It’s our roundup of all the big news coming out of Indian country; this week saw an unprecedented dialogue with the Chief Executive, steps forward and backward in the fight against...
Steve Russell

Tribal governments that disdain being “domestic, dependent nations” should prepare two budgets, similar to the “shadow governments” that opposition parties compose in a parliamentary system....

October 06, 2012
National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) Chairman Ernie Stevens Jr., a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, says there was “a real sense of tribal unity” at the Democratic Na...
Gabriel S. Galanda

This summer I was honored to speak before the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding American Indian Treaty and consultation rights...

October 01, 2012
Steve Russell

Michael Kinsley, writing in The New York Times, famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” I leave it to others whether Kinsley nailed it, but I’m here to suggest that all gaffes are not equal, or even equally interesting...

September 26, 2012
Larry Spotted Crow Mann

For a man who prides himself on being a great businessman, Mitt Romney now carries the ignoble distinction of CEO of the most disastrous, chaotic and self-imploding campaign in modern history....

September 23, 2012
The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) has selected Ahniwake Rose, Cherokee , as its new executive director. She will replace Dr...
Steve Russell

An argument for train travel is the people you meet. Some might take that as an argument against, but I’m not sure why a practicing xenophobe would be traveling in the first place....

September 15, 2012
There’s a slew of new data. Most of it augurs well for President Barack Obama’s re-election. But let’s start with Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s good news...
Cole R. DeLaune

It is a widely accepted prescript of conventional wisdom that the Democratic Party operates as the singularly reliable agent of contemporary American female interests....

September 09, 2012

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