Peter d'Errico

Stolen Generations: Adoption as a Weapon

Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects is a new book about the campaign to break indigenous social structures by removing the children: "Governments…paid agencies and churches to remov...

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January 02, 2013
Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Native American Heritage Month: Reconciling the Contentious History of a Nation

The Background and Context of Native American Heritage Month...

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November 19, 2012

Will Rogers Started Poor, Died Rich, and Left Behind a Lot of Laughter

Steve Russell
September 18, 2012
Will Rogers was born to Cherokee parents in 1879 in Indian Territory, a rural backwater where Indian tribes had been sent to die, yet this Paint Clan Cherokee became internationall...

A Candid Q&A With Donna Miranda-Begay, Tubatulabal Tribe Chairwoman

Richard Walker
September 05, 2012
Donna Miranda-Begay, Navajo/Tubatulabal, has served as chairwoman of the Tubatulabal Tribe of Kern Valley, California since 2006...

Indian Land Capital Company Awarded Highest Tier NACA Grant From CDFI Fund

ICTMN Staff
August 17, 2012
Indian Land Capital Company (ILCC)—a Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that helps tribes acquire lands for business development, housing and community-based...

Will Rogers: Actor, Comedian, Political Pundit, Truth Teller—And Proud Cherokee

Steve Russell
July 23, 2012
In our time, we can remember where we were when a few transformative events occurred—the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the killing of John Lennon...
Steve Russell

Elizabeth Warren: Box-Checking for Fun and Profit

Forrest Carter, Carlos Castaneda, Ward Churchill, Iron Eyes Cody, Jamake HIghwater, Nasdijj, Princess Pale Moon, Andrea and Justine Smith, Mary Thunder, Dhyani Ywahoo....

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May 16, 2012

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...
Steve Russell

The Price of Nationhood

When you are about one half of one percent of the population, how many people can you afford to leave behind by categorical self-definition?...

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April 02, 2012

Part 3: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory

Gale Courey Toensing
February 15, 2012
February 8 marked the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act . This is part three of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation...

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