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A Conversation with Shari Sebbens of 'The Sapphires'

Eisa Ulen Richardson
May 17, 2013
In the Australian hit movie The Sapphires , Shari Sebbens plays Kay, a “white-looking” Aboriginal girl who is stolen from her family to live with Australians who are not indigenous...

Ancestors Returned to Mother Earth in Michigan

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and the Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance returned 11 sets of remains to Mother Earth during a Rec...

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S...

Full Text of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association Statement Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the national interest and in fact ...

ACLU Joins Huy in Support of Indigenous Prisoners' Religious Freedoms

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a provisional emergency regulation denying indigenous prisoners access to items used in religious ceremonies in F...

Showcase for Model Tribal Housing

Mark Fogarty
May 17, 2013
Tribes looking for ways to build energy-efficient and culturally relevant housing for their members now have a model for the task. In fact, they have 22 of them...

Cherokee Nation Developing Largest Tribal Wind Farm in U.S.

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
The site of a former Indian boarding school in Kay County, Oklahoma will soon become the largest wind farm on tribal land in the United States...

Watch Dr. Jill Biden Deliver Commencement Address at Navajo Tech Today

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
Dr...

Pow Wow Weekend Planner

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
Do you hear that drumming in the distance? That's the beating of your weekend pow wow approaching!...

Top 5 Ways Senators Used Indian Affairs Hearing to Push Their Pet Projects

Rob Capriccioso
May 17, 2013
Even a person only casually acquainted with Native Americans who viewed the May 15 hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in which U.S...

New York Radio Personality Louis Cook Walks On

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
He was a noted jazz host and radio producer in Indian country in northern New York State. But above all, Louis “Louie” Cook was a loving presence and a mentor to many...

Yes, Gil Birmingham is in 'The Lone Ranger' -- Here's the LEGO that Proves It

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
You know Johnny Depp is in Disney's The Lone Ranger , coming to a theater near you on July 3. You might also know that Armie Hammer and Helena Bonham Carter are in the film...

Jude and Shoni Schimmel Talk About Their Inspiration and Goals

Vincent Schilling
May 17, 2013
In the wake of the recently completed NCAA women’s basketball tournament championship, do the Schimmel sisters, Jude and Shoni, really need an introduction?...

The Greatest Stories Never Told: A Dialogue on Theater

Donna Loring
May 16, 2013
Donna Loring is an author, playwright, and Penobscot Tribal Elder...

Oneida Nation and New York State Enter 'Historic' Revenue Sharing

Gale Courey Toensing
May 16, 2013
Decades of contentious lawsuits between the Oneida Indian Nation and the State of New York have ended in an historic agreement that resolves all disputes over land rights, tax issu...

Mohawk Ironworkers Help Raise Spire for Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2013
From beginning to end, from rise to fall to rise again, the noble Mohawk ironworkers have shepherded the sky-scraping towers of the World Trade Center in New York City into existen...

Superheroes Meet Native Design in Jeffrey Veregge's Work

Sara Shahriari
May 16, 2013
Graphic designer Jeffrey Veregge (Port Gamble S'Klallam) created his first 'Native Superhero' design just a few years ago, at a point when the Seattle-based graphic designer was se...

Interior Releases Updating Proposal for Hydraulic Fracturing on Public, Indian Lands

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2013
While roughly 90 percent of wells drilled on federal and Indian lands use hydraulic fracturing, the Bureau of Land Management’s current regulations governing hydraulic fracturing o...

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2013
A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan pyramid more than 2,000 years old, using the crushed rock for road fill, the Associated Press has reported...

American Cancer Society Encourages Women to Commit to Healthy Living!

Charlotte Hofer
May 16, 2013
It’s been said that the man is the “head of the household,” but it’s also true the woman is the neck : She can turn the head any direction she wishes...

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