Culture and Indigenous Nationality

Duane Champagne
December 08, 2012
A remarkable feature about indigenous nations is that they have continued after more than 500 years of colonial efforts to assimilate and dismantle them...

Heidi Heitkamp: Taking the Senate Race to Native North Dakota

Patti Jo King
November 03, 2012
North Dakota’s Democratic Senate candidate, Heidi Heitkamp , is working hard for the Native vote...

Heidi Heitkamp ‘Understands the Issues’ Says Native Campaign Director

Patti Jo King
November 02, 2012
Heidi Heitkamp, the Democratic Senate candidate for North Dakota , wants to reach as many Native North Dakotans as possible, while ensuring that her message is both timely and rele...

Cherokee Freedmen Case Returns to Capitol Hill; US Circuit Court of Appeals Will Re-Hear Vann v. Salazar

Jenni Monet
October 16, 2012
This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will be the latest venue to hear arguments in the Cherokee Freedmen citizenship dispute—the ongoi...

Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial

Carol Berry
August 21, 2012
If she’d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn’t have done a better job...
Steve Russell

The Context and Content of Sovereignty

Sovereignty is not what it used to be, and I am not speaking of Indian sovereignty in particular. Sometimes I think about the rise of the nation-state with bemusement at the customs of historians....

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July 24, 2012

Carter Center Report on Cherokee Elections Reinforces International Recognition of Tribal Sovereignty

Brian Daffron
May 14, 2012
The Carter Center has been invited to serve as an impartial observer in over 90 elections in 36 countries since 1989...

Consensus Among Government and Tribal Justice Systems

Duane Champagne
May 08, 2012
In this country, all citizens are equal under the law—in theory...

UMass Boston Hosts Art Exhibit to Promote Native Studies Program

ICTMN Staff
April 19, 2012

From today through April 26, the Harbor Art Gallery at the

State Versus Tribe Tobacco Issues Resurface

Carol Berry
March 09, 2012
Repeated efforts by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to conduct tobacco sales without state intervention appear to have floundered in a federal appeals court which dismissed sovereignty...

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