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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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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...

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...