50 Faces, Part V: Lyons, Lettig, Cole, Ellsbury, Northern Cree

ICTMN Staff
9/10/15
Excellence, service and culture -- these concepts, as much as any other, define success across Indian country in the 21st century...

Indian Country Today Premieres ‘50 Faces of Indian Country’

ICTMN Staff
8/27/15
Indian Country Today Media Network has published its “50 Faces of Indian Country 2015” magazine, a first-ever celebration of the diversity and power of Native stars, athletes and l...

Congress Members Support Penobscot v. Maine in Unprecedented Court Filing

Gale Courey Toensing
5/5/15
A group of Congress members has filed a brief in federal court backing the Penobscot Indian Nation’s lawsuit against the State of Maine over hunting and fishing rights in the Penob...

Bennett Freeze Residents: Politicians Want to Wash Their Hands of Problems

Anne Minard
2/9/15
A Congressional delegation recently visited the impoverished borderlands shared by the Navajo and Hopi tribes in Arizona, promising solutions...

Tax Code Correction a Testament to People, Not Politics

Robert Odawi Porter
10/20/14

A great thing happened recently for Indian country. President Obama signed into law on September 26 the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act. This law will amend the U.S....

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How Did I Miss That? The KKK and Other Klowns

Steve Russell
8/8/14
Robert Jones, Imperial Wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was asked in an interview with Al Jazeera America what he would do about the Central American children...

Why Is the Redskins Name a Political Issue?

ICTMN Staff
7/2/14
So the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has elected not to protect the Washington Redskins' trademarks ...

Justice Scalia and the Racist Nature of Federal Indian Law

Steven Newcomb
6/6/14

A couple of years ago, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was at a function that Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) was also attending. Upon hearing that Congressman Cole is from the Chickasaw Nation, Scalia said: “Don't forget you belong to a conquered race.”...

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Time to Stop Playing Cowboys and Indians

DaShanne Stokes
3/16/14

No issue better illustrates the lengths to which racist Americans will go to hold tight to the reins of power and ignorance than a statement recently issued by the Washington Red*kins....

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JFK, a Native President of the U.S. and Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Oliver B. Barker
12/25/13

I wandered into a very serious conversation recently with a few of my compatriots re: whether or not a Native American candidate for the American presidency would suffer the same fate as JFK....

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