Book Excerpt: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

Anton Treuer
March 04, 2013
In his introduction to Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, author and professor Anton Treuer says that he spent most of his childhood living in a bo...

How Estonia Preserved Its Culture

Hans Tammemagi
January 19, 2013
Recently, my wife, Allyson, and I landed in Estonia, a tiny, little-known nation tucked away in the northeast corner of Europe just south of Finland...

Culture and Indigenous Nationality

Duane Champagne
December 08, 2012
A remarkable feature about indigenous nations is that they have continued after more than 500 years of colonial efforts to assimilate and dismantle them...

Earth Sounds: Native American, Mongolian, and Australian Musical Cultures Celebrated at Wang Center Tonight

ICTMN Staff
October 04, 2012
Tonight, October 4, at the Wang Center on the Stony Brook University campus in Stony Brook, New York, musical cultures will be celebrated in a special event...

New York Mom Offended By ‘Cowboys and Native Americans’ Game at Son's Elementary School

ICTMN Staff
October 01, 2012
When Lana Smith, a Mi’kmaq mother from Syracuse, New York heard her 7-year-old son, Damon Holmes, had played a game called “cowboys and Indians” in gym class toward the end of last...

The Navajo Nation Fair Pow Wow in Window Rock

ICTMN Staff
September 27, 2012

It was about 25 years ago that Nancy Ahboah took her first steps as a southern traditional dancer at the

University of Alberta Master's Student Champions Cree Culture, Honored With Alumni Award

Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta
September 24, 2012
For Dorothy Thunder, the Cree language and culture can’t be separated, and if one is lost, the other will surely follow...

Ambitious and Controversial School Attempts to Save the Mohawk Language and Culture

Tanya Lee
July 29, 2012
In 1988 a few parents in the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke, 15 miles southwest of Montreal, decided to try to preserve the language of their elders by teaching it to their toddler...
Vincent Schilling

The Voices of Our Native Youth Are Talking, But Are We Listening?

I have been writing as a correspondent for Indian Country Today Media Network for quite a few years and I was honored, to say the least, when ICTMN’s Opinion/Editorial editor Ray Cook asked if I would like to contrib...

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December 03, 2011

Breaking Down Jacoby Ellsbury's Chances in the American League MVP Race

ICTMN Staff
September 22, 2011
This year's American League MVP race might be one for the ages...

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