Inside Kimberly Craven’s Cobell Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court

Rob Capriccioso
August 19, 2012
WASHINGTON – Indian Country Today Media Network has learned details of what Kimberly Craven’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement will include...

Indians Filing Cobell Appeals with US Supreme Court

Rob Capriccioso
August 18, 2012
WASHINGTON – In perhaps the biggest news to rock Indian country since the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement was announced between the Obama administration and the lead Indian plaintif...

Chevron Refinery Explosion Sends Toxic Cloud East of San Francisco, Home to Many Natives

Dina Gilio-Whitaker
August 15, 2012
A fire at the Chevron Richmond oil refinery in Richmond, California, on Monday August 6 has community members outraged and worried after a massive toxic cloud was spewed into the e...

Controversial Liens Removed From Cobell Settlement

Rob Capriccioso
August 15, 2012
WASHINGTON – After intense scrutiny from tribal interests , Indian appellants, and the U.S. Congress, the U.S...

Pink Breechcloths, Political Correctness and Pretend Traditions (Like Two-Spirits): We Can't Always Wait for Tradition

Gyasi Ross
August 14, 2012
THEN: When I was just a wee, little, pigeon-toed lad at an elementary school called “Vina Chattin” within the great Blackfeet Nation, my male classmates and I were young gladiators...

Sacred White Buffalo Experience: Going Native, in a Good Way

Gale Courey Toensing
August 13, 2012
If this were The Onion , the headline would be something funny like MIDDLE-AGED WHITE WOMAN FINDS GOD IN LAKOTA SWEAT LODGE...

Interior Posts Federally Recognized Tribes Over Six Months Late

Rob Capriccioso
August 13, 2012
WASHINGTON – The U.S...

Steven Judd Image of the Week: 'Red Men'

ICTMN Staff
August 13, 2012
Steven Paul Judd, Kiowa/Choctaw, is known primarily as a filmmaker; with writing partner Tvli Jacob he penned and/or directed American Indian Graffiti: This Thing Life (2003), Sear...

Native Artist Robby McMurtry Fatally Shot by Deputy

Wilhelm Murg
August 12, 2012
Robby McMurtry (Morris High School, Morris, Oklahoma) Robby McMurtry, who was of Comanche descent, was a pillar of the community in the small town of Morris, Oklahoma...
Dan Jones

An Open Letter to Kimberly Craven, Esq., on the Appeal of the Cobell Settlement

To attempt to appeal the Cobell settlement decision as unfair was an honorable and brave thing for you to do as far as I am concerned. Not a very popular position in the face of the government announcing they intend to blast money across Indian country with cannons....

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