If you look at the failed history of termination – the idea of ending the federal-treaty relationship with tribal governments – there were two distinct motives...
Mark Trahant

Let’s jump right to the big questions: Did President Barack Obama’s State of the Union do anything to resolve the deep differences in philosophy and policy on Capitol Hill? Was there any common ground?...

February 13, 2013
Winona LaDuke

Let’s start big. It’s official. Climate change is no longer a topic of the presidential election banter. Since pretty much no one has mentioned climate change for the past three months, we must be free and clear....

October 31, 2012
Ryan Wilson

I awoke early this morning concerned that my good friend Tim Giago had contracted Romneysia by wedding himself to Kristi Noem’s reelection aspirations. Concern for my friend compels me to do my part in inoculating him and Lakota land from the spread of Romneysia....

October 24, 2012
Carter Meland

Reading the recent New York Times story,  “Looking, Very Closely, for Voter Fraud...

October 07, 2012
Devon G. Peña

I have for some time been analyzing the “ecology of fear” and the climate of hatred it generates to feed the growing menace of presumably random acts of violence in Arizona such as last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

May 04, 2012
Mongi Dhaouadi, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations , Connecticut Chapter, hosted the meeting, which he organized with activist Chris Gauvreau...
Steve Russell

Cousin Ray Sixkiller came in and announced that he is beginning to think about giving up coffee. Now, that is about as likely as a Cherokee turning down an invitation to a hog fry, so you will pardon my skepticism....

September 29, 2010
Harold A. Monteau

Republican ersatz presidential candidate Sarah Palin, puts Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, “in the crosshairs” in television commercials supporting a Republican candidate for Giffords’s seat in the U.S. House....

February 14, 2011
Mark Trahant

The National Congress of American Indians proposed a fiscal year 2010 budget [PDF file] last week....

February 01, 2011

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