Opinions
April 05, 2013
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Congress is now considering the legalization of gambling over the Internet. Indian country, which has invested billions of dollars in traditional “bricks and mortar” businesses, should be extremely worried about this effort. If successful, many of... Robert Odawi Porter
April 04, 2013
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Less than a month after the dead-man-walking candidacies of Richard Mourdock and a now infamous Missourian culminated in predictable blowouts, a governor emeritus of South Dakota announced his own bid for the Senate in the forthcoming 2014 midterms... Cole R. DeLaune
April 03, 2013
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Recent news of the Klamath Tribe’s victory in a water rights battle after 38 years of court proceedings came as no surprise to the Hoopa Valley Tribe. Hoopa knows that tribal water rights and tribal trust are the most powerful tools for restoring... Hayley Hutt
April 02, 2013
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“Everyone talks about rights, but they have a cost,” said attorney Sara Frankenstein in a recent article on ICTMN.com (“With 2014 Elections Looming, Ninth Circuit Agrees to Hear Native Voting-Rights Appeal”; February 28, 2013). Frankenstein is... Oliver J. Semans
April 01, 2013
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Early in my marriage, my husband was a vegetarian who didn’t eat eggs. It’s not that he had any moral quandaries against them, he just didn’t like them.
I put up with that for about five seconds. Beef, chicken, pork, I could all jettison, but eggs?... Hayley B. Elkins
March 31, 2013
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President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a federal statute that addresses domestic violence and other crimes against women. As initially conceived in 1994, VAWA created new federal crimes and... Winter King & Sara Clark
March 30, 2013
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Every American Indian alive today has been affected by the policy of assimilation implemented by the United States government not that long ago.
Under the guise of Manifest Destiny, European immigrants swept through North America in ever increasing... Ruth Hopkins
March 29, 2013
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The labeling vogue of past generations was often to term both traditional and religious groups in Indian country as offbeat, sometimes as renegades, and possibly as outcasts within tribal communities. To a varying degree, these labels have existed... Charles Kader
March 28, 2013
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The interplay between law and language is fascinating. “Blood quantum” started without the modern racist connotations in early English cases involving inheritance from a particular person rather than from a racially defined category of persons. The... Steve Russell
March 27, 2013
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This is the time of year when people in the Northeast become excited about the return of warmer weather and longer daylight hours. The robins and the geese are returning from their winter get-away vacation spots down south. Gardeners are looking... Kay Olan (Ionataie:was)
March 26, 2013
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The recent arrest of Wayland Gray, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen, has set off a firestorm of criticism against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.
Gray was arrested on February 15 this year for attempting to pray at Hickory Ground, a sacred... DaShanne Stokes
March 26, 2013
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In 2010, after the United States as the final holdout endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Bolivian government called for a high level plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA... Dina Gilio-Whitaker
March 25, 2013
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Few of us have been unscathed by alcohol, and I am no exception. A close Cherokee relative, big-hearted and kind when sober, was a mean drunk who finally ended his life in a drunken header off a bridge. When my son was 7, I had to tell him a drunken... Steve Russell
March 24, 2013
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Many federally recognized tribes are celebrating the reauthorization of VAWA, which contains key provisions that authorize tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians in sexual assault and domestic violence cases on reservation. For too long, tribal... Timothy Aqukkasuk Argetsinger