Audio: Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on NCLB Act (June 17, 2010)

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing this afternoon on the No Child Left Behind Act and its impact on Indian students. The...

First Nations plan protests over national sales tax initiative (June 17, 2010)

First Nations in Ontario are planning protests during the G8 and G20 summits next week unless a deal is reached over Canada's Harmonized Sales Tax....

Review: A Comanche battle in 'Empire of the Summer Moon' (June 17, 2010)

"All American schoolchildren learn of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, in which General George Custer and the federal cavalry got trounced by Indians...

Notah Begay gives commentary at US Open for Golf Channel (June 17, 2010)

Navajo / Pueblo golfer Notah Begay III has found a new calling as a sports commentator. Begay, 37, is providing commentary at the U.S....

Raid on Indian land leads to $3.5M worth of marijuana plants (June 17, 2010)

A tip led to the seizure of $3.5 million worth of marijuana plants that were grown on a Indian allotment in Oklahoma. The exact location...

Drug smugglers go through Mohawk and Tohono reservations (June 17, 2010)

Federal authorities say two reservations are among the main entry points for drugs into the United States. As much as 20 percent of the high-potency...

Pueblo leaders support demolition of venue at Indian school (June 17, 2010)

Tribal leaders in New Mexico say the famed Paolo Soleri Amphitheatre at the Santa Fe Indian School must go. The governors of the Eight Northern...

San Manuel Band donates $6M to start US Indian TV channel (June 17, 2010)

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of California donated $6 million to KVCR-TV, a public broadcasting station, to start the first Indian television...

Supreme Court bars two-member NLRB from making rulings (June 17, 2010)

The National Labor Relations Board can't make decisions with just two members, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. The NLRB operated with only two...

KUOW Radio: Drug traffickers target Washington reservations (June 17, 2010)

"Federal policies isolated the Lummi from their culture. But geography plugged them into the drug trade. The Lummi reservation is a few miles off I–5...

Editorial: Only a 'miracle' can rescue Lumbee recognition bill (June 17, 2010)

"This might have been one of the biggest years in Lumbee tribal history. It still might be. But it seems the longest of long shots...

Business as usual for bottling plant after losing local service (June 17, 2010)

A water bottling plant on the Morongo Reservation in California hasn't been affected by a cut in service from a local water district. Nestle Waters...

Column: Let First Nations take control of their own destinies (June 17, 2010)

"First nations are increasingly taking control of their economic and social destiny. As populations have grown and cities have expanded, most urban reserve land has...

Tribes complain about NCAI letter on Cobell trust settlement (June 17, 2010)

The National Congress of American Indians is facing some backlash over a letter that President Jefferson Keel wrote about the $3.4 billion settlement to the...

Peter d'Errico: Exploring the origins of 'Tea Party' movement (June 17, 2010)

"One way to assess the historical significance of the new Tea Party, in comparison to the original, is to look at a wider context. The...

Opinion: Ethnic cleansing of tribes through economic warfare (June 17, 2010)

"This is not another column longing for the day when the United States comes to the realization federal recognition is a bogus, unilateral stamp of...

Johnny Flynn: Not so helpless when it comes to environment (June 17, 2010)

"The environmental movement was a whisper after the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, but when the oil blowout happened in Santa Barbara in 1969,...

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