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Tribal Nations are the only recognized arbiter of belonging to or being a member of a tribe. No other agency or arm of any government has that responsibility, other than the particular tribe to which a person claims to belong. Every tribe has its own membership criteria; some go on blood quantum, others on de...... Read More
You see some crazy behavior and hear unhinged conversations when riding on a Greyhound Bus. I was thinking this when, three hours south of Denver, our bus made a short stop to pick up more passengers. The bus was nearly full so the new passengers were taking the first available seats they came across. I wa...... Read More
See story: “Wisconsin Endangers a Sacred Tradition”
A great photo taken by Diné activist, educator, scholar and artist, Larry Emerson. It was taken January 15 near Tsédaak’áán (Hogback), New Mexico.
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders are getting their fancy dress clothes and shoes together in preparation for a Native American fundraiser with President Barack Obama this evening. “Time to sh... read more
UPDATE JANUARY 28, 12:00 A.M.: In an Associated Press article posted on The Arizona Republic today, a copy of the letter that Gov. Jan Brewer gave to President Barack Obama ishighlighted an... read more
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo and other aboriginal leaders expressed cautious optimism this week in the wake of a meeting between Canada’s First Nations an... read more
You see some crazy behavior and hear unhinged conversations when riding on a Greyhound Bus. I was thinking this when, three hours south of Denver, our bus made a short stop to pick up more p... read more
“We need to remember an unjustified slaughter of mostly women, children and elderly people on that fateful day of January 23, 1870,” said traditional elder Narcisse Blood on January 25,... read more
A dozen years after the fact, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has apologized for the federal p... Read More
Anthony Conard, a sociology lecturer with Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, created a video for an Introd... Read More
An asteroid the size of a bus cruised past Earth at a distance of about 36,000 miles on Friday January 25 with no i... Read More
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders are getting their fancy dress clothes and shoes together in preparation for a Native Am... Read More
Pow Wows are always beautiful events, so a pow wow on the gorgeous Hawaiian island of Kauai is nothing short of ove... Read More
Well that should help his prospects as he makes his case for being ready for the NFL. University of Tulsa quarterba... Read More
The number of leg and foot amputations among U.S. diabetes patients age 40 and above decreased by 65 percent from 1... Read More
A casino construction site in Cincinnati, Ohio partially collapsed on Friday, injuring as many as 16-20 people and ... Read More
Dr. Carlos Muñoz, professor emeritus in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley and... Read More
Because of growing restrictions on payday loans, banks and payday lenders are teaming up with American Indian busin... Read More
As someone who is part of the Tumblr NDN community that helped piece the video together, “Shit People Say to Native Americans” with Ali (the lady in the vid) and the others, I feel it is fair to report the backstory on all this. On January7, the Native/First Nations Tumblr community came together as a...... Read More
The National Congress of American Indians every year releases its “State of Indian Nations,” an alternative prospect for the Congress reported during the week of the State of the Union. This has become an important exercise for many reasons. As NCAI President Jefferson Keel says, “Tribal nations are its ...... Read More
Nobody can deny that the Obama Administration has worked hard on behalf of Indian country. But despite its recent efforts, the United States still routinely violates Indian treaty rights and sovereignty. Often cloaked in the veil of labor interests or states’ rights, or simply as an exercise of outrigh...... Read More
This is the first in a three-part series that discusses the opportunity to brand and market tribal forest products. Historically, tribal forest products have generally been sold as commodities with little branding to distinguish or differentiate them from non-tribal products. No matter the method,...... Read More
Presidents are required to be optimistic.The American people expect it—and reward those politicians who know their lines. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Tuesday night followed The Script (so much so that Republicans released a video dismissing the president’s consistent rhetoric as more of t...... Read More
Editor’s introduction: The Washington Redskins case, the downing of Chief Illini and the Fighting Sioux of the University of North Dakota are only few of the many cases of abuse of Native people’s identity turning us into goofy sports mascots. There are other cases of abuse of our identity, other abusers...... Read More
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