Native American Politics, Indian Law, Tribal Politics (Page 302)

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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Politics

Delta Farmers Excluded from CA Water Discussions

Dan Bacher

April 13, 2011

For several years, corporate agribusiness Astroturf groups and their political allies have claimed that protections for Central Valley salmon and Delta smelt have caused "massive u...

Too Remote to Vote? NWT Hunters Juggle Priorities

ICTMN Staff

April 13, 2011

With all the talk of First Nations’ antipathy toward voting in the May 2 election, an entirely different consideration is at play among hunters: The date lands smack in the middle ...

Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes Fight for Water Rights

ICTMN Staff

April 12, 2011

Southeastern Oklahoma is home to Sardis Lake, which is in perfect position to supply both Oklahoma City and its suburbs, and new subdivisions around Fort Worth, Texas, 200 miles so...

Education Aids Economic Growth

Carol Berry

April 12, 2011

Lt. Gov...

How Essential are Federal Indian Employees?

Rob Capriccioso

April 12, 2011

WASHINGTON—While Congress and the Obama administration narrowly avoided a shutdown of the federal government via a last-minute deal late in the evening of April 8—in turn protectin...

Valbuena Receives NIGA Chairman’s Leadership Award

Gale Courey Toensing

April 12, 2011

PHOENIX, Ariz.—Lynn Valbuena has another award to add to her vast collection...

Tribes File to Protect Indian Health Law

Rob Capriccioso

April 11, 2011

WASHINGTON – Illustrating growing concern from tribal officials that the so-called permanent reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act could be in danger both in Co...

Peru Confrontations Leave Three Dead, Police Averts Massacre

Renzo Pipoli

April 11, 2011

Confrontations between a group of some 1,200 police who had been deployed to try to contain growing popular unrest and some 4,000 farmers who opposed a copper mine project left thr...

Protesters Rally on New York State Capitol Steps Against Hydraulic Fracturing

ICTMN Staff

April 11, 2011

Hundreds rallied on the steps of the New York State capitol in Albany on April 11, the Associated Press reported, to protest the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a me...

Canada Election Highlights First Nation Voter Apathy

David Wiwchar

April 11, 2011

To vote or not to vote. That is the question facing many First Nations people in Canada as the nation heads into its fourth federal election in just seven years...