Federal Recognition: Can the BIA's Acknowledgment Process Be Fixed?

Gale Courey Toensing
August 08, 2012
Years after the Chickahominy Indian Tribe of Virginia filed a petition for federal acknowledgment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1996, the then-head of the agency told ...
Joseph Valandra

Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Government: No More Talk, Action Required

The Bureau of Indian Affairs website declares, “The United States has a unique legal and political relationship with Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities as provided by the Constitution of the United States, treaties, court decisions and Federal statutes.” It goes on to detail the type of rel...

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July 13, 2012

Initial Keystone XL Pipeline Rejection Reactions

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2012
UPDATED, JANUARY 19, 3:06 P.M...

Tester Introduces Bill to Benefit Veterans Employment Assistance

ICTMN Staff
July 06, 2011
In a bill introduced June 30 by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., it’s a scenario of simple math...

Blackfeet Voters Hampered by Intimidation, Lack of Ballots

Stephanie Woodard
November 07, 2012
In the late afternoon of an Election Day marred by voter intimidation and what appeared to be a faked anthrax attack on the Blackfeet tribal hall in Browning, Montana —and after a ...

Elections 2012: Senate Remains in Democratic Control

Mark Trahant
November 07, 2012
The next Congress will look like the last one. Only more so. House Speaker John Boehner will return to lead the House of Representatives...

Well Done Indian Country: Amazing Job During the Election, but Now the Hard Work Begins

Gyasi Ross
November 09, 2012
Ok, now the election’s done. Good. Thank God—it went on about six months too long...

Montana Senator Jon Tester Urges Republicans and Democrats to Work Together for Indian Country

Rob Capriccioso
November 01, 2012
When Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) pulled out a victory over former senator Conrad Burns by just 3,500 votes in 2006, he was quick to credit the members of Montana’s tribes with h...

Elections 2012: Montana Democratic Candidates Tell Indian Country – We Need Your Vote

Mark Trahant
November 01, 2012
FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, MONTANA – Montana’s Democratic candidates are on a 1,700 mile road trip across the state’s seven Indian reservations...

A Pragmatic Look at Tribal Participation in Non-Native Elections: Mountains, Winds, and Abraham Lincoln the Gay, Woman and Minority Hunter

Gyasi Ross
August 30, 2012
An Indian Tribe—an autonomous Nation, comprising Natives, that has existed on this continent since time immemorial—deferring to a political party is like a mighty glacier conformin...

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