Navajo, Hopi Relocation Effort Could End Soon, Decades After It Started

Madison Alder/Cronkite News
3/5/16
After decades of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, the end could be in sight for the federal office charged with relocating Navajo and Hopi families in a land dispute betwe...

Progress and Promise in Indian Country: NCAI’s 2016 State of Indian Nations Address

Tanya H. Lee
1/14/16
National Congress of American Indians President Brian Cladoosby, chairman of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, presented the State of Indian Nations Address on January 14 at t...

2015 Hall of Fame / Mantle of Shame Awards

Suzan Shown Harjo
1/4/16
FAME – Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team for winning the silver medal in the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship Games...

Fed Recognition New Rule Attacked in Interior’s Appropriations Bill

Gale Courey Toensing
6/16/15
A rider that would stop the Bureau of Indian Affairs from revising procedures for federal acknowledgment of Indian tribes has been attached to the Interior Department’s 2016 spendi...

Re: Raiding Native Sacred Places in a Defense Authorization: Everything Wrong with Congress

Terry Rambler
12/10/14

The San Carlos Apache Tribe (Tribe) has worked for the past decade to shine light on the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange that would transfer Oak Flat and nearby lands in the Tonto National Forest – lands held sacred by my Tribe and many other Native Americans – to a foreign-owned mining corporati...

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Critical, Last-Minute Save For Indian Education

Rob Capriccioso
7/19/13
At the eleventh hour, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, pulled out a save for drastic cuts to Indian education planned by his fellow House Republicans...

First Woman to Lead a Minnesota Indian Tribe Walks On

ICTMN Staff
7/1/13
Marge Anderson wasn’t only the first woman to lead a Minnesota Indian tribe, she also fought for tribal hunting and fishing rights on Lake Mille Lacs...

Rep. McCollum to Snyder: Change Racist Team Name

ICTMN Staff
5/30/13
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) has joined with nine other members of Congress and more than 50 tribes and organizations in urging Dan Snyder, the owner of the NFL’s Was...

Leech Lake Students Chat with Minnesota Rep. McCollum

ICTMN Staff
3/23/13
A group of students from the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Bena, Minnesota joined Leech Lake tribal leaders for a trip to Washington, D.C. at the end of February...

NCAI's Keel to Deliver State of Indian Nation Address February 14

ICTMN Staff
2/13/13
On Thursday, February 14, Jefferson Keel, president of the National Congress of American Indians will deliver the annual State of Indian Nations Address from the Newseum’s Knight S...