THE NATIONS' CAPITAL; Six numbers for evaluating deals

Cynthia Tam
October 05, 2005
There are five basic categories of investments: cash, bonds (lending money in exchange for interest and repayment of principal), stocks (business ownership), real estate and natura... Read more

What is the origin of democracy?

Tom Wanamaker
October 05, 2005
Ask a non-Indian historian where American democracy was born and you'll likely get answers ranging from Philadelphia to Williamsburg, or perhaps from Boston to the Mayflower... Read more

Chickasaw governor lauds housing sovereignty

Mark Fogarty
October 05, 2005
The governor of the Chickasaw Nation says his tribe has seen "phenomenal" results since it took control of its housing effort from the federal government... Read more

Student wins civil rights case against Todd County schools

David Melmer
October 05, 2005
A U.S. District Judge ruled that Todd County High School, on the Rosebud Reservation, violated a student's civil rights... Read more

IHS defends budget in Aberdeen Area

David Wiwchar
October 05, 2005
An expenditure in the Aberdeen Area IHS budget may have been misunderstood by members of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association... Read more

Success by design; A small-business owner enjoys his work - and still has time for family

Stephanie Woodard
October 05, 2005
In 1988, Duane Kuntz, Hunkpapa Lakota, was watching television in his apartment in Tucson, Ariz., when the telephone rang. His mother was calling from North Dakota... Read more

CU-Boulder narrows charges for Churchill inquiry

Jim Adams
October 05, 2005
Charges of research misconduct against controversial Colorado University professor Ward Churchill are moving ahead as the CU-Boulder faculty assembles a special Investigative Commi... Read more

Makah to continue whaling

David Wiwchar
October 05, 2005
The Makah Nation is battling red tape and bureaucracy in an effort to resume whaling off the Washington coast... Read more

'Vanishing' Indian faculty harmful to education

Sidner Larson
October 05, 2005
Older American Indians suffered with policies of extermination, assimilation and allotment of their lands, which effectively gave 95 percent of those lands to "settlers." Modern In... Read more

A woman's path from wilderness to MIT

Gale Courey Toensing
October 05, 2005
As a young child in the wilderness of northern Ontario, Mildred Noble watched the multicolored Northern Lights shimmer and dance like heavenly fire across the sky... Read more

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Snyder: We Will NEVER Drop Redskins Name
Fighting Racist Stereotypes in Sports...
Baby Veronica
The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 2
In Support of the Indian Child Welfare...
Supreme Court Takes on Indian Child...
Wounded Knee
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Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale...
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Thing About Skins
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Mother's Day, Superwoman Complex,...
Loving Native People Better, Vol. 1:...

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