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Peru Confrontations Leave Three Dead, Police Averts Massacre

Renzo Pipoli
April 11, 2011
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...

Protesters Rally on New York State Capitol Steps Against Hydraulic Fracturing

ICTMN Staff
April 11, 2011
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...

Ice Bowling at Ilisagvik College

ICTMN Staff
April 11, 2011
Pictured, from left, are Sarah Bergman, Kuoiqsik Curtis, Earl Davis, Saga Aina and Adam Burnett, and Talasinga Lilo is in the back...

Arizona Public Service Targets Navajo Businesses for Contract Work

ICTMN Staff
April 11, 2011
The owners of Hodishooh Specialty Cleaning Services in Bloomfield, New Mexico, Ray and Spicey Yazzie secured a contract with Arizona Public Service Co...

Canada Election Highlights First Nation Voter Apathy

David Wiwchar
April 11, 2011
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...

Enjoy Spring’s Edible Blooms Fresh or Fried

Dale Carson
April 11, 2011
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...

2011 Miss Indian Oklahoma Pageant Coming Up

ICTMN Staff
April 11, 2011
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...

Morongo Tribe Hosts 4th Annual Torch Run for Special Olympics

Gale Courey Toensing
April 11, 2011
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...

Indian Voices Excerpted: Loud and Proud!

Alison Owings
April 11, 2011
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...

Fifth Grader Places First at National American Indian Science Fair

ICTMN Staff
April 10, 2011
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...

Mother Earth Water Walk Starts April 10

Konnie LeMay
April 10, 2011
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...

Kyuquot Sound, Vancouver Island

ICTMN Staff
April 10, 2011
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...

Setting the Record Straight: Trailblazer Shone a Light on Aboriginals’ Role in Canada

Elle Andra-Warner
April 10, 2011
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...

John Evans Glacier, Ellesmere Island

ICTMN Staff
April 10, 2011
John Evans Glacier is in Nunavut, heart of Inuit territory...

Urban Native Girl’s Hostess Gifts on the Cheap

Lisa Charleyboy
April 09, 2011
Dinner parties and cocktail parties held at someone’s home have become de rigeur lately...

Chickasaw and the Chocolate Factory

ICTMN Staff
April 09, 2011
"Charlie looked down at the candy bar...

UMass Amherst Linguist Recognized for Preserving Native American Languages

ICTMN Staff
April 09, 2011
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...

Seneca President Rebukes New York Post for Editorial

Gale Courey Toensing
April 09, 2011
It didn’t take long for Seneca Nation of Indians President Rob Odawi Porter to respond to a New York Post editorial urging Gov...

APTN Broadcasts Aboriginal Achievement Awards April 9

ICTMN Staff
April 09, 2011
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 ...

Elk: Taking and Giving Back

ICTMN Staff
April 09, 2011
In Colorado, elk are gobbling up young willows as if they were candy. Over in North Dakota, the elk are feeding needy humans...

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