I want to thank Gyasi for the ridiculously over-the-top introduction and creating great expectations. There was this Bugs Bunny cartoon about this singing, dancing frog and the joke was the frog only did his act when a single person was watching. When the frog was put on a public stage, he simply sat there in...... Read More
Women have always played an integral part in decisions, such as when the tribe moved from one place to another and even who was selected to certain societies. Not until modern times have women been selected to take the position of "Chief" and been given equal stature to men in their tribes. Recent e...... Read More
This image comes to us from Richard Whiteford, an environmental communications consultant in Pennsylvania. He writes: “Do you know that the Okehockings, a tribe of the Lenape were the only Native Americans to receive a land grant directly from William…
As winter wraps its icy fingers around much of Indian Country, we’ve got a few pow wow stories that’ll help warm your heart from this past year. Our commitment to covering all the pow wo... read more
WASHINGTON – 2011 saw some new and old heroes alike emerge in Washington, D.C., rooting and pushing for tribal and Indian interests. Here we list some of the notables: Debra White Plume: T... read more
As homes started wending their way toward Attawapiskat, some from as far away as New Brunswick, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took Canada to task... read more
The winter solstice is almost upon us. In scientific terms, the winter solstice occurs at the precise moment when the axial tilt of earth’s polar hemisphere is the farthest away from the s... read more
Every Indian has hopes and dreams. Sometimes they manifest into wishes. This holiday season, Indian Country Today Media Network offers a peek at some real and some imagined wishes from the h... read more
Native Science Fellowships are available to Native American students attending a tribal college or university in Mo... Read More
The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma’s $300 million Downwind Casino, located in northeast Oklahoma near the Kansas border... Read More
The winter solstice inaugurates storytelling season in Indian Country. The new lunar cycle is a spiritual time for ... Read More
Not long ago, few had even heard of Attawapiskat. It’s a remote First Nation community that has gone from... Read More
As winter wraps its icy fingers around much of Indian Country, we’ve got a few pow wow stories that’ll help war... Read More
Read Matthew L.M. Fletcher’s response to Treuer’s opinion piece at Turtle Talk. David Treuer, ... Read More
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians continued its annual philanthropy outreach this holiday season, sponsoring a sh... Read More
Millions around the northern hemisphere mark the winter solstice in December, the shortest day and longest night of... Read More
The winter solstice signals the beginning of the year for the Zunis, who commemorate the occasion with a ceremonial... Read More
Cherokee Nation students from Sequoyah Schools were recently chosen as one of 44 school groups in Oklahoma to decor... Read More
I recently participated in Occupy Oakland. I was in the Bay area on other business and could not resist the chance to take part in history in the making. Since I first wrote about Occupy Wall Street, the Occupy Movement has produced a firestorm of protests across the nation and globe. Nobody seems able t...... Read More
Indian Country Today Media Network staff recently posted a video of Cindy Jacobs (scroll to bottom), a self-appointed prophet of a militaristic Christian group, who claimed that Texas had been cursed by indigenous people who had once lived in the state. She states that Native Americans in Texas had be...... Read More
In his groundbreaking work Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (Cambridge, 2004), law professor Antony Anghie provides a detailed analysis of the ideas of theologian Francisco de Vitoria, who lectured at Salamanca University in the mid-1500’s, and whom some scholars have calle...... Read More
There has been a lot of discussion about the Cherokee Freedmen and their descendants, but most of the talk centers upon Cherokee Nation sovereignty and the rights of Indian nations to determine their own membership. When looking at only the issue of sovereignty, we dismiss the shared past of the Chero...... Read More
We’ve been told for many years “don’t judge a book by its cover.” I would add to that, “don’t judge a book by its title either.” In the early 1970s a large format paperback was published titled, Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Indians But Were Afraid to Find Out. It was a book of...... Read More
A buzzword that has been gaining a lot of traction in Indian Country of late is “economic diversification.” This recent attention makes a lot of sense. Many of our Indian Nations have achieved significant economic success through gaming. This success has helped us move along the path to true econ...... Read More
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