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Unelected Micmac Chief Cancels Elections – Again

Gale Courey Toensing
May 16, 2011
BIA is silent; members are determined to elect their government For members of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians , it was déjà vu all over again...

Chickasaw Nation’s Purchase of Texas Racetrack Approved

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
On Friday, the Texas Racing Commission approved the Chickasaw Nation to own 49 percent of Lone Star Park racetrack in Grand Prairie, Texas...

In the Studio with Folky Soul Singer Martha Redbone

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
It’s been five years since her last release, and as soul singer Martha Redbone puts the finishing touches on her third album, tentatively titled Garden of Love by Martha Redbone Ro...

The Cloudy Debate Hovering Over the Navajo Generating Station

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) is fueling controversy among the Diné over spending $1.1 billion to reduce emissions—a regulation that the U.S...

Oglala Sioux Partners with Black Hills Resort Owner on High-End Tour

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
The Oglala Sioux Tribe's Canyon Lake Resort and the neighboring non-Indian Badlands Ranch and Resort are partnering to create a four-day, four-night American-Indian theme tour thro...

Pueblo Grande Museum Celebrates International Museum Day

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
International Museum Day is coming up, and to honor it, the Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, will be offering free admission and 10% off purchases (except books) in the Mu...

Guadalupe Mountains National Park—Texas Wildfires Prompt Ignitions Ban

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
Human history in what the U.S. knows today as Guadalupe Mountains National Park dates back more than 10,000 years to the heyday of the Mescalero Apaches and earlier...

High Aboriginal Diabetes Rate Sparks Innovative Solutions

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
Canada’s aboriginal peoples, in addition to registering the country’s highest rates of tuberculosis, have other disproportionately high health problems too...

Native Opportunity Way’s Summer Events

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
The social service organization Native Opportunity Way has just released their summer schedule, and they’re sponsoring a lot of Pow Wows and school cultural exchanges that we wante...

May 16 Events

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
Establishment of an indigenous peoples’ forum at IFAD Organized by IFAD/IWGIA From 1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Located in Conference Room 1, North Lawn Building, New York, N.Y...

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: 10 Years of a Powerful Message

Valerie Taliman
May 16, 2011
When indigenous leaders first visited the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977, they were seeking justice and a fair forum for the many treaty and human-rights vio...

Should Native American Art Be Emulated in the Classroom?

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
Caitlin Maybin, a University of South Carolina undergraduate student of the North American Indian Cultures class, created this video, which was posted this May 5 on YouTube...

Ice Melt

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
Attendees of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, received sobering news about temperature rises in the region at the release of the Arctic Monitoring and Ass...

Indigenous Youth Caucus

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
Preparatory Meeting for the 10 th Session of the UNPFII May 15, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. TECO, 1 E. 42 nd St., New York, New York

Ojibwe Professor Gets Race Ambassador Award

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
Dr. Anton Treuer , Ojibwe professor at Bemidji State University , was recently named honorable mention for the 2011 St...

Contention Over Glen Cove Sacred Site

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
A video posted on YouTube on April 30 by JAHCE3 shows Glen Cove Shell Mound supporters burning sage, while people from the Greater Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD) were trying to...

Mohegan Authority CEO Asked to Speak On Potential Western Massachusetts Casino

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
Mitchell Etess, Mohegan Sun CEO The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority , operators of the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut and Pocono Downs in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, has...

Climate-controlled Woven Wonders

Lee Allen
May 14, 2011
If you were 11,000 year old survivor of the dry, dusty, Arizona desert, you’d appreciate being taken into a climate-controlled environment...

Rep. Young for Domestic Production in Offshore Drilling Debate

ICTMN Staff
May 14, 2011
Alaskan Congressman Don Young addressed the House floor recently in support of H.R. 1231, the Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act ...

2nd Annual Agua Caliente Invitational Charity Golf Tournament

ICTMN Staff
May 14, 2011
There are few better places to be then Palm Springs, California, in May...

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