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Opinion: Tigua leader mulls a campaign in Texas (11/06)
"There is a growing possibility that Representative Chavez will choose to continue to serve in the Texas House of Representatives and former Tigua Governor Albert Alvidrez, a former staffer for Chavez, has put together an exploratory committee to examine a...
Opinion: Planning for a Native American century (11/06)
"Indian people are blessed with rich cultural heritage, a gift which we have preserved, despite the adversity we have faced. In order for the economic recovery to take place, it will be important to change the basis on which business...
San Manuel Chair: Honoring a respected ancestor (11/06)
"In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, The Sun graciously invited the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians to present a four-part series of columns exploring the Southern California Native American experience and, more specifically, the impact and influence...
Phil Busey: Do more for Oklahoma Indian business (11/06)
"Oklahoma is “Indian country.” We have 38 federally recognized tribes that call Oklahoma home and the second-largest concentration of Native Americans in the United States, behind only California. These statistics translate into a lot more long-term economic development fire-power than...
Editorial: Making good on Indian Country promises (11/06)
"Looking to end decades of government negligence of Native people, President Barack Obama spoke Nov. 5 to tribal leaders gathered from across the nation for the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The conference, which was held in Washington, D.C., at...
Editorial: No more stalling on 'Fighting Sioux' nick (11/06)
"North Dakota State Board of Higher Education and University System officials don’t seem to be getting the message: North Dakota’s American Indian Sioux tribes don’t have the University of North Dakota Sioux logo dispute at the top of their...
Opinion: America should not ignore Native people (11/06)
"The United Nations has made an announcement that should be embarrassing to the American people. As reported in a column by Nick Coleman in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a U.N. inspector will be "traveling to a South Dakota Indian reservation...
Editorial: Obama opens a more promising chapter (11/06)
"White House receptions of American Indian leaders have too often been patronizing historical footnotes. President Obama opened what we hope will be a more promising chapter on Thursday when he met with the leaders from all 564 federally recognized tribes....
Opinion: Long term goals and tribal development (11/05)
"Our Native communities have survived long enough to see some of our ancient values -- like respect for women and Mother Earth -- fall in line with the ideals of the rest of the world. When I Googled the United...
Opinion: Stereotyping Indians at fraternity party (11/05)
"On Tuesday, Nov. 3, a Letter to the Editor from Neal Fox, Co-Chair of the Minority Rights Coalition, was published in The Cavalier Daily regarding a “Cowboy and Indian” themed party at an IFC fraternity. The intended purpose of this...
Winona LaDuke: A shot at true self-determination (11/05)
"We have a shot at being self-determining or we can be the victims. This is a time of tumultuous change, economic downturns, accelerating climate destabilization and the depletion of oil supplies, meaning loss of access to cheap petroleum. If...
Column: A step forward and back on FSIN election (11/04)
"The Saskatchewan Federation of Indian Nations (FSIN) elections last week could probably best be categorized as one small step back, but hopefully one big step forward. The election of Dutch Lerat -- who nearly ran the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority...
Opinion: Big stakes in Tennessee tribal recognition (11/04)
"Given the limited number of Native Americans, it would be natural to expect that today’s tribes would welcome the recognition of any new group with a proper claim to Indian heritage. But things don’t always happen the way you expect....
Opinion: Native businesses can make a big impact (11/04)
"As nearly everyone is aware, there are sobering economic statistics facing our country at the present time. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current unemployment rate in the United States is 9.6 percent (August 2009), and the...
Blog: Native Americans and environmental issues (11/04)
"At the committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer Bill last week, Democrats dutifully trotted out Fawn Sharp, president of the Quinault Indian Nation of Alaska, who assured us that climate change would affect Native Americans more than most others. “Tribes in...
Tim Giago: Tribe replies to corruption allegations (11/04)
In response to the comments by Doreen Yellowbird, I must remind her as a former journalist that it is often impossible to get responses to accusations from tribal officials on the receiving end of an accusation. I tried without success...
Editorial: Native voice missing from parole board (11/03)
"In South Dakota, 8 percent of the population is Native American. However, 25 percent of the male prison population is Native. Given that, the state's Parole Board lacks adequate representation of Native Americans who could provide irreplaceable insight as the...
Editorial: A new chairman for Mashancuket Tribe (11/03)
"Congratulations to Rodney A. Butler, the chairman-elect of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe. A six-year incumbent and current treasurer of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, Mr. Butler is getting a promotion but also inheriting tremendous responsibilities, including overseeing the Mashantuckets'...
Editorial: No 'sovereignty' in tribal tobacco sales (11/03)
"Looks like Gov. Paterson was just blowing smoke when he asked the feds to assess the risk of violence from attempts to collect cigarette taxes from state Indian reservations. At a state Senate hearing last Tuesday, Paterson's chief counsel, Peter...
Editorial: Virginia tribes get closer to recognition (11/03)
"The long journey on the road to federal recognition of Virginia’s Indian tribes may be nearing its end. After 10 years of legislation that has been submitted and resubmitted in Congress, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee has approved two measures...
Rosebud President: Take action for Indian health (11/03)
"The Sioux Nation has prepaid for our health care. In our treaties, our Indian nations ceded millions of acres of land; land that America now calls home. In exchange, we preserved our Indian reservations as permanent tribal homelands, under tribal...
Yellow Bird: Clearing up some Giago allegations (11/03)
A column by my friend, Tim Giago, has prompted me to write, perhaps to clear away smoke that has gotten into his eyes from alleged fires. I, too, have covered tribal government issues and problems. I wrote columns for...
Melvin Martin: Calling all anti-Semites and racists (11/02)
This article was featured in the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal on October 27, 2009: Rapid City couple has sold Nazi memorabilia for seven years. If you can access the article, please do so and you, Dear Reader, will once...
Gyasi Ross: Becoming an elder or just getting old (11/02)
"I feel very fortunate to be a 30-something who still has a living grandparent; very lucky. Since my father passed at a pretty young age, I tend to think of “aging” and “mortality” a bit more than the average bear....
Mark Trahant: New Republican 'interest' in IHCIA (11/02)
"There’s a new interest in the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. House Democrats are now including the act as an amendment to the larger health care reform proposal. But Republican leaders are crying foul. Doc Hastings, the Ranking Republican...
Editorial: Reject tribal claim on wind turbine site (11/02)
"After eight years of arduous state and federal environmental reviews, the promoters of Cape Wind, a wind energy project off the Massachusetts coast, had every reason to believe that they were home free. Then the Wampanoag tribes asked the...
Marc Simmons: Food storage important to tribes (11/02)
"In New Mexico's early-day history, one can find scattered references to the ways those who came before us preserved their food. Although quite interesting in itself, the subject appears to have caught the attention of only a few writers...
Editorial: Strong partnership for Indian education (11/02)
"Almost 27 years to the day after Korczak Ziolkowski's death, another layer of his plan for the Crazy Horse Memorial is unfolding. The site of his monumental sculpture is becoming a satellite educational affiliate of the University of South Dakota....
Opinion: Improving education for Indian students (11/02)
"Robert Cook gave people at a multicultural education convention in Denver a patriotic history lesson that was different from any that most people had heard before. Cook, president of the Oglala Lakota Indian Education Association, said Saturday that Article I...
Opinion: Shameful attack on Saginaw Chippewas (11/02)
"I am writing in response to the opinion published in last Sunday's edition of the Morning Sun (Oct. 25) authored by Morning Sun editor Rick Mills. Mr. Mills and the Morning Sun should be ashamed of the unsubstantiated and untrue...
Tim Giago: Tribal governments and democracies (11/02)
If one takes a deep look into tribal politics one would find a broad spectrum of inter-relationships that overlap. This would include not only tribal government, but also health care, housing, education, and the Indian casinos. Upon closer scrutiny, one...
Charles Trimble: White House summit a milestone (11/02)
It is truly a milestone in the history of federal-tribal relations: a genuine summit meeting between the heads of state of the United States of America and the tribal Nations residing within its borders. There is excitement in the air...
Editorial: FBI needs cultural sensitivity training (10/30)
"Federal Bureau of Investigation agents don’t receive cultural awareness or language training when assigned to serve Indian reservations. Many tribal communities don’t believe non-tribal court personnel and non-tribal police are culturally sensitive. Nevertheless, FBI agents have an extensive range of...
Opinion: Tribes, sacred sites and environment (10/30)
"For a moment there, it looked as if the bitter, decade-long feud over building a "wind farm" in federal waters off Cape Cod was finally over. The plan to put 130 giant wind turbines out on a shoal in Nantucket...
Editorial: Fix broken federal recognition at BIA (10/29)
"Technically, the Little Shell Indian Tribe of Montana asked for federal recognition in 1978, the same year the U.S. Department of Interior adopted regulations governing the Federal Acknowledgement Process. But tribal elders say their fight to regain status in the...
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