Steve Russell

American Indians understand living in a web of relationships that carry privileges and impose duties. Therefore, I wonder, why is tort law virtually absent in the routine of tribal governance?...

September 04, 2012
Simon Moya-Smith

Well, folks, Mitt the Mormon has locked the GOP presidential candidacy, and for the first time in 10 years I’m giving serious consideration to spending the morning of Nov. 6 at the beach or bar or breakfast table—anywhere but that vile voting booth....

June 19, 2012
Responding to criticism about its lack of outreach to American Indians this election season, the Obama campaign has included a Native American section on its website, uploaded June...
By this time in the 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama was an adopted member of the Crow Nation of Montana, smiling and hugging his new parents, Sonny and Mary Blac...
Simon Moya-Smith

No right-wing GOP chubby-belly apologist would dare attempt to persuade civil rights activist Al Sharpton into believing that black-faced caricatures of young African Americans, clad in ripped overalls and Afros, are not disrespectful....

June 03, 2012
Steve Russell

I wish you a good Memorial Day, with plenty of hot dogs on the grill and beer in the cooler....

May 28, 2012
Two months following an apology by leaders of Lambda Chi Alpha to members of the Native Student Alliance at the University of Denver (DU) for a cowboys and Indians theme party , th...
Steve Russell

Is it fair to look back to something a presidential candidate did when he was 18? Depends on your tolerance for hypocrisy....

May 14, 2012
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has rehashed his latest speech on a few occasions this week, most recently on April ...
Suzan Shown Harjo

White privilege in America first stood for wealth advantage, the provenance of white men, no matter how amassed, deserved, shared or inbred. Among its prominent symbols are oil baron J.D....

April 20, 2012

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