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Editorial: Save North Dakota student powwow (11/26)
"For 39 years, UND’s Time Out Week has been a terrific addition to the campus and Grand Forks. The annual powwow is a snapshot that has introduced generations of valley residents to Plains Indian lore. The week also features...
Editorial: Indian ancestors deserve proper burial (11/26)
"Tomorrow, Americans sit down to a traditional feast which, the history books tell us, owes it origins to the resident American Indians' generosity in sharing their food with a starving Pilgrim settlement in Plymouth four centuries ago. Sadly, these friendly...
Yellow Bird: Thankful for family on Thanksgiving (11/26)
"I am thankful for what the Creator has bestowed on me and apologize that I haven’t always handled those gifts as well as I should have. In fact, there are times when I am not at all pleased with...
Lance Morgan: The loser cycle in Indian Country (11/25)
Lance Morgan is the chief executive officer of Ho-Chunk Inc, the economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. HCI owns Indianz.Com and AlNative.Com. The following represents his opinion. I was thinking about a conversation I had once with...
Editorial: Raul Grijalva for Interior Secretary (11/25)
"Another Arizonan, another possible Cabinet position. For the red-state home of President-elect Barack Obama's former rival, such attention may be surprising. Those unfamiliar with U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva's long record of accomplishment in southern Arizona may also be surprised...
Opinion: 'Advanced' Europeans prevailed over Indians (11/25)
"There were terrible injustices and massacres committed by Europeans against Native Americans and some running the other way as well. The more technologically advanced civilization prevailed -- which is the usual course in human affairs. But the current fashion to...
Editorial: Daschle nomination a smart move for HHS (11/24)
"Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will be playing a new role in Washington. Wednesday it was announced that Daschle had been selected as President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. The announcement was immediately heralded...
S.E. Ruckman: The Indian story on the big screen (11/24)
"Imagine putting the collective American Indian story on the big screen. Our story has everything: betrayal, passion and violence to spare. It could make a bundle. But money isn’t everything, my elders remind me. Besides, in the feel-good atmosphere of...
Yellow Bird: Whiteclay, a heartbreaking town (11/24)
"A filmmaker and some activists will be at UND Monday to tell the story of the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota people’s fight for justice. The brutal murders of Ronald Hard Heart, 39, and Wilson “Wally” Black Elk Jr., 40,...
David Wilkins: Obama's support in Indian Country (11/24)
"eing trained in the art, not science, of politics I was transfixed at the recent election of Barack Obama. I studied the campaigns of both major parties during the last two long years of America’s highly partisan politics, and I...
Editorial: Bush administration's rushed regulations (11/24)
"Acknowledging "the historical tendency of administrations to increase regulatory activity in their final months," White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten issued a directive to federal agencies in May to release any final regulations before Nov. 1. The administration...
Charles Trimble: Thanksgiving and colonization (11/21)
"A day after Thanksgiving last year, the Omaha World Herald carried a story about the Meskwaki reservation in Tama, Iowa, and feelings about the holiday on the part of some of the tribal people there. Apparently the assignment was to...
Kara Briggs: Storytellers for Thanksgiving (11/21)
"November is a busy month for Native American storytellers. Schools, libraries and museums everywhere want storytellers to speak during the prelude or immediate aftermath of Thanksgiving. These gifted Native storytellers venture into classrooms of children dressed in paper feathers ,...
Opinion: Tribal sovereignty at stake in Oklahoma (11/21)
"It has been a long-standing policy among the different tribes in Oklahoma, as well as tribes in the United States, to maintain areas of jurisdiction within their own tribal boundaries. Whether this is a written law, policy or a gentleman's...
Kevin Abourezk: Daschle's chance to prove it (11/21)
"As a young man in college, I had an older Native friend, a mentor for whom I had the deepest respect, who often would tell me: "Prove it." Whether I was telling him about a college leadership position I had...
Opinion: Grand Ronde Tribes rebuild a nation (11/20)
"On Saturday, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde will celebrate its silver anniversary as a restored Tribe. Looking back over the last 25 years, the Tribe has truly evolved and survived the worst that federal Indian policies could throw...
Outdoors: Puyallup Tribe nears hatchery goal (11/20)
"In just four years of operation, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ Clarks Creek Hatchery is halfway to its goal of collecting 2 million chinook salmon eggs every year. Staff at the four-year-old hatchery, collected more than 1 million eggs...
Editorial: Yakama guest worker program a bad idea (11/20)
"Upon further review, we don't think a guest worker program to fingerprint and photograph all nontribal workers on the Yakama reservation and collect 50 cents for every hour they work is such a good idea after all. Schaptakay Labor Works...
Opinion: Dismantling the Thanksgiving myth (11/18)
"In less than two weeks, Thanksgiving will arrive. The need for celebration may not come as easily for those who have lost their homes and have suffered many misfortunes throughout the year. However, one should be thankful for just being...
Opinion: A non-Indian perspective on Indians (11/18)
"The Pawnee Nation recently got 257 acres of sacred land back. Sort of. The white owners of the land technically still own the 257 acres, which include the sacred Pawnee ground known as Pahaku or Pahuk Hill, situated on a...
Editorial: Non-tribal tobacco retailers in Oklahoma (11/18)
"Vance McSpadden, head of the Oklahoma Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, wrote in The Oklahoman recently that tobacco compacts with some Indian tribes weren’t working as designed. Further proof for him came last week when the state and Cherokee...
Opinion: Alaska Native students need culture (11/17)
"If you look back through the history of Alaska Natives in the state's education system, you will find that culture and language were systematically removed from children in the classrooms, in well-intentioned attempts to prepare them for life in Western...
Charles Trimble: NCAI service the highpoint in life (11/17)
I recently read with fond remembrance an article in Indian Country Today that the National Congress of American Indians passed a record number of resolutions in their 65th annual convention a few weeks ago in Phoenix. It brought back to...
Column: Mashantucket gift comes at curious time (11/17)
"It would be hard to fault the Mashantucket Pequots for their generosity to the community in the years since Foxwoods became such an enormous success. In fact, last year, as the Pequots donated $150,000 to 15 charities in Connecticut and...
Yellow Bird: Can't wait for delicious deer (11/17)
"If you’re the venison-eating type, then you’re standing at your window these days, rubbing your hands together, peering out the window and hoping that the head of the household is bringing home the venison. Right now, I have a...
Marc Simmons: An Apache warrior's escape (11/17)
"In the last years of the Apache wars, a warrior named Massai acquired something of a name for himself when he made a daring escape from the clutches of his white captors. A Mimbres Apache born in Southern New...
Opinion: Chehalis resort tax assessment dispute (11/17)
"Thurston County Assessor Patricia Costello asked me in January for the Department's opinion on the taxation of Great Wolf Lodge. The department's property tax division worked to establish the facts and did an extensive review of the case law to...
Opinion: Alaska Native village needs a safe road (11/17)
"As I write this, I'm in King Cove, Alaska. Soon I'll board a plane from Cold Bay to Washington, D.C., to support passage of our wilderness/road study/land exchange bill included in the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, pending before Congress....
In These Times: Obama administration picks (11/17)
Winona LaDuke Says: "The most serious challenge facing the new secretary of interior will be the bureaucratic mayhem that politicians have created. Worse, many of these lawmakers still fail to recognize Native people as part of true sovereign nations, especially...
Kevin Abourezk: Stereotypes and Thanksgiving (11/14)
"In two weeks, families across the country will sit down at tables covered with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. They'll get tired and fall asleep as the Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys toss the pigskin on the boob tube....
Jodi Rave: Indian Heritage Month ignored (11/14)
"As north winds whip across the prairies and mountains, we should expect to hear more conversational gusts about Native people as we reach the midway peak of American Indian Heritage Month. Or will we? It reminds me of the International...
Billy Frank: Act now to protect water resources (11/14)
"Rockfish are part of the bounty that the Pacific Ocean has always provided for the Indian tribes along the Washington coast. Fish, shellfish, marine mammals and other marine life have been staples of our diets and economies for as long...
Opinion: Consolidate Alaska Native villages (11/13)
"A village of 200 or 300 people, only half of whom are adults, cannot offer adequate education or health care. It can't provide law enforcement or effective local government. There are few social services, minimal intervention for drug and alcohol...
Column: Dakota woman arrested for the truth (11/13)
"During Minnesota's Sesquicentennial, Woman from the North has been arrested three times for telling the truth. The year isn't over. I'm not betting against a fourth. Her name is Waziyatawin, a Dakota (or Sioux) word meaning Woman from the...
Editorial: A new deal for tobacco in Oklahoma (11/13)
"Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation have signed a new tobacco agreement, which hopefully signals an end to years of disputes over an arcane but important issue. There's reason to suspect the deal will be a model for future, similar pacts...
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