Steven Newcomb

On Conspiracy, Part 1

It is common to see the term “conspiracy” used in a disparaging manner, especially when it comes to such issues as the JFK assassination and 9/11....

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June 25, 2012

Video Spotlight: Powerful Student Film Asks For Apology and Understanding in Minnesota

ICTMN Staff
May 05, 2012
The first word that came to mind to describe the 60-minute documentary by lecturer Carter Meland’s introductory American Indians in Minnesota class was “powerful.” From the histori...

Students Hope Documentary Prompts Apology in Minnesota

ICTMN Staff
April 30, 2012
A video project from 60 students in an introductory American Indians in Minnesota class at the University of Minnesota is being shown May 1 on campus and has already sparked discus...

Book Excerpt: Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer

David Treuer
April 13, 2012
Accomplished anthropologist and author David Treuer argues that “to claim that Indian cultures can continue without Indian languages only hastens our end." The following is an exce...

Former First Nation Leaders Look to Iran for Human Rights Help

ICTMN Staff
March 27, 2012
As the West seeks to continue to isolate Iran to contain its burgeoning nuclear program, a renegade former chief and other First Nation leaders are actively trying to engage the le...
Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan

A Response to Chuck Trimble's "Keeping Victimhood in Perspective"

I was very disappointed to read Chuck Trimble’s mean-spirited, divisive commentary “Keeping Victimhood in Perspective.” I have never met Mr. Trimble, so I will introduce myself....

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March 11, 2012
Raymond Foxworth

Who Will Speak for Native Children?

In July 2012, national press thrust the status of Dakota children in the social service program of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation into national headlines. The sad and untimely death of two Dakota children, discovered by their mother, has been played out like a mad melodrama....

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September 01, 2012

Origins of Women's Jingle Dress Dancing

ICTMN Staff
January 28, 2011
There are few pow wow dances as ebullient, or as symphonic, as the Jingle Dress Dance, especially when there are multiple female dancers moving together...

Translators Unravel 150-year-old Dakota Letters

ICTMN Staff
January 24, 2011
For the past 10 years, Dakota elder Clifford Canku has been poring over letters written by Dakota men who were imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of 1862...

Documentary on Largest U.S. Mass Execution

ICTMN Staff
January 11, 2011
On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Indians were hanged from a massive scaffold in Mankato, Minnesota...

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