Cherokee Secretary of State Charles Head in Fatal Car Accident

ICTMN Staff
January 30, 2013
Charles Head, 63, died Wednesday in a car accident. The loss of the Cherokee secretary of state is being mourned by Cherokee Nation...
Jay Daniels

Your Great-Great Grandmother Wasn't a Cherokee

Once, at a tribal consultation meeting, Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, asked me to join him for lunch. Upon learning that I was a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he asked about my opinion of the Freedmen issue....

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January 25, 2013

Tiny Horrors: A Chilling Reminder of How Cruel Assimilation Was—And Is

Mary Annette Pember
January 01, 2013
For such small objects, the child’s handcuffs are surprisingly heavy when cradled in the palms of one’s hand...

2012 Retrospective: December

ICTMN Staff
December 29, 2012
Take a look back at December 2012's biggest stories from the pages of our weekly magazine, This Week From Indian Country Today . Moapa Solar Farm to Power L.A...

2012 Hall of Fame and Mantle of Shame Awards

Suzan Shown Harjo
December 28, 2012
HALL OF FAME: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for winning second terms by a whopping 332 electoral votes to 206 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney and Repres...

Apocalypse Prophecies: Native End of the World Teachings

ICTMN Staff
December 20, 2012
“In the Hopi teachings,” he began, “we are told that toward the end of the world, Spider Woman will come back and she will weave her web across the landscape...

Searching for the Historical Truth in African and American Indian Relationships

Brenda Austin
December 10, 2012
Tiya Miles has a passion for learning about how what happened in America’s early history still affects society, in particular the interactions between African and American Indian p...
Steve Russell

Assimilating the Terminators

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...

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December 09, 2012

Oklahoma Schools Push to Keep Native Languages Alive

Lynn Armitage
December 06, 2012
On September 13, the U.S...
Steve Russell

'FBIs'—Full-Blooded Indians—Face the Most Anti-Indian Racism

The Silver-Tongued Devil and I ...

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December 02, 2012

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