Native & American Indian News, Culture, Tribes, Music, Art and More (Page 264)

The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 2

This is part 2 of a series about the custody battle for...

Rios Montt Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala

On Friday, May 10th, former Dictator and General Jose...

Great Plains ICWA Summit Hoping to Address Native Foster Care Concerns

The Great Plains ICWA Summit has been a long time coming...

Freedom of Information Act Used To Push IHS To Offer Plan B Over the Counter

Mainstream Americans continue to battle over the...

Montana Governor Vetoes Three Anti-Bison Bills, Lets the Hunt Stand

Despite vociferous protest from tribes, Montana’s state...

Peaches Start To Blush in May

Many scholars dispute the existence of peaches in America...

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Indian Country Headline News

Quapaw Tribe’s Downstream Casino Underlies Lawsuit

Carol Berry

December 21, 2011

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma’s $300 million Downstream Casino, located in northeast Oklahoma near the Kansas border, has played a key role in two non-Native gaming enterprises’ aba...

Winter Solstice Signals Start of Storytelling Season

ICTMN Staff

December 21, 2011

The winter solstice inaugurates storytelling season in Indian Country. The new lunar cycle is a spiritual time for many cultures including American Indian tribes...

Covering the Crisis: Can Mainstream Media Attention Help Attawapiskat Long-Term?

Martha Troian

December 21, 2011

Not long ago, few had even heard of Attawapiskat. It's a remote First Nation community that has gone from relative obscurity to being the center of a media storm...

Morongo Helps Brighten the Holidays for 2,500 Inland Children

Gale Courey Toensing

December 21, 2011

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians continued its annual philanthropy outreach this holiday season, sponsoring a shopping spree in a toy shop for more than 2,500 low income childre...

Winter Solstice: Coaxing and Celebrating the Return of the Light

ICTMN Staff

December 21, 2011

Millions around the northern hemisphere mark the winter solstice in December, the shortest day and longest night of the year...

Zunis Perform Ceremonial Dance for the Winter Solstice

ICTMN Staff

December 21, 2011

The winter solstice signals the beginning of the year for the Zunis, who commemorate the occasion with a ceremonial dance, Sha'lak'o...

Heroes on the Hill, 2011

Rob Capriccioso

December 21, 2011

WASHINGTON – 2011 saw some new and old heroes alike emerge in Washington, D.C., rooting and pushing for tribal and Indian interests...

U.N. Takes Canada to Task Over Attawapiskat

ICTMN Staff

December 20, 2011

As homes started wending their way toward Attawapiskat, some from as far away as New Brunswick, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took Canad...