Ancient Indigenous Peoples Saved One of Three Sisters from Extinction

Tanya H. Lee
12/30/15
The Three Sisters fundamental to the traditional diet of many American Indian tribes may have been just two without the ingenuity of ancient Indigenous Peoples living in what is no...

Three Sisters Flavor Thanksgiving Day Google Doodle

ICTMN Staff
11/30/15
This year’s Thanksgiving Google Doodle was the first Native American one featured by Google...

Politically Challenged, Indian Style: Can You Answer 12 Native History Questions?

Steve Russell
6/12/15
PoliTech, a student project at Texas Tech University, conceived a project nicknamed “Politically Challenged” that has been causing great hilarity across social media and has racked...

Celebrate Spring at the Chickasaw Cultural Center

Chickasaw Nation
3/17/14
Celebrate spring at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma...

Indians and Diversity

Steve Russell
5/3/12

This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a...

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The Stalk of Life

Dale Carson
8/25/11
Dale Carson Green Corn festivals, taking place all over Indian country between May and October, celebrate the ripening of the first corn of the year...

Planting Corn and Uniting with Her Sisters

Dale Carson
5/5/11
Dale Carson We are beginning to plant corn in the Northeast, where the last frost generally occurs in the second week of May...

First Lady Remembers Native Youth

Rob Capriccioso
6/6/11
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk joined the First Lady in planting of the three sisters in the White House Garden. (Photo courtesy of U.S...

Spilling the Beans

Dale Carson
2/28/11
Dale Carson The vines of beans climb the corn stalks, and the squash plants hold moisture in the ground...