Duane Champagne
June 15, 2013
One of the great challenges to renewing and sustaining indigenous nations are normless tribal members...
During an April 24 Michigan Radio program Ben Hinmon, a descendant of Chief Pontiac, spoke about his great-great-great-great grandfather’s legacy...
Ruth Hopkins

Every American Indian alive today has been affected by the policy of assimilation implemented by the United States government not that long ago....

March 30, 2013
A conservative argument that pops up from time to time is making a new round on the Internet...
Mary Annette Pember’s recent story on ICTMN.com about a pair of tiny handcuffs donated to Haskell University touched many people, and touched off many debates...
Shane Murray vividly recalls the scowl on the face of the young Native woman at Haskell Indian Nation University’s Cultural Center when he placed a pair of tiny handcuffs on her de...
Peter d'Errico

Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects is a new book about the campaign to break indigenous social structures by removing the children: "Governments…paid agencies and churches to remov...

January 02, 2013
For such small objects, the child’s handcuffs are surprisingly heavy when cradled in the palms of one’s hand...
Steve Russell

To say that American Indians, First Nations, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians live in tension with the colonial states of North America is both a truism and an exercise in distance by use of academic jargon.  One reason academics use such clinical, bloodless language is that we are not supposed t...

December 09, 2012
Racheal White Hawk Strong

I’ve been to pow wows before, but this one was different....

November 24, 2012

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