It’s traditional to honor elders as keepers of knowledge. However, nowadays many cultures seem to have lost that perspective, celebrating the young and dismissing the old...
With the buyout of a Colorado-based management and staffing solutions firm, the Cherokee Nation increased its technology arm and added 375 employees to its growing business divisio...
Tura Satana, best known for her portrayal of the violent, buxom Varla in the 1965 Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! , died on Friday in Reno, Nevada...
Aya Hair Mask Oil (Photo courtesy of Jerusalem Depot) The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana ’s exclusive rights to distribute and market an all-natural line of skin care by Israeli comp...
The slaughter of 100 sled dogs in British Columbia after last year’s Olympic Games is causing outrage and has sparked an investigation, but for aboriginal groups the deed is especi...
A plan to route building-sized pieces of mining and refinery equipment through the Nez Perce reservation, among other tribal lands and environmentally sensitive areas, to the Alber...
United Non-discriminatory Individuals Demanding Our Studies (UNIDOS), a new youth coalition of Arizona high school students and community members with a mission is to protect ethni...
Yucca (Photo courtesy of Evil Jess/Flickr) Yucca root, used by our ancestors to heal skin sores, reduce scarring, purify blood and alleviate arthritis, according to LiveStrong.com,...
In Wisconsin, the Forest County Potawatomi Community purchased wind energy credits that will power all of the tribe’s electricity usage, states the tribe's news release...
Indian Country Today Media Network last week highlighted the voices of several Indians who shared their opinions of conservatives who mocked the Jan...
At least 18 rural indigenous communities are set to be flooded if the Guatemalan government carries out its plans to construct the Xalalá hydroelectric dam in northern Guatemala...
Monique Gutierrez-Ortega, a native of northern New Mexico, grew her part-time business focused on the medicinal properties of Southwest plants, called Essentials By Monique, into a...
Aboriginal leaders and other officials were expressing shock, sorrow and anger last week at continuing conditions that contributed to the deaths of 21 infants over a two-year perio...