Native American Rights Fund Applauds Sponsors of Proposed Offensive 'Redskins' Trademark Legislation

ICTMN Staff
March 26, 2013
On March 21, H.R. 1278, was introduced in the House by Rep...
Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Preparing for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

In 2010, after the United States as the final holdout endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Bolivian government called for a high level plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to be held in 2014....

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March 26, 2013

House Introduces Bill to Ban Racist 'Redskins' Trademark

Gale Courey Toensing
March 21, 2013
A new law banning the trademarking of the term “redskins” and other racist language against Native Americans may accomplish what a number of court cases have so far failed to do...

A Miscalculation on the Sequester Has Already Harmed Indian Health

Rob Capriccioso
March 11, 2013
The many ways the federal government’s sequester will hurt Indian country are easy to see...

President Barack Obama's VAWA Law Signing Spotlights Native Women Warriors

Rob Capriccioso
March 11, 2013
During the March 7 signing ceremony in the offices of the United States Department of the Interior of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Vice President J...

Indian Country Stands to Lose $130 Million in Tribal Program Funding With Sequester

ICTMN Staff
March 01, 2013
The waning hours of March 1 are here as the entire country looks to Washington D.C...

NCAI Responds to Sen. Grassley's VAWA Comments

ICTMN Staff
February 27, 2013
Comments made by Iowa Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) about the tribal provisions of the Violence Against Women (VAWA) this week, are being labeled as “fear mongering” by the Natio...

Arizona Tribes and Environmental Groups Oppose HR 287 for Mining in the Tonto National Forest

Anne Minard
February 26, 2013
Environmentalists and tribal activists are crying foul on a mining proposal on sacred land in Arizona that’s been resurrected for the eighth year in Congress...

Feinstein, Young Question Interior's New Tribal Land Acquisition Policy; Feinstein's Motives Under Scrutiny

Rob Capriccioso
February 25, 2013
Two members of Congress, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) are questioning a policy the U.S...
Steven Newcomb

Jefferson Keel’s Message of Political Assimilation

On February 14, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw Nation) delivered his "State of the Indian Nations” address in his capacity as President of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)....

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February 22, 2013

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