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Gearing up for the Gathering of Nations

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
One of the largest pow wows in the world, the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, draws over 100,000 visitors a year...

The Fake Carlos Castaneda

Dr. Dean Chavers
March 24, 2011
Carlos Castaneda Imagine my surprise when I learned that the most successful author of “Indian” books of all time was a fake. His name was Carlos Castaneda ...

Cherokee Nation Color Guard Receives $5,000

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
The Cherokee Nation Color Guard recently received a $5,000 check presented by Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad Smith during a brief ceremony...

William R. Wilson: Navajo Artist of the Post-Apocalypse

Lisa Gale Garrigues
March 24, 2011
A Navajo man in a gas mask stares into the camera, the land sprawling behind him in a luminous haze of post-apocalyptic beauty...

Big Oil Wants to Truck Through Nez Perce Land

Winona LaDuke
March 24, 2011
When 750 Nez Perce, accompanied by 1,000 horses, fled the U.S...

Musical 'The Ghosts of Celilo' in Portland

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
Read the story on "The Ghosts of Celilo" at OregonLive.com .

EPA to Hold Webinar on Emissions Database

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
Tribal leaders, want the deets on your power plant's greenhouse gas inventories and how to calculate emissions reductions from clean energy programs?...

Ambitious Expansions: Gaming Competition has Sparked Major Additions to Northwestern Indian Casinos

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
Major expansions and renovations are underway or planned for Indian casinos across the northwest despite the overall decline in Indian casino revenue nationwide for the first time ...

Thinking in Indian, A John Mohawk Reader

Ray Cook
March 23, 2011
It is almost cliché, the term of measurement called Seven Generations (the idea that the decisions we make today must be weighed by its effect on the seventh generation to come)...

Palm Springs West Fest and Rodeo at Spa Resort Casino

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs is hosting the 2011 Palm Springs WestFest & Frank Bogert Memorial Rodeo is scheduled March...

American Indian Graduate Center Seeking Nominations for All Native American High School Academic Team

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
The American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) is accepting nominations for its All Native American High School Academic Team (ANAHSAT) through May 4...

Tribe Stripped of Historical Recognition in Unusual Move

Don Baumgart
March 23, 2011
The Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria currently has 80 certified members and one of them, Richard Johnson, knows about the tribe’s history...

Miami Beach Millionaire Forks Over $1.2M Gambling Debt to Mohegan Sun

ICTMN Staff
March 23, 2011
Jerry Powers, Plum TV CEO (Photo courtesy of Rex USA) After allegedly trying to weasel out of his $1.2 million debt to the Mohegan Sun from a May 2009 blackjack session, Jerry Powe...

Anishinabe Women Oppose Nuclear Shipment Through Great Lakes

Gale Courey Toensing
March 23, 2011
A group of Anishinabe women with expertise in halting unwanted projects that threaten the environment are determined to stop a proposed shipment of steam generators contaminated wi...

Back to the Basics: Johnnycakes with Stone-ground Indian Flint Corn

Dale Carson
March 23, 2011
Dale Carson I recently attended a social where a good friend and I exchanged small gifts...

Native Film Tackles Columbus Day Issues

Carol Berry
March 23, 2011
Columbus Day became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906; nowadays, Italian-Americans clash regularly with those opposed to a parade honoring the controversial historical ...

Language Preservation Vision Shared for all Tribes

Donna Laurent Caruso
March 23, 2011
We Still Live Here Âs Nutayuneân, 86 minutes, www.MakepeaceProductions.com “If the Wampanoag could bring back their language without a single Native speaker, then anything is possi...

Don’t Leave Home Without It

Lee Allen
March 23, 2011
"What we did wasn’t just for us, it was for every single tribe in America,” said Pascua Yaqui Tribal Chairman Peter Yucupicio...

Apache 8: Fighting Fire with Women

ICTMN Staff
March 22, 2011
The documentary Apache 8 , which will be showing on April 3 at the Native American Film + Video Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, tells of th...

Stopping the Escalating ‘Pill Epidemic’ in Indian Country

ICTMN Staff
March 22, 2011
Prescription painkillers have become the drug of choice in Indian country, reported Minnesota Public Radio News . “In my opinion, it’s literally destroying our community...

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