2004 Archives

Poplar River First Nation fears for one of the Earth’s lungs..KEYWORDS: Boreal Forest Poplar River First Nation thunderbird story global warming last frontier Canadian First Nations Pimicikamak Cree AUTHOR: DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer In the Boreal Forest, a storm is developing. The elders used to say that one should not make a […]

Who was that masked man?…

“Kemosabe,” the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found.

The ruling was delivered by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal last week in a case involving a native Canadian woman who complained that the manager of the store where she worked had created a poisoned environment by calling her Kemosabe.

On the day of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., I attended a press conference of the National Indian Gaming Association. From my seat at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., I could see media people, tribal officials and staff I recognized from the National Indian Gaming […]

Native American Gathering Educational Program Is Nov. 5… KEYWORDS: Chattanooga Indigenous Resource Center Native American Gathering at the River cherokee culture Muscogee culture Cherokee cultures Nov. 5 Tennessee Riverpark’s West Pavilion Muscogee (Creek) Nation Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Eastern Band of Cherokees Chattanooga Tennessee native american gathering in November traditional Muscogee […]

We destroyed our own religion first… KEYWORDS: native american religion and spirituality editorial sun dance sweat lodge ancient medicine culture indigenous cultures native american religion pagan religion shamanistic Nerkabah mysticism AUTHOR: Corey Wicks In the brilliant 1988 film Powwow Highway, at one moment Red Bow looks down and makes a cynical remark about a powwow: […]

Miracle, the white buffalo, has passed on to the spirit world – Miracle is gone. Miracle the buffalo, the symbol of peace, died at 11:07 p.m. Sunday on the Dave and Valerie Heider farm in Janesville.

Joseph Bruchac American Indian tale to be featured in National Geographic magazine. KEYWORDS: Joseph Bruchac American Indian ancient American people Abenaki native roots documentary-style magazine Indian renaissance Maggie Steber Cherokee ancestry linguistic families of North America Mohawk village Canajoharie wild ricing Chippewas chhipewa ancestors Indian culture AUTHOR: Judith White American Indian author and tribal storyteller […]

Former “NYPD Blue” star Rick Schroder and the Tonto Apache Tribe are teaming up to bring the movie “Black Cloud” to audiences around the nation. KEYWORDS: Black Cloud Tonto Apache Tribe Ricky Shroder Russell Means Indian actors Indians in movies boxing movie AUTHOR: Max Foster Former “NYPD Blue” star Rick Schroder and the Tonto Apache […]

It is time once and for all make our voices known through the voting polls of America!! Enough is enough for only peace meal answers and solutions. Every year we march to Congress to lobby for our needs and concerns and yet in some of our tribal areas we live in worse worse thab third […]

KEYWORDS: Northwest Powwows pow wow calendar June pow wow July pow wow August pow wow September pow wow AUTHOR: Alysia McKee Here is a partial list of Native American powwows and tribal festivals in theNorthwest this summer. Most begin Friday evening and continue throughSunday afternoon. Visitors are welcome. Information phone numbers arelisted if available. June […]

KEYWORDS: myths oral histories stories of the Haudenosaunee people Iroquois confederacy Sky Woman traditional stories Haudenosaunee artists six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia New York Indians Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art and Traditional Stories Haudenosaunee culture Haudenosaunee creation story AUTHOR: Katherine Rushworth Myths often live as oral histories passed from […]

I believe that by drawing attention to the Rum River name-change issue “white guilt” will increase, because of a heightened awareness of the catastrophic consequences caused by white settlers introducing and selling alcohol to Native Americans; and that this increase of “white guilt” will, in a lot of ways, cause white Euro-Americans (or, generally speaking, […]

KEYWORDS: Miss Indian World 2004 Gathering of Nations Powwow Red Lake Reservation Minnesota Eskimo Anishinaabeg people Athabascan people people of Minnesota Reservation notable people modern day heroes Indian woman of note jingle dress dancing jingle dress dance story of the dream catcher Nokomis and the spider AUTHOR: Doreen Yellowbird When Delena Smith entered the coliseum […]

KEYWORDS: native american sacred places american indian burial mounds burial grounds attrocities to american indians in the 21st century Native American Alliance Ohio burial mounds native american demonstrations native american protests July 4, 2004 Native American Alliance to Protect Indian Burial Mounds Demonstration of Unity July 4, 2004 The ancient burial mounds and earthworks located […]

KEYWORDS: native american sacred places american indian burial mounds burial grounds attrocities to american indians in the 21st century Native American Alliance Ohio burial mounds native american demonstrations native american protests July 4, 2004 Native American Alliance to Protect Indian Burial Mounds Demonstration of Unity July 4, 2004 The ancient burial mounds and earthworks located […]

KEYWORDS: Leonard Peltier Arlo Looking Cloud Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash Anna May Pictou AIM FBI AIM leadership Federal Bureau of Investigation Wounded Knee of 1973 GOONs Pineridge Reservation Indian activist Leonard Peltier activists Myrtle Poor Bear Barry Bachrach Attorney at Law Leonard Peltier defense AUTHOR: Barry Bachrach, Attorney representing Leonard Peltier A major occurrence in Rapid […]