Student Creates List of Female Aboriginal Firsts

ICTMN Staff
March 29, 2013
Doing a collage of indigenous female leaders proved challenging for student Sally Simpson. That’s because an easily accessible list of such women did not exist, until now...

California School District Bans Mexican Epithets for Indigenous People

ICTMN Staff
May 29, 2012
“No me llames oaxaquita,” or “Don’t call me little Oaxacan,” is the title of an anti-bullying campaign that Oxnard School District in southern California Ventura County, has adopte...

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Refuses to Cooperate With Justice Department

ICTMN Staff
April 04, 2012
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio made headlines again this week, when on April 3 he flat-out rejected the U.S...

U.N.: Canada Continues Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples

Gale Courey Toensing
March 14, 2012
The federal government of Canada has not addressed the issue of persistent poverty among Indigenous Peoples, nor has it implemented the right to free, prior and informed consent be...

BIE School Being Sued for Discrimination Against Pregnant Teen

ICTMN Staff
March 06, 2012
After being kicked out of school and publicly humiliated for being pregnant, 15-year-old Shantelle Hicks now has the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU New Mexico on her side...

Apologies Not Enough for Native Language Debacle

ICTMN Staff
March 02, 2012
Miranda Washinawatok , Menominee, and her family have been in the public eye since the 12-year-old was punished back on January 19 for using her Native American language in class...
Jerry L. Hill

Suspension of American Indian Student for Speaking Native Language Is Ignorant and Intolerant

On January 19, a Menominee Indian seventh grader named Miranda Washinawatok was benched and suspended from a Catholic School...

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February 14, 2012
Julianne Jennings

My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line

Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant ...

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December 27, 2011
Eric Olson

X-Men Films Are Multiethnic, But Exclude Indians

Last month, the fourth sequel in the profitable 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios X-Men movie franchise was released to the home video market, sellin...

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December 04, 2011

Discrimination Complaint Trial Set for Alleged Native Racial Remarks

ICTMN Staff
October 20, 2011
The former director of economic development for a metro Denver community is persevering in a lawsuit centering on her support for a Dine’ employee and other issues which she conten...

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