Confrontations between a group of some 1,200 police who had been deployed to try to contain growing popular unrest and some 4,000 farmers who opposed a copper mine project left thr...
Hundreds rallied on the steps of the New York State capitol in Albany on April 11, the Associated Press reported, to protest the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a me...
The owners of Hodishooh Specialty Cleaning Services in Bloomfield, New Mexico, Ray and Spicey Yazzie secured a contract with Arizona Public Service Co...
To vote or not to vote. That is the question facing many First Nations people in Canada as the nation heads into its fourth federal election in just seven years...
Dale Carson “Eat your flowers and weeds,” my Mama would say. Every spring I think, and can almost see, my mother saying these words with a sly smile and a twinkle in her eye...
The Oklahoma Federation of Indian Women , a nonprofit organization that has been committed to advancing the economic and social welfare of the American Indian since 1969, is once a...
Event raises funds for Special Olympics CABAZON – The Morongo Band of Mission Indians hosted the kick-off ceremony for the local Law Enforcement Torch Run to raise funds for the Sp...
For Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans , author Alison Owings journeyed across America—east to west, north to south, and back again—to document what Native Americans from...
Of the 500 projects submitted at the National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair —held March 24-26 in Albuquerque, New Mexico—fifth grader Taylahni Jackson , of the Oglal...
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Like the ancient mariner in the poem, Josephine Mandamin once lived surrounded by water and yet often had none to drink...
This is some of the land covered by the Maa-nulth Treaty, the first modern-day treaty, which took nearly 20 years to negotiate but will rid five First Nations of the Indian Act for...
When Olive Patricia Dickason entered academia at age 50, the award-winning Métis journalist was appalled at the historical descriptions she heard and read of Canada’s aboriginals...
Margaret “Peggy” Speas, professor of linguistics, was recently nominated by her peers as a University of Massachusetts Amherst Spotlight Scholar for her 20-plus years of work to pr...
A champion of aboriginal fishing rights, a standout woman Métis leader and an innovative health care and child-welfare specialist are among the honorees at the National Aboriginal ...