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How Did I Miss That? Pol Disses Pope; Pope Disses Indians

Steve Russell

10/2/15

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) boycotted Pope Frank’s speech because he was afraid the Holy Father might misguidedly claim that the earth is warming...

What Gen. Washington Learned from Native Warriors: Indians and the Colonial Army

Steve Russell

6/12/15

The United States Army celebrates its 240th birthday on June 14, dating the beginning of organized American arms from that date in 1775, when the Second Continental Congress declar...

Indian Wars Must End Now

Kurt Luger

5/28/15

Former Congressman Ernest Istook, says that the “New Indian Wars are Fought at the Casino,” [Washington Times May 21, 2015].

Why would Istook try to start new “Indian Wars?” After 200 years of genocide by the United States, enough is enough!...

I couldn’t get up off the floor. I had collapsed on top of a stack of newspapers and atop my dry-cleaned, finely pressed suit and some soiled towels. I had completely lost every fucking marble I had....

6 ‘True History of Thanksgiving’ Stories, Which Do You Believe?

Gale Courey Toensing

11/27/14

Ever since the beginning of the National Day of Mourning – an annual anti-Thanksgiving gathering in Plymouth, Massachusetts – during the early years of the Indian rights movement, ...

A Letter to Obama For Signing the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act

Michael Hunter

9/27/14

President Obama, with all respect, I write to you on behalf of our Native Nations in the Spirit of Tecumseh, 200 years after his journey to the Milky Way—...

Smithsonian Revisits History of Treaties

ICTMN Staff

9/4/14

As a way to shine a light on the treaties that have governed U.S.-Indian relationships, Smithsonian Magazine featured an article by ICTMN’s Rob Caprccioso, and the National Museum ...

How to Make the Census Count for Natives

Alex Ewen & Ivana Maravic

12/19/13

Of the many ways Natives have been abused, cheated and neglected by the United States government, one of the more subtle, but potentially most damaging for tribes today has been th...

Native History: Construction of Mount Rushmore Begins

Christina Rose

10/4/13

This Date in Native History: On October 4, 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the faces of four presidents into the granite of the sacred Black Hills...

The Tragic History of African Slaves and Indians

Julianne Jennings

9/29/13

Mainstream America remains totally unaware of the biological and cultural bonds that exist between African slaves and American Indians—a people created by expulsion, slavery, racism and war caused the collision of cultures that became the crucible of destruction by force, but later provided the t...

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