Native & American Indian News, Culture, Tribes, Music, Art and More (Page 4)

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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Cherokee Nation Industries Signs $5.1M Contract With Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

ICTMN Staff

May 10, 2013

Cherokee Nation Industries has inked a $5.1 million contract with Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., an industry leader in manufacturing and service of military and commercial aircraft...

Heritage Foundation Member Says Immigrants Have Lower IQs

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

Heritage Foundation member Jason Richwine has been called out for his doctoral dissertation in which he says immigrants have an I.Q...

Taos Pueblo Former Governor Tony Reyna: 'Respected Universally by All'

Cristina Olds

May 09, 2013

My aunt dated Tony Reyna, Taos Pueblo's former two-term governor and local living legend, in the 1990s...

Online Dating Scam: Fraudsters Claim To Be ‘Native American’

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

While there is hardly agreement on the use of “Native American” or “Indian” as a generic term to describe the first peoples of Turtle Island, the multiplicity of meanings to “Nativ...

Nancy Marie Mithlo's TEDxAlbuquerque Talk on Images of Native Women

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

Nancy Marie Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, is an Associate Professor of art history and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who recently gave a TEDx talk in ...

Indian Youth, Feds Celebrate Two Years of Let's Move! in Indian Country

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

On May 1, about 50 Southern Ute Indian students from Montessori Academy hiked steep incline trails to the ancestral Puebloan ruins on the recently designated Chimney Rock National ...

Controversial Pro-Gun Billboards Depicting Native Americans are No More

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

The two billboards that appeared along highways in Greeley, Colorado in April depicting three American Indians with a pro-gun message of “Turn in your arms, the government will tak...

Project Aims to Transform Diabetes in Urban Aboriginal Toronto

Christine McFarlane

May 08, 2013

Diabetes affects Aboriginal peoples in greater numbers compared with mainstream and multicultural Canadian populations...

Zuni Pueblo and USDA Begin 'Self Help Housing' Program for 12 Families

ICTMN Staff

May 08, 2013

On May 7, 12 Zuni Pueblo families and United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner broke ground on the construction of the Pueblo’s first ...