Early Pioneers of Indian Gaming Had Same Goal: To Help Their People

Gale Courey Toensing
March 27, 2013
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the legislation that dramatically changed the economic landscape for tribal nations with ca...

Maine Denies Tribe Has Sustenance Fishing Rights

Gale Courey Toensing
September 10, 2007
INDIAN ISLAND, Maine–At the same time that a federal appeals court issued a decision giving the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) authority over water quality on t...

Salazar Snubs Wabanaki Nations

Gale Courey Toensing
August 19, 2011
The Secretary of the Department of the Interior has missed an opportunity to make good on the Obama administration’s promise to respect and foster the nation-to-nation relationship...

Indian Leaders Condemn Maine Commissioner for Reported Racist Remarks

Gale Courey Toensing
April 28, 2011
Indian country leaders reacted swiftly to the latest outbreak of “the language of savagery” —racist and offensive remarks made by prominent people. This time it occurred in Maine...

All Systems Go for Four Directions Development Corp.

Gale Courey Toensing
March 16, 2011
Four Directions Development Corporation has a lot to celebrate...

Plymouth State Hosts Veterans Pow Wow

Donna Laurent Caruso
February 17, 2011
Plymouth, NH—In less than two months, the Diversity Fellows at Plymouth State University , part of the university system of New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire Inter-tribal Native...

The Fish Run Through It

Gale Courey Toensing
January 17, 2011
It has been more than a quarter-century since the Penobscot Indian Nation has taken a salmon from the sacred Penobscot River for ceremonial purposes...
Adrian Jawort

Redskins Not So Black and White

With the state of Washington recently voting to ban the usage of all Native American-related mascots in public schools, it brings momentum and hope to those that aim to see national mascots like the Cleveland Indians or Washington Redskins caricatures retired....

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November 13, 2012

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