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White Float Coats Protect Alaska Native Whalers

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2011
Many Alaska Native whalers risked navigating Alaska's icy waters without lifejackets, opting to wear white clothes rather than sticking out against the arctic landscape in bright-c...

Canada Bands Together Against Northern TB Scourge

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2011
Nunavut’s tuberculosis rate is 62 times the national average, according to CBC News , with more than 100 active cases diagnosed in 2010, up from 58 in 2008...

Calling the Game in Navajo

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2011
Sports Illustrated reported on sports only Navajo broadcaster, Harrison Dehiya...

Rio Tinto Rails Against Australian Government’s Indigenous Employment Efforts

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2011
Rio Tinto has criticized the Australian government’s Aboriginal employment efforts, reported ABC News ...

AFN Chief Speaks Out Against Tobacco Seizures

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
The head of Canada’s First Nations governing body has called for the return of cigarettes seized recently from two First Nation reserves in as many provinces...

Conrad’s Retirement Impacts Indian Country

Rob Capriccioso
January 18, 2011
WASHINGTON –The unexpected retirement of Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D, is costing Indian country another ally at a time when allies are desperately needed...

N.M. Organic Farmers Will Gather at Agriculture Conference

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
An upcoming two-day New Mexico Organic Farming Conference will draw members of the state's $67 million organic farming industry. Taking place in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb...

Turning Stone Resort Casino Switches to Bally’s Technology System

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
Las Vegas-based Bally Technologies, Inc., will serve as the new management technology system for the Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, Bally’s...

College Football All-Star Game Benefits Connections Program

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
At 5:30 p.m. on January 23rd, the Eastham Energy College All Star game will take place at Arizona State University's Sun Devils Stadium...

Rez Life à la The Sopranos

Wilhelm Murg
January 18, 2011
In a closed society that operates under its own rules, things can go very wrong...

Abramson Elected NIHB Chair

Rob Capriccioso
January 18, 2011
Cathy Abramson, chair of the National Indian Health Board (Photo courtesy of Cathy Abramson) WASHINGTON – Cathy Abramson was elected chair of the National Indian Health Board on Ja...

Crusader Against Mountaintop Mining Memorialized

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
Anti-mountaintop-mining activist Judy Bonds did not quite live to see the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoke a mountaintop-mining permit in her native West Virginia...

Lacrosse Camp for Native Youth a Big Hit

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
Last summer, the Minnesota Lax-4-Life camp was held at the Fond du Lac reservation, near the city of Cloquet, in northeastern Minnesota...

Goss Agency: ‘Before There Was Gucci, There Were the Seminole’

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
The Seminole Tribe of Florida's Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum just got a brand-identity makeover by The Goss Agency as a move to increase visitors and tourism...

Spotlight: Bluff, Utah

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
What is the "coolest" small town in America? That's the question budgettravel.com posed to readers five years ago, and has been asking annually ever since...

Louisiana-Based Tribe Adds Hotel Expansion to Coushatta Casino Resort

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
A new $60 million hotel expansion on the Coushatta Casino Resort will help the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana accommodate its influx of guests, who "drive three hours or more to visi...

First Native American Appointed to the California State Board of Education

Gale Courey Toensing
January 18, 2011
HIGHLAND, Calif. – James Ramos, the chairman of the San Manuel Band of Serrana Mission Indians , has been appointed to the California State Board of Education by Gov. Jerry Brown...

First Nations Woman Chairs Order of Nova Scotia Council

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
Viola Robinson, a First Nations woman who has championed Mi’kmaq people and the advancement of aboriginal and treaty rights in Nova Scotia and Canada, is the new chair of the Order...

A Modern Twist On Pow Wow Dances

ICTMN Staff
January 17, 2011
The Many Moccasins Dance Troupe rips through a seriously impressive range of traditional Native American dances in a thoroughly unique, thrilling way...

First Nation Babies' High Birth Weight Linked to Postneonatal Death

ICTMN Staff
January 17, 2011
High birth weights in First Nations babies may indicate an increased risk of postneonatal death, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal , report...

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