Native & American Indian News, Culture, Tribes, Music, Art and More (Page 238)

Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII

The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus focused on the...

Oklahoma Awakes to Grim New Reality as Recovery Efforts Begin

As Oklahoma awoke to a devastating new reality—inasmuch as...

President Obama to Oklahoma: Every Resource Is at Your Disposal

As responders, including at least 250 National Guardsmen,...

'A Name Change for the Redskins: Unpopular, Insufficient, and Necessary'

Every week TheAtlantic.com Sports Roundtable discusses a...

Best Indian Food 2013: Smothered Muskrat, Tail Off, Teeth Showing

In Indian country, frybread, Indian tacos, curly fries and...

American Indian Woman of the Year Named, Native Explorers Co-Founder Gets Award

Nicole Schultz Walls, Chickasaw, is the youngest president...

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Navajo Nation Talks Redistricting, Law Enforcement and Gaming Compact With NM Gov. Martinez

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

On February 3, Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly and members of the Navajo Nation council met with New Mexico Gov...

Winning Super Bowl Bets Are Taxable

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

The National Football League title game is the most gambled-on sporting event in the nation with more than $100 million legally wagered in recent years on the Super Bowl at sports ...

Everything You Need to Know About How to Write a Shadow Report—Indigenous Reports to the UN on Human Rights, Racism in US

Gale Courey Toensing

February 05, 2012

Indigenous nations, tribes, individuals and organizations now have a guide on how to prepare a “shadow report” for an upcoming review of the status of human rights and racism in th...

Florida Could Lose Millions from Seminoles if Internet Cafes Are Regulated

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

Roughly 1,000 Internet cafes operate in Florida, but they are potentially illegal under the state's gaming laws...

Football-Shaped Asteroid of Love, Eros, Is Tumbling Past Earth

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

The near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros, so named upon its 1898 discovery on the same night, August 13, by Gustav Witt in Berlin and Auguste Charlois at Nice, is the first asteroid to be ...

Tlowitsis Member Loses Eagle Parts Appeal in B.C.

Wawmeesh Hamilton

February 04, 2012

Trafficking in parts from 50 dead eagles does not constitute an aboriginal right, a British Columbia provincial court judge has ruled, and a tribal member will be sentenced...

Florida Seminole's Casino Expansion Rivals Vegas Resorts

ICTMN Staff

February 04, 2012

The Seminole Tribe of Florida doubled the size of its casino floor at Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek to 100,000 square feet, featuring 2,300 slot machines, and added three new hi...

Milky Way Has a Mysterious Twin

ICTMN Staff

February 04, 2012

The Earth is not the only space body with lookalikes floating around the universe...

Vegas Bookies Rooting for the Patriots

ICTMN Staff

February 04, 2012

While most of the billions of dollars wagered on the Super Bowl this year favor a New York Giants’ victory, Vegas bookmakers are pulling for the New England Patriots to take home t...

Big Blue Marble Redux: Earth’s Flipside, and a Goldilocks Planet

ICTMN Staff

February 03, 2012

The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Flickr surpassed those on the previous high record, the Situation R...