Canyon De Chelly: Stunning Views and a Window Into Ancient Lives

Jack McNeel
7/8/16
It has been inhabited contiguously for nearly 5,000 years, is the only National Monument owned by the Navajo Nation, and contains thousands of archaeological sites...

Prayers and Spiritual Energy: High-Ranking Tibetan Monk Visits Bears Ears

Anne Minard
5/20/16
In a room filled with song, two mighty spiritual traditions came together this week to celebrate sacred ground, and the life force that emanates from Mother Earth herself...

Louise Erdrich, LaDonna Harris, MTV’s Rebel Music to Be Honored at NMAI Gala

ICTMN Staff
5/4/16
A hundred years after it was initially founded, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is thriving. And so are the people, and the resiliency, that that represents...

Funding Traditional Knowledge: Tribes and Alaska Natives Get $5 Million From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

ICTMN Staff
3/29/16
Eagle rehab, feral hog control and gauging the environmental impact of invasive marijuana cultivation are among 29 conservation projects receiving $5 million in Tribal Wildlife Gra...

Houska: Boy Scout Koshare Dancers Need to Stop Stealing From Natives

Tara Houska
2/12/16
It’s an honor. Respect. Appreciation. Tradition. You just don’t understand. So go the familiar excuses made for appropriating culture to the objecting group...

Bears Ears Coalition Splits From ‘Disrespectful’ Congressional Reps

Anne Minard
1/22/16
Native advocates for the creation of Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah will begin meetings later this month with the administration of President Barack Obama after ...

Hopi High School Cross-Country Team Carrying On Proud Tradition

Rodney Harwood
1/16/16
The Hopi Nation has always known how to walk in harmony and run with pride. Where other Native Americans dance or celebrate in ceremony for the good of the people, the Hopi run...
Reader to Reader Book Donation

Massachusetts Charity Donates $200K Worth of Books to Navajo and Hopi Schools

ICTMN Staff
1/9/16
Kids attending schools on and around the Navajo and Hopi nations will have tens of thousands of new children’s books to choose from...

Diné Waleha Johns Crashes a Sacred Artifacts Auction in Paris, in Regalia

DOMINIQUE GODRÈCHE
12/21/15
It has become a heartbreakingly familiar scenario: dozens of sacred Native American items on the auction block...

Tribes Ask President Obama to Designate Bears Ears as National Monument

Anne Minard
10/15/15
Five tribes formally unveiled their proposal on October 15 for a 1.9 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument, which would protect lands in southeastern Utah that are both cultura...

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