“We ain’t even two months into the election year, and the thing is already going to the dogs.”...

Madeline Colliflower, known to her relatives as Si-Siya, walked on in her 81^st year back in 2000, the cusp of the 21^st century. She was one of a few surviving FBI (Full-Blooded Indian) citizens of the Gros Ventre....

The traditions of my people teach that acting unjustly toward others will cause blowback. This is famously illustrated in the story of how disease came to man in retaliation for what he had done to parts of creation he could dominate....

Last year, in the ironically named Citizens United case, the U.S....

What can I say? I was young. Seventeen when I volunteered for service and nineteen when I volunteered for Vietnam. At the time, I think I would have said that freedom isn’t free. I was young....

“It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?”...

After multiple recounts and one court-ordered do-over, Bill John Baker has defeated incumbent Chad Smith to become the new Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation....

Like most Indians who give thought to our relationship with the United States, I dream of Indian treaties as sacred promises or, at least, what the Constitution says in so many words: “all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of...

When does a tribal supreme court decision affect all of Indian County?...