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On the Record: Searching the Dawes Rolls

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
The Dawes Rolls were created by the Dawes Commission, which sought to make a complete record of all members of the Five Civilized Tribes, as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee)...

What’s in a Name? Indian Naming Conventions

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
American Indian naming traditions vary from tribe to tribe...

Bering Strait into Controversy

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
Many scholars have asked: “Where did Native Americans come from?” but no one has managed to answer the question to everyone’s satisfaction...

Where Did Chief Joseph Get His Mesopotamian Tablet?

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
When Chief Joseph, a renowned Nez Perce leader, surrendered to Europeans in 1877, he gave a special gift to General Nelson Appleton Miles, wrote Vine Deloria, Jr...

The First Pocahontas May Have Been a Viking

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
Genes from the Beotuk, a long-extinct branch of Canada's aboriginal peoples, have shown up in samples of 80 people from Iceland, a team of anthropologists and geneticists has revea...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Against Alaska Mine

Meta L. Maxwell
March 24, 2011
National Resources Defense Council, Senior Attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ...

Distributing the Wealth: Tribe Spreads its Casino Revenue to Other Tribes and Charities

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
When the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community became the most prosperous tribe in Minnesota from its casino ventures located in close proximity to the Minneapolis-St...

Don't Get Sick After June: Learn About Indian Healthcare

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
This video series, posted by WyteDove on March 23, 2011 on YouTube educates viewers on the state of Native American healthcare, from new diseases brought by the white man to the be...

AFN Chief: Federal Budget Does Not Deliver for First Nations

Gale Courey Toensing
March 24, 2011
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut-Atleo is calling for a new funding approach from the federal government that would ensure equitable opportunity, stability ...

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...

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