"Some people take one look at Native American artist Bobby Wilson's long, braided hair and start treating him like he just stepped out of a 19th-century Edward Curtis photo. "People act like I don't keep up with the times," said...
"In this exclusive interview, AMCtv.com talks to Eddie Spears, who plays Joseph Black Moon on AMC's Hell on Wheels. Spears talks about a big first on set and how the show taught him about Cheyenne warrior traditions. Q: What...
"Early in 1998, Jack Abramoff was in Imelda Marcos’s condominium in Manila, advising the former first lady of the Philippines on how to overturn a Supreme Court order that she go to prison for graft. His proposal: She should...
"I am quite upset to learn that a fellow going by the name Grey Owl (and I kid thee not, the irony of course being quite rich) is stealing the work of the phenomenal Métis artist, Christi Belcourt. His real...
"Tis the season for buying presents. As you peruse your local mall, you might find yourself drawn to beautiful geometric patterns in vibrant colors, long associated with Navajo rugs, Pendleton “Indian trade” blankets, and Southwest Native American pottery. They’ll be...
The following story was written and reported by Karin Eagle. All content © Native Sun News. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA -- Who says Indians don’t have a sense of humor? Humor has been utilized throughout the generations, from gentle teasing...
"An exhibit about native California cooking opened at the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in Palm Springs in mid-October, but I didn't get around to seeing it until last weekend. I would be very sorry to have missed it. Not that...
The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts announced the first "ambassadors" for a new program that will promote traditional arts. Darryl Begay, a jeweler from the Navajo Nation, and Cippy CrazyHorse, a jeweler from Cochiti Pueblo, will serve as Traditional Arts...
"In 2002, National Geographic asked journalist Scott Wallace to chronicle the trip of a 34-man team to search for the perimeters of a people known as the flecheiros — or the Arrow People. The Unconquered is the story of...
The following story was written and reported by Jesse Abernathy and Karin Eagle. All content © Native Sun News. 2011 Festival of Books in Deadwood features authors Diane Glancy, Delphine Red Shirt and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, among others. DEADWOOD,...
"For Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a cause for celebration. The holiday commemorating the survival – thanks to the Wampanoag tribe – of early settlers also marks the first wave of a European invasion that culminated in the death of...
"The Trail of Tears — the forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast to Oklahoma — is taught in many classrooms as one of the darkest moments in American history. The episode...
"The holiday movie season is fast approaching, but cinephiles seeking a more unique experience than the latest Hollywood blockbusters might consider heading for Tucson, Arizona. From November 30 to December 4, the Native Eyes Film Showcase features an exciting variety...
"You wouldn’t think Washington’s Quileute Tribe would have to explain its people don’t actually transform into werewolves and fight vampires. But then, you wouldn’t think teenage girls would go crazy for a story about musclebound boys with superhuman qualities fighting...
"African-Americans and Native Americans have interacted with one another for centuries in the Americas: through intermarriage and alliance in some cases, through enslavement and subjugation in others. Yet despite this shared history, it’s a link that is not much discussed...
"A nationally-renowned poet, performer, playwright and author will be speaking at the University of Nebraska Omaha this week. Born in Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is considered a major figure in contemporary American poetry. Harjo’s first poems were published in 1975, when...
"Kidzworld asks “Breaking Dawn’s” wolves Seth and Leah (cute Booboo Stewart and Julia Jones) about shape-shifting and acting with Taylor Lautner. These young actors love their more active roles in the two Breaking Dawn films. Kidzworld: Can you talk...
"In 1992, four years after Jesse Jackson joined Stanford students in chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go,” the Native American writer and activist Suzan Harjo, who had moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1970s,...
"Bear Claw's family is part of the Kiowa Indian tribe up in Oklahoma. He works nights as a bouncer at various spots around town, mainly The Slip Inn. Perhaps you recognize him if you've ever been to that favorite old...
"What if to save something spectacular you had to risk both its total demise and your own life? That was journalist Scott Wallace’s predicament when he traveled to Brazil in 2002 to chronicle an unprecedented expedition deep into the...
"Another year of the Manito Ahbee festival and Aboriginal Music Week has come to an end. And there is always a sense of loneliness come Monday morning after six days and nights filled with music and friends from across the...
"Author Linda LeGarde Grover has been named the recipient of the 2011 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's studies at the University of Rochester. The annual award will be given...
Everett Freeman, the late chairman of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in California, will receive the 2011 Eagle Spirit Award from the American Indian Film Institute. Freeman, who ran the tribe from 1994 until his death in 2010,...
"The Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s American Indian Cinema Showcase, co-presented with the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, is tonight-Saturday at the museum’s Noble Theater, 415 Couch Drive. The showcase begins at 7:30 tonight with a screening of...
In his forthcoming book, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff says Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) cost him a job. Abramoff was working as a consultant for Cassidy & Associates. According to the book, Inouye told the firm’s leader, Gerry Cassidy, to fire...
"Scott Wallace’s new book, ‘The Unconquered- In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes’, describes an arduous three-month journey deep into the Amazon rainforest of the Javari Valley, one of the largest indigenous reserves in Brazil, and home to...
"Geraldine Brooks is worth reading. No matter the subject, she can spin a story from the barest of threads. Her latest novel, “Caleb’s Crossing” (Viking, 2011), exemplifies her talents. From an obscure reference to an unlikely Harvard graduate, she...
"The usual narrative of Native American activism begins with Alcatraz and the American Indian Movement in the late 1960s. But scholar Bradley Shreve makes a persuasive case that activism was rooted in earlier decades, and specifically that much of...
"Ariel Tweto is so cute she's almost cartoon-like. With a petite frame and an infectious giggle, the 'Flying Wild Alaska' star was a bundle of energy when we hung out to talk about Season 2 (premieres Fri., Oct. 28,...
'The legacy of the horse has just hit its stride at the National Museum of the American Indian, as the museum presents an expanded version of the exhibit “ A Song for the Horse Nation ” on Sat. Oct....
"Gyasi Ross’s work hits you between the eyes. You’re cruising along, reading Don’t Know Much About Indians (but I wrote a book about us anyways), published this year by Cut Bank Creek Press. You’re thinking that the story or poem...
"The word “Navajo” no longer appears on Urban Outfitters' website. The trendy clothing chain has removed it from the names of numerous products in the wake of criticism from the Navajo Nation. The tribe has trademarks on the Navajo name....
"This past week on Survivor: South Pacific, Elyse Umemoto became the latest Survivor casualty of the game after losing a close challenge at Redeption Island. Although Elyse made a strong alliance with Survivor all-star Ozzy Lusth, she soon found...
"Filmmakers Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm will be in Langley for opening night of their documentary, The Whale, which runs Oct. 21-24 at The Clyde Theatre. Co-directed by journalist Michael Parfit and producer-cinematographer Suzanne Chisholm, who live on Vancouver...
"After receiving his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine, an article about the efforts of a Brazilian activist named Sydney Possuelo to protect and document the uncontacted tribes of the Amazon, Scott Wallace was in such a hurry to get...
The National Park Service has packed up the Indian art collection at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and has sent all 1,500 items away for refurbishment. About half of the collection at the Indian Arts Museum was already at...
"Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich have been writing about race for decades. They confront the question of race head on. They’re honest about it, especially Alexie. Americans are racists. So are American Indians, and blacks, and Latino/as, and Asians. We...
"Anne Makepeace is quick to tell people that the Wampanoag is the tribe that greeted the Mayflower. After all, what better way to quickly illustrate how forgotten this tribe is? Almost everyone in America knows the people of the...
Elyse Umemoto, a member of the Yakama Nation of Washington, is a contestant on Survivor: South Pacific. Umemoto, 27, grew up on the reservation. She placed second runner-up in the Miss America pageant in 2008. In addition to being...
"I wrote this poem in 1990, as we were starting The 1992 Alliance, a national coalition that promoted Native Peoples and histories during the build-up to the Columbus Quincentenary. As ships were being launched, again, and discovery celebrations were being...
"Kathleen Hull’s Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California, above all, is a timely book, if not a necessary book. Timely in that current relations between Yosemite Indians and the park administration are showing signs of...
"First-time author Gyasi Ross has assembled a collection of his writings into a book that once opened, will be hard for any reader to put down. Through narrative short stories, vivid poetry and creative illustration, Gyasi Ross makes it easy...
"The story of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover comes alive in "A Good Day to Die," a documentary film, produced by Lynn Salt, Choctaw, and David Mueller. Funded by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, based in Brooks, California the film...
"Resisting cajoling from artist peers and supporters of her work who urged her to come to Sioux Falls, Dyani White Hawk held off exhibiting at the Northern Plains Indian Art Market until she had completed a master of fine arts...
"The Oklahoma Film & Music Office and the producers of “The Cherokee Word for Water,” a Mankiller Project LLC production, announced Friday evening that pre-production for the film has started in Tahlequah. Principal photography is scheduled to begin Sept. 26...
"And now, from the people who think they know everything about what we should be wearing, comes a new trend about which we Arizonans might know a bit more. At Neiman Marcus, just racks away from Mary-Kate and Ashley...
"Wisconsin Historical Society Press entered my radar over the past year due in part to the ability of the Internet to increase visibility, but also because of the organization’s frequent collaborations with Historic Milwaukee. What struck me as a...
"Arnold Spirit Junior has never had much luck in life. He was born with too much cerebral spine fluid in his skull (or as he puts it 'water on my brain') that has left him with brain damage, one...
"On May 19, 1836, a Comanche raiding party swept down on the frontier settlement of Parker's Fort in northern Texas, killing five adult men and carrying off two women and three children, including nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker. This event...
YouTube: Intervention: Don't Know Much About Indians #4 $p $rs Video: Gyasi Ross discusses 'Don't Know Much About Indians' book (08/16)...
"When a cookbook is re-issued these days, it often means it was a recent raging sales success, has been revamped for a different continent, or is now being offered in a new language. But when it's been twenty years,...
The following story was written and reported by Evelyn Red Lodge and Jesse Abernathy . All content © Native Sun News. Danita Strawberry designs at the fair 2011. Dancers take the stage for entertainment at All Indian Day at the...
"Christine Lesiak’s documentary provides an overview of a tragic chapter in U.S. history that culminated in a landmark civil rights court case. Standing Bear was a chief of the Ponca Indian tribe in Nebraska. In 1877, the federal government...
"Lamar Clayton, a taciturn, old-fashioned West Texas rancher, is the central character in Stephen Harrigan’s well-crafted novel “Remember Ben Clayton.” As a young man, Lamar rode on a number of the great cattle drives from Texas to the stockyards in...
"When I saw a shiny white painted parka made out of the innards of a seal at the Art of the American Indian exhibition, I stopped me in my tracks. I was dumbfounded. First, who would even think of it;...
The New Mexico Museum of Art recently opened an exhibit featuring the works of Native photographers. “New Native Photography, 2011" showcases 25 photos from 19 Native artists. Participants include Vicki Monks, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. “I...
A memorial totem pole is being dedicated today in honor of John T. Williams, a traditional woodcarver who was shot to death by a police officer in Seattle, Washington, on August 30, 2010. The pole was carved by one of...
"In "Spirit Car," which won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for memoir, Diane Wilson explored her Native American ancestors who survived the Dakota War of 1862. She traced how her family had been devastated by generations of cultural extermination, leaving...
The following story was written and reported by Stephanie Woodard. All content © Native Sun News. AGENCY VILLAGE, SOUTH DAKOTA –– At the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate’s recent Summer Bash, artist and tribal member Fred Kohl displayed his 930-pound steel-plate sculpture,...
"The most interesting releases in the pow-wow world in recent months include albums by vital American and Canadian acts Tha Tribe, Pipestone, Bear Creek and Cree Confederation. Tha Tribe is an American Indian group from Lawrence, Kansas, known for its...
For the first time, the Santa Fe Indian Market is open to Native artists from outside the United States. This year, 15 artists from First Nations in Canada are showing their products at the 90th annual market. They join the...
With the opening of the Santa Fe Indian Market quickly approaching, organizers are working with city and state officials to resolve a tax issue. According to the state of New Mexico, about 220 Indian artists lacked tax identification numbers or...
More than 200 artists might not be able to sell their goods at the 90th annual Santa Fe Indian Market this weekend due to a taxation issue. The city of Santa Fe claims some artists owe back taxes to the...
YouTube: Don't Know Much About Indians: Indian Farts "Discussion with Author Gyasi Ross about his book, "Don't Know Much About Indians (but i wrote a book about us anyways), where Gyasi breaks down his egregious use of the term,...
"Mark Trahant’s slim volume, The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars, is a fascinating read—so much so that Indian Country Today Media Network’s Rob Capriccioso gave the author a chance to expand upon some of the subjects that...
"Early in the 20th century, a lake was taken away from a Native tribe by the federal government. It was hardly the first such example of manifest destiny – over the past 200 years Native Americans have lost millions...
"Native Americans have struggled to hang onto their cultures for decades. On August 20th, a local tribe will have a new resource to help. The Tulalips are opening a cultural center on their reservation. It not only shares history the...
The following story was written and reported by the Native Sun News. All content © Native Sun News. Replicas of ancient weaponry created by Melvin Miner Jr. is part of the permanent collection of his work on display at the...
Resplendent, energetic, inspired, “mystic visionary,” simple words to describe an artist. Art, the first language of our people involved pictures. Pictures were painted on walls or tipis while special Heyoka symbols painted on shields provided supernatural strength and protection for...
"“Behind these words lies an essential story for all who are passionate about tolerance, dignity and justice,” writes Seattle author and attorney Michael Schein, in reference to Chief Leschi’s grim tombstone inscription. In his new novel Bones Beneath Our...
The director, writer and producer of More Than Frybread is seeking donations to complete his film about the fictional Arizona Frybread Championship. Travis Hamilton is putting the finishing touches on the project. "Doing things right isn't always the cheapest."...
"High school English teachers, your attention please! I have wonderful and terrible news. Encore, that glorious waster of weekend afternoons on cable’s desolate seas, has finally decided to show something besides an endless loop of “Dumb and Dumber.” For...
"24 hours after BOMBING during a stand-up performance at an Indian casino in Florida, Dave Chappelle has issued an apology to the tribe ... claiming it's not the first time he's flopped on stage. As we previously reported, Chappelle...
The National Museum of the American Indian is focusing on environment issues with a new exhibit on climate change. "Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change" opens today. It's the first of its kind devoted to indigenous science...
The Farmington Indian Center in New Mexico is celebrating its 10th annual Indian Market and Festival on Friday and Saturday. The event will feature art, dances and musical performances. Zachariah George, a traditional Navajo singer; Lightning Rock, a country band;...
"I recently bought a sweater online. The designer, Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, calls it a Navajo blanket cardigan, and I’m well aware that it’s trendy. “Navajo,” “Native American,” and “Indian” prints are everywhere. Fashion magazines like Elle and...
"Litefoot - maybe you know him as Gary Davis, Metro Christian Class of 1987 - is an American Indian rapper, motivational speaker and actor who has his own record label and clothing line. He's developing his own branded line of...
"There is a dark side to tribalism and that dark side may be the end of us if we can’t control it, or if we continue the failures to cooperate that have been our historical undoing. There is no...
The Oneida Nation of New York will be financing its first feature film, to be titled "First Allies." Shooting on the $10 million production will begin this fall in New York. The story is based on the Oneida Nation's alliance...
"“We used to have petroglyphs,” said Ray Halbritter, the nation representative of the Oneida Indian Nation and the chief executive of its Nation Enterprises. In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Halbritter was explaining his nation’s reasons for dabbling in...
A resolution to legalize marijuana was just "a joke," the leader of the Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington said. Chairwoman Shelley Burch said tribal leaders came up with the idea because Willie Nelson, a marijuana legalization advocate, is playing the Snoqualmie...
"After the successful resolution of a 20-year lawsuit first filed in 1973, the Catawba Nation has received settlements in both land, cash and, what is more important, gained federal recognition as a tribe. The tribal rolls now boast about 2,600...
Gordon Tootoosis, an actor and politician from the Poundmaker Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan, died on Tuesday. He was 69. Tootoosis was a former chief of his tribe and former vice president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, which...
""For us, music is a strategic tool to communicate social injustices that we face," Klee Benally, the vocalist and guitar player for the punk-rock band Blackfire, said. Blackfire, whose members are Klee, his brother Clayson and his sister Jeneda, played...
The following story was written and reported by Aly Duncan Neely. All content © Native Sun News. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — Brulé, a seven-time Native American Music Awards winning act, came to Rapid City last weekend, along with thunder,...
"In 2009, when the Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow won top honors at the Berlin Film Festival, lead actress Magaly Solier did something surprising — she chose to accept the award by singing a song in Quechua, a common...
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a business meeting on Thursday. The committee will consider the nominations of Cynthia Chavez Lamar and of Barbara Jean Ells to serve on the Board of Trustees for the Institute of American Indian...
Debora Iyall, a member of the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington, made a name for herself as the lead singer of Romeo Void, a popular 1980s New Wave band. The band broke up after a string of hits and Iyall started...
"It is a great honor and privilege to share my thoughts about the film Two Spirits. The first time I saw Two Spirits, I left the room and and cried when it was over. The story of Fred Martinez's...
"Less than 30 years after the university was founded, Harvard graduated Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck -- a member of Martha's Vineyard's Wampanoag tribe. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has just published her historical novel about the scholar, "Caleb's Crossing." The young Native...
"It’s been more than nine months since a Seattle police officer killed First Nations woodcarver John T. Williams, and tensions are still running high among Native Americans. They say the shooting brings up the long history of brutality Native people...
"Trudging along in creaky covered wagons, mile after spine-jarring mile, day after wind-burned day, through arid alien landscapes, toward an uncertain, hardscrabble future — no wonder our pioneer ancestors were such stoical existentialists. A three-family wagon train on the Oregon...
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the National Museum of the American Indian are collaborating to host Choctaw Days at the Smithsonian. The event takes place from June 22-25 in Washington, D.C. The tribe will showcase its art, food, culture...
A former employee of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts is suing the organization and its executive director. Cheryl James was the coordinator of administration and finance. She is seeking money damages for breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional...
A popular Creek Indian display that was housed at the Birmingham Museum of Art for seven year has found a new home. The Greater Talladega Area Chamber of Commerce plans to relocate the display into the new Creek Indian Museum...
"Maine's Franco-American history is often intertwined with the state's Native American populations. In a new book, "Unsettled Past-Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians," York writer and former state legislator Neil Rolde describes episodes where the French and the Indian...
"The Mitsitam Cafe, which has been a destination within the National Museum of the American Indian for all kinds of foodies, is expanding. By closing the first floor gift shop, the museum reclaimed enough space to add 38 new seats....
"Does the anguished history of a people inspire future generations to achieve new heights or is it a millstone around one’s neck, ensuring a continued legacy of hardship and despair? For Shoni Schimmel, a top female high school basketball prospect...
The following story was written and reported by Aly Duncan Neely. All content © Native Sun News. A painting by Keith Brave Heart titled “Living in the arms of youth” RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — Making New Traditions, an exhibit...
The Oneida Nation of New York presented its seventh $1 million donation to the National Museum of the American Indian on Wednesday. NMAI Director Kevin Gover visited the Oneida Reservation to accept the check. We can use it to...
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) says the state needs to finish work on the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City Fallin will ask lawmakers to approve a bill to authorize the sale of $39 million in bonds...
Ojibwe wild rice and treaty rights are the subject of "Manoominike: Gathering the Good Seed," a one-hour radio documentary. Nick Vander Puy produced the documentary. It features interviews with Fred Ackley Jr.., an elder and judge from the Sokaogon Chippewa...
"Idaho's Forgotten War," a documentary about the Kootenai Tribe, will be shown on the Flathead Reservation in Montana on Sunday. The film documents the war that former chairwoman Amy Cutsack Trice declared on the United States in 1974. The effort...
The Learning Channel will air Off The Rez, a documentary about Shoni Schimmel, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, on May 14. The film follows Schimmel during her standout season at an off-reservation high...
The following story was written and reported by Aly Duncan Neely. All content © Native Sun News. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — Tuesday night, April 19 at Skullets, a young musician’s venue, proved to be an evening to remember. It...
Activist Suzan Shown Harjo will receive an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. Harjo, who his Muscogee and Cheyenne, is being recognized for a lifetime of advocacy in Indian Country. She has worked on...
"Shoni Schimmel streaks down the left side of the court, her long brown ponytail bouncing in the air behind her. At full speed, she uses her right hand to wrap the ball behind her back and through her legs, before...
"The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has just acquired a new Native American shirt, and in doing so has returned it to its homeland after an absence of more than 300 years. "It does not get any better than this...
"Collectors and philanthropists Eugene and Clare Thaw are not cultural anthropologists, historians, or natural history museum benefactors. They are art collectors. Eugene Thaw was dealing art by the age of 23. He has had a love affair with the...
The National Arts Centre will stage an all-Native production of King Lear this season. The play is set in Canada during the Iroquois - Huron Wars, according to CBC News. August Schellenberg will play King Lear. The NAC is located...
"In Kelly Reichardt's much-lauded new film Meek's Cutoff, set in 1845, a small band of pioneers get lost in barren, arid plains on their way to the Willamette Valley. Eventually, they grow disillusioned with their blustery guide, Stephen Meek (who...
The Recording Academy has eliminated the Best Native American Album category in the Grammy Awards. The category was created in 2001 to honor Native artists and musicians. But it was eliminated as part of an overhaul that saw the Grammys...
Writer Jim Winnerman is documenting the presence of Jewish pioneers among tribes in the West. Winnerman's grandparents lived in Indian Territory, now known as Oklahoma. They spoke Yiddish and Cherokee and operated a store in Cherokee territory in the...
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) signed into law a bill that designates the squash blossom as the official state necklace. The squash blossom necklace is common among artists from the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo. The design, which...
Shoni Schimmel, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is the subject of Off The Rez, a documentary being shown at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows Schimmel during her standout season at an...
The following story was written and reported by Evelyn Red Lodge . All content © Native Sun News. HERMOSA, SOUTH DAKOTA — She’s an up-and-coming star whose brand new extended-play disc (ED) was just released and is on sale right...
"When it comes to penning tales that explore his American Indian heritage, Bret Jones is flush with good ideas. For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma-born and bred playwright will have one of his plays featured as part...
Leaders of the Poundmaker First Nation in Saskatchewan have barred the performance of a Native adaptation of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Deanne Kasokeo, who is from the First Nation, set her production on a fictional reserve with a corrupt chief....
"Richard Kluger has written a half-dozen novels, but he’s best known for telling true stories, hard stories, very well: Brown v. Board of Education (“Simple Justice”), the rise and fall of The New York Herald Tribune (“The Paper”), the...
Two Indian artists, Sterlin Harjo and Ryan Red Corn, recently posted a video to YouTube that has an unusual dedication. "This film is dedicated to Edward S. Curtis," the opening to Smiling IndiansSmiling Indians states. Edward S. Curtis is...
"Native American classical guitarist Gabriel Ayala found his roots in music and decided to put that talent to use to help others find their way through academia. A member of the Yaqui tribe, Ayala graduated with a degree in music...
"When it comes to depictions of America’s indigenous peoples, most audiences carry the heavy baggage of celluloid stereotypes and other cultural tropes, which the Native Voices at the Autry strives to dispel by presenting plays expressing aboriginal perspectives. Cherokee/ Muskogee...
Three Native artists in New Mexico will be launching a new website, Native American Artists for Japan, to raise money for relief efforts in Japan. Darryl Dean Begay, Lyndon Tsosie and Raymond Yazzie will be asking other Native artists to...
"Native Voices at the Autry presents the world premiere of “The Frybread Queen” this month, and it tells quite a story. From the relationships between the four women on stage to the elements of the supernatural, each discovery that is...
"Tombs Of The Vanishing Indian is a play about reclamation: of history, culture and family. Set largely in 1970s Los Angeles (but including a mythic character from the 1850s), Marie Clements’s script follows the tales of three grown-up native...
indieWIRE asked director Chris Eyre about his new project, "A Year in Mooring," and his inspiration for the film. "I became a filmmaker when I started taking pictures as a teenager. I photographed everything—people, animals and many landscapes. I didn’t...
Cowboys & Indians interviews S.C. Gwynne, the author of "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History," a critically-acclaimed book about Quanah Parker and...
"Everyone who visits a museum display about American Indians "wants to see feathers, tepees and horses," Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, lamented recently in his Washington office. But new installations at NMAI's New...
"You know there’s trouble when the first object you encounter in a museum exhibition looks as if it had been misplaced from the gift shop. That problem runs deep in “Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains,” at the Brooklyn...
"For almost 22 years, Ojibwe writer Jim Northrup has entertained and chastened readers of his syndicated Fond Du Lacs Follies newspaper column. Now, a new collection of the Follies is about to hit the bookstores. Northrup covered everything from...
"Last summer, in the midst of a roiling thunderstorm, my children and I visited the site of Custer’s Last Stand in Montana. The dying ground there signifies one of the most notorious miscalculations in the United States’ long and...
"In these selections from his syndicated, award-winning column, "Fond du Lac Follies," Native American journalist Jim Northrup not only gives readers a rich, three-dimensional look at how Minnesota's Anishinaabe live, but also proves himself among the most sardonically funny writers...
A Passamaquoddy basketmaker who entered the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market for the first time ended up walking away with the Best of Show Award. Jeremy Frey, 32, who lives in Indian Township, Maine, won the award...
"There are billions of people in the world. Only a few thousand of those people are members of the Catawba Indian tribe. Of those, just a couple of handfuls are Catawba potters. Of those handful, maybe the most recognized...
Dozens auditioned in Billings, Montana, for six Indian roles in a pilot based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series by author Craig Johnson. The series follows a sheriff who works on a fictional reservation in Wyoming. The sheriff's best...
A&E is holding casting sessions for six Indian roles for an upcoming pilot based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series by author Craig Johnson. The series revolves around Longmire and friend Henry Standing Bear. A&E is looking for someone...
"When Isaac Stevens, territorial governor of Washington, implemented plans to move the Nisquallies from their ancestral lands to reservations in 1853, Chief Leschi turned from "good Indian" to incendiary. Implacably opposed to removal to a place "where the sting...
"When the U.S. Congress began terminating American Indian tribes during the 1950s -- ending the special relationship between formerly sovereign tribes and the federal government -- many Indians thought they would be better off without the Bureau of Indian...
The Williams and Ree comedy duo, otherwise known as “the Indian and the White Guy," are going to play in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after all. The duo tried to book a show at the Alerus Center but the gig...
Dixon Palmer, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, died on Thursday. He was 90. Palmer was an artist, dancer and tepee maker. His tepee work was featured in the Southern Plains Indian Museum and at the Smithsonian Institution....
The Ghosts of Celilo, a production named for Celilo Falls, the place where Pacific Northwest tribes fished for centuries, returns to the stage tonight. The musical theater debuted to sold-out crowds and favorable reviews in September 2007. It's back...
The Williams and Ree comedy duo, otherwise known as “the Indian and the White Guy," were recently faced with an unusual request when trying to book a show in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The team was asked not to use...
Oneida Nation leader Ray Halbritter is headed to Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards and to promote central New York as a filming location. Halbritter said filming could provide a boost to the local economy. "Beyond the much needed...
The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman. All content © Native Sun News. PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA — Oglala Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte received the 2011 Living Indian Treasure Award on Feb. 16, joining five other recipients of...
"The NAMM show, the annual music industry trade show, recognized something old that’s new during its recent run in Anaheim: a Native American Pavilion that featured musicians from tribes across the country. Here, a flutist makes it sound like...
"Icíar Bollaín’s bluntly political film “Even the Rain” makes pertinent, if heavy-handed, comparisons between European imperialism five centuries ago and modern globalization. In particular it portrays high-end filming on location in poor countries as an offshoot of colonial exploitation....
Indian programs at the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History will be reduced under the budget proposal released by President Barack Obama on Monday. A cultural interpreters program at the NMAI will be...
The producers of "2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance" won the award fro best Native American music album at the 53rd annual Grammys ceremony on Sunday night. The album was recording during the 27th annual Gathering of...
"For more than a decade Frank Big Bear was the artist/poet of E. Franklin Avenue, the guy with the amazing colored pencils whose intricate drawings captured the shabby street's decay, the drink and drugs and hard times that so...
Valerie Dee Naranjo, a Ute woman from Colorado, is the percussionist for the Saturday Night Live band on NBC. Naranjo's heritage inspired to play drums and other instruments. "I was fortunate to grow up with the traditions I did," her...
A public school district in Montana won't be taking award-winning Sherman Alexie book out of the curriculum. Michele Smith, a parent, and several others objected to the use of language in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian."...
Jack "Happy" Feder is putting the finishing touches on Moonhair, a film with an all Indian cast. Moonhair is fiction but is loosely based on Blackfeet legends. Harold Ernest Gray, also known Long Standing Bear Chief, helped with the story...
"I don’t usually like collections of short stories, but Eddie Chuculate’s book Cheyenne Madonna could change my mind. He uses the short story as the narrative of Jordan Coolwater’s life. A life of artistic talent and too much alcohol. “You...
A woman from the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana was the first in line at the Snoop Dogg concert in Great Falls on Sunday night. Jalen Small, 26, brought canned food to the show so she was allowed to...
An art gallery in Ontario, Canada, has put a century-old Yup'ik Eskimo mask on the market for over $2.1 million. The 34-inch tall mask was used for ceremonial dances. It was purchased in Alaska in 1905 and has changed...
"Louise Erdrich, whose story "The Years of My Birth" appears this week in the magazine, discusses her work with Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of The New Yorker. “The Years of My Birth” is the story of a white...
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