Native & American Indian News, Culture, Tribes, Music, Art and More (Page 260)

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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Mohegan Refinancing Puts Casino Operations at Risk

ICTMN Staff

January 05, 2012

The operator of the Mohegan Sun casinos has not been able to reach an agreement to refinance its $811 million debt, increasing the chances it will have to cease operations, reporte...

2011 Retrospective: November

ICTMN Staff

January 05, 2012

Ray Is Sentenced James Arthur Ray, the self-help guru who led a sweat lodge ceremony in Sedona, Arizona in 2009 that claimed the lives of three people and hospitalized 18, was sent...

U.S., Canada, Vie for Tekakwitha 'Ownership,' Though They Did Not Exist During Her Lifetime

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

As the Catholic faithful prepare to see the first aboriginal saint canonized, two nations that did not even exist during her lifetime are vying to call her their own...

Chevron’s Appeal in Ecuador Denied

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

The lawsuit has been going on for 17 years, and in the latest outcome of the case, an Ecuador appeals court denied Chevron Corp.’s effort to overturn the $18 billion judgment that ...

Keith Little, Navajo Code Talker Walks On

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

The history of the Navajo Code Talkers will forever be remembered, but on January 3, the famous group lost another member from its ranks as Keith Little, died at Fort Defiance hosp...

Oh How the Republican Race Has Changed After Iowa Caucus

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

In the weeks leading up to the Iowa Caucus, the unofficial start to the 2012 campaign season, the race appeared to be between former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Newt Gin...

Shinnecock Medicine Man Files Lawsuit Against IRS

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a $329,000 tax lien against a Shinnecock medicine man, reported the Daily News ...

Paraguay Returns Land to Indigenous Peoples of Northern Chaco

Rick Kearns

January 04, 2012

Closing out 2011 the Government of Paraguay made an emphasis on improving the living conditions of Indigenous Peoples that began in August and progressed with the return of 2,470 a...

Chemical Used as Weapon in Vietnam War May Be 'Carpet Bombed' on U.S. Crop Fields

ICTMN Staff

January 04, 2012

Dow AgroScience , an Indianapolis, Indiana-based subsidiary of the multinational corporation The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, is petitioning the Unites States governm...