See story: “Wisconsin Endangers a Sacred Tradition”
I understand Spam is bad for us but I feel like I’m turning my back on an old friend by banning it from my menu. I know a lot of Natives hate Spam but I only have good memories of this processed food. Growing up, Spam sandwiches were weekend food staples. Sometimes we’d try to get fancy and melt some chees...... Read More
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
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.
The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Flickr surpassed those on the previous high record, the Situation Room shot t... read more
I understand Spam is bad for us but I feel like I’m turning my back on an old friend by banning it from my menu. I know a lot of Natives hate Spam but I only have good memories of... read more
The largest treasure hunt in the world—the 58th annual Gem/Mineral/Fossil Showcase—is underway at more than 50 sites in and around Tucson’s downtown area housed in everything from hast... read more
In 2010, the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation put their collective efforts into constructing a fence to protect Tutuveni (tu-TOO-veh-nee), a sacred site known as “newspaper rock” to the Hopi... read more
Super Bowl Sunday is almost here. If it’s anything like the last time these teams met in Super Bowl XLII in 2008—we are in for a treat. Speaking of treats, being the Paleo warrior that I... read more
Blue Marble Redux
Goodbye Spam
Tucson Exposition
Glyphs Saved
Paleo Super Bowl Snacks—The Caveman Game Plan
Earlier this week, Cherokee/Blackfoot rapper Yelawolf released “I Do (Freestyle),” a version of the You... Read More
According to the Native American Times, the oldest living Comanche will turn 100 on February 10. Josephine Myers-Wa... Read More
From a dusting of snow in Hopiland northward into a slow-moving blizzard in Colorado and the eastern Plains, a reco... Read More
The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Fl... Read More
The Navajo Nation is teaming up with a national laboratory to examine which technologies are most effective in deve... Read More
Mary Annette Pember, Ojibwe, explores the medicating role food has played in her life, leading to obesity and diabe... Read More
Flags across the Navajo Nation are whipping in the wind at half mast this weekend, as Navajo Nation President Ben S... Read More
SWINOMISH, Wash. – This wasn’t a landmark anniversary. It was the 157th, to be exact. But the message was as strong... Read More
The largest treasure hunt in the world—the 58th annual Gem/Mineral/Fossil Showcase—is underway at more than 50 site... Read More
Unless your gaming emporium has a massive catering business, you want to “entreat” players to visit on Super Bowl S... Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court recently bolstered a citizen's right to privacy from police surveillance in the digital age, in the case of United States v. Antoine Jones. Although there were three separate opinions, the decision was unanimous; only about one-third of Supreme Court decisions are unanimous. Most a...... Read More
What in the heck is a “plutarchy”? Well, it certainly is not an America where Pluto is the president. It is a composite word from the word “plutocracy” which means “rule by the wealthy” and oligarchy, which is “rule by a few” or “rule by a small group.” No, I’m not making this up, it is a real word which...... Read More
This is the second in a three-part series that explores export opportunities for tribal forest products. Read part one here. SpiritWood is an alliance among producers of tribal forest products marketing to retail chain distributors and other potential purchasers in order to improve economic and soci...... Read More
It has been one year since the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen won their long dispute against a constitutional amendment that terminated them as citizens from the Dawes Rolls—only later to be overturned. The amendment promoted the misery and exploitation of treaty and human rights on the basis of bl...... Read More
The undersigned organizations are committed to protecting free speech and intellectual freedom. We write to express our deep concern about the removal of books used in the Mexican-American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District. This occurred in response to a determination by Arizona Super...... Read More
This past week, I had the distinction of becoming one of a select list of authors banned by the Tucson United School District. Now this is no small feat. It turns out that the Tucson United School District (a city adjoining both the U.S./Mexico border and that of the Tohono O'odham, Yaqui and several oth...... Read More
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