Mitch Albom: 'Vietnam Vet Deserves a Friendlier Farewell'

ICTMN Staff
March 25, 2013
On Sunday, March 24, Mitch Albom, the award-winning Detroit Free Press columnist and best-selling author of Tuesdays With Morrie , wrote about a Vietnam veteran who recently passed...
Steve Russell

You Can’t Drive Drunk With Nothing to Drive

Few of us have been unscathed by alcohol, and I am no exception. A close Cherokee relative, big-hearted and kind when sober, was a mean drunk who finally ended his life in a drunken header off a bridge. When my son was 7, I had to tell him a drunken driver had killed his best soccer buddy....

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March 25, 2013

'Drunk Indians' Joke Lands 'Mike & Molly' in Hot Water

ICTMN Staff
March 05, 2013
American Indians were blindsided by a quip on a recent episode of the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly ...

Portland Clinic Helps Addicts by Breaking Cycle of Chaos and Confusion

Bill Graves
January 18, 2013
Pearl Scott lifts the baby from the crib and balances the child on her hip, just as someone did with her when she was a baby 20 years ago...

Roadblock Keeps Whiteclay Quiet on New Year’s Eve

Christina Rose
January 02, 2013
Tribal police searched each and every vehicle returning from Whiteclay, Nebraska on Monday night, as a long line of drivers headed for the Pine Ridge Reservation waited patiently...

Is Current Indian Policy Sufficient?

ICTMN Staff
October 15, 2012
The year 1928 saw the release of the so-called Meriam Report, the first comprehensive overview of U.S. Indian policy since the 1850s...

Rapper Lupe Fiasco Tweets Support for Fight Against Alcoholism with #ToastToPineRidge

ICTMN Staff
October 09, 2012
Hip hop star Lupe Fiasco gained notice in Indian country for the shout-outs to Pine Ridge in his single "Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)" , and later followed up with a low-prof...

Crazy Brave: Joy Harjo Found That the Hardest Story to Tell Was Her Own

Konnie LeMay
September 30, 2012
This is my heart. It is a good heart. Weaves a membrane of mist and fire...

Documentary Profiles Native Students as They Consider Their Futures

ICTMN Staff
August 03, 2012
For her first documentary Erica Scharf, of Oceanside, New York takes an in-depth look at three Navajo teens struggling to walk in two worlds in Up Heartbreak Hill ...

Authorities Place Safety Checks Near Pine Ridge to Combat Alcohol Woes

Stephanie Woodard
June 05, 2012
Just south of Pine Ridge village on prom night for Pine Ridge High School, the blue and red swirling lights of Oglala Lakota tribal cop cars lit up the two-lane road, blocking the ...

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