Steven Newcomb

Walking Backward in the International Arena

There was a deeply troubling development at this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (the 12th Session) in New York. Before we get into that, though, let’s first build some historical context....

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June 05, 2013

Eminent Domain and a Horse Slaughterhouse at Wounded Knee?

Vincent Schilling
May 30, 2013
As the sale of the historic Wounded Knee site looms with several offers on the table for owner James Czywczynski, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has moved to seize the land using eminent d...

Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale on the Open Market

Vincent Schilling
May 02, 2013
The May 1 deadline came and went without a word from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, so James Czywczynski, who owns the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has put the land on the open mark...

A Conversation With Wounded Knee Owner James Czywczynski

Vincent Schilling
April 30, 2013
James Czywczynski, the owner of the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has stated publicly that he will wait until May 1 to entertain offers for the purchase of his land from the O...

Wounded Knee Sale Deadline Looms

Vincent Schilling
April 30, 2013
As the May 1 deadline approaches for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to purchase the historic site of Wounded Knee for millions of dollars, the tribe has made no statement that they plan to...

Dennis Banks on the AIM Era: 'I Regret That It Ended too Soon'

Gale Courey Toensing
April 25, 2013
Dennis Banks, the famous Ojibway co-founder of the American Indian Movement, teacher, lecturer, author and activist, is still going strong...

George Paul Horse Capture, One of the First Native Curators, Walks On

ICTMN Staff
April 23, 2013
A member of the A’aninin (Gros Ventre) tribe and one of the first Native American curators in the country, George Paul Horse Capture Sr., “ Nay Gyagya Nee ” (Spotted Otter), walked...
Steven Newcomb

Origins of the Foedus ('Federal') System

In Indian country it is commonplace to say that the United States Constitution was at least partly inspired by the Confederacy of the Haudenosaunee....

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April 22, 2013

Chief Joseph Brings Plenty: Save Wounded Knee

ICTMN Staff
April 15, 2013
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Chief Joseph Brings Plenty explains just why Wounded Knee should be saved...
Paul Udstrand

Massacres and Denial: Why Can’t America be Honest?

Every once in a while a really nice example of institutional racism emerges from the corporate media and gives us a chance to expose unexamined assumptions that make truth impossible....

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April 14, 2013

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