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Hayley Hutt: Tribal perspectives missing from Klamath report (02/03)
"The Times-Standard's “Klamath draft report released; Thompson: 'Time for Congress to act is now'” article mistakenly recites that the 2010...
Column: Ponca Chief Standing Bear a focus of documentary (02/03)
"When artist Janice Rockwell found a photograph in the VIT High School library, she had no idea that it would...
Delvin Cree: Favoritism in Turtle Mountain tribal employment (02/03)
When favortism takes place within a tribe, not too many of us pay attention because the practice of hiring family...
Peter d'Errico: Supreme Court decision and indigenous rights (02/03)
"According to the common law, as the Jones opinions acknowledge, any unauthorized intrusion on private property is actionable (i.e., the...
Editorial: California tribes don't need land-into-trust process (02/03)
"The ancestors of the present-day Indians never asked the Europeans to come to these shores, and surely did not request...
Opinion: Lawsuit seeking return of Little Bighorn artifacts (02/02)
"Some 135 years after the carnage of the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn, another battle continues which seeks to...
Mary Pember: Eating, praying and loving ... with diabetes (02/02)
"I have battled obesity for a long time with a brief respite during my college and young adult years. For...
Column: A history of tribal societies in northern California (02/02)
"Anthropologists have long been interested in how prehistoric populations collectively made decisions with their associations and with one another. To...
Column: Treaty tribes giving salmon management advice (02/02)
"It long was practice by the Columbia River treaty tribes to avoid telling Washington and Oregon — at least in...
Column: Mississippi Choctaw chief renews economy focus (02/02)
"Choctaw tribal chief Phyliss Anderson restored and reopened Phillip M's at the Pearl River Resort last week. She also signaled...
Wizipan Garriot: Great Sioux Nation remains unorganized (02/02)
"Since I was a young boy, I’ve heard countless self-proclaimed activists, traditionalists, traditional chiefs, treaty council delegates, elected tribal leaders,...
Opinion: BIA intervention required for Chukchansi dispute (02/02)
"If you didn't get confused -- even once -- watching the TV series "Lost," then the latest goings-on involving the...
Harold Monteau: Money still rules, even in Indian Country (02/02)
"What in the heck is a “plutarchy”? Well, it certainly is not an America where Pluto is the president. It...
History: Apache were the most feared predators in Arizona (02/01)
"Last week I posted here about how the U.S. Government hosted 8 0r 10 Apache men for an all expenses...
Jana Walker: Protecting Native women from violent crime (02/01)
"The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples signals a new means to change federal law and policy to...
Editorial: Clean air, energy and tribal water rights colliding (01/31)
"That's why the Chandler Chamber of Commerce had CAP board President Pamela Pickard speak at an economic forum last week....
Brenda Golden: SPIRIT and NAACP discuss shared priorities (01/31)
"The Oklahoma State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) joins the Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights...
Julianne Jennings: Cherokee Freedmen struggle continues (01/31)
"It has been one year since the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen won their long dispute against a constitutional amendment...
Chelsea Vowel: The do's and don'ts of Native appropriation (01/31)
"Cultural appropriation is a seriously hot-button topic. It ranges from the aggressively entitled stance of, “I can do whatever I...
Gyasi Ross: Counting all the real Indian people on Facebook (01/31)
"Facebook has replaced pow-wow parking lots, Haskell, AISES/NCAI/other major Indian conferences and Santa Fe Indian Market as the leading place...
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