How Do You Prove You're an Indian?

ICTMN Staff
December 21, 2011
Read Matthew L.M. Fletcher's response to Treuer's opinion piece at Turtle Talk ...

Genealogy Sites Remove Social Security Numbers

ICTMN Staff
December 20, 2011
Ancestry.com and Genealogybank.com have stopped posting Social Security numbers on their sites...

The Museum as Sacred Place

Jack McNeel
December 19, 2011
In the 1700s, Chief Circling Raven of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe had a vision of men in black robes who would come to the tribe...

Exhibit Shows the Strange, Poignant Story of the Jesuits and Coeur d’Alene

Kevin Taylor
December 19, 2011
A whitewashed Catholic chapel, the Mission of the Sacred Heart, crowns a grassy knoll overlooking a broad, slow bend in the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River in Idaho’s panhand...
Monique Vondall-Rieke, J.D.

North Dakota Rough Rider Award Critic Questions Sakakawea Eligibility

I read with great surprise that North Dakota resident Sakakawea, who traveled as a guide on the great Lewis and Clark expedition that laid the geographical history of the landscape of early America and helped to locate many of the American Indian tribes, their lands of origin and their ...

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December 09, 2011

Learn the History of Native Americans in Lower Putah Creek

ICTMN Staff
October 13, 2011
For the final lecture in its CreekSpeak series, the Putah Creek Council will host Victoria Bevolden, a Lake Berryessa ranger, on October 20...

Understanding Métis History and Aboriginal Rights

ICTMN Staff
October 05, 2011
Ten years ago, when she was just 13 years old, Jordan Sanregret started researching her family tree...

Bitter Fight to Determine Who Is an American Indian Turns to DNA Testing

Kevin Taylor
October 13, 2011
The onset of casino gaming brought great change in Indian country, but it also created unexpected­—and frequently heated—arguments over Indian identity: What makes somebody a membe...

Blood Quantum Influences Native American Identity

ICTMN Staff
August 13, 2011
BBC News writer Paul Adams delves into the complicated story of blood quantum, which he says was first introduced in colonial Virginia in the 18th century...

Englishman Discovers Native American Ancestry

ICTMN Staff
August 11, 2011
After putting his DNA profile on Ancestry.com , Chris McDonald-Constable, of Clayton-le-Moors—a township in Hyndburn in Lancashire, England—discovered that his great-great grandfat...

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