M ary E. Thompson passed away after an eight year struggle with vascular dementia on Oct. 19, 2010. Mary was born in Conata, S.D. at home on Nov. 14, 1918... Read more
Being a foreigner in the U.S., I was intrigued to see how Native American cultures would be celebrated in the District of Columbia, a state whose terminology couldn’t be more relat... Read more
I knew as the sweat rolled down my face that I was being watched. “This is how tribal wars get started,” I said to my friend, Jane. “Huh?” She said... Read more
On Oct. 1, NASA announced $3.3 million to support academic excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at tribal colleges and universities... Read more
B ack in the 1970s the acclaimed international journal on indigenous peoples, Akwesasne Notes, was widely read and presented a vision of Indian activism and revitalization... Read more
T he [Associated Press] article by Felicia Fonseca about Navajo candidate Lynda Lovejoy might have noted that singer, writer and teacher Kay (Kaibah) Bennett was the first woman to... Read more