H-Bomb Guinea Pigs! Natives Suffering Decades After New Mexico Tests

Tanya H. Lee
3/5/14
Much has been made of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on two now-infamous cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the health-nightmare aftermath...

Barrel-Racing Navajo Woman Still Chasing Rodeo Success

Sam Laskaris
3/5/14
Patrice Yazzie has been a barrel racer since the age of 10. And this dream is still very much alive...

Navajo Rugby Team Plays on Despite Culture Clash

ICTMN Staff
3/3/14
In Gallup, New Mexico, where, for some, it is easier to get in to trouble than find a fun place to hang out, one group of kids are staying out of trouble and having a good time...

Feds Release $9 Million for Cleanup of Abandoned Coal Mines on Tribal Lands

ICTMN Staff
2/25/14
The Navajo Nation and the Crow and Hopi tribes, plagued with issues stemming from hazardous abandoned coalmines, are eligible for more than $9 million in federal funding for cleanu...

A Star Trek Convention for Native Enthusiasts: Inside a German Pow Wow

Red Haircrow
2/24/14
“Winter Pow-wow 2014” took place in Berlin, Germany on February 15th in the Fritz-Reuter Oberschule gymnasium...

Once Upon a Mine: National Institutes of Health Details Uranium's Toxic Legacy to Navajo

ICTMN Staff
2/6/14
It is no secret that uranium mines have been contaminating the Navajo reservation and its inhabitants for decades. But it wasn’t always that way...

Violence and the Navajo Nation

Jennifer Denetdale
1/14/14

Like so many other times, I stopped at a gas station just outside the boundary of the Navajo Nation. As I start to pump gas in my SUV for my trip back to Albuquerque, a young Diné woman approaches me and asks if she might catch a ride to Gallup, a bordertown about 15 minutes away....

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Why Nobody in Congress Reads the Laws They Pass

Steve Russell
1/4/14

Cheap shots have been taken at the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—on the ground that most of the Congress that voted for it never read it. The shot is true. What makes it cheap is ignorance....

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Christmas Playlist Part 2: More Native-Language Classic Carols

ICTMN Staff
12/23/13
For good or ill, many indigenous people now celebrate Christmas. And there’s no denying that the music can be quite beautiful...

Navajo Nation Could Get $1 Billion in Damages for Uranium Mess

ICTMN Staff
12/18/13
The Navajo Nation could net up to $1 billion for the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines and processing plants in Cove, Arizona and Shiprock, New Mexico, after a bankruptcy judge ru...

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