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Tribes Among Biggest Campaign Contributors

Rob Capriccioso
March 22, 2011
The number one donor in the last U.S. presidential election cycle wasn’t a health-care lobbyist, a tobacco company or a tech giant...

Millionaire Challenges Mohegan Sun on his $1.2M Gambling Debt

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
Jerry Powers, Plum TV CEO (Photo courtesy of Rex USA) A Florida-based millionaire is accused of walking out on his $1.2 million gambling debt at the Uncasville, Connecticut-based M...

Cal State University Newspaper: Racist?

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
When the Union Weekly , Cal State University, Long Beach’s weekly newspaper, came out March 14, it didn’t take long for readers to notice one of the articles in the publication...

Akwesasne Warriors Close to Federal Hockey League Championship

Sam Laskaris
March 21, 2011
Thanks to a pair of weekend road wins, the Akwesasne Warriors can capture the inaugural Federal Hockey League championship on home ice...

Seneca Offers Land, Tax Advantages, Expertise to Verizon

Gale Courey Toensing
March 21, 2011
Seneca Nation President Robert Porter ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY – The Seneca Nation of Indians has offered Verizon an alternative to locating a new data center in tax-inten...

Echo Hawk Defends Obama’s Budget Cuts

Rob Capriccioso
March 21, 2011
The Department of the Interior ’s Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk finds himself in the awkward position of defending the Obama administration’s decision to d...

Baffin Island Maps Its Sea Ice

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
Arctic sea ice is as much a partner in daily Inuit life as the people themselves, and now a new online, interactive atlas is charting the permutations of that ice, accompanied by e...

Marybelle Chase Honored With Cherokee Nation Gadugi Award

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
Marybelle Chase was recently given the Gadugi Award in recognition of her academic contributions to the Cherokee Nation...

The Wandering Bull Charges After Pow Wows

Donna Laurent Caruso
March 21, 2011
The Wandering Bull , which sells craft materials and regalia (with an emphasis on Eastern Woodlands regalia), started with a card table set up at pow wows in 1969...

Iroquois Lacrosse Arena a Community Success Story

Sam Laskaris
March 21, 2011
Six Nations has its own field of dreams...

Census Measures Business Growth in Indian Country

Rob Capriccioso
March 21, 2011
WASHINGTON – Despite widespread reports of struggling reservation economies, business has been rapidly increasing in certain parts of Indian country, according to new U.S...

The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook Honored at Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
“ The Mitsitam Café Cookbook ” by executive chef Richard Hetzler (Fulcrum) took second place in the “Best Local” category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris on March 3...

President of Meyer Contracting Wins National Native American Woman Owned Business Award

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
Kathy Meyer Kathy Meyer (White Earth Ojibwe) recently accepted the National Native American Woman Owned Business Award for Maple Grove, Minnesota-based Meyer Contracting, Inc...

LaPlante Named Secretary of Tribal Relations by Gov. Daugaard

Brenda Austin
March 21, 2011
Leroy “J.R.” LaPlante, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe , was recently appointed by South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard as the Secretary of Tribal Relations ...

JOB: THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA Department of Native Studies Assistant Professor

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2011
The Native Studies Department at the University of South Dakota invites applicants for assistant professor of linguistics with a Lakota language teaching and learning focus...

Sled Dogs

ICTMN Staff
March 20, 2011
The famous mushers and their dogs featured in the Iditarod race are known the world over, but it's just a reflection of the relationship that has existed between man and beast for ...

Canada's Boreal Forest

ICTMN Staff
March 20, 2011
The Pew Environment Group, a U.S...

Report Finds Canada's Boreal Forest Key to World's Survival

ICTMN Staff
March 20, 2011
Canada may hold the key to the world’s survival, steward as it is of the world’s largest intact forest, which contains more unfrozen water than any other ecosystem, a major U.S...

Sequoyah Senior Earns Silas Hunt Scholarship

ICTMN Staff
March 20, 2011
Sequoyah Schools senior Logan Francis’s hard work and dedication has paid off...

The Evolving Beauty of the Fancy Shawl Dance

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
March 20, 2011
Given its legacy of color, vivacity and even rebellion, the name of the dance is ironically plain: fancy shawl...

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