Native American Politics, Indian Law, Tribal Politics (Page 307)

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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Native Veteran Recalls Wartime Radiation

Carol Berry

March 22, 2011

It was a perfect day in the South Pacific—it had to be, for the military operation to take place—when one Native man underwent experiences he relates to the nuclear catastrophe occ...

Redskins Name Removed from Washington Post

Rob Capriccioso

March 22, 2011

The National Football League's Washington Redskins team owner Dan Snyder wants full control over his team’s controversial name—even though many American Indians say he never should...

Department of Labor Awards $30 Million to YouthBuild Programs to Prepare Young People for Jobs

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2011

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis The United States Department of Labor recently awarded $30.6 million to its YouthBuild programs...

U.N. Focuses on Cities for World Water Day 2011

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2011

With 884 million, or one in eight people, lacking access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion without toilets, the United Nations marked World Water Day with a call to attend to ...

Tribes Among Biggest Campaign Contributors

Rob Capriccioso

March 22, 2011

The number one donor in the last U.S. presidential election cycle wasn’t a health-care lobbyist, a tobacco company or a tech giant...

Echo Hawk Defends Obama’s Budget Cuts

Rob Capriccioso

March 21, 2011

The Department of the Interior ’s Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk finds himself in the awkward position of defending the Obama administration’s decision to d...

Census Measures Business Growth in Indian Country

Rob Capriccioso

March 21, 2011

WASHINGTON – Despite widespread reports of struggling reservation economies, business has been rapidly increasing in certain parts of Indian country, according to new U.S...

LaPlante Named Secretary of Tribal Relations by Gov. Daugaard

Brenda Austin

March 21, 2011

Leroy “J.R.” LaPlante, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe , was recently appointed by South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard as the Secretary of Tribal Relations ...

Report Finds Canada's Boreal Forest Key to World's Survival

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2011

Canada may hold the key to the world’s survival, steward as it is of the world’s largest intact forest, which contains more unfrozen water than any other ecosystem, a major U.S...