Fox News: 'Whistleblower Says VA Ignored Data That Could Have Helped Suicidal, Sick Veterans'

ICTMN Staff
March 14, 2013
The highest-level whistleblower ever to come forward at the Department of Veterans Affairs is leveling accusations of serious ethical lapses, claiming an agency intentionally manip...

Tribal Instructor Encourages Healing Through Music—It 'Helps Folks Reach Their Inner Being, Their Soul'

Brian Daffron
February 12, 2013
Many people throughout the world find peace and solace through music...
Ruth Hopkins

Suicide as Genocide

Genocide has found a new disguise: that of adolescent suicide. According to the Indian Health Service, Natives who fall between 10 and 24 years of age have the highest rate of suicide of all racial groups. Despite this epidemic, we’re still failing to address it head on....

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February 10, 2013

New Film Highlights Alaska Native Suicide Prevention

Stephanie Woodard
January 24, 2013
In We Breathe Again , a movie in production about Alaska Native suicide-prevention work, a man talks about his suicide attempt. “I wanted to hunt...

Tribes Take on Youth Suicide With Skits, Ceremonies and Mustangs

Stephanie Woodard
January 09, 2013
On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, youngsters perform skits they hope will lower their tribe’s youth-suicide rate...

Mitakupi Foundation Working With Others to Battle Youth Suicide on Pine Ridge

Heather Steinberger
December 19, 2012
It was an exciting year for Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph, the creative minds behind the award-winning documentary film “Holy Man.” Their 2011 film, which told the story of inca...

Captured Criminal Justice In Alaska Native Villages

Duane Champagne
November 08, 2012
Criminal justice administration in the state of Alaska is very centralized. It is also very ineffective...

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...

American Indian Youth in Crisis: Tribes Grapple With a Suicide Emergency

Stephanie Woodard
October 10, 2012
It feels like wartime,” says Diane Garreau, a child-welfare official on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, speaking of the youth-suicide epidemic sweeping India...

Coyote Thoughts: The Deadly Tricksters

Dr. Beau Washington
September 29, 2012
Trickster Thoughts are thoughts that are possible but not accurate. They are only "slightly off" so they often fool us into believing that they are true...

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