Twilight actor Chaske Spencer, Assiniboine and Sioux, is lending his star power to an important political cause: Raising Native participation in elections...
The following is a statement by Jefferson Keel, president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in honor of all veterans – fallen, retired, or active – on Memorial Da...
Cedric Sunray

Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tuls...

May 23, 2012
Jefferson Keel, President, National Congress of American Indians

There is a group of criminals, on Native American lands, who assault, rape, and abuse Native women—and they can’t be arrested. These criminals are non-Native men....

May 14, 2012
Margo Gray-Proctor, Osage, president, Horizon Engineering Service Company, will serve on the Native American Advisory Council to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...
Jefferson Keel, President?, National Congress of American Indians

Over the last week President Obama, in public events at high schools and speeches throughout the country, has led the charge to ensure that higher education for all students from all backgrounds is affordable....

May 10, 2012
James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, will be on hand in Arizona for a two day conference titled “The Significance of the Declaration ...
Following the March 31 announcement from the Church of Latter-day Saints, and confirmed by the Department of the Interior, that Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affai...
Chuck Trimble

The Northwest Tribes have produced some of history’s greatest leaders, most notably Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. In modern times the most important leader ever to come out of the Northwest in Indian Affairs was Joseph R....

April 11, 2012
WASHINGTON – Native Americans are making a push to support reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in the face of congressional attacks of tribal provisions of the...

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