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Two Reasons Why It's Wrong to Dress Up Like an Indian

Simon Moya-Smith

November 24, 2012

[The following essay by Simon Moya-Smith refers to the practice of dressing up as an Indian, often a "sexy" Indian, for a Thanksgiving party... Read More

Dr. Leo Killsback

Today’s American Indian Activism

The negative representations of American Indians have recently caught national attention in the news and on the Internet....

November 11, 2012

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Thing About Skins

My family doesn't really have reunions. Not pre-planned family reunions, anyway—you know, the kind with hats, t-shirts and what have you.... Read More

Health & Wellness

I’m an angry Indian,” Roger St. John, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, told the First Nations Repatriation Institute’s second annual adult adoptees... Read More

Veterans

The Screaming Eagle insignia of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is perhaps the most recognized and famous shoulder sleeve... Read More

Politics

Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) since 2007, is one of the few Native American... Read More

A&E

The Native American Journalists' Association (NAJA) has released its 2013 calendar, titled "Images from Indian Country" and featuring the... Read More

Genealogy

It is the year that Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has declared a reconciliation and renounced the call from that same office in 1862 to... Read More

Astronomy

It’s December 1, 2012, and many around the world are counting down to the purported Mayan Apocalypse, the end of the indigenous group’s... Read More

Sports

An upcoming television series featuring Aboriginal teenage hockey players is already being deemed a success even though the first episode... Read More

Education

“If there wasn’t a teen center, teenagers would be bored and they would probably get into trouble,” said Desiray Miles, 13, San Carlos... Read More

Environment

As controversy rages over the killing of the Wedge wolf pack in Washington State, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation are... Read More

Pow Wow Dancers

John Jaramillo, a Pueblo Indian from New Mexico, is not your traditional pow wow dancer but everything he has done in his professional... Read More

Travel

In the hot Bolivian lowland hills that stretch toward the Amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples began to carve a giant red-hued rock.... Read More

World News

France made the decision November 16 to ban access to Pic de Bugarach, a mountain which is said by Mayan doomsday believers to be a safe... Read More

Pow Wow News

For many Diné dancers, the 101st Annual Northern Navajo Nation Fair Contest Powwow in Shiprock, New Mexico was a homecoming. Starting on... Read More

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