Discrimination

June 08, 2012
By:
Steven Newcomb

In 1982, the National Lawyers Guild published a book entitled Rethinking Indian Law.

June 03, 2012
By:
Simon Moya-Smith

No right-wing GOP chubby-belly apologist would dare attempt to persuade civil rights activist Al Sharpton into believing that black-faced caricatures of young African Americans, clad in ripped overalls and Afros, are not disrespectful.

May 31, 2012
By:
Lise Balk King

In western South Dakota, it’s all about perception. If you are Indian, or appear to be Indian, you are routinely judged by the color of your skin regarding the content of your character. If you are white, there is also a set of assumptions made by those standing on the other side.

May 30, 2012
By:
Steven Newcomb

On October 5, 1942, the U.S.

May 29, 2012
By:
Caroline P. Mayhew

Amid the current election excitement and heightened national focus on the politics of women’s issues, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the Violence Against Women A

May 28, 2012
By:
Steve Russell

I wish you a good Memorial Day, with plenty of hot dogs on the grill and beer in the cooler.

May 28, 2012
By:
Robert Warrior

Memorial Day in the Osage is a big deal, and deservedly so.

May 23, 2012
By:
Cedric Sunray

Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tuls

May 21, 2012
By:
Dave Staddon

I work for the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe as public information director.

May 10, 2012
By:
Chris Stearns

On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peo

May 04, 2012
By:
Devon G. Peña

I have for some time been analyzing the “ecology of fear” and the climate of hatred it generates to feed the growing menace of presumably random acts of violence in Arizona such as last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

May 04, 2012
By:
Steve Russell

All racial discourse has been nonsensical since we’ve understood H. sapiens as one species with common ancestors.

May 03, 2012
By:
Steve Russell

This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change.

May 02, 2012
By:
Simon Moya-Smith

It was 1:30 p.m.

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