Play It Loud! A Farewell to Levon Helm, Chickasaw

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2012
Levon Helm of The Band has walked on, succumbing to cancer on the afternoon of April 19, his family announced. “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon,” his website reads...

How the Cherokee Fought the Civil War

Robert Pahre
March 27, 2012
March 7 and 8 marked the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, fought in northwest Arkansas near the Oklahoma border...

Lowering Cancer Rates Among American Indians Requires Better Education, Screening and Facilities

Brenda Austin
February 27, 2012
Cancer is often preventable and survivable, but not if you ignore it. “We have to take cancer on like any other enemy. If you confront it you can beat it,” says Dr...

The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Native Territory

Gale Courey Toensing
February 08, 2012
Today, February 8, marks the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act . This is part one of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation...
Julianne Jennings

Cherokee Freedmen: One Year Later

It has been one year since the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen won their long dispute against a constitutional amendment that terminated them...

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January 31, 2012

On the Record: Searching the Dawes Rolls

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2011
The Dawes Rolls were created by the Dawes Commission, which sought to make a complete record of all members of the Five Civilized Tribes, as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee)...

Chickasaw Clinic Will Increase Service Capacity Six Times

ICTMN Staff
February 21, 2011
Rendering of Chickasaw Nation Ardmore Health Clinic (Photo courtesy of Chickasaw Nation) A new 66,000-square foot medical clinic on the Chickasaw Nation's territory in Ardmore, Okl...

African-Native American IndiVisible Exhibit

ICTMN Staff
January 21, 2011
The traveling exhibition " IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas ," is heading to Rockland Community College in the Suffren, NY, reports LoHud.com ...
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

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