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Inuit and Canadian Officials Lash Out at European Union's Seal Products Ban

Canadian, Inuit and international trade leaders alike are...

Montana's Native Vote Could Decide US Senate Control

The decision of U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) not...

Cherokee Attorney Earns National Crime Victims' Service Award

Dianne Barker Harrold took a seven-year experience with...

Cape Wind: Justice Department Urges Swift Lawsuit Resolution Before Tax Breaks Expire

Lawyers from the Department of Justice have urged a federal...

Jim Thorpe's Sons Win Federal Lawsuit Against Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a...

Exxon Removing Section of Ruptured Arkansas Pipeline

Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday April 15 removed 52 feet of its...

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Protests Against Arizona Snowbowl Continues As Ski Season Begins

Anne Minard

December 24, 2012

Hardy activists braved single-digit temperatures in Flagstaff on December 21 to protest Arizona Snowbowl, the resort atop the sacred San Francisco Peaks that will soon blanket its ...

Non-Indians and Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction

Duane Champagne

December 23, 2012

According to current U.S. legal interpretations, non-Indian U.S. citizens are not subject to tribal criminal jurisdiction. A critical well-known case is where the U.S...

Cobell Payments Being Sent to Wrong Addresses; Special Master Appointed

Rob Capriccioso

December 21, 2012

Reports are surfacing of problems being experienced by some Cobell class members who say that the federal government does not have the correct addresses to send their settlement ch...

North Dakota Standoff Near Three Affiliated Tribes Reservation Ends

Carol Berry

December 20, 2012

Michael Jason Smith, 32, believed to be non-Native, was taken into custody on or near reservation lands at mid-morning December 20 in New Town, North Dakota after a 48-hour standof...

Montana's Oil Boom Has Made Reservations More Dangerous for Women

Adrian Jawort

December 20, 2012

Early on the morning of January 7, Sherry Arnold, a popular schoolteacher from Sidney, Montana (population 5,436) was jogging down a road when she was abducted...

53-Year-Old Native Woman Attacked in California

ICTMN Staff

December 18, 2012

As politicians in Washington D.C. continue to argue over details of the Violence Against Women Act, Native women continue to be the victims of attacks at a high rate...

Tribal and NCAI Leader Wayne L. Ducheneaux Walks On

ICTMN Staff

December 18, 2012

Over his lifetime he led the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the National Congress of American Indians. He was a United States Marine, a rancher and a family man...

Muscogee Nation Sues Poarch Band Over Hickory Ground Desecration

Gale Courey Toensing

December 14, 2012

The Muscogee Creek Nation has filed a lawsuit to stop the Poarch Band of Creek Indians from continuing construction of a $246 million casino expansion at Hickory Ground in Wetumpka...

Jackson Browne, Common, Pete Seeger and Others to Play Benefit for Leonard Peltier on December 14

ICTMN Staff

December 12, 2012

On December 14 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, musicians including Jackson Browne, Common and Pete Seeger will play "Bring Leonard Peltier Home in 2012," a benefit for impr...