Mark Charles: Mitt Romney vows never to apologize for US (December 19, 2011)

A few weeks ago Mitt Romney released a campaign video in which he boldly stated that, as President, he would "never apologize for the United States of America." I would like to ask him to clarify those remarks for the...

Mark Trahant: Federal budget bill a transition to bigger cuts (December 19, 2011)

I’ve been writing a lot lately about the Era of Contraction -- the shrinking of the federal government -- and what that policy means to Indian Country. Only not this year. Last week Congress finally approved money for fiscal...

Steven Newcomb: Superiority and federal-Indian relations (December 19, 2011)

"In his groundbreaking work Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (Cambridge, 2004), law professor Antony Anghie provides a detailed analysis of the ideas of theologian Francisco de Vitoria, who lectured at Salamanca University in the mid-1500’s, and whom...

Gyasi Ross: The most interesting Indian man in the world... (December 19, 2011)

"You Skins are not ready. See, I’m about to unleash a beast on you all—a Native writer who is SO amazing and SO prolific … his name is Robert Chanate, and he is undoubtedly the most interesting Indian man in...

Tim Giago: He overheard daughter's prayer on Christmas Eve (December 19, 2011)

Notes from Indian Country By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2011, Native American Journalists Foundation Light snow had been drifting down all morning and it was shaping up into one of those cold, miserable days that make South Dakota the...