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Why Sitting Bull Isn’t Replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20

Steve Russell
5/16/16
Andrew Jackson was born poor and died wealthy. He was an adamant foe of paper money and a national bank...

Who You Callin’ a Savage? The Beauty and Brilliance of Indian Science

Steve Russell
8/3/15
Conflicts between the scientific method and the power of religion have a long and colorful history...

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...

Message in a Blanket: Dakota Artist Stealth-Embroiders 'NOKXL' Into Obama Quilt

ICTMN Staff
5/16/15
President Barack Obama topped off his promise to visit all 50 states during his tenure by stopping in South Dakota, where he delivered the commencement speech at Lake Area Technica...

Final Piece of Pe’ Sla Purchased By Tribes

ICTMN Staff
12/3/14
The final 437 acres of Pe’ Sla are now also owned by the Great Sioux Nation, reports the Rapid City Journal ...

No, Ron Paul, Bundy Ranch Is Not Another Wounded Knee

Jacqueline Keeler
4/23/14
In a recent article the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity website posed the question is “The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?” As a Dakota woman with painfu...

America’s Chernobyl: Radioactive Dust Near Mt. Rushmore & Black Hills

ICTMN Staff
9/2/13
In this video Charmaine White Face, a member of the Oglala band of the Great Sioux Nation, explains uranium mining and its health effects on the people of the Great Plains...

Sexual Trauma: One Legacy of the Boarding School Era

Ruth Hopkins
3/30/13

Every American Indian alive today has been affected by the policy of assimilation implemented by the United States government not that long ago....

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Advancing the State-Tribal Consultation Mandate

Gabriel S. Galanda
10/17/12

This summer, in the face of an impending private land sale of Pe’Sla, a Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Indian sacred site in the Black Hills, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, S....

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Changing the Face of Poverty

Tanya Fiddler
6/27/12

June 25 marked the anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn, known by some as Custer’s Last Stand and known by the Sioux Indians as Victory Day....

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