Rez Ball Is Big Time in the Navajo Nation
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Native American Studies

Uni Watch's Paul Lukas Talks With the Saginaw Chippewas About Their Support for Native Mascots

ICTMN Staff
February 20, 2013
Uni Watch' s Paul Lukas continues to push the discussion on the use of Native American imagery and names in sports...

D.C. News Anchor Jim Vance on the 'Vulgar' Redskins Name: 'The Name Sucks. We Need to Get Rid of It.'

ICTMN Staff
February 19, 2013
Jim Vance, the evening news anchor of NBC 4 WRC in Washington D.C., has been a longtime and vocal opponent of that city's NFL club using Redskins as its name...

'Native America': Documenting Native Life Truthfully and Honestly

Adam R. Sings In The Timber
February 15, 2013
Montana-based visual journalist Adam Sings In The Timber, Crow, created and shared with ICTMN the following short video, "Native America," containing some of his photography docume...

Reader Reactions to Our Story, 'Tiny Horrors: A Chilling Reminder of How Cruel Assimilation Was—And Is'

ICTMN Staff
January 22, 2013
Mary Annette Pember’s recent story on ICTMN.com about a pair of tiny handcuffs donated to Haskell University touched many people, and touched off many debates...

Indian Assimilation: The Mystery of the Tiny Handcuffs, Solved

Mary Annette Pember
January 10, 2013
Shane Murray vividly recalls the scowl on the face of the young Native woman at Haskell Indian Nation University’s Cultural Center when he placed a pair of tiny handcuffs on her de...

Tiny Horrors: A Chilling Reminder of How Cruel Assimilation Was—And Is

Mary Annette Pember
January 01, 2013
For such small objects, the child’s handcuffs are surprisingly heavy when cradled in the palms of one’s hand...

Native Storyteller Robert Wapahi, Dakota, to Present at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

ICTMN Staff
November 16, 2012
Dakota Sioux storyteller and visual artist Robert Wapahi of Chicago will present “Stories of Families,” a program of traditional, historical, and true contemporary tales for all ag...

Ambitious and Controversial School Attempts to Save the Mohawk Language and Culture

Tanya Lee
July 29, 2012
In 1988 a few parents in the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke, 15 miles southwest of Montreal, decided to try to preserve the language of their elders by teaching it to their toddler...

Kolodny’s In Search of First Contact Rewrites History, and Then Some

Gale Courey Toensing
July 22, 2012
In her extraordinary book In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery (Duke University Press Books,...

Student Leverages Her Glamour Award Money to Generate More Funds for her Lakota Nonprofit

ICTMN Staff
June 04, 2012
Maggie Dunne In April 2012, Glamour Magazine honored Maggie Dunne, a junior at Colgate University majoring in Native American Studies, the Grand Prize for its Top 10 College Women ...

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