Native American Politics, Indian Law, Tribal Politics (Page 263)

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...

Repeal Health Care Law? Again? So Now What?

The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote...

Dr. Jill Biden to Deliver Navajo Technical College Commencement Address

You may not have heard of Navajo Technical College (NTC) in...

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...

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Black Hawk Tobacco Can Sell Untaxed Cigarettes to Tribal Members Only

ICTMN Staff

August 11, 2011

Black Hawk Tobacco Inc., owned by Frederick Allen McAllister of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, can only sell its untaxed, non-fire-safe cigarettes to members of federally reco...

230 First Nations Pull Out of National Education Panel

ICTMN Staff

August 11, 2011

At least 230 First Nations in Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario have pulled out of regional meetings being held by the national panel that was formed to map out a new education syst...

NARF Pushes Native American CLASS Act

Rob Capriccioso

August 11, 2011

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is refocusing attention to the testimony of NARF staff attorney Amy Bowers before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs last month in suppor...

Sarayaku’s Fight for the Survival of Their Culture

María Clara Valencia

August 11, 2011

Keeping land free of big scale oil companies is the fight, the indgenous community Kichwa Sarayaku (Tayjasaruta) has maintained since the 1990s...

Qikiqtani Inuit Association Wants Ottawa to Apologize for Dog Slaughter

ICTMN Staff

August 11, 2011

The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA), an organization representing the Inuit from the Baffin Region, High Arctic and Belcher Islands, is calling on Ottawa to follow the Quebec gov...

Reading Between the Lines of Trahant’s Last Great Battle

Rob Capriccioso

August 11, 2011

Mark Trahant's slim volume , The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars , is a fascinating read—so much so that Indian Country Today Media Network's Rob Capriccioso gave the author a...

Mapuche Students Fight for an Indigenous University in Chile

Rick Kearns

August 10, 2011

Mapuche students in Chile have brought the issue of a Mapuche University with a focus on indigenous knowledge and history to the attention of the entire nation, and garnered suppor...

Connecticut Governor Visits Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot Nations on Jobs Tour

Gale Courey Toensing

August 10, 2011

Connecticut’s governor recently visited the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe —the state’s two federally acknowledged Indian nations—during a tour to promote ...

Montana Senate Hearing Addresses Rash of Fort Peck Suicides

ICTMN Staff

August 10, 2011

Prompted by an outbreak of youth suicides on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation last year, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing last night on suicide prevention, rep...

Department of Interior Partners With Harvard University

ICTMN Staff

August 09, 2011

The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Harvard University’s Project on American Indian Economic Development signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) July 12...