Congress Quickly Fixes the Wrong Problem

Mark Trahant
April 29, 2013
Last week was a perfect illustration of the broken structure that is the United States government. Congress cannot pass a budget...

Trail of Hope for Indian Housing Rallies D.C., Asks Congress to Act

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2013
The crew behind the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Trail of Hope for Indian Housing is headed back to Pine Ridge, but the dilapidated home they hauled all the way from South Dakota to D.C...

U.S. Senate Endorses Keystone XL 62–37 in Symbolic, Non-Binding Vote

ICTMN Staff
March 24, 2013
In an amendment to the budget bill—the first fiscal plan it has approved in four years—the U.S. Senate on Friday voted 62–37 in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline project...

House Introduces Bill to Ban Racist 'Redskins' Trademark

Gale Courey Toensing
March 21, 2013
A new law banning the trademarking of the term “redskins” and other racist language against Native Americans may accomplish what a number of court cases have so far failed to do...

House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Ban Redskins Trademark

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2013
Just nine days after the U.S...

Sequestration Hits Army and Marine Tuition Assistance

ICTMN Staff
March 09, 2013
As Terry Howell of MilitaryAdvantage.Military.com reports , earlier this week the Marine Corps moved to halt tuition assistance for new enrollees in response to the sequestration ...

Looking Back to the Future of VAWA: Suzan Shown Harjo: "Congress, Make the Streets Safe for Indian Women, Too"

ICTMN Staff
March 01, 2013
In one of her columns for Indian Country Today , Suzan Shown Harjo wrote: "Only the reinstatement of tribal jurisdiction and remedies has a chance of reversing the epidemic levels ...

Four Days, a Month of Chaos, and Incompetent Governance

Mark Trahant
February 25, 2013
The sequester begins in four days and Congress is set on a do nothing course. Not that anyone is happy about it...

Sequester is Unattractive, Unappealing and Nine Days Away

Mark Trahant
February 20, 2013
The sequester is now nine days away. At a news conference Tuesday President Barack Obama called the sequester a “meat-cleaver approach” to budget cutting...

Two Books Add Perspective to Current Debates Over Indian Country's Future

Mark Trahant
February 19, 2013
This morning President Barack Obama will make yet another pitch, calling on Congress to stop the sequester with a balanced approach. Of course nothing will happen today...

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