Western Shoshone

Video: Nevada's Indian Territory Exhibit Opens at Reno Airport

ICTMN Staff

May 23, 2013

On May 3, Washoe, Paiute and Western Shoshone tribal members joined airport officials and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval to open a new exhibit at the Reno-Tahoe International Airpo...

Steven Newcomb

Fear and Loathing of History on Thanksgiving

On November 19, the Drudge Report linked to a story about a Native student group at the University o...

November 24, 2012

Peter d'Errico

Gold Mining Doesn't Glitter

People have mined gold for centuries. Archeological evidence points to gold mining at least 7,000 years ago. Stories of Aztec gold drove 16th century Spaniards to invade the continent, where they found products of a rich mining and smelting history....

November 18, 2012

Steven Newcomb, et al

A 1993 Open Letter to Pope John Paul II

This letter was originally published in Indian Country Today on August 11, 1993.

Editors Note: The signatories to this letter hope to present it to Pope John Paul II during his time in Denver this week.

His Holiness, Pope John Paul II,...

October 18, 2012

Peter d'Errico

Raymond Yowell: A Courageous Indigenous Leader

The Western Shoshone have been litigating the rights to their homeland since at least 1951, when a claim was filed, purportedly in their behalf, before the United States Ind...

March 07, 2012

Christina Thomas: Songbird, Healer, Ambassador

Kelly Koepke

October 05, 2011

Christina Thomas has done more, seen more and met more people in her 27 years than most experience in a lifetime...

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