Native American Studies Celebrates 40 Years at Dartmouth College

ICTMN Staff
September 27, 2012
The Native American studies program at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire has come a long way from having just one half-time professor and offering two classes when it was...

Federal Recognition: Can the BIA's Acknowledgment Process Be Fixed?

Gale Courey Toensing
August 08, 2012
Years after the Chickahominy Indian Tribe of Virginia filed a petition for federal acknowledgment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1996, the then-head of the agency told ...
Cedric Sunray

Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes

Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tuls...

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May 23, 2012

Virginia Tribes Renew Fight for Federal Recognition: Six of 11 of their Members of Congress Give Support

Brian Stockes
July 18, 2001
WASHINGTON - After gaining further support from their Congressional delegation, six of the eight tribes of Virginia are again in the hunt for federal recognition through Congressio...

Sense of Duty to the Land, Not the Government

Vincent Schilling
May 02, 2011
Powhatan Red-Cloud Owen is a Combat Veteran that served during the Vietnam War in Chu Lai, assigned to the Americal Division – 523rd Signal Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment...

White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

Tanya Lee
April 26, 2011
Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy , Chickahominy ...

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