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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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Rape, Kidnapping Being Investigated as Hate Crime in Thunder Bay

Valerie Taliman

January 07, 2013

The abduction, brutal rape and strangulation of a First Nations woman by two white men on December 27 in Thunder Bay, Ontario has stirred fear, anger and urgent calls to catch the ...

New NDAA Keeps Indefinite Detention, Blocks Guantanamo Closure

Gale Courey Toensing

January 07, 2013

President Barack Obama has signed the $633 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 along with a signing statement objecting to many of its provisions – but the provision...

Angela Jones Sworn In as Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice

ICTMN Staff

January 05, 2013

The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court now has two justices, as Angela Jones became only the second female to ever serve on the high court and the first female under Principal Chief Bil...

Schaghticoke Tribal Nation Continues Land Rights Struggle

Gale Courey Toensing

December 31, 2012

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has asked the 2 nd Circuit Court of Appeals to review a lower court decision to dismiss the nation’s land rights lawsuit in Kent, Connecticut...

Idle No More Support: Ojibwe Woman Embarks on 1,400-mile Journey to D.C.

David P. Ball

December 31, 2012

When Mishkomekinaak Ikwe learned about the Idle No More movement exploding across Canada, and Attawapiskat First Nation chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike – now on its 21st day –...

Churchill Takes His Case to the U.S. Supreme Court

Carol Berry

December 29, 2012

Ward Churchill, former University of Colorado (CU) professor, has rolled the dice a last time, hoping the U.S...

2012’s Biggest Indian Country Surprises

Rob Capriccioso

December 28, 2012

From naughty politicians to a bevy of folks playing Indian to policy predicaments and beyond, Indian country had plenty of reasons to be perplexed in 2012...

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...