With a famous shawl dancer mother, Julia Roach, a...
As it emerged that the homes of 20 American Indian families...
  Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn is...
Now open at All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis is an...
  The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and New York State have...
In 1991, I worked for the late Cherokee Nation Principal...
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Raymond Foxworth | May 25, 2013
There is a thriving movement in Indian country focused on food sovereignty and increased control of local food systems. Like other assets in Indian country, Native food systems have been colonized, altered and, in some cases, destroyed. Today, many Native communities have...
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Ralph Forquera and Polly Olsen | May 23, 2013
Urban Indians are not new to the urban scene, as New York Times reporter Timothy Williams suggested in his article, "Quietly, Indians Reshape Cities and Reservations," published online Saturday, April 13. Nor is their ongoing struggle against invisibility new, as Williams...
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Cole R. DeLaune | May 23, 2013
In May 2011, the spectacle of political theater took a quickly forgotten detour into the realm of the absurd when minor protests erupted over the participation of Chicago rapper Common in a White House poetry slam. Karl Rove decried the recording artist and film star as a "...
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Chief Sidney Hill | May 22, 2013
Greetings  from the Chiefs, Clanmothers, Faithkeepers, and people of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy, People of the Longhouse. The Grand Council of Chiefs would  like to take this time to remind its citizens of the Haudenosaunee position on imposed elected Band...
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Tally Monteau-Colombe | May 21, 2013
Mitakuyapi, Cante waste napeciyuzapi. I am a parent of children who attend school in the Chamberlain School District in Chamberlain, South Dakota, and I am also one of the individuals who is involved in a movement against the decision that the Chamberlain School Board has...
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Dwight Witherspoon | May 20, 2013
  Although the Navajo Generating Station carries the name of the Navajo people, the “Navajo” Generating Station previously negotiated in 1968 and 1969 had significant flaws for the Navajo Nation. First, five power companies along with the United States Bureau of Reclamation...
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Jacqueline Pata | May 18, 2013
The “dental divide”—the absence of services and access to dental health services in low income communities—is real, especially in Indian country. Native people represent America’s most rural communities and those communities struggle to find dentists who will practice in...
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