History & CultureNative Voices
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Pioneer Profiles: Author David Treuer describes reservation life (2/21/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Just before appearing to an overflow audience at the Bemidji Public Library last Saturday, David Treuer agreed to sit and talk about himself and his...
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JENNINGS: Happy Presidents’ Day (2/20/2012)
(USA) -- The strength and the endurance of racism and discrimination against American Indians are easily traced to earlier periods of our history that we are desperately...
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TRIMBLE: Joe Garry of the Coeur d’Alene: Hero of 20th Century Indian America (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Northwest Tribes have produced some of history’s greatest leaders, most notably Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. In modern times the most...
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Ojibwe Writer Seeks Out The Beauty Of 'Rez Life' (2/20/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Stories about life on Native American reservations often focus on the hardships — alcoholism, drugs, violence and poverty. In Rez Life: An Indian...
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IRON EYES: Why the name Last Real Indians? (2/18/2012)
(South Dakota) -- This article is a response to the repeated question: why do you call yourselves “the lastrealindians?” Why? What is a real Indian? Am I a...
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Guest Post | A Native American Student Responds to a Times Article About His Home (2/17/2012)
(New York) -- An article by Timothy Williams, “Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation,” which appeared on the front page of The New York Times on Feb. 3,...
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George-Kanentiio: Why ceremonies are vital to Mohawks (2/16/2012)
(New York) -- One of the privileges of being from Akwesasne is the ability to attend, and witness, the conducting of the 13 communal ceremonies which mark the lunar year...
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HARJO: USDA’s Culture War Against Sacred Places (2/15/2012)
(USA) -- Amid the top-volume crossfire these days about whose religion and whose health could be threatened by federal actions, it’s noteworthy that debaters and...
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TOENSING: Part 3: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory (2/15/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- February 8 marked the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act. This is part three of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation...
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Pine Ridge
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South Dakota programs look to keep Lakota language alive (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- On a recent Tuesday, 5-year-old Jessie White Face hid her hands in the pockets of her pink jumper as she and 14 classmates recited "The Itsy Bitsy...
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Residential Schools
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Residential schools called a form of genocide (2/18/2012)
(Manitoba) -- The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in...
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Graphic novel shines light on residential school darkness (1/24/2012)
(Canada) -- An Aboriginal artist from Calgary is working on a project about residential schools. It's a project that is being brought to life through a graphic novel.
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Regina hearings hear from elders who lived through residential school system (1/16/2012)
(Saskatchewan) -- The dark legacy of the residential school system is being explored at Regina hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
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Trail of Tears: Twins make documentary detailing horrors of Indian schools (1/10/2012)
(Michigan) -- Beginning in the late 19th century, thousands of children were taken from their parents and put into boarding schools for their entire childhoods.
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Film shows Native American struggles (11/18/2011)
(Michigan) -- Palpable silence resonated through the Student Center’s overfilled auditorium Monday evening in response to the opening of “Chain of Sorrows,...
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Effects of American Indian boarding schools still linger today (11/12/2011)
(Minnesota) -- Susan Anderson projected the slide of an American Indian boarding school onto a screen. She looked out into the audience and asked, “Who of you...
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Treatment of Native Americans Explored in Documentary (10/29/2011)
(USA) -- This documentary, by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, about the treatment of Native American people by the United States government was screened at the...
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Residential school pain eased by teen's funeral (10/26/2011)
(Canada) -- The funeral was for Charlie Hunter, a teenager who died nearly 40 years ago while attending residential school. He was buried in Moose Factory, hundreds of...
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Public invited to learn about Indian boarding schools (10/1/2011)
(Iowa) -- The public is invited to attend a presentation about the Indian boarding school era at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Orpheum Theatre. The event is free.
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Aboriginal residential school survivors share stories (9/27/2011)
(Toronto) -- By the time it was 7-year-old Shirley Williams’s turn to be sent off to residential school, her father had had enough.
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Residential Schools: Canada’s Inglorious Educational Past (8/31/2011)
(Canada) -- In 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology to former students of residential schools was a momentous step in repairing a tragic blemish...
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BOOK: After Residential School, My Path to Healing (8/24/2011)
(Canada) -- An unlikely catalyst in my confronting my residential school experiences was my dear friend and older cousin Allan. He was the second-youngest of a large...
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San Manuel Tribe
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Future is Bright for FNX: First Nations Experience TV (2/17/2012)
(California) -- At the ceremonial unity launch of FNX: First Nations Experience TV, held on February 10, Cherokee actor Wes Studi confessed he didn’t see this...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Native Wisdom Guides Movement to Close Keystone Pipeline Route (2/14/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s rally Feb. 11 against the Keystone XL Pipeline showed the extent to which the multi-billion-dollar tar-sands crude-oil...
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Mining & Drilling
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Huichol ‘cosmic portal’ peyote ceremonies threatened by silver mine (2/14/2012)
(Mexico) -- For the Huichol Indians, the desert mountains here are sacred, a cosmic portal with major mojo, where shamans collect the peyote that fuels the waking dreams...
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Wisconsin Endangers a Sacred Tradition (1/24/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Opinakii, the place where the wild potatoes grow, lies just south of the Bad River Reservation on land ceded to the United States by the Ojibwe in 1842....
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British Columbia mine dispute linked to guerrilla war in 1864 (11/29/2011)
(British Columbia) -- A legal battle between First Nations and the proponent of a billion dollar gold and copper mine in central British Columbia is linked directly to a...
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Census
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OP/ED: Government Census Numbers on Indian Population Way Off Target (2/11/2012)
(USA) -- The United States Census recently assessed that the Native population in America has grown a staggering 39 percent in the past decade.
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Alaska Native Corporations
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Sealaska donates twelve logs to Chief Shakes renovation project (2/5/2012)
(Alaska) -- The Sealaska Corporation’s board of directors recently approved the donation of twelve cedar tree logs for Wrangell Cooperative Association’s...
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Bigfoot
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Tracking Bigfoot (2/5/2012)
(New Mexico) -- There's only one rule when it comes to hunting for Bigfoot: Don't. Whether you call it Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skookums or one of the more than 60...
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Bigfoot through the ages (8/26/2011)
(Minnesota) -- The Bigfoot legend isn’t new. American Indian folklore in the Pacific Northwest includes rumors of a man-ape beast. Sasquatch, another name for...
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Taking Sasquatch from the tabloids to the science journals (8/23/2011)
(British Columbia) -- Wildlife biologist John Bindernagel feels it is only a matter of time before he is proved right, but he is wondering if he will be around for his...
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Freedman Issue
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JENNINGS: Cherokee Freedmen: One Year Later (1/31/2012)
(Arizona) -- It has been one year since the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen won their long dispute against a constitutional amendment that terminated them as...
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Cherokees and Freedmen Descendants: A Shared Past (12/18/2011)
(USA) -- There has been a lot of discussion about the Cherokee Freedmen and their descendants, but most of the talk centers upon Cherokee Nation sovereignty and the...
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Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country (9/22/2011)
(California) -- Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs...
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Freedmen booted from Cherokee Nation (8/25/2011)
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court on Monday upheld a constitutional amendment that requires all tribal citizens to have at least one Indian ancestor on the...
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BLOG: Education for Creek Freedmen (8/22/2011)
(Oklahoma) -- An August 14 blog by Angela Y. Walton-Raji discusses the establishment of schools for freedmen in Indian territory. She mentions the Evangel Mission in the...
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First Nations Politics
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AFN National Chief Atleo ‘Moved’ by CBC’s 8th Fire; Episode 3 Airs January 26 (1/28/2012)
(Canada) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo gives the CBC News documentary 8th Fire high marks. “I was personally very emotionally...
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Snowbowl
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BLOG: In the Shadow of the Sacred Mountain (1/19/2012)
(Arizona) -- Ya’at’eeh lastrealindian readers. My name is Jihan Gearon. I come from Old Sawmill, AZ. For those of you who don’t know where that is, it...
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COMMENTARY: From Sacrilege to Sacredness: What’s the Big Deal About Snowmaking? (8/19/2011)
(Arizona) -- This is not the first time I’ve traveled up this mountain. My once-lover Dark Cloud and I hiked, camped and made love in these old Ponderosa and Fir...
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ANWR
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OP/ED: We're not ready to drill safely in the Arctic (1/2/2012)
(Alaska) -- For those of us who have watched with dismay as the Obama administration moves forward with approval after approval of Shell's oil drilling permits for...
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Attawapiskat Crisis
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Attawapiskat healing lodge retrofit approval needed (12/16/2011)
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan says he is "hopeful" that a healing lodge on the remote Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat can be retrofitted...
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Six a.m. pow wow in Ottawa renews hope for communities like Attawapiskat (12/7/2011)
(Ottawa) -- The singing and drumming began long before dawn Wednesday at the Ottawa Convention Centre, where chiefs from across Canada have gathered for the Assembly of...
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Chumash Tribe
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OP/ED: Making a strong case for Chumash plans (11/24/2011)
(California) -- This Thanksgiving day, I recall the kindness of the Native Americans who helped the pilgrims understand how to survive in this world that was so new to...
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Sweat-Lodge Deaths
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American Indians who sat in silent protest during guru’s trial hopeful he learned lesson (11/23/2011)
(Arizona) -- Self-help author James Arthur Ray faced more than a judge at his sentencing last week for a sweat lodge ceremony that left three people dead. Members of the...
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Cobell
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The burial of Elouise Cobell (11/22/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell filed her class action suit in 1996 and originally thought it would take only three years to resolve the issues. She joined Interior...
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Federal Recognition
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Klamath Tribes fete 25 years of restored rights (8/26/2011)
(Oregon) -- It’s been a quarter of a century since the traditional hunting and fishing rights were restored to members of the Klamath Tribes.
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Tribal Restoration (8/26/2011)
(Oregon) -- This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the restoration of tribal status for the Klamath tribes. A big celebration is underway already in Chiloquin to...
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Klamath Tribes celebrate 25 years of restoration (8/25/2011)
(Oregon) -- It's been a quarter of a century since the traditional hunting and fishing rights were restored to members of the Klamath Tribes.
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Fighting Sioux
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Panic Street Lawyer: Sioux Tribes and Seneca Nation (8/21/2011)
(Pennsylvania) -- Last week I wrote about Pittsburgh history repeating itself. However, I only went as far back as 20th century creations with my case studies. This week...
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Other News
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He Arrived a Skeptic, But Left a Believer in the Power and Wisdom of Hopi Rain Dance (2/22/2012)
(Arizona) -- In mainstream culture, there are still many jokes, cartoons and conversations about Natives dancing to make it rain. Whenever there is a drought or even a...
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Nev. officials consider rewriting insensitive historical markers (2/22/2012)
(Nevada) -- The text on many of the blue and gray, Nevada-shaped roadside markers that note historically significant events and locations will be updated in the coming...
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Big Boost for Native Languages (2/21/2012)
(Colorado) -- The respect and recognition shown by Colorado lawmakers for a Native American language bill are encouraging and may portend smooth sailing through the...
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Chinook monument park well on its way (2/21/2012)
(Washington) -- As work progresses at the Middle Village/Station Camp park site, the designers’ vision for this newest part of the Lewis and Clark National...
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COMMENTARY: Those who profited from theft of Indian land should show some respect (2/21/2012)
(Minnesota) -- I heard a Country Western tune the other night, with a line that stuck in my head: "There are hardly any Cheyennes in Cheyenne, Wyoming." It...
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The Battle Over Jim Thorpe’s Remains (2/21/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Jim Thorpe, the incredible athlete from the Sac and Fox Tribe in Oklahoma who was named one of the top three greatest athletes of the 20th century, had...
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Westhaven: 2,000-year-old mounds reveal community's Native American past (2/21/2012)
(Tennessee) -- Our state name, Tennessee, comes from a Cherokee Indian town named Tanase (pronounced tan na see) near the Tanase River, down in what is now Monroe County...
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First Physical Evidence of Tobacco in Mayan Container (2/21/2012)
(Mexico) -- A scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an anthropologist from the University at Albany teamed up to use ultra-modern chemical analysis...
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Andrew Jackson - The Worst President The Cherokee Ever Met (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The title of worst US president is hotly debated and is most often awarded to Andrew Johnson or Warren Harding. Many polls and studies rank Andrew...
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Indian-Killer Andrew Jackson Deserves Top Spot on List of Worst U.S. Presidents (2/20/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Unlike the statement in Indian Country Today Media Network’s “Best Presidents for Indian country” story, it’s a bit easier...
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Sweat lodge users upset over fee (2/20/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A $5 portable toilet fee that is charged to reserve a Native American sweat lodge on the grounds of the Sioux San Indian Health Service unit is a...
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Culture and tradition: Water quality, low flows stop ceremonies, dances (2/20/2012)
(California) -- To the area's tribes, the river isn't just about food. It's about life and living. It plays a part in ceremonies and rituals.
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Hoopa: ‘Our belief is in this water. It is everything’ (2/20/2012)
(California) -- Much of Hoopa ancestral territory in Northern California is in remote areas few outsiders visit. Tribal elder Merv George, 68, believes this is part of...
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Dam construction degraded river water quality, hurt food sources (2/20/2012)
(Washington) -- Native American cultures are traditionally subsistence-based, which means they eat what grows locally and is in season.
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American Indian Monitors Help San Gabriel Dig Site Preserve Artifacts (2/20/2012)
(California) -- A human foot bone fragment has been found at the archeological dig site near the San Gabriel Mission, the Whittier Daily News reports.
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COLUMN: Hastily drawn conclusions lead to long prejudice (2/20/2012)
(Indiana) -- Last week I made some headway into mitigating one of my prejudices. I have never consciously been racist, sexist, chauvinistic or xenophobic -- except in...
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Dark history of Indian boarding schools told in church program (2/20/2012)
(Michigan) -- The long forced assimilation of Native Americans into America's white society played Sunday in still photographs and film interviews on a church screen.
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Horace Axtell – World War II Vet and Ceremonial Leader (2/20/2012)
(Idaho) -- Horace Axtell is known as “Uncle” to virtually everyone on the Nez Perce Reservation, a sign of both respect and affection. He conducts memorial...
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Indian Heights Park recognized as Dakota burial site (2/20/2012)
(Minnesota) -- After over two years of controversy, compromise, and research, the City of Rochester and the Rochester Park and Recreation Department have recognized...
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Mardi Gras Indians Will Parade Through New Orleans in Native-Inspired Costumes (2/20/2012)
(Louisiana) -- Tomorrow, on Mardi Gras Day, African Americans will dawn ornate costumes of colorful fabrics and feathers, inspired by traditional American Indian regalia...
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