Native American Politics, Indian Law, Tribal Politics (Page 291)

Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII

The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus focused on the...

Chad 'Corntassel' Smith Talks About Embracing One's Legacy

In 1991, I worked for the late Cherokee Nation Principal...

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,...

Hualapai Claim Victory in Latest Skywalk Court Round

In ongoing court battles over the right to manage the...

Mapuche of Chile Continue Struggle for Land Rights; A Leader in Prison

Daniel Melinao used to draw water from a well on the land...

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High Aboriginal Diabetes Rate Sparks Innovative Solutions

ICTMN Staff

May 16, 2011

Canada’s aboriginal peoples, in addition to registering the country’s highest rates of tuberculosis, have other disproportionately high health problems too...

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: 10 Years of a Powerful Message

Valerie Taliman

May 16, 2011

When indigenous leaders first visited the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977, they were seeking justice and a fair forum for the many treaty and human-rights vio...

Ice Melt

ICTMN Staff

May 15, 2011

Attendees of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, received sobering news about temperature rises in the region at the release of the Arctic Monitoring and Ass...

Rep. Young for Domestic Production in Offshore Drilling Debate

ICTMN Staff

May 14, 2011

Alaskan Congressman Don Young addressed the House floor recently in support of H.R. 1231, the Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act ...

Big Tobacco Rewrites Nebraska Law to Subvert Tribal Sovereignty

Gale Courey Toensing

May 14, 2011

Tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J...

Dartmouth to Give Cobell Honorary Degree

ICTMN Staff

May 13, 2011

Elouise Cobell Dartmouth will be giving out nine honorary degrees at it’s June 11 commencement ceremony—one of which will go to Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the class-acti...

Menchu Announces Run for Guatemala Presidency

Rick Kearns

May 13, 2011

Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu will run again for the presidency of Guatemala this year on the Winaq Party ticket...

Reaching Out with Veterans’ Affairs Office of Rural Health

Brenda Austin

May 13, 2011

Mary Beth Skupien, Ph.D., MS, RN, director of the Office of Rural Health (ORH) for the U.S...

St. Regis Mohawk Diabetes Patients Stay Active, Anticipate New Diabetes Clinic

ICTMN Staff

May 13, 2011

Groundbreaking for the more than $6 million Diabetes Center for Excellence on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is June 18, reported WCAX News and the Watertown Daily Times ...

Fulfilling a $10 Million Promise

Gale Courey Toensing

May 11, 2011

Oneida Nation donates seventh $1m donation to National Museum of the American Indian The Oneida Indian Nation continues to make good on its promise to contribute $10 million to the...