WASHINGTON – A Capitol Hill consultation meeting on concepts for settling the trust funds litigation proved as elusive as its subject. At the end of the day Nov... Read more
NEW YORK – The stage is set for a showdown at the United Nations between countries favoring adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples and a handful of nations... Read more
Perhaps the most important tribal expert and national leader on Indian housing, Navajo Housing Authority CEO Chester Carl, was suspended by the Department of Housing and Urban Deve... Read more
When Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988, the legislation was explicitly intended to promote “tribal self-sufficiency.” Our tribe, the Poarch Band of Creek Ind... Read more
As people gather in our great lands to give thanks for the bounty of this time, I am grateful that two threatened sacred places are protected – Medicine Lake and Topock Maze in Cal... Read more
I often wonder about the vagaries of politics. Let me take, for example, representation and the issue of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge... Read more
Turkeys are great birds. They were raised and respected in Mesoamerica by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Every part of turkey is useful: the meat, feathers and bones... Read more