Forty-three-year-old Lawrence Baker, a widely respected master of ceremonies, said that his role at the mike of the big pow wows is to acknowledge both the similarities and the dif...
The newly appointed head of the Crow Education Department plans on making revitalization of the Crow language a priority. “We’re experiencing a collapse in the fluency rate,” Dr...
This weekend the Blue Lake Hotel & Casino, Blue Lake, Calif., will accommodate 200 indigenous peoples from more than 80 tribal nations from throughout North America for the Nor...
In the face of the recent recession, Indian-owned casinos held their ground better than commercial gaming houses, leaving them more monies to build new properties including cutting...
A Crow tribal court judge has denied a petition for a temporary restraining order to halt a referendum asking Crow members to ratify the Crow Water Settlement Act of 2010...
In the play The Frybread Queen , which premiered March 12 at the Autry Theater in Los Angeles, three generations of Native women come together to mourn a man...
ANADARKO, Okla.—To Eddie Jacobs, the Cobell case is personal. He is not just an Individual Indian Monies (IIM) account holder with a number, he said...
Tuberculosis infects about one third of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization , and American Indians are six times more likely to die from tuberculosis...
President Robert Porter of the New York-based Seneca Nation of Indians told tribal government leaders and entrepreneurs at the Reservation Economic Summit (RES), hosted by the Nati...
News broke this week that three high-ranking Peruvian police and army generals were given suspended prison sentences and fined by a military court, the result of findings that they...
To showcase the Department of the Interior’s commitment to expanding quality educational opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students, Interior Secretary Ken Salaza...
An abandoned gold mine in Lead, South Dakota is rapidly being transformed into a trove of scientific treasure, and the world’s science community—and many American Indian nations—ar...
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on Monday dismissed a 2007 case alleging that First Nations children were being discriminated against by discrepancies in funding between federal...
In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100 th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human...