The critically-acclaimed documentary about the late Elouise Cobell is garnering more notice.
Little Wound School on the Pine Ridge Reservation qualified students in five categories for the 2016 South Dakota Oral Interpretation Festival.
Peggy Fontenot is owed congratulations, not condescending criticism, for being willing to stand up for her right to speak, and to earn a living without unconstitutional interference from the state of Oklahoma.
Mni Wiconi is the theme of the latest tipi project that Rex Carolin, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, designed and painted.
Peter Paul Kawagaelg Williams staged his first runway show this year at Brooklyn Fashion Week.
An exhibit that explores how horses have shaped the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people is being presented at the Red Cloud Indian School’s Heritage Center.
'Colonial predators like Disney will do what it must to take what it wants.'
'For every Indian triumph like Little Big Horn, there was a drubbing like Wounded Knee, for every surprise Indian victory there were huge retaliations by the Army.'
The feature-length movie was filmed on the Pine Ridge Reservation and it stars the late Lakota elder Dave Bald Eagle.
'Being culturally poached and misrepresented isn’t flattering, it’s a threat.'
Director Melinda Janko created a 75-minute documentary, 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice, on the life and achievements of Elouise Cobell.
Turning Oklahoma into an isolated island in Indian Country serves no purpose for anyone.
Lakota Country has more than its fair share of talented artists.
A new exhibit is the result of an ongoing collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.
Each new piece of beadwork created by Dawn Marie Arkinson represents overcoming a personal experience in her life.
Another favorable review for 100 Years, a documentary about the late Elouise Cobell and her landmark Indian trust fund lawsuit.
According to Lakota artist, Don Montileaux, the horse has been with the Oceti Sakowin for many centuries before it was taken away and recently returned.
The Dignity sculpture was created in recognition of the Lakota and Dakota people and Native cultures that are a part of South Dakota’s identity.
Somewhere up the downtown Rapid City sidewalk, over the tops of parked cars, and under the jut of business signs and storefront awnings, the sound of a gentle flute draws you to a barefoot man, dark hair drawn back tight in a braid from an intelligent, reflective Lakota face.
She began with a dream, and then became a plan and the work of artistic geniuses made her a reality.
The first reviews of 100 Years, a documentary about the late Elouise Cobell and her landmark Indian trust fund lawsuit, are in.
The 2016 Black Hills Unity Concert at Elk Creek Resort in Piedmont celebrated its third year with a call to Honor the Sacred, the Earth and All Her People.
Rick Gerlach and Ryan Hunter bring Native history to life with interpretations of items once used on a daily basis by indigenous people of the Great Plains.
Bryan Akipa (Sisseton Wahpeton), Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit) and Theresa Secord (Penobscot) are National Heritage Fellows.
The '100 Years' documentary traces Elouise Cobell's efforts to secure justice for hundreds of thousands of Indian landowners.
A Native writer and an Italian photographer are planning to hit the road again later this year.
The Before Columbus Foundation is recognizing three Native citizens in 2016.
The fourth annual Native POP: People of the Plains art market and cultural celebration took place last month in Rapid City.
It’s about to be another very warm summer day in western South Dakota as Masayuki Nagase stands near his 'home-away-from-home' since 2013.
Film history is being made by lots of folks on Pine Ridge who are making a romantic comedy called 'Mallard’s Road.'
'Wahzhazhe' has been staged in Oklahoma, Washington, D.C, and even before Pope Francis.
In counting how many instances of speculation passed off as fact that I could track, the list kept growing.
Jim Northrup was a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
A summer art program on the Pine Ridge Reservation introduced professional artists to tribal youth in an effort to help combat the high rate of suicide among young Lakota.
The Rapid City Arts Council and Native POP: People of the Plains presented A Gathering of Arts and Culture art market and cultural celebration, a day of film, art, concerts and cultural education, downtown at Main Street Square on July 16.
Oglala Lakota College’s summer art series 'A Vision of Our History by Lakota Artists' featured the work of Kevin Pourier in July 2016.
The Oklahoma law leaves out members of state recognized tribes.
The documentary focuses on drugs on the White Earth Nation in Minnesota.
The First Nations Sculpture Garden is nearing completion and preparing for a tentatively scheduled public showing on September 15 in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Vanessa Bowen is selling a line of apparel with her 'Make America Native Again' slogan.
Topical songs about Indians might fade away because fashions changed, but not because the Indian wars are over.
Peter Capossela documents a history of land grabs by the United States that starts with the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868.
The U.S. has been running political tunes up the flagpole every election since George Washington’s run for a second term.
The Cheyenne River Youth Project will again look to provide children with an outlet through its acclaimed Red Can graffiti project.
The Great Race, a story of the formation of the Black Hills in South Dakota, an ovate shaped range of hills and mountains that clearly resemble a modern racecourse, was recorded in written format by Oglala Lakota author James LaPointe.
As enslaved Africans came in, New England merchants sent Indian captives out, banishing them to Barbados or somewhere else beyond the seas.
By the time you are pushing 40, you understand why oldies radio stations are common coast to coast.
Ron Austin, an artist and hereditary chief from the Wet'suwet'en Nation of British Columbia, collaborated with musician Alex Cuba on the effort.
Adam Beach, Sherman Alexie, Heather Rae and Joanelle Romero have been invited to join the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The award-winning Native music group is performing in the 49th state for the first time.
With summer in full swing the Oglala Sioux Tribe came together to provide a night of fun for the youth of Pine Ridge village.
'Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On' is seeing its premiere in Massachusetts.
Construction is wrapping up on the 7th Generation Cinema in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and it's slated to open in the next few weeks.
Indian Country isn't the only one paying attention to a tribal jurisdiction case that's pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Coyote Brothers, led by guitar wizard Gary Small, performed at the Lame Deer High School on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe failed to prevent the sale of an ancient Lakota war shirt that was put up for auction in Paris, France.
The extraordinary Rolling Rez Arts Van, embellished with a strikingly brilliant buffalo herd pictograph, graced the corner of Seventh and Main streets in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota.
Were the Journey to be moved to the outskirts of town, to a decentralized site, it would lose its duality of place as a conveniently accessible events center and community and cultural centerpiece.
Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender wants to convert The Journey Museum & Learning Center into a housing and community support services facility.
The tribe has won the right to seek millions of dollars in damages from three fashion retailers that sold "Navajo' items without authorization.
A sacred shield was pulled from the sale after Acoma Pueblo disclosed that it had been stolen from the reservation in the 1970s.
Thousands of California Indians were killed in massacres or murdered following the arrival of European settlers but was it genocide?
A housing development and a walking / biking path are sprouting up at the Santo Domingo Indian Trading Post in New Mexico.
The EVE auction house in Paris continues to insist that all of the items were acquired legally and is even urging tribes to buy their own property.
Tribal and federal officials called the planned sale of Indian remains and sacred objects at a French auction 'disrespectful and fundamentally wrong' and called for the return of the items.
The Red Cloud Heritage Center ended its 'Our Community Story' project with screenings of students’ interviews with elders, artists and professionals from the Pine Ridge Reservation.
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is hosting an emergency meeting to discuss the May 30 auction.
He was Jay Silverheels the most famous Native person of the 1940's and 50's as the result of playing Tonto to the Lone Ranger.
Louise Erdrich's latest novel asks a deceptively simple question: Can a person 'do the worst thing possible and still be loved'?
Indian artists should be allowed to assume their rightful place at the center of the digital Indian arts and crafts market—not relegated to its margins.
The Lakota, Nakota, Dakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho people have stood by each other for centuries.
Eric Gansworth, Linda LeGarde Grover, Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda and Louise Erdrich are being featured.
Does Indian identity rest solely on a legal spectrum or should its primary identification rest in social, cultural, racial, and linguistic forms?
They may be at the early end of their careers, but someday we may be seeing a former Pine Ridge Reservation student on public TV or even hosting 'The Tonight Show.'
The actor refused to accept that tribes have been treated unfairly in a 1971 interview that was quoted during debate on a bill that would have designated John Wayne Day in California.
The 33rd annual event is billed as the largest powwow and Native cultural exhibition in North America.
One Lakota artist is beginning to reap the benefits of over twenty years of work having landed the cover of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Magazine.
Jenny Irene Miller’s photography project will tell the world about LGBT Alaska Natives — shapeshifters, she says — including herself.
Travel well, Prince Rogers Nelson. You’ve changed a lot of lives (and caused a lot of babies to be born.)
Collectors, academics and museums are trying to ensure Indian ledger art from the 1800s can be appreciated in its original format.
Film critic Andy Webster of The New York Times offers a favorable review of Keepers of the Game, a documentary that follows an all-Mohawk girls lacrosse team in New York.
Doris Leader Charge was raised in a Lakota speaking family and did not learn to speak English until she was sent to the boarding school.
It’s critical for us as Indian people to ensure Indian art is truly created by enrolled citizens of federally recognized tribes.
Anthropologist Barbara J. King reviews Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, a new book that exposes racism in the study of Native ancestors and other remains.
The First Nations Sculpture Garden has been supported by the Rapid City City Council and Mayor’s Office; who have been willing to provide land and support services once the sculpture garden is complete.
The popular comedian offered to use his celebrity to help Indian Country even as he faced continued criticism for an old routine that many found offensive.
Outcry over an old routine that employed stereotypes of Indian people has put the comic on the defensive in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Acoma’s protest seems futile, a classic locking of the barn door after the horses are stolen.
The author of the popular Fond du Lac Follies column is following the Ojibwe philosophy of minobimaadiziwin, or living the good life.
The comedian denied being a racist but it wasn't enough for him to keep an upcoming gig in Minnesota.
Joanne Shenandoah has been approved for the transplant and is awaiting surgery at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Florida.
For many artists on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation it is difficult to acquire the skills necessary to become self-sustaining.
When Darren Thompson pulls off his apron and clocks out from his coffee shop job, he dawns his wool vest and heads for the hills with his case of musical instruments.
Since hitting the road in 2013, the Tulalip / Swinomish photographer has visited 262 tribes across the nation.
The murals on the walls of the Shear Howe arena in Mobridge, South Dakota, reveal an invaluable perspective of American Indian life shortly after contact with the Wasicus.
On the subzero morning of Jan. 23, 1870, Major Eugene Baker led his troops into a Piegan village on the Marias River.
Curators at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum were excited to erect a tipi, designed and inspired by Bilford Curley Sr., Northern Cheyenne elder and society man, and painted by Jim Starkey, Cheyenne River Sioux.
The Seventh Fire features two tribal members and looks at the drug and gang activity on the White Earth Nation in Minnesota.
Participants will be selected for an 'intensive' five-week writing workshop during which they will develop a television script to present to network executives.
Throughout all of The Academy Awards controversy, American Indians were nowhere to be found. Indians simply didn’t matter.
The plate features the 'Sacred Rain Arrow' sculpture by the late acclaimed Apache artist Allan Houser.
The Maine tribe has enlisted youth in an effort to prevent an invasive species from devastating an important part of its culture.
The tribe has agreed to contribute $15 million for construction and up to $14 million for operations of the stalled American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City.
As Darlene 'Red Elk' Myers sang her Lakota heart out in a smoke-filled, country & western club in Bordentown, N.J., a friend continuously came to her shows inviting her to church.
Tammy Beauvais, a Mohawk fashion designer, and Leo Arcand, a Cree sculptor, created works that were presented to First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama.
The Alutiiq quiver, which is made out of red cedar, and arrow were handed down through a family for generations.
Fritz Scholder was an art phenomenon and many of the pictures in the Phoenix show come from a time when he rocked that world.
The arrival of the horse on to the great plains put in to motion a series of historical incidents that led to the rise of one of the most powerful nations North America has ever known
Leonardo DiCaprio's speech touches a deep wound inflicted on Indigenous Peoples by the initial colonial invasions and reinflicted with every effort to extract more wealth from the Earth, squeeze more life out of people, and despoil what remains for those yet to come.
Embrace of the Serpent didn't win the Academy Award for best foreign-language film but the Colombian production is still drawing attention for its unique story.
Insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter that WGN America is considering an all-Native case for the television adaptation of the critically-acclaimed comic.
The British novelist, screenwriter and film producer has set her new story in North America and is drawing complaints about her use of Native imagery.
Kimberly Blaeser, who grew up on the White Earth Nation, traces her love of poetry and performance to her tribal heritage.
In one case, a shop owners allegedly admitted that an item marketed as Native was produced by someone in Cambodia.
Tristan Milanovich, who splits her time between Palm Springs as an active member of the Agua Caliente Band and Los Angeles as a celebrity and freelance stylist, answers sartorial questions for Desert Magazine.
Denise Lajimodiere was recently selected for a six-month Minnesota Historical Society Native Artist-in-Residence.
Whether the camera observes horseback riders atop a bluff or a distant thunderstorm on the horizon, you are mesmerized by the desolate beauty of the Great Plains and the changing sky overhead.
Dsquared2 initially didn't say anything about the offensive descriptions that Native women slammed in March 2015.
Now in the 21st century, the relationship between Indian grandparents and their grandchildren is more important than ever; as many youth today are learning cultural identity through electronic devices.
The artist also known as Kisar Jones-Fryberg is playing at the Canoes Cabaret at the Tulalip Resort Casino on February 26.
The A.V. Club takes a look at some of our formative favorites with clearer eyes and asks that all-important question: Were they really that great to begin with?
The Lakota language is a romantic, poetic language full of visions, details and emotions which cannot always be put into English words.
There have been many actors and actresses who have visited the Rosebud Reservation but last month one of the most memorable stopped in for a visit.
The Urban Outfitters retail company sold products labeled as 'Navajo' without the tribe's permission.
The Rosebud Sioux citizen is apparently the first and only Native American member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Yvonne Chouteau rose to fame in the 1940s and performed with some of the most prestigious dance groups in the world.
Despite decades of protests over racially inappropriate casting, and the recent protests over the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees, filmmakers continue to cast white actors as minority characters on a depressingly regular basis.
The documentary series also featured a discussion with Joely Proudfit about the harmful effects of stereotypes on Native youth.
The museum in the nation's capital will remain closed over the weekend while the Thunderbird Social at the facility in New York City has been postponed.
The Revenant is not for the faint hearted as the bloody and brutal violence constantly spews across the big screen like a horrific nightmare.
Miss Lumbee Alexis Raeana Jones remains on suspension until February 5 after acknowledging it was 'inappropriate' to participate in the video.
Native people are the least represented and the most stereotyped of all: if any group has any grounds to raise their voices in protest we do.
David Bowie inspired a generation of youth, yes even Native youth, to imagine, dream and live outside the box.
Scatter Their Own has embarked on a crowd-funding campaign designed to help the band gather the funds to cover a new touring van that would potentially allow for the band to better promote themselves.
In the story-line, 200 years ago, Natives still had to struggle to be seen and heard and not killed.
The only time we’re not helpless in these movies is when we’re dead and a white man is learning a lesson from beyond our graves.
Aren’t we all sick of it by now, Indians and non-Indians alike? Can’t we agree that all people should be treated with respect in movies?
The Revenant sets a new bar in filmmaking as it achieves what most films fail to do—it fairly represents Indians.
IFAM EAST will take place May 21-22 at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut.
The cast of The Revenant includes two young Native actors -- Isaiah Tootoosis and Forrest Goodluck.
Ian Campeau, also known as DJ NDN, said he's 'really excited' about the group's upcoming release.
Some Native actors and extras walked off the set last year in protest of the depiction of Native culture, particularly elders and women.
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