Fireworks, Freedom and Feeling Up: The Significance of the Fourth in 600 Words

Gyasi Ross
July 04, 2012
For many Indians, fireworks seasons is about freedom...
Ruth Hopkins

Without the First Americans, There Would Be No U.S.A.

As a kid, to me the Fourth of July was all about one thing: fireworks. I grew up in the country in the Dakotas, where lighting off fireworks was pretty much a rite of passage for reservation kids....

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July 04, 2012

Wildfire Threatening Northern Cheyenne Grows, Reservation Forbids Fireworks

ICTMN Staff
July 03, 2012
The Ash Creek Fire ravaging Montana in and around Lame Deer and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation had risen to 186,800 acres, or about 265 square miles, as of Monday night J...
Simon Moya-Smith

When Will Indians Get Their Independence Day?

It was last Saturday around noon and I was in no mood for banal blather....

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July 04, 2012

A July 4th Remembrance: Chief Black Hawk

ICTMN Staff
July 04, 2012
Bob Fahey (left) Tonya Jones, Donna Herr (back middle), Larry Cooper, and Jim Decker (right) unveil the Chief Black Hawk monument at Old Settlers Park Saturday June 30, 2012 in For...

Aboriginals Seek to Raise Awareness of Role in Country's Formation as Canada Day Is Marked

Elle Andra-Warner
July 01, 2012
Canada Day—that country’s equivalent of the Fourth of July, the U.S.'s Independence Day—is fraught with ambivalence for aboriginals, and perhaps even more so this year, as the coun...

More Pow, More Wow! Fireworks Have Turned Into a Good Seasonal Business for Many Tribes

Tanya Lee
July 04, 2012
Baachachik Fireworks on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana With the July 4 holiday approaching, thousands of visitors are expected to flock to reservations in the West in searc...

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