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Promoting Tuberculosis Prevention on the Navajo Reservation

ICTMN Staff
March 17, 2011
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...

How the Choctaws Saved the Irish

ICTMN Staff
March 17, 2011
We're overstating the case there—the Choctaws didn't save the Irish, but they sure tried to help...

Look Beyond Gambling and Tobacco

ICTMN Staff
March 17, 2011
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...

Peru Generals Sentenced, Fined Over Native Killings

Renzo Pipoli
March 17, 2011
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...

Interior Secretary Salazar Visits Riverside Indian School

ICTMN Staff
March 17, 2011
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...

South Dakota's Underground Laboratories

Brenda Austin
March 17, 2011
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...

EPA Releases Emissions Rules for Coal-fired Power Plants

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday issued the first-ever U.S...

John Baker First Alaska Eskimo to win Iditarod

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
ESPN reported that 48-year-old Inupiat John Baker's won in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the longest sled dog race in the world...

Sealaska Heritage Institute Accepting Applications for Latseen Leadership Academy

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting applications through June 10 to attend its Latseen Leadership Academy held in Juneau, Alaska...

Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses Discrimination Complaint; First Nations to Appeal

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
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...

Rounding Up the Predators

Valerie Taliman
March 16, 2011
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...

Good Feather Practices 'Good Medicine'

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
Carrying the eagle staff in this year’s Denver March Powwow was an honor for Doug Good Feather , because the eagle feathers represent “the warriors of our people, the accomplishmen...

Pow Chow and Chat

Dale Carson
March 16, 2011
Dale Carson As an early-bird craft vendor, I arrive at pow wows extra early to taste the assortment of foods like fresh-squeezed lemonade, kettle corn, burgers (buffalo, venison an...

Victor Others is Running For a Better Life

Sam Laskaris
March 16, 2011
Runner Victor Others has had a few challenges adjusting to college life this school year. Yet he's already managed to compete in a pair of national championships...

University of California, Berkeley Hosts The Carlisle Story

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
University of California, Berkeley, is hosting Football Indian Style: The Carlisle Story , at their Institute for the Study of Societal Issues on Thursday, March 17 at 4pm...

Walter Echo-Hawk on Supreme Court Failures

Jack McNeel
March 16, 2011
Spokane, Wash.—He’s a lawyer, professor, activist, author and more; his latest book, In the Courts of the Conqueror; The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided , is nothing less th...

EPA Poised to Issue Industrial-emissions Rules

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
Coal-plant mercury emissions will soon be regulated, good news for the tens of thousands of American Indians whose lives have been poisoned by mercury and other contaminants...

Olive Patricia Dickason Shined a Light on Aboriginal Contributions

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
“Without the indigenous, there would have been no Canada.” And without Olive Patricia Dickason, the true history of Canada may never have been known, according to the National Abor...

Recommended: Louie Gonnie, Jonny Lipford and Blackfire

Vincent Schilling
March 16, 2011
ICTMN Recommends: Louie Gonnie, Breathe Deep the Dusk Fall: Songs of the Native American Church Canyon Records With Breathe Deep the Dusk Fall , Louie Gonnie (Zuni) turns in an exc...

All Systems Go for Four Directions Development Corp.

Gale Courey Toensing
March 16, 2011
Four Directions Development Corporation has a lot to celebrate...

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