Vision of Our History by Lakota Artists' summer artist series with featured artist Warren 'Guss' Yellow Hair.
Last November, Cheyenne and Arapaho television crew joined over 100 tribal members in Colorado to observe a week of events honoring the 150th commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre.
J.K. Rowling dropped hints of 'indigenous magic' and unnamed 'tribes' on Twitter.
The drumbeat pounds life into the arena, enwrapping the dancers, the spectators and the artists in its cultural embrace through the sprawl of the 2015 Red Earth Festival.
The 29th annual event features a parade through downtown Oklahoma City, an arts market and a powwow.
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, the Quileute Nation and the Quinault Nation will serve as settings for 'The Rainforest' by Capestany Films.
The humble spirit of an artist is defined by the gifts they give to others and many circumvent the focus from themselves. An artist gives themselves to others.
Young actors from the Pine Ridge Reservation are coming home from the Cannes Film Festival presentation of their independent movie 'Songs My Brothers Taught Me,' ready to share a piece of the proverbial lights, camera and action with their peers.
The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened.
Natives have always been an easy target for Hollyweirds wild lack of imagination of who we are as a people.
Martin Sensmeier (Athabascan and Tlingit) recently joined the all-star ensemble cast of the remake of The Magnificent Seven.
Battles continue to wage over use of the 'Navajo' and 'Navaho' marks in New Mexico federal court.
Though death saturates these pages, not a word here is lugubrious. Though revelations abound, there are no cheap surprises.
'Hoop Jumper,' by Tulsa native Vicki Lynn Mooney, premiered Thursday in the basement CitySpace Theatre at Civic Center Music Hall.
Neither Wolf nor Dog was shot on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and stars Lakota elder David Beautiful Bald Eagle.
Over the last 10 years, I have traveled around the world documenting the uniqueness of indigenous cultures and the universality of values that honor the sacred spiritual dimension of land and water.
She is a musical innovator — producing her own music and adopting electronic instruments before anyone else.
The Sioux Indian Museum, administered by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, will feature an exhibit of ledger art by Evans Flammond, Sr.
Pamela Love cites the late Hopi designer Charles Loloma as an influence while other designers appear to take on a more generic Native tone.
As part of the folklore and community mythology in New York and New Jersey for many is the saying, 'Don’t go in to the mountains, because the ‘Jackson Whites’ will get you.'
Adam Sandler himself is proudly Jewish. Would he find it funny for a Jewish woman with an obscene name to urinate while lighting a menorah?
Sage & Silver Americana Gallery and Boutique, a new, Native-owned women’s western boutique and art gallery, announced its grand opening celebration.
A critically-acclaimed comic is being adapted for television -- will Native actors be cast in any roles?
Native actors are having trouble finding jobs in Hollywood today, a situation that has virtually remain unchanged for decades.
Data from the Screen Actors Guild shows an extremely small number of options.
Like your fellow Jews, the indigenous people of America have suffered a massive genocide.
The Ute Mountain Indian Trading Company and Gallery will be opening at the site of a popular art gallery and studio.
The blending of indigenous cultural spirituality and modern art practices is becoming common place in many media forms.
Netflix is a company. It’s not a person with which can be reasoned. It will not understand a conversation on how degrading and damaging ‘injun’ stereotypes can be.
The cast features about 300 Comanche and Kiowa tribal members and was nearly lost to history until a copy was acquired by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
The former editor and publisher of Native Sun News will be a guest on Karl Gerke’s afternoon talk show on South Dakota Public Radio.
The actor and rapper is defending his participation in The Ridiculous Six by bringing up his alleged Indian heritage.
Allison Young said she felt uncomfortable from the start of production of The Ridiculous Six.
Outgoing Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly praised the actors for taking a stand against stereotypes in Hollywood.
An interview with attorney and author Gyasi Ross about his upcoming spoken world release.
The organizers moved the event to the reservation after two federal agencies denied permits to use public roads to access a different site.
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People shares the story of the tribe that helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The attorney and author is adding another title to his resume: recording artist.
The Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts was the only facility in the U.S. devoted solely to Native women artists.
The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts needs a chief development officer to replace an executive whose resignation came after some upheaval last year.
The sins of Western culture as regards to its Indian policy scarcely rear their ugly head. They are alluded to through asides in secondary material and discrete videos.
Beth is a badass Northern Cheyenne and Crow woman, creator and clothing designer.
Curator Gaylord Torrence set an ambitious agenda for The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky – distill 2,000 years of artistic achievement by Plains Indians, with a particular focus on the changing culture of the last three centuries.
The film, First Language – The Race to Save Cherokee, follows students at the New Kituwah Academy, the tribe's immersion school.
Toni Scott is an American and a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She also descends from African and European ancestry.
Felix von der Osten secured permission from the tribal council before embarking on his journey.
The writer from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians will receive the award at the National Book Festival in September.
Some of the earliest surviving art by native North Americans left America long ago. Soldiers, traders and priests, with magpie eyes for brilliance, bundled it up and shipped it across the sea to Europe.
The event runs April 18 through May 23 at the Cherokee Heritage Center.
Despite popular belief, the young girl was actually 10-years old when the settlers arrived in 1612 and she was mercilessly taken prisoner at Jamestown for over a year.
Professor Colin Calloway's new book chronicles how a confederation of Native nations defeated the U.S. Army when it invaded Indian lands across the Ohio River in 1791.
The tribe donated $170 in 1847 to help the Irish people during a time of great famine.
These copycats create fashion designs stolen directly from Native artists. They name and create logos for their products using Native spiritual icons.
Musician and champion of causes, Anishinabe flautist Darren Thompson performed at the Dahl Arts Center and began recording his second album.
Each year during the Black Hills Stock Show an amazing event takes place that challenges the expertise of each competitor.
The reality is that if no scripts or films are made that include roles for Native people then we are excluded from the opportunity to participate in the yearly considerations for Golden Globe Awards, Sag Awards, and Oscars.
The Great Walls of Indian Heritage were destroyed sometime over the weekend.
When viewing Hunkpapa artist Del Iron Cloud’s panoramic murals, one feels they have transcended time and are enjoying life with the Lakota’s that once roamed the Northern Plains.
No one knows where the prints came from or how they ended up in an apartment that was a methamphetamine lab.
Street Roots News interviews Roxanne-Dunbar-Ortiz, the author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History).
Mary Lowden’s figures tell the stories of her life and the life of her village at Acoma Pueblo.
The Red Elk family transitions from a relatively peaceful life on the White Earth reservation to a noisier, more crowded and more eventful urban existence.
"Prudence" focuses on Frankie Washburn, who returns to his ancestral home in rural Minnesota before heading off to serve in World War II.
Natural-born storyteller David Treuer spins a vivid, sorrowful tale at a lakeside resort and in a nearby reservation town in northern Minnesota.
The FNX TV station's daily viewership is 120,000 households
The tribe's investment in Danny Wimmer Presents was described as 'significant.'
The film follows three Navajo characters looking for meaningful lives in a town that borders the Navajo Nation.
When Edmund Yazzie isn't working on legislation he's playing drums for a popular band on the reservation.
White male sniper Chris Kyle is the ideological descendant of Custer and the Seventh Cavalry.
More than 250 historic portraits were destroyed on January 24, 1865.
It’s a whimsical, Hollywood, celebrity style, editorial portrait of Buffalo Man and an amazing group of contemporary Indian artists.
It wasn’t until I stood in front of Native American artist Andrew Morrison’s murals on a cold December morning that I really grasped how powerful — and valuable — they are.
Many people seemingly remain tethered to the idea of a romanticized Old West -- a time of death and carnage for America’s indigenous population.
It’s an instant candidate for the long-term memory bank.
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