History & CultureJim 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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Massacres and Denial: Why Can’t America be Honest? (4/14/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Every once in a while a really nice example of institutional racism emerges from the corporate media and gives us a chance to expose unexamined...
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OP/ED: Wounded Knee Needs Federal Buyer (4/13/2013)
(Connecticut) -- It was recently stated that the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre would be put up for auction on the open market on May 1st.
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OP/ED: Save Wounded Knee (4/12/2013)
(South Dakota) -- THE Lakota Sioux word “takini” means “to die and come back” but is usually translated more simply as “survivor.” It...
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Residential Schools
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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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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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ROSS: Loving Native People Better, Vol. 1: Pop Quizzes and Friends (and Family) Like These (4/15/2013)
(Washington) -- POP QUIZ: Think of a list of 5 people whom you do not like or who irritate you. Ethnically, are most of those people on that list 1) Native American, 2)...
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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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Code Talkers
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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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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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Mining & Drilling
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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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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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Pechanga Tribe
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18th annual Pechanga Pow Wow planned for late June (4/18/2013)
(California) -- Families, spectators and tribal participants from across North America will descend June 28-30 on the festival grounds at Pechanga Resort & Casino...
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Other News
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Opinion: Tax plan gets projects going (5/19/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A deal to divert state use taxes to fund completion of the American Indian Cultural Center Museum in Oklahoma City and build the Museum of Popular Culture...
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Senate panel OKs funds for pop culture museum, American Indian Cultural Center (5/19/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- In a surprise move, a Senate panel approved a measure Thursday to fund construction of a pop culture museum in Tulsa and another to finish the financially...
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'New Frontier' exhibit at Gilcrease Museum captures local culture (5/19/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- When the Palazzo Pitti museum in Florence, Italy, decided to celebrate its native son, navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, it came to Tulsa's...
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Bill would protect water-authority lands from artifact looters (5/19/2013)
(Florida) -- Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught. But a loophole in...
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Find of a lifetime (5/19/2013)
(Ontario) -- City resident Ed Porter didn't have any idea his life would change Feb. 28, 2012, when something he found while digging for antique bottles in the city.
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Ancestors Returned to Mother Earth in Michigan (5/18/2013)
(Michigan) -- The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and the Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance returned 11 sets of remains to...
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BLOG: Symposium considered commodification of native culture (5/18/2013)
(British Columbia) -- In Canada, because of its peoples multicultural nature, it often becomes second nature to borrow from other societies when creating an idea of what...
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Mississippi historical site seeking facelift (5/18/2013)
(Mississippi) -- Historians, tourism officials and others are pushing to get started on a multimillion dollar face-lift at Winterville Mounds State Park north of...
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Native American Skills To Be Demonstrated At Cape Cod National Seashore On June 1 (5/18/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- The culture and traditions of the Wampanoag tribe will be on display at Cape Cod National Seashore on June 1 at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.
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Yolo County forum recognizes distinctive cultures (5/18/2013)
(California) -- The Multi-Cultural Council and Yuba Community College co-sponsored the second in a series of public forums designed to foster increased understanding and...
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How Walmart Paid $24 Million In Bribes To Build On Sacred Mayan Ruins (VIDEO) (5/18/2013)
(Mexico) -- As the old saying goes, the three main requirements for success in retail are, “location, location, and location.” No wonder Walmart’s top...
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Tribal leader wants boycott of South Dakota city (5/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is calling for an economic boycott of Chamberlain after the school board in the southeastern South Dakota...
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Mohawk Ironworkers Help Raise Spire for Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center (5/17/2013)
(New York) -- From beginning to end, from rise to fall to rise again, the noble Mohawk ironworkers have shepherded the sky-scraping towers of the World Trade Center in...
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OSU celebrates opening of new Native American Longhouse, Eena Haws (5/17/2013)
(Oregon) -- The grand opening of the new Native American Longhouse at Oregon State University will take place Friday, May 17, at 4 p.m.
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101 project unearths Native American artifacts (5/17/2013)
(California) -- Highway workers have unearthed artifacts used by a Native American tribe as part of a paving project along Highway 101 north of Novato.
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Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe buries ancestors' remains unearthed more than 100 years ago (5/17/2013)
(Michigan) -- Rain beat gently against the yellowed shell of the tribal lodge but not a drop appeared to fall into an opening in the ceiling where smoke from a log fire...
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New funding proposals unveiled for 2 Oklahoma museums (5/16/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A Senate panel approves measures that would provide the use of certain tax receipts for the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in downtown Oklahoma...
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Tribal leader wants boycott of Chamberlain (5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Chamberlain School Board’s refusal to allow a tribal honoring song at high school graduation Sunday has sparked a call from Crow Creek Sioux...
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Native American pipe is Ohio's official state artifact (5/16/2013)
(Ohio) -- The Adena Pipe, carved in stone in the shape of a man more than 2,000 years ago, was discovered in 1901 in the left hand of a man buried in an excavated mound...
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Grant-Lee Phillips talks native ancestry, fatherhood and getting into trouble in the Flats ahead of Winchester show (5/16/2013)
(Ohio) -- "Having a night off in Cleveland is about the most dangerous thing a band can do," Grant-Lee Phillips said of the days when his old band, Grant-Lee...
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