History & CultureResidential Schools
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In a grassland graveyard, pupils pay tribute to Alberta’s long-lost native children (5/23/2013)
(Alberta) -- Lucie Sinclair. Lizzie Devins. Charles Godin. Esther Wolf. Louisa Wolf. One by one, the students read aloud the names of children buried in this grassland...
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Residential School Survivors Reunite In Williams Lake (5/17/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Residential school survivors in Williams Lake, B.C., are reuniting this weekend to remember and heal.
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Paul Martin accuses residential schools of 'cultural genocide' (4/27/2013)
(Canada) -- Residential schools engaged in "cultural genocide," former prime minister Paul Martin said Friday at the hearings of the federal Truth And...
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Code Talkers
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Navajo Code Talker's Grandson Proudly Shares About His Roots and Service (5/21/2013)
(Australia) -- More than 60 years ago, a group of Native American Marines, known as Code Talkers, used the Navajo language to transmit secret tactical information using...
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Radio marathon honors Comanche code talker history (5/8/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- When U.S. soldiers landed several miles off of Utah Beach during World War II's Normandy invasion on D-Day, Comanche code talker Larry Saupitty was...
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Code talker’s grandson shares Navajo roots (5/8/2013)
(South Dakota) -- More than 60 years ago, a group of Native-American Marines, known as code talkers, used the Navajo language to transmit secret tactical information...
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Code talkers exhibit opens at county museum (4/18/2013)
(Kansas) -- The Wyandotte County Historical Museum this weekend will open the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Native Words, Native Warriors.
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Federal Recognition
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Seattle's Fragmented Duwamish Tribe Struggles For Identity (5/21/2013)
(Washington) -- On a rainy Saturday afternoon, a strong brew of native tea warms up the crowd at the Duwamish Longhouse in West Seattle. The tribe has hosted this casual...
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Mining & Drilling
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Native Americans mined variety of minerals early on (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Arizona has a rich history involving aboriginal mining, sometimes digging for minerals and other times scouring the Earth's surface.
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Indian Tribal Elders Hold Drum Ceremony Opposing Iron Mine (5/20/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- Native American tribal elders from Bad River and Red Cliff held a drum ceremony this weekend calling upon the spirits to offer guidance in their fight...
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NORRELL: Peabody Coal seized 1 million Navajo and Hopi artifacts from Black Mesa (4/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- While Peabody Coal was raping Black Mesa's coal, and forcing more than 14,000 Navajos into relocation and sorrow, Peabody seized 1 million Navajo and...
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Jim Thorpe
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What's in a name? A lot. (5/19/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- Dark clouds — both the real and the metaphorical varieties — cast a pall Saturday over Jim Thorpe's annual birthday celebration of the...
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder (5/18/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather...
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Editorial: Oklahoma's greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe, coming home (5/4/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- After 60 years, Oklahoma's greatest athlete could be coming home. Jim Thorpe, once called the greatest athlete in the world by the king of Sweden and...
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LETTER: In this case, there should be no appeal (4/25/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- Jim Thorpe was a unique athlete on a global scale. At 1912 in Stockholm he became the only Olympian ever to win gold medals in the pentathlon and...
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Wounded Knee
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Ickler: More trouble at Wounded Knee (5/19/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- Forty years ago I was writing editorials about the 71-day armed occupation of a desolate place in South Dakota named Wounded Knee.
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Native Sun News: A Wounded Knee descendant speaks out (5/15/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Leonard Little Finger, a highly respected Lakota elder, historian, and direct descendant of Chief Big Foot, has ended his silence on the Wounded Knee...
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OTHER VIEW: Holocaust Museum of the Indigenous People should be built at Wounded Knee (5/11/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Since 1492 the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.
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Native Sun News: Wounded Knee descendants speak out (5/10/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The conversation surrounding the sale of Wounded Knee has included commentary from people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, activists from urban...
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ROLO: Remembering Wounded Knee – four decades later (5/10/2013)
(South Dakota) -- It’s been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian...
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Commentary: Wounded Knee is American Indians' Gettysburg: Interior Dept Should Declare Eminent Domain (5/9/2013)
(Michigan) -- Ever since the property at Wounded Knee was put up for sale, American Indians across America have wondered aloud how a place such as Wounded Knee that is...
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KENT: Hallowed ground for sale (5/9/2013)
(South Dakota) -- It’s been many years since I first visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield -- a vast area of beautiful rolling hills scorched by memories of the...
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Prospective buyers close in on Wounded Knee (5/9/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Native Sun News has reviewed documents showing that there are now three separate entities making offers on the two 40 acre plots of land that Jim...
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S.D. tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site (5/5/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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Column: Wounded Knee should be a national monument, not a profit centre (5/4/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Wednesday 1 May 2013, we may learn the fate of the massacre site at Wounded Knee, a plot of land on the Pine Ridge Reservation that is currently owned...
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GREED: Wounded Knee Parcel For Sale - Asking Price $3.9 Million, Taxable Value $6,600 (5/4/2013)
(Michigan) -- When I first heard Wounded Knee was for sale back in February I thought it was a joke of some sort. I immediately rejected the idea because it was...
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Oglala President Brewer on Wounded Knee (5/4/2013)
(South Dakota) -- James A. Czywczynski of Rapid City, South Dakota has extended the deadline for bids for two tracts of land near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian...
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New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as...
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The new battle for Wounded Knee: Sale of massacre site divides tribe (4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Some of the Native American Indians living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota can still recall first-hand accounts of the massacre at...
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The Sioux View: Museum’s remit must be to tell the story of a slaughter (4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A lot of people think what happened at Wounded Knee in 1890 was a battle. It wasn’t a battle; it was a slaughter.
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TRIMBLE: Saving sacred ground -- Wounded Knee saga (4/29/2013)
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1st deadline approaches for the auctioning of the Wounded Knee land by owner James Czywczynski, I hope any source that may offer to buy the...
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GIAGO: Indigenous Holocaust museum at Wounded Knee (4/29/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Since 1492 the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.
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Author to present book on Wounded Knee occupation (4/26/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Forty years after the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened, according to an...
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LGBT News
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Among Indian tribes, a division over gay marriage (5/12/2013)
(Washington) -- For Heather Purser, the first pang came more than a decade ago as she gathered clams on Puget Sound’s Chico Beach, watching her cousin’s new...
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Native Voices
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CHAMPAGNE: Renewing the Sacred and the Importance of Place (5/9/2013)
(USA) -- Many tribal nations remember and perform ceremonies at sacred places that are not on their reservations. Do Indians have any spiritual claims to their ancient...
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JENNINGS: When the Last American Indian Dies (5/9/2013)
(USA) -- Anthropology has from the beginning been influenced and dominated by European males. They set the criteria of hierarchically ordered level descriptions, giving...
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KILLSBACK: Iron Man 3 Blasts Sand Creek (5/9/2013)
(Arizona) -- The majority of mainstream Americans know little to nothing of the violent and unjust history of the colonization of Native America. Anytime such truth is...
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Ecoffey: Confronting the dangers of instant Indians (5/6/2013)
(South Dakota) -- One of the greatest dangers to Native American communities is the Indians created by the elite institutions of higher learning.
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RUSSELL: Myths American Indians Live and Die By (5/6/2013)
(Texas) -- The mythical narrative taught by the colonists is that progress is an inevitable march in one direction. In the debate over the Texas annexation treaty, the...
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ROSS: Mother's Day, Superwoman Complex, and Getting Better: Loving Native People Better, v. 2 (5/3/2013)
(Washington) -- Disclaimer: Zero research went into this piece (except for watching decades and decades of Native boys growing up under incredibly loving Native moms)....
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RUSTYWIRE: Dancing With the Bears (4/27/2013)
(Utah) -- Old Man Toponotes would sit in this ‘84 Chevy pickup, wearing a faded brown cowboy hat that had seen more youthful days.
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Ecoffey: Native Sun News is a forum for Native writers (4/26/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Throughout history Native people have been forced to endure the misappropriation of essentially every aspect of our culture and life by mainstream...
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U.S. Colonialism: The Cornerstone of U.S. Indian Policy (4/25/2013)
(California) -- Indian nations have been dealing politically with the imperial momentum of the United States ever since the 13 British colonies along the Atlantic...
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Census
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Manitoba's aboriginal population continues to grow (5/8/2013)
(Manitoba) -- Manitoba continues to have the highest percentage of aboriginal people among Canada's provinces, and it's a growing and youthful segment of the...
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State Recognition
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Some SC tribal members fighting for right to use eagle feathers (4/28/2013)
(South Carolina) -- Some members of state-recognized Indian tribes say they will push for the freedom to use eagle feathers during Native American rituals in hopes of...
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Red Lake Tribe
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Red Lake Hosts Successful and Fun Gathering of Elders (4/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- More than 350 elders attended Red Lake’s Third Annual Elder Gathering at Seven Clans Casino Red Lake on April 1 to 2. Much of the agenda was anishaa...
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Billy Mills
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NCAA Honors Billy Mills (4/20/2013)
(Indiana) -- On Thursday, April 18, the NCAA dedicated a room at its national office in Indianapolis to Billy Mills, continuing the organization’s tradition of...
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Not living by the public’s perception (4/20/2013)
(Indiana) -- Perceptions used to hurt Billy Mills, make him feel devalued, even led him to thoughts of suicide. Then the former All-American distance runner at Kansas...
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Tobacco & Cigarettes
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Smoking ban exemption for First Nations (4/19/2013)
(Canada) -- The Penticton council has amended the smoking regulation bylaw in progress to include an exemption for the traditional First Nations cultural use of tobacco...
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Chumash Tribe
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Chumash Tribal Elder Reggie Pagaling Appointed to Native American Heritage Commission (4/18/2013)
(California) -- Reginald “Reggie” Pagaling, a Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians tribal elder, was recently appointed to the California Native American...
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Other News
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Editorial: State must address racial issues (5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- What would it have hurt? If the Chamberlain School District would have allowed a Native American honor song to be sung at the local graduation, much of...
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Best Indian Food 2013: Coushatta Slow-Cooked Corn Soup (5/23/2013)
(Louisiana) -- If there is an opposite to fast food, it might be the drinkable corn soup, chawahka, made by Jonas John, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, who lives on...
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Native American veterans memorial gets legislative push (5/23/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) introduced legislation Thursday to reauthorize the construction of a Native American veterans memorial on the Mall. A...
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Peabody scholar traces 10,000 years of state's Native American history (5/23/2013)
(Connecticut) -- The 10,000-year history of Native Americans in this state is traced in the new book "Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples" (Yale University...
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Sorry, China, but Native Americans probably aren't Hunanese (5/23/2013)
(China) -- China's Global Times - that reliable purveyor of the sublimely ridiculous, the terrifyingly nationalistic, and the just generally offensive -- struck...
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Video: Nevada's Indian Territory Exhibit Opens at Reno Airport (5/23/2013)
(Reno) -- On May 3, Washoe, Paiute and Western Shoshone tribal members joined airport officials and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval to open a new exhibit at the Reno-...
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Warren Gardipe: Remembering a tribal veteran from WWII (5/23/2013)
(Montana) -- While many young men and a few women here on the Rez were volunteering to join the armed forces on December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked...
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Documentaries about Native American People in NY (5/23/2013)
(New York) -- Two new documentaries on unique Native competitions. Produced in partnership with Vision Maker Media, the Native American public broadcasting organization...
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Chad 'Corntassel' Smith Talks About Embracing One's Legacy (5/22/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- In 1991, I worked for the late Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller. I was walking down the hall of one of our buildings, and I overheard one...
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Cherokee family honored for military service (5/22/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation honored a Cherokee father and eight sons, all veterans, with a Cherokee Medal of Patriotism during the May 13 Tribal Council meeting.
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Powwow: Honoring tradition means not forgetting (5/22/2013)
(California) -- All weekend long, everything associated with native culture will be celebrated: silvery jewelry, storytelling, dancing, art and ... popcorn?
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Artist shares culture through his work (5/22/2013)
(California) -- In 1998, Calm Waters completed more than five years of military service and returned to the Soboba Reservation, where he spent time with tribal elders to...
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Jack Gladstone, Haida Heritage Dance Group Captivate in Coeur d'Alene (5/22/2013)
(Idaho) -- When Jack Gladstone, “Montana’s Blackfeet Troubadour,” performed at North Idaho College, he captured the attention of his audience with both...
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American Indians descend from Hunan, says expert (5/22/2013)
(China) -- Some people in Central China's Hunan Province may be the ancestors of American Indians, according to the dean of Hunan University Law School.
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Native Sun News: Students learn about ancestral traditions (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Students at Wounded Knee School in Manderson were treated to an afternoon learning about the traditional and medicinal foods of their ancestors.
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Navajo and Hopi Honor Riders make annual run honoring fallen soldiers (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- In 2002 Larry Noble, Bobby Martin and Lon and Lori Parker established the Navajo Hopi Honor Riders to honor the late Lori Ann Piestewa, the first Native...
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Ramp It Up! Skateboard Exhibit Moves to Pequot Museum (5/21/2013)
(Connecticut) -- By museum standards, things are about to get a lot flashier, fresher and faster at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
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Who Was the Real James Young Deer? (5/21/2013)
(Hollywood) -- "With his acting experience and technical know-how, Young Deer soon advanced to one of Pathé's leading filmmakers. His Indian identity served him...
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House committee advances Indian museum funding (5/20/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A last-ditch funding bill for the mothballed American Indian Center eeked through an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee Monday morning, setting up...
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Okla. House panel approves $40M for Indian museum (5/20/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A plan to divert $40 million in use taxes over three years to help complete construction of an American Indian Cultural Center and Museum along the banks...
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