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Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware...

Gary 'Litefoot' Davis: CEO and New Head of NCAIED

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Gary “Litefoot” Davis walks confidently as he leads a tour of the Mesa, Arizona offices of the National Center For American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED)...
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Under the Reservation Sky

For a short time, soon after the first railroad tracks were laid down on the rich agricultural basin of central Washington State around the early 1900s, federal policy allowed government agents to break up the Indian reservations into allotments to be owned by individual Indians in an effort to e...

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Northwest Tribes Fight for Treaty Rights in Face of Coal-Transport Plan

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Treaty fishing rights are meaningless if there are no healthy fish populations left to harvest, say Pacific Northwest tribes, fishers and tribal environmental organizations...

Celilo Salmon Feast Is More Vibrant Than Ever, Despite Flood

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An 18-minute black-and-white film, “The Last Salmon Feast of the Celilo Indians,” was produced by the

Popular Native American Archive Also Holds School History

Washington State University
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The most-used archive in the Washington State University Libraries is a collection of books, manuscripts, photos and artifacts from Nez Perce, Yakama and other Columbia Plateau Ind...

White Swan Mourns, Honors Son Who Died in Afghanistan

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WHITE SWAN, Wash. – Flags fluttered in the breeze as the government-chartered plane landed at 4:30 p.m...

Yakama Nation Reeling After Fires

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YAMAKA NATION, Wash.—Sadness, grief and heartache etch the faces of Yakama tribal members following the Feb...

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