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Tim Giago: McDonald's mentality needs revamp (06/29)
When my Native (SD) Sun News broke the story about the Custer figurine astride a motorcycle, packed into a McDonald’s Happy Meal, most Native Americans, particularly the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, were not happy. An extremely weak and calculated response...
Opinion: Judge heard early Native murder case (06/26)
"During the summer of 1912, President William Howard Taft appointed Frederick E. Fuller of Nome federal judge for Interior Alaska, headquarters Fairbanks. Fuller, a 44-year-old former Pennsylvanian, immediately faced a difficult trial: A murder case scheduled for September in Iditarod....
Editorial: IHS gets some long-overdue attention (06/26)
"Indian Health Services is getting renewed attention. Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the government’s handling of Native American health care was a “historic failure” and she was taking steps to improve care. The next day,...
Peter d'Errico: Excising conquest from the law (06/26)
"An Indian Country Today interviewer (May 6) asked John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, “Is anyone challenging Congress’ claim to plenary power over the nations?” He replied: “Yes, but of course under the law of this...
Kevin Abourezk: The legend of Michael Jackson (06/26)
"I loved the music. I pitied the man. Now I mourn the legend. Michael Jackson's death Thursday rocked the world as fans from across the globe remembered the childhood pop star whose smash album "Thriller" and signature moonwalk propelled him...
Commentary: Just who is a Native American? (06/25)
"With the rise of Indian gambling casinos all over the country — and in particular those 60 casinos in California with more on the way — the question naturally arises: Who exactly qualifies to call themselves an “Indian”? The basic...
Opinion: Alaska Native language immersion (06/25)
"Wiinga qigcikaqa pelii America-m tusngavia-llu. Atauciurrluku nunavut Agayutem aciani. Itumcimanga'unani piyunarquciakun elluarrluki-llu tamalkuitnun. These are the words I hear every morning while I am getting the day started at Kwigillingok School. This is the sound of Mary Ann Wilkinson's...
Charles Trimble: Indian affairs rife for comedy (06/25)
In Indian affairs, politics has always been rife for comedy. When he was covering the political scene in the Washington news bureau of the American Indian Press Association in the early 1970s, the late Dick LaCourse, grandfather of Indian journalism,...
Opinion: Peruvian Indians fight for the planet (06/25)
"While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed – yet its outcome will shape your fate, and mine. In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the...
Harold Monteau: DOJ, crime and Indian Country (06/25)
"The U.S. Department of Justice delivered its report on Indian country crime at the National Congress of American Indians midyear meeting. I always experience a modicum of fear whenever DOJ decides to put an emphasis on crime in Indian country...
Commentary: 'Illegal alien' killed Indian man (06/24)
"Timothy Wolfe will be forever 21 in the memories of those who loved him. They will never experience the joy and fullness of the life this bright and personable young man might have lived. His baby daughter Abby will never...
Blog: Apache family right to claim Geronimo (06/23)
"Imagine the scandal. A well known war leader’s body was taken from a cemetery on Federal land, and his skull used as an object of ridicule by the enemy. The family is requesting their return, but the bones are...
Column: Put an end to Wampanoag land claim (06/23)
"I first met Amelia Bingham in the early 1970s when I was bringing my students to different historical sites around Cape Cod. The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum had just opened and she was in charge of the place. Mrs. Bingham...
Gyassi Ross: Much love for Skins in movies (06/22)
"Another thing that my family absolutely loves – unabashedly – is seeing other Skins on television or in the movies. The Skin actor/actress doesn’t even have to be a big part – bit roles are just as much sources...
Jessica Yee: Being Native and pro-choice (06/22)
"I am Native. And I'm pro-choice. Many people seem to think this is an oxymoron - but to me, it makes perfect sense. I have unraveled much of the oppression I was forced to swallow and internalize over the years,...
Editorial: Get started on Indian health care (06/22)
"Figuring out how to deliver efficient, effective health care throughout Indian Country is one of the most daunting challenges the U.S. government faces. The U.S. is obligated by treaty to provide Native Americans with free health care on reservations, but...
Letter: GOP hypocrisy on artifact theft case (06/22)
"Once again Republicans reveal, through statements by Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, their outrageous hypocrisy by complaining about the police arrests of elderly white people, et al. for looting Indian artifacts. Apparently Hatch and Bennett don't have a problem with...
Editorial: Money wins over sacred site in Arizona (06/22)
"Well, it appears as if the Almighty Dollar has won out once again and the religions of many Native Americans have been shoved to the wayside. Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal filed in...
Editorial: BIA falls short on Cayuga land-into-trust (06/22)
"The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Cayuga Indian Nation's of New York's application for trust status on roughly 130 acres of local land is woefully inadequate. The report, which was the subject of a...
Tim Giago: National health care debate and IHS (06/22)
Health care in America is a failing proposition. An estimated 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. And yet Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calls the health care of Native Americans a “historic failure.” What about health...
Steven Juneau: Fight prescription drug abuse (06/19)
"In the past few years we have witnessed a segment of our tribal population escalate the abuse and diversion (theft and sale) of prescription drugs. Indian Country is experiencing the same impact as other Montana communities. We have our share...
Editorial: Hope for Blackfeet water system (06/19)
"A lot of people on the Blackfeet Reservation around Browning and East Glacier Park are hoping the third time is the charm. Residents have been told in the past week or so that a major water project to bring...
Cartoon: Real tears, fake snow at sacred site (06/19)
John Benson cartoon from June 14, 2009, edition of The Arizona Republic. Supreme Court Briefs:Department of Justice | Arizona Snowbowl | Navajo Nation/Tribes 9th Circuit Decision:Navajo Nation v. US Forest Service (August 8, 2008) Related Stories:Editorial: Fake snow alright...
Steven Newcomb: Colonialism clash in Peru (06/19)
"For 56 days, thousands of Amazonian Indian people have protested presidential decrees in Peru that open their ancestral lands to oil exploration and other forms of exploitation. Numerous deaths have resulted from violent clashes between Peruvian government forces and Amazonian...
Editorial: Pandering in Utah artifact theft case (06/18)
"Utah's two U.S. senators, Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, are trying to make cheap political points back home at the expense of federal agents who arrested 23 people on felony charges of trafficking in ancient Indian artifacts plundered from public...
Blog: Obama throws Indian Country a bone (06/17)
"I worked for Obama on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations in Montana all summer last year. One of the highlights was spending nearly a full day at the veteran's park in Crow Agency waiting to listen to Obama...
Opinion: Media ignores Native US Attorney firing (06/17)
"Barack Obama, the first black President (discounting Bill Clinton), is getting ready to fire the first Native American ever to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the country's history. Diane Humetewa, U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, was put in place...
Column: 'Overkill' in Indian artifact theft case (06/17)
"The masterminds that conceived last week's massive raid on people suspected of illegally dealing Native American artifacts called their operation "Cerberus Action." In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the multiheaded dog with snakes on his back and a dragon on his...
Golden: Slow progress for Oklahoma Indians (06/17)
"“Many of the educated Indians, as well as the ignorant ones, are depressed and downcast.” This is a statement made in the report titled, “Our National Problem – The Sad Condition of the Oklahoma Indian” made in 1912. In this...
Opinion: Natives fighting back in battle over oil (06/17)
"There’s an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shoo-ing methods...
Editorial: 9th Circuit justice in Exxon oil spill case (06/17)
"A federal appeals court struck a blow for justice Monday when it awarded the maximum allowable punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case -- and told Exxon Mobil to pay interest dating back to 1996. That means thousands...
Charles Trimble: No more offensive mascots (06/17)
It’s college World Series time here in Omaha, and the city is transformed to an interstate fair, with the city crawling with Titans, Tar Heels, Eagles, Sun Devils, Long Horns, Cavaliers, and Razorbacks. The Arkansas cheer, “Soooooiiiieeeee” resounds through the...
Editorial: Virginia tribes move closer to recognition (06/17)
"For Indian tribes in Virginia, this may be the year they finally gain recognition from Congress. It has been a long and frustrating effort for them, but success could be closer than ever before. And for that, the tribes and...
Letter: Racial slur against Indians in newspaper (06/17)
"On May 22, letter writer Burnell J. Petry stated what he had to say, but with no concern to the racial remarks made toward the American Indians. I am from the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone in Elko, Nev. I...
Editorial: Fake snow alright at sacred peaks (06/16)
"We understand the resistance Native Americans have to the recreational use of the San Francisco Peaks as a ski resort. The dispute between tribes and the outside community over the mountaintop has been a long, contentious one. Vows to continue...
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