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More Than 50 Dead as Tornado Decimates Moore, Oklahoma, Hometown of Rep. Tom Cole, and Levels School

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
A massive tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, the hometown of U.S...

Generations of Service: Honoring a Family of Veterans

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
The Buckner family knows what service and honor is all about...

Perique Tobacco: Steeped in Choctaw Tradition

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Perique ( pronounced pə-réek ) is a rare, dark and richly flavored tobacco originally cultivated by the Choctaw Indians more than 400 years ago...

Tornadoes Slice Through Midwest, Threatening Indian Country

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Tornadoes cut swathes of destruction through Indian country last week and over the weekend, and on Monday May 20 the midsection of the U.S. was bracing for more...

Rise in HIV Cases on Navajo Nation Spur Fears of an Epidemic

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Doctors on the Navajo Nation fear the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may become an epidemic on the reservation if education and prevention outreach efforts do not increase and ...

American Indian Woman of the Year Named, Native Explorers Co-Founder Gets Award

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Nicole Schultz Walls, Chickasaw, is the youngest president in the history of the Oklahoma Federation of Indian Women ...

ICTMN Talks With Hoops and Education Champion Richard Dionne

Vincent Schilling
May 20, 2013
Growing up on the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, Richard Dionne dreamed of playing basketball professionally...

New Milwaukee Group Supports Native American Women

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Even though the Native American population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is small—just 0.9 percent according to the 2010 Census—a group of Native women have chosen to form a support syst...

Two-Spirit Leader To Represent International Indigenous HIV/AIDS Working Group

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
The International Indigenous Working Group on HIV & AIDS (IIWGHA) has named Harlan Pruden as its new American representative...

Shoni Schimmel Joins Team USA to Take on the World

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
The Umatilla Thrilla is going global...

Proud to Be Indigenous? Hash Tag It and Photograph It

ICTMN Staff
May 20, 2013
Are you ready to express indigenous pride?...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, May 19

ICTMN Staff
May 19, 2013
It's our weekly roundup of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: DESTRUCTION: A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan pyramid more than 2,000 years o...

Elijah Harper Lies in State at Manitoba Legislature

ICTMN Staff
May 19, 2013
Elijah Harper will lie in state at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sunday May 20 from 2:00 p.m...

Mapuche of Chile Continue Struggle for Land Rights; A Leader in Prison

Barbara Fraser
May 19, 2013
Daniel Melinao used to draw water from a well on the land near his small, wood-frame house...

Upper Sioux Tribal Elder, Educator and Historian Tom Ross Walks On

ICTMN Staff
May 19, 2013
Upper Sioux tribal elder, educator and historian Tom Ross walked on May 10 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 64...

Elijah Harper, Iconic Aboriginal Leader Who Scuttled Meech Accord, Walks On

ICTMN Staff
May 18, 2013
Condolences have poured in for revered aboriginal leader and politician Elijah Harper, who walked on at age 64 from heart failure induced by diabetes complications on Friday mornin...

Native Actresses Michelle Thrush and Misty Upham Hit the Cannes Film Festival

ICTMN Staff
May 18, 2013
It's been a big day in Cannes for Jimmy P...

Flight of Fancy: What the Planets Would Look Like if They Were as Close as the Moon

ICTMN Staff
May 18, 2013
Watching planets and stars as they appear in the sky is captivating, but gazing at pinpricks of light glistening against the celestial sphere doesn’t give the heavenward ogler a se...

5 Natural Pest Deterrents for Your Garden

Darla Antoine
May 18, 2013
Whatever pests you may be grappling with this year, I highly encourage you not to resort to commercial pesticides. The poisons used in these products are just that—poisonous...

Joaquin Gallegos Named a Champion for Native Dental Health

Vincent Schilling
May 18, 2013
Among the 2013 Champions for Change named by the Center for Native American Youth is Joaquin Gallegos, Jicarilla Apache Nation/Pueblo of Santa Ana, a 22-year-old college student an...

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