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Gathering of Nations Report From Inside the Pit

Brian Daffron
May 18, 2011
We rolled into Albuquerque Friday morning at 3 a.m., getting a late start out of southwest Oklahoma on I-40 West. But the time didn’t matter, nor the lack of meaningful sleep...

Strawberry Fields Forever

Dale Carson
May 18, 2011
Dale Carson It is said that First Man and First Woman lived together in happiness for a long, long time...

Absentee Shawnee Open Local Bank Branch

Mark Fogarty
May 18, 2011
Finally, it is going to be easy for Absentee Shawnee tribal members to use the bank the tribe has owned for the past six years...

May 18 Events

ICTMN Staff
May 18, 2011
Indigenous Craft Fair From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located at Chuch Center, 777 UN Plaza, corner of 44 th St. and 1 st Ave., New York, N.Y...

Laguna Student Sets Indian Country Scholarship Record

Dr. Dean Chavers
May 18, 2011
Isaiah Rodriguez (Laguna) had no idea he was about to do anything monumental when he visited the offices of Catching the Dream (CTD) in Albuquerque, New Mexico in January 2008...

Polarizing Presidential Election in Peru Has Implications for Indigenous

Annie Murphy
May 18, 2011
Peru’s economy has been thriving for the past decade, with growth reaching an estimated nine percent last year...

EPA Wants Duwamish Cleanup Plan Comment by May 28

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
Neal Chism, a sailor from West Seattle, has traveled down the Duwamish River about 90 times during the past 2-1/2 years, picking up debris along its banks, the Seattle Times report...

Starry Skies

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
This juxtaposed vision of the Milky Way against Tenerife's El Teide mountain is really from a Saharan sandstorm, photographer Terje Sorgjerd says on his Vimeo page...

Soaring Spirit: Flying Eagle Woman Fund to Award Women Leaders in Indigenous Peace and Development

Rick Kearns
May 17, 2011
For important contributions on behalf of indigenous communities throughout the world, the Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Flying Eagle Woman Fund (FEWF) is honoring three distinguished...

Foxwoods Bartenders Vote in Favor of Union

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
Bartenders and other beverage department workers at Foxwoods Resort Casino voted May 16 to affiliate with a Westport, Connecticut-based union, reported the Norwich Bulletin ...

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana Launches New Website

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana has taken a proactive approach at educating tribal members, surrounding communities and others throughout Louisiana with the launch of its new trib...

‘Fastest Lummi,’ ‘Idol’ are Features of 65th Stommish

Richard Walker
May 17, 2011
The Lummi Stommish Water Festival, in Lummi, Washington, a three-day festival that celebrates the Lummi Indian Nation’s veterans, is June 10 –12...

40th Annual Standford Powwow

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
Thousands of people came together in the Eucalyptus Grove on Mother's Day weekend May 6-8 as the American Indian community celebrated Stanford Powwow .

From Boarding School to Halls of Fame

Carol Berry
May 17, 2011
Wilton “Willie” Littlechild Years ago, a small boy in a Canadian residential school hid beneath his bed with a flashlight, reading, dreaming about hockey, and creating the building...

Swinomish Begins Construction of Hotel, Gas Station

Richard Walker
May 17, 2011
The late Chester Cayou Sr., a longtime advocate of economic development on the Swinomish reservation, would be pleased...

Ban Ki-moon Addresses Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
Ban Ki-moon made the following remarks to open United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 16...

Elouise Cobell Recovering from Cancer Surgery

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
Elouise Cobell Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation and the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit Cobell v. Salazar , is recovering from cancer surgery...

Statement of the Global Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus to UNPFII-10

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
The following statement was delivered to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tenth Session by Ghazali Ohorella, from Maluku, between the Philippines and Austral...

Teenage Tulalip Director Wins Best Emerging Filmmaker award

Richard Walker
May 17, 2011
“History is Unwritten,” a short film by Tulalip filmmaker Aaron Jones, is striking in its beauty and elegant simplicity...

Inupiaq/Kiowa Marjorie Tahbone new Miss Indian World

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that 22-year old Marjorie Tahbone, Inupiaq/Kiowa, was named the 2011 Miss Indian World at the Gathering of Naitons in Albuquerque, New Mexic...

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