School's Trail of Tears Banner Apology Marred as Native, Slave, Mexican, Asian Pics Surface

Vincent Schilling
10/31/16
In the wake of a “Trail of Tears” banner McClain High School cheerleaders displayed during a football game Friday October 28th against the Hillsboro Indians, the school issued an a...

Video: Everyday Native Americans Respond to #YesDAPL

ICTMN Staff
10/30/16
“You all are embarrassing yourselves.” “People like this should be shot on sight.” Such devastating comments take on a special air of cruelty when read aloud by the very people the...

Climate Justice Meets Racism: This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making

Jenni Monet, YES! Magazine
9/24/16
Attack dogs and waves of arrests by police in riot gear could look like isolated incidents of overreaction to the activism stemming from the Standing Rock reservation...

Hotel Blames Bad Coffee on Native American Employees

Sheena Louise Roetman
8/24/16
A Best Western Plus just outside the Navajo Nation in Page, Arizona, came under fire last week for allegedly posting an offensive response to a customer complaint on its TripAdviso...

Racial Profiling Victim Reacts to Judge Referring Arpaio for Criminal Contempt Charges

Andres Guerra Luz/Cronkite News
8/24/16
When Daniel Magos first learned Friday that a judge referred Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the U.S...

We’re Still Here: Reconnecting and Renewing Native Heritage in Duluth

Konnie LeMay
8/4/16
Back in 1901, promoters of Duluth, Minnesota, were pointing out where inquisitive tourists could see “Indians.” Amid details on fishing regulations, prominent local industries, imp...

TLC’s ‘Gypsy’ Wedding Is Offensive to Romani, Too

Qristina Cummings
7/13/16

I wasn’t surprised that “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” crossed this particular line and featured “Native-inspired” headdresses and clothing. I am Romani, pejoratively referred to as “Gypsy.”...

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Elizabeth Warren Is ‘Convenient Indian’ Moya-Smith Said on CNN

ICTMN Staff
7/2/16
This morning, CNN’s Michael Smerconish featured Simon Moya-Smith, ICTMN’s culture editor, for a discussion on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) claim to be Native American...

Manning: Pushing Back Against Racist War Cry Mockery

Sarah Sunshine Manning
7/1/16
While many Americans today are boldly leaning into social consciousness, other pockets of American society remain stubbornly swathed in the white supremacist cloaks of 1950 – an er...

Moya-Smith: For Hundreds of Years, People Have Been Slaughtered in the U.S.

Simon Moya-Smith
6/15/16
Too many families and too many friends in this country have had to mourn the death of too many loved ones far too often...

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