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Panel Mulls Sand Creek Massacre Issues

Carol Berry
April 20, 2011
DENVER—“Lessons Learned at Bloody Sand Creek” was the topic proposed for a panel of experts, but the participants spent much of a three-hour discussion analyzing unfinished issues ...

Celebrate National Parks Week

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
It's National Park Week (April 16-24), with this year's focus on "Healthy Parks, Healthy People," drawing a connection between environmental and human health and the crucial role o...

Canada’s Aboriginal Leaders Making Their Issues Heard

Gale Courey Toensing
April 20, 2011
First Nations, Métis and Inuit are going all-out during this campaign season to bring attention to their important issues and change the way the Canadian government addresses them...

North Carolina Legislator Introduces Bill to Study Mascot Impact in Schools

Gale Courey Toensing
April 20, 2011
Rep...

Jacoby Ellsbury Getting Back into Swing of Things

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
His average is still hovering at .200, and he's still batting ninth (with his speed, the Oregon born Navajo is considered one of the fastest player in the game and a natural lead-o...

Recommended: Robbie Robertson, Alex E. Smith, Cheevers Toppah, Nitanis “Kit” Landry

Vincent Schilling
April 20, 2011
ICTMN Recommends Robbie Robertson, How to Become Clairvoyant Robbie-Robertson.com Six Nations Mohawk Robbie Robertson, the lead songwriter for The Band and #78 of Rolling Stone’s 1...

Darion Cobenais Chosen as Red Lake Youth of the Year

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
Red Lake 16-year-old Darion Cobenais was unanimously chosen as the Red Lake Nation Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year 2010 among 11 other local youth...

Once a Trash Heap, Now Pow Wow Central

Vincent Schilling
April 20, 2011
It used to be a mountain of debris...

Arctic Ice Melting Faster than Expected

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
The latest State of the Arctic Coast report is out, and the news is chilling because the ice is not...

Steady Population: 5.2 Million Indians Counted

Rob Capriccioso
April 20, 2011
After a major push to have more American Indians counted in 2010, a final tally has been released by the U.S...

Seasonal Vegetables Liven Salads and Slaw

Dale Carson
April 20, 2011
Dale Carson Spring is an in-between time of year for salads. There are two seasonal additions to salad that I love to use—jicama and celery root (celeriac)...

IHS Health Information System First Federal Agency Certified for Meaningful Use

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
The Indian Health Service's health information system was certified for Meaningful Use , which essentially means its electronic health records met the Department of Health and Huma...

Documentary Series Chronicles James Bay Treaty Negotiations

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2011
It’s an epic struggle, one that has gone on since 1971 between the Quebec government and the Cree and Inuit opponents of the largest hydroelectric project in the world: a plan to d...

Live Barroom Blues from Jimmy Wolf

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2011
Bluesman Jimmy Wolf, Mohawk (Turtle Clan) laid down some hot licks at the Delmar Sportsman Tavern in Massena, NY, recently, and an Indian Country Today Media Network staffer was on...

Peru Awajun Tribe Retains Alleged Miners

Renzo Pipoli
April 19, 2011
Members of the Awajun Tribe, living in the northern Peruvian border with Ecuador were retaining as of Tuesday morning as many as eight people still unidentified who were caught cam...

Minnesota Wild Rice at Risk if Copper-Nickel Mining Industry Wins Out

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2011
Businesses and lawmakers are pushing to loosen Minnesota's water quality regulations to allow copper and nickel mining in the northeastern region of the state, reported the Associa...

Walking to Stomp Out Sexual Assault

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2011
To raise awareness of sexual violence and commemorate National Sexual Assault Awareness Month , more than 150 people marched around Wintersmith Park in Ada, Oklahoma, for the third...

Former Soboba Chairman Sentenced for Bribery, Tax Evasion

Gale Courey Toensing
April 19, 2011
The former chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for taking $875,000 in bribes from tribal vendors and concealing it from the Int...

May 2 Deadline for $1.9 Million in Environment Education Initiative Grants

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2011
A slew of grant funding is available over the next several months for state, local and tribal governments from several federal agencies, and application deadlines are approaching q...

Around the Campfire: Indians in the Military

Dean Chavers
April 19, 2011
Indians have fought in every war the United States has had since the American Revolution...

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