Tribes Oppose Obama's Nomination of Lynne Sebastian to Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Rob Capriccioso
February 28, 2013
Tribal leaders and American Indian activists are protesting President Barack Obama’s nomination of Lynne Sebastian to serve on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP),...

Idle No More Activists Will Rally to Save Hickory Ground

Gale Courey Toensing
January 23, 2013
The Idle No More movement will rally in Oklahoma and Alabama to protest the desecration of a sacred site...

Tribal and NCAI Leader Wayne L. Ducheneaux Walks On

ICTMN Staff
December 18, 2012
Over his lifetime he led the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the National Congress of American Indians. He was a United States Marine, a rancher and a family man...

Support Is Needed to Save Black Hills Sacred Site

Gale Courey Toensing
August 18, 2012

Each spring since time immemorial, Lakota people have visited their sacred places in South Dakota’s Black Hills—P

Gabriel S. Galanda

Protecting Indian Prisoners' Religious Freedom

Despite the barbwire fenced entryway, security pat downs, and presence of several armed corrections officers, a sense of freedom filled one corner of the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla on Tuesday, May 22....

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July 04, 2012
Karla E. General

Securing Indigenous Rights to Sacred Places With the UN Declaration

The ...

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May 16, 2012

Suzan Shown Harjo’s Statement for UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya

Suzan Shown Harjo
April 27, 2012
The following is a statement given by Suzan Shown Harjo, president of the Morning Star Institute, on the Significance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous ...

Protecting Native American Sacred Sites

Duane Champagne
October 27, 2011
The land has multiple cultural interpretations and creates competing orientations about the use and value of land...
Russell Means

American Indian Religious Freedom in Theory and Practice

The late Seneca scholar and philosopher John Mohawk said: "In order to be free, you must act free." Mohawk was a contemporary of mine, and he knew the struggle for freedom for indigenous peoples is not theoretical, it is real; it is also difficult, constant and requires remembering where we, as A...

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July 01, 2011

An Honorary Doctorate for a Lifetime of Advocacy

ICTMN Staff
April 15, 2011
Suzan Shown Harjo Suzan Shown Harjo is a poet, writer, curator and advocate; she is a leader in the arts, culture and policy, and in May she will receive an honorary doctorate for ...

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