Steve Russell

Fox News Causes Hell to Freeze Over

Hell has officially frozen over when I rise to defend the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

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March 31, 2011

Laverdure Announces BIA Tribal Consultation Meetings on Draft Part 162 Leasing Regulations

ICTMN Staff
February 17, 2011
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Del Laverdure announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs will be holding tribal consultation meetings for tribal leaders to rev...

Interior Department Rebuts Schumer, Reconfirms Oneida’s 300,000-acre Reservation

Gale Courey Toensing
February 04, 2011
The Interior Department has re-confirmed its long held position that the Oneida Indian Nation’s 300,000-acre reservation has not been disestablished...

Miwok Tribe Settles Lengthy Sovereignty Dispute

Carol Berry
January 24, 2011
STOCKTON, Calif.—Although the tribal nation currently has a small membership—of five people, to be precise—and tribal headquarters are in a leafy residential neighborhood rather th...
Rep. Tom Cole

Democrats Stoke Unnecessary Fear Over Ryan Budget and Indian Country

In their recent letter to Indian Country Today Media Network, Congressmen Ed Markey and Ben Ray Lujan expressed concern that chronically underfunded tribal programs are in jeopardy of damaging further spending reductions....

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November 05, 2012
Steve Russell

Election Day 2012: A Choice of Cancer or Polio?

If Indians should vote in elections called by the colonial state, the question becomes for whom? It is axiomatic that we vote our interests, but which of many interests?...

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November 05, 2012

Russell Means: Standing Against Injustice

Gale Courey Toensing
October 26, 2012
At the height of the American Indian Movement in the mid-1970s, Russell Means traveled to Connecticut to support the late Golden Hill Paugussett Chief Aurelius Piper Sr...

'Restoring the Circle' Campaign Created to End Sexual Assault on Tribal College and University Campuses

ICTMN Staff
October 26, 2012
In September 2011, Vice President Joe Biden launched the "1 is 2 Many" initiative to raise awareness of the need to reduce dating violence and sexual assault among women ages 16 to...

Department of Interior to Stay Out of Intratribal Matters

ICTMN Staff
August 29, 2011
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have been in a legal battle to determine who is the Governor of the tribes...

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