Tribal Programs Win in Appeals Ruling

Carol Berry
May 11, 2011
Tribes operating services formerly run by the federal government should finally have their program administrative costs paid, following 17 years in which Congress capped funding fo...
Steven Newcomb

The State of Our Consciousness

On January 27, Jefferson Keel, President of the National Congress of the American Indians delivered the 9th Annual State of Indian Nations Address in Washington, D.C. Mr. Keel is also Lieutenant General of the Chickasaw Nation....

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February 15, 2011

National Congress of American Indians Reacts to Use of Geronimo

ICTMN Staff
May 04, 2011
In a statement released May 3, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) responded to the death of Osama bin Laden and reports that the American Indian name “ Geronimo ” was...

Indian Country Responds to Geronimo, bin Laden Connection

ICTMN Staff
May 04, 2011
Organizations, Nations and American Indians have voiced their thoughts about the recent wanton and ignorant use of the name of an honored defender of Native sovereignty, Geronimo, ...
Mark Trahant

Protecting Federal Spending on American Indians and Alaska Natives ‘to Some Degree’

The National Congress of American Indians proposed a fiscal year 2010 budget [PDF file] last week....

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February 01, 2011

White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

Tanya Lee
April 26, 2011
Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy , Chickahominy ...

Military Prosecutors Pull Away from Analogy Likening Seminoles to al Qaeda

Michelle Tirado
April 01, 2011
Pentagon prosecutors who compared Seminole Indians from the first Seminole War in the early 1800s to al Qaeda in a brief filed with a U.S...

Paying Attention: Dorgan Renews Focus on Indian Youth Suicide

Rob Capriccioso
March 10, 2011
WASHINGTON – For years, tribal citizens have made impassioned pleas to federal lawmakers to help address the crisis of youth suicide among struggling Native American young people...

Fort Lewis College Still Controversial After 100 Years

Carol Berry
March 11, 2011
Fort Lewis College (FLC) officials, celebrating the school’s centennial as a public educational institution, recall a time when the college’s move to Durango, Colorado caused a bit...

Cornell American Indian Program Opposes Genetic Ancestry Project

Gale Courey Toensing
March 25, 2011
The Cornell University Genetic Ancestry Project is drawing strong opposition from another part of the institution—Cornell’s American Indian Program —which says the project is based...

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