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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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Mashantucket Pequots Honor Police Veteran, Enlarge Department

Gale Courey Toensing

March 06, 2013

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation honored a veteran police officer with a promotion and added five new police officers to its Public Safety Department at a ceremony in February...

Watershed Heroes: Colville Confederated Tribes Win Sierra Club Award for Battling British Columbia Smelter

Jack McNeel

March 06, 2013

The Colville Confederated Tribes’ successful effort to hold a British Columbia smelter accountable for dumping pollutants into the Columbia River for a century has caught the atten...

U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal Roundup for February

Carol Berry

March 05, 2013

The following is a listing of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal cases that were decided on during the month of February. Eighth Circuit Court, St...

Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Upholds 15 Voting Districts

ICTMN Staff

March 04, 2013

On February 28, the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold a lower court ruling stating that 15 Tribal Council voting districts is constitutional according ...

Supremes Seek Solicitor General Review of Oneida Reservation Case

Gale Courey Toensing

March 04, 2013

The U.S...

Native With Mental Illness Fatally Shot as Seattle Police Respond to 911 Calls

ICTMN Staff

March 01, 2013

On February 26, Seattle Police made news again as they answered 911 calls for a domestic disturbance which ended in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old mentally ill Cree man accord...

With 2014 Elections Looming, Ninth Circuit Agrees to Hear Native Voting-Rights Appeal

Stephanie Woodard

February 28, 2013

On February 20, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which includes the nine westernmost states, said it would hear the appeal of a Montana voting-rights lawsu...

Dawson Attacker Gets One Year in Jail, Three Years Probation

Valerie Taliman

February 22, 2013

At the February 21 sentencing hearing, Jennifer Davette Fraser, 29, was sentenced to serve one year in jail with 3 years formal probation, and to pay court fines and restitution to...

Coastal People's Past Powers Their Political Future

Chris Wood, TheTyee.ca

February 22, 2013

[Editor’s Note: Often passed, seldom visited by outsiders, British Columbia’s Central Coast is home to the continent’s longest-settled places and most enduring peoples...

Dawson Case Ends in Felony Conviction; Attacker's Father Allegedly Threatens to Shoot Victim

Valerie Taliman

February 21, 2013

After waiting more than 19 months and enduring a dozen delays in court hearings, Navajo/San Carlos Apache nurse Patty Dawson finally heard the verdict that she had been waiting for...