Top 5 Ways Senators Used Indian Affairs Hearing to Push Their Pet Projects

Rob Capriccioso
May 17, 2013
Even a person only casually acquainted with Native Americans who viewed the May 15 hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in which U.S...

Sally Jewell in for a Wild Ride with Indian Country

Rob Capriccioso
May 15, 2013
Sally Jewell, the new secretary of the Department of the Interior, spent a short time discussing firefighting at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on May 15...
Charles Kader

Indigenous Intercontinental Highways

The uneven progress associated with fossil fuel pipeline projects on Turtle Island has taken on international dimensions recently. Eminent domain protests and leaking piped networks now routinely are in the news....

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May 05, 2013

2012 Hall of Fame and Mantle of Shame Awards

Suzan Shown Harjo
December 28, 2012
HALL OF FAME: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for winning second terms by a whopping 332 electoral votes to 206 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney and Repres...
Oliver J. Semans

Native Vote Packs a Punch—Again

Who would think that a group that makes up about one percent of the overall population could carry such a wallop? From 2000, when we defeated infamous “Indian fighter” U.S....

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November 15, 2012

Elections 2012: Look at the Numbers and Indian Country Outperformed

Mark Trahant
November 08, 2012
Indian country is the smallest demographic slice of what is America. Yet when the history of the 2012 election is written, it must be said, that Indian country outperformed...

Montana Tribes Demand Equal Access to Early Voting

Stephanie Woodard
October 10, 2012
On October 10, members of three Montana tribes— Northern Cheyenne , Crow and Gros Ventre and Assiniboine—filed a voting-rights lawsuit in federal court in Billings...

Elections 2012: Time’s Running Out to Register, Coal Fights, and Unpopular Cities

Mark Trahant
October 09, 2012
Today is the last day to register to vote in 17 states and NativeVote.org is on the case. In Arizona, for example, registration forms must be postmarked by midnight tonight...

Elections 2012: Forget Talking Cows, Montana is Now Obama Versus a Congressman’s Junkets

Mark Trahant
September 25, 2012
Montana’s race for the U.S. Senate is fascinating. It was a contest about who was more Montanan . At least until this week. Montana Sen. Jon Tester is accusing his opponent, Rep...

Elections 2012: Have You Heard the One About Montana’s Talking Cows?

Mark Trahant
September 13, 2012
Montana is not exactly a blue state...

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