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It’s a website for Native youth that’s long overdue! Native Youth Magazine.com is an online lifestyle magazine about Native youth on and off the reservation. By the touch of a button young Native people can now finally find out what their peers are doing, thinking and wearing in all regions of the U.S. and Canada! […]

Edited by Christopher Simmons ASPEN, Colo. – May 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “Why, then, make so greatado about the Roman and the Greek, and neglect the Indian?,” wrote HenryDavid Thoreau in his Journal in 1857. A missing piece of what shaped thisicon and American consciousness will be revealed at a weekend seminar inAspen, Colorado June […]

Chris Eyre and Scott Garen, the team behind the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s signature film A THOUSAND ROADS, have created a new production company, Seven Arrows Signature, for Native American films.

For decades Hollywood portrayed Indians as savages, enemies and losers. Now a generation of Native American filmmakers and actors is trying to overturn stereotypes and tell its own truth.

BISMARCK, N.D. – The federal Bureau of Land Management says it is selling
wild horses to American Indian tribes for the first time.

The BLM has sold 141 horses to the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota and 120
horses to the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. More sales are planned in
the next several weeks, bringing the total to more than 500 horses.

RED LAKE, Minn. – A Red Lake High School student went on a shooting rampage Monday afternoon, killing his grandfather and a woman at their home and then strapping on his grandfather’s police weapons and driving to the high school, where he shot as many as 21 people, killing seven, before turning the gun on […]

South Dakota men planning Native American Holocaust Monument…keywords: native american monument american history native american memorials monument project Three South Dakota men are trying to leave a permanent memorial for their people. Bryan Williams and his father Laurs, both of Veblen, and Milton Quinn of Sisseton are planning a Native American Holocaust Monument.

Native American Roots, Once Hidden Now embraced…KEYWORDS: native american roots indian ancestry ethnic roots lost culture lost traditions what it means to be Indian cherokee heritage cherokee grandmother Cherokee Indian Strong American Woman AUTHOR: Aunita Tyler The only story I have is of a little girl who has big brown eyes, light brown hair, and […]

Bill addresses slow-moving tribal recognition process.. KEYWORS: federal tribal recognition process Indian laws legislation for native americans government recognition of tribes BIA The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing this Thursday on a bill that seeks to speed up the federal recognition process for tribal groups that have been waiting decades for an answer. […]

Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations… KEYWORDS: oklahoma hall of fame modern day heroes Indian hero Wilma Mankiller Alice Brown Davis Robert L. Owen Fred Lookout Here is your chance to nominate a fellow Native American to join what is already a prestigious list. Officials with the Oklahoma Hall of Fame are seeking nominations. […]

The hefty reward being offered for a stolen Zuni kachina is for real, according to a Santa Fe antiques dealer who said he’s working on behalf of an anonymous pueblo. Claudio Ortega contacted the Journal on Thursday and said he has been circulating a flier offering $75,000 for the 1880s kachina, which was stolen from […]

Oklahoma Native veteran’s organization offers resources to those that served In October 2004 an entirely Native American Veterans Organization, the National Native American Veterans Association, began operations. The Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, is the first National Organization which has structured itself to work with both individual Native Veterans and Tribal Entities on a […]

Chris Eyre will direct “Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th Century,” a four-part series to air on PBS television stations nationwide. The “Indian Country” series is the follow-up to the acclaimed 1995 miniseries “500 Nations.” The new series willchronicle the history of Native American nations over the past 114 years, from the 1890 massacre […]

The Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards…KEYWORDS: 7th annual NAMMY Awards native american music awards Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida music awards The highly anticipated arrival of the Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino promises to be an extraordinary and unprecedented celebration of […]

Fort Robinson Break Out Spiritual Run honors Cheyenne tribal past … KEYWORDS: Northern Cheyenne spiritual run cheyenne history Southern Cheyenne Dull Knife Little Wolf Fort Robinson breakout run Chief Dull Knife Chief Little Wolf nebraska indian history Northern Cheyenne reservation 1878 cheyenne historical event AUTHOR: Mike Stark, Billings Gazette Staff Writer The young Northern Cheyennes […]

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 […]

For the coyote, the wait is over. Coyote Waits: An American Mystery! Special, the second film in the PBS Mystery! series based on bestselling Albuquerque author Tony Hillerman’s novels, screened to a packed, invitation-only audience Thursday at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

KEYWORDS: unrecognized american Indian tribes lost native american tribes Felter vs. Norton unrecognized tribes Indians Just wanted to let everyone know that our attorney, Dennis G. Chappabitty, just filed our response brief to the government’s “Motion to Dismiss” in Felter Vs. Norton on Monday, October 6, 2003 by electronic mailing. It was filed in Washington […]

KEYWORDS: native american events calendar protecting native american sacred places prayer vigil struggling for American Indian religious freedom protecting native american historic places on public lands protection of sacred places National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference International Indian Treaty Council Bear Butte protection court case Defenders of the Black Hills Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival

KEYWORDS: Chief Plenty Coups Montana state park Crow tribe crow leaders war chief Indian museumssacred medicine bundle bundles indian memorial peace park AUTHOR: James Hagengruber, Gazette Staff Writer “Today, I who have been called Chief of Chiefs, among red men, present to all the children of our Great White Father this land where the snows […]

AUTHOR: Sharon Waxman

ROSEBUD RESERVATION -The day the Rev. Kenneth Walleman came to the front door, Lloyd “Sonny” One Star went to get his gun.

“I couldn’t keep my composure. I kept shaking,” One Star, 46, a leader of the Sioux tribe on this reservation, said. “I was going to kill him.”

Walleman was a former administrator at St. Francis Mission, the Jesuit boarding school One Star had attended through his youth, a priest, One Star says now, who sexually abused him for years.

There will be a meeting on June 28,2003at the “Holiday Inn” in “Heber, Utah” for all the individaul members of the Terminated Mixed Blood Uinta Band of Ute Indians, and the news media from 11:00am to 3:00P.M. Speakers will be: Attorney Dennis Chappabitty, Native American Federal Attorney and Attorney for Felter v. Norton and Bennie […]

MAY 21, 2003: United Nations Headquarters 1st & 44th Street in New York, NY, a scheduled press conference on front steps of United Nations Headquarters May 22, 2003 at 11AM est A Citizen of the Haudenosaunee, the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy, exposes Federal State & Local Government in Criminal & Civil rights violations presently occurring […]

KEYWORDS: war in Iraq Lakota people Lakota Nation violation of international treaties Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council mass murder Saddam Hussein freeing the Iraqi people hidden agenda in the Middle East AUTHOR: Tetuwan Oyate, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council In the fall of 1875, the United States government issued an ultimatum to a nation of […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Federal agents arrested a man in the slaying of an American Indian Movement activist whose frozen body was found on a reservation more than a quarter-century ago. Arlo Looking Cloud, 49, was arrested Monday in Denver and pleaded innocent to a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Anna Mae […]

KEYWORDS: Iraq war native american warriors american indians in the military american Indian tribes in Iraq war There are more than 12,000 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Canadian Aboriginals serving in the U.S. military, according to data published in the Wall Street Journal. Citing data from the Immigration Policy Center and Defense Department, the paper […]

KEYWORDS: American Indian Dance documentary on NBC Four Directions Entertainment Oneida Indian Nation enterprise native american television documentary TV documentary The World of American Indian Dance Actor Peter Coyote Sonny Skyhawk Lakota Dan Jones Ponca film and television production company 100 percent American Indian-owned and operated oldest cultural tradition american indian dance Crow Fair Montana […]

KEYWORDS: Columbia data recorder columbia space shuttle wreck space shuttle black box Ft Belknap firefighters Chauncy Birdtail AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Tribune Staff Writer FORT BELKNAP — A firefighter from Fort Belknap found what is potentially the most important piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia. Chauncy Birdtail, 25, found the data recorder last Wednesday […]

AUTHOR: Thom Hartmann The 70th anniversary wasn’t noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago – February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world. It started when […]

I would like you to come up into the Universe with me, now look out, we see many stars and galaxies, we see eternity and we wonder at magnificence of it all. Wow! We look down together and see the earth, the size of a beach ball, we see the sun shining on one side […]

(BEVERLY HILLS) — Reflecting a strong year for Native-themed productions,First Americans in the Arts (FAITA) bestowed their coveted feather awardson a wide range of movies and TV shows. The winners included“Skinwalkers,” “Windtalkers,” “The Business of Fancydancying,” and“Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner).” The mood was festive as the stars gathered Saturday at the Beverly Hiltonfor the 11th […]

(BLACKFEET RESERVATION, Mont. – KRT NEWSFEATURES)-As America nears the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Native American leaders are demanding a major reassessment of how we view our heroes and our history.

A $3 million gift from the Oneida Indian Nation will establish a professorship at Harvard Law School to focus on the legal issues facing American Indians, school and tribal officials announced yesterday.

Indigenous Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier, has organized his annual gift drive for the children of the Pine Ridge Lakota Nation in South Dakota. This is one way Leonard continues his humanitarian work for his people despite his incarceration.

Help Leonard Peltier reach out beyond the bars that imprison him.