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On the (Electric) Pow Wow Trail With A Tribe Called Red

Janet Rogers

November 24, 2012

I caught up with Indian country’s new supergroup, DJ trio A Tribe Called Red on the road (literally) while they were making their way into Edmonton Alberta for what would be the 3r...

Native American Music Awards Postponed; Vote Tallies Reset to Zero

ICTMN Staff

November 24, 2012

The 14th Annual Native American Music Awards, originally scheduled to take place November 30, 2012, will have to wait...

Earth Sounds: Native American, Mongolian, and Australian Musical Cultures Celebrated at Wang Center Tonight

ICTMN Staff

October 04, 2012

Tonight, October 4, at the Wang Center on the Stony Brook University campus in Stony Brook, New York, musical cultures will be celebrated in a special event...

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Thing About Skins

We are firmly in graduation season. All of my graduations happened at least a decade ago, so I barely remember them. I do vaguely remember... Read More

Ask N NDN

Tribal Nations are the only recognized arbiter of belonging to or being a member of a tribe. No other agency or arm of any government has... Read More

Health & Wellness

This is the fifth and last installment in a series on Best Indian Food 2013. Also read: Smothered Muskrat, Tail Off, Teeth Showing; Salmon... Read More

Veterans

Amid all the controversy and ugliness associated with the surging push to have NFL team owner Dan Snyder change the widely considered... Read More

Politics

When Kevin Washburn became Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in September 2012, he had some work to do. Not just the typical demands... Read More

Genealogy

The story goes that Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from being clubbed to death by her father, Powhatan, in 1607. The validity of this... Read More

Astronomy

The Popocatépetl volcano (the word is Aztec for "smoking mountain") has been spewing ash, rocks and other material for nearly two weeks now... Read More

Sports

The Chicago Blackhawks are currently tangling with the Boston Bruins in a so-far thrilling Stanley Cup Finals clash between the two... Read More

Education

To say that Victoria Black Horse and her older sister are overachievers would be a textbook example of an understatement. Victoria... Read More

Environment

Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on the southern Amazon jungle than logging, NASA has determined with an innovative... Read More

Pow Wow MCs

Howard “Howie” Thomson is a popular pow wow MC from Carry the Kettle Nakoda (Assiniboine) First Nation located in Saskatchewan, Canada.... Read More

American Indian History

The first person to walk here did so over a thousand years ago when the Hohokam arrived at what is now known as Colossal Cave Mountain... Read More

Pow Wow Dancers

Update, June 14: According to a Facebook post today, the missing regalia has been located and returned to Rose Olney Sampson. A nice, happy... Read More

Indian Gaming

In 1993, then New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter creating history by signing a gaming compact... Read More

Travel

At more than 6,000 years old, prehistoric cave and rock art found in what is today Tennessee is easily the oldest discovered yet within the... Read More

Business

A lack of resources to help Native Americans learn effective money management techniques has stunted the ability of many Native families to... Read More

Canada

Angel Gates is gradually taking more steps toward quitting prostitution in what has been a long and painful battle. Turned out on the... Read More

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