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National Park Week: Visit Parks for Free

ICTMN Staff
April 22, 2013
It's National Park Week, and the National Park Service is throwing a party...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, April 21, 2013

ICTMN Staff
April 21, 2013
It's our weekly roundup of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: TRAGEDY IN BOSTON: On Monday, two explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon , killi...

Poems From Flood Song by Navajo Sherwin Bitsui, for National Poetry Month

Sherwin Bitsui
April 21, 2013
Editor's Note: Sherwin Bitsui is a poet who grew up in the arid "painted desert" region of the Navajo reservation...

Navajo Poet Sherwin Bitsui, Seer of 'Violent Beauty in the American Landscape'

ICTMN Staff
April 21, 2013
Like many of today’s Native poets, Sherwin Bitsui, Navajo, blends ancient and modern, bridging the two with language...

Turning the Page at the Page High School UNITY Contest Powwow

Diego James Robles
April 21, 2013
More than 100 dancers and close to 1,500 people attended the Page High School UNITY Contest Powwow in Page, Arizona on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6...

Boston Rests Easy Overnight; Tributes but No Incidents in London Today

ICTMN Staff
April 21, 2013
After a nightmare week, Boston rested easy last night...

Champion for Change Chosen for Helping Fellow Native Students

Vincent Schilling
April 21, 2013
Dahkota Franklin Kicking Bear Brown, a 14-year-old Wilton Miwok student, from Jackson, California was chosen as a 2013 Champion for Change by the Center for Native American Youth b...

Notes From A Single Mom: Helicopter Mom or Ripped-Off Consumer? You Decide.

Lynn Armitage
April 21, 2013
I could be one of those single parents who overcompensates for not having a second parent around by jumping in and saving her daughter when the going gets tough and life appears to...

'For Advice Call 1-800-COYOTE': Native Art at the MAM

ICTMN Staff
April 21, 2013
If ever there were a must-see exhibit of contemporary American Indian art, the Missoula Art Museum in Missoula, Montana, just may have it...

Pacific Islanders Hold Warrior Dance Day of Action to Highlight Climate Change Effects

ICTMN Staff
April 21, 2013
“We are not drowning...

Lyrid Meteor Shower Graces Pre-Dawn Earth Day Sky

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2013
The pre-dawn hours of Earth Day this year bring the Lyrid meteor shower, during which fragments of Comet Thatcher (no relation to iconic Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, who was laid t...

Moapa Band of Paiutes Leads Earth Day March Celebrating Solar Project

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2013
Members of the Moapa Band of Paiutes are leading the way on a 16-mile march this Earth Day weekend, their goal to “showcase the human face of Nevada’s energy transition” from coal ...

Plains Art Museum: Pop Goes Your Culture

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2013
Running until May 19 at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, is the excellent exhibition Andy Warhol: Creating Myth and Icon ...

Alaska Makes Tourism in Rural Native Areas a Priority

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2013
“Alaska is making waves in the tourism industry, especially Alaska Native tourism,” said American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) Executive Director Camille Fergu...

Learning a Native Language? Ojibway Programmer Has an App For That

Marc Dadigan
April 20, 2013
After observing how his 12-year-old daughter fiddled obsessively with the family’s iPad, computer programmer Darrick Baxter designed an app just for her, downloaded it secretly ont...

A Traditional Story of Picking Strawberries, Redheads and Love

Dale Carson
April 20, 2013
Lenonah and her family lived by a wide creek; they had all the water and natural foods they needed to survive and be happy...

Jim Thorpe's Sons Win Federal Lawsuit Against Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2013
The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a critical ruling Friday in federal court that could clear the way for his remains to be removed from a mausoleum in the P...

NCAA Honors Billy Mills

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2013
On Thursday, April 18, the NCAA dedicated a room at its national office in Indianapolis to Billy Mills, continuing the organization’s tradition of recognizing athletes who used the...

Earth Day and Sex: Watch Director’s Cut of Documentary on Global Population and the Environment, Livestreamed

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2013
What is the true cost of overpopulation on the environment?...

American Indian Program at Cornell Celebrates 30 Years

Gale Courey Toensing
April 19, 2013
The American Indian Program at Cornell University kicked off a series of celebrations marking its third decade with a 30 th Anniversary Recognition and Two Row Wampum Renewal Confe...

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