The Lakota Nation Invitational has grown and expanded to include not only sports but also academic and traditional sports as well.
An award that celebrates compassion and inclusion for all ages and races was recently granted to a local Lakota artist and Rapid City community member.
Jane Seaton grew up as a reservation border town girl in Wood, South Dakota.
Fashionista wonders how feathers, headdresses and Native-inspired prints and designs made it down the runway at a Chanel show in Dallas, Texas.
The Ramapough Lunaape Nation of New Jersey is speaking out against a new film that depicts the tribe in a negative and stereotypical light.
Neil Young will perform four benefit shows in January for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
Colorlines interviews author Gyasi Ross about his latest book, How to Say I Love You in Indian.
The National Museum of the American Indian is hosting its annual Native Art Market this weekend.
The Hopi Tribe of Arizona was in court in France today in hopes of stopping the auction of its sacred property.
Film director Chris Eyre tells Indian Country Today that the debate over the Tonto role in The Lone Ranger was a waste of time.
Oglala Lakota artist, Walt Pourier, is set to celebrate the opening of his art exhibit at the Colorado state capital in Denver.
Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich has won the American Book Award.
An opera about the Spanish conquest of the Americans has opened in Madrid, Spain, and includes a controversial scene.
Adrian Jawort says racism in Montana is to blame for opposition to a Sherman Alexie novel in a public school.
Indian students in Billings, Montana, are opposing the removal of a Sherman Alexie novel from the required reading list.
The Walrus magazine connects A Tribe Called Red with urban Natives and the Idle No More movement.
Tortured and twisted human figures emerging from stark landscapes, reoccurring themes of struggle and humanity intertwine with a slightly sinister element. This is the artwork of Lakota artist LeRoy Janis.
Every Tuesday, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Pine Ridge Gospel Mission, an idea born from a custom of hip-hop style illegal graffiti art is shaping a more hopeful outlook for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The New York Times asks Sherman Alexie about his favorite authors, poets and books.
Every Native American journalist that was around in the 1970s knows Hattie Kauffman. If they don’t know her personally, they surely know of her.
Rez Hoofz is an independently owned business, specializing in painted contemporary and custom made Native American design work
Native Max Magazine is a publication with purpose and passion.
As Lakota grandmother Debra White Plume goes to testify against proposed uranium mining in the Black Hills during public hearings the week of Oct. 28, she is facing a deadline for her filmmaking on the subject.
Navajo filmmaker bases Drunktown's Finest in life in Gallup, New Mexico, a border town near the Navajo Nation.
Champagne Lady is a mustang whose octogenarian caretaker Dayton O. Hyde rescued at his 11,000-acre Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary on the Cheyenne River in South Dakota.
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo has been named Citizen of the Year by The Taos News, her hometown paper.
Author/poet/comedian/screenwriter/filmmaker Sherman Alexie has reached an agreement for his back collection to be published electronically.
The National Museum of the American Indian has closed its facilities in Washington, D.C., and New York due to the shutdown of the federal government.
One night, a fellow IAIA alumnus invited us to a fashion show at The Paramount, a night club in Santa Fe. One of the designers showing his fashions there was Mr. Virgil Ortiz.
The music industry in South Dakota is known for not only diversity, but also for the tendency to be divisive.
Author Sherman Alexie participated in a Google Hangout with PEN and discussed government surveillance on the Internet.
KUOW Radio profiles Sandy Osawa, a member of the Makah Nation of Washington who uses film to tackle stereotypes.
Reviewer doesn't find much to praise in Indian exhibits at the Autry National Center in California.
Writer tracks down fake Alaska Native products to a factory overseas.
The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, has big plans for a new facility.
Author / poet / comedian / world's #1 basketball fan Sherman Alexie shares a poem about the Great American Indian novel.
A Tribe Called Red is one of 10 finalists for the Polaris Music Prize, an award that recognizes the best album in Canada.
The museum operated by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon is hosting a unique exhibit.
DJ Bear Witness of A Tribe Called Red talks about the group's growing popularity.
The Washington Post reviews If I Ever Get Out of Here, a new book from Onondaga Nation author Eric Gansworth.
The Huffington Post on Gregg Deal, a performance artist who explores stereotypes as The Last American Indian On Earth.
Folks who want to learn more about the Rapid City Council’s vote to oppose Powertech Uranium Corp.’s Black Hills uranium mining plans got an opportunity with the scheduling of a double feature film showing.
Charles Kader investigates how Charles Bronson portrayed a Navajo Code Talker in a 1959 film, decades before the U.S. military declassified the Code Talker mission.
Jezebel covers the collaboration between four Native designers and fashion company Paul Frank.
Every composer or performer makes a choice as to the style and type of music by which they will be defined. For aboriginal artists it can be a difficult one as they balance culture and commercialism.
MinnPost talks to Ojibwe author Jim Northrup about his new book, Walking the Rez Road.
Writer discusses recent controversies affecting Native Americans and the fashion industry.
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo plans to stick with an art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, even though employees there accused her of stealing works she created.
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo denies claims that she stole her own pieces from an art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Walt Lamar praises Ojibwe artist Sam English, who plans to go into retirement after decades of work.
August Schellenberg, a Mohawk actor from Canada who graced the stage and the screen for decades, died on August 15 after a long battle with cancer.
Four Native designers unveiled a special collection with fashion company Paul Frank last week.
Four Native designers collaborated with Paul Frank, a partnership that arose after the company threw a powwow theme party last year:
Newspaper is excited for the 92nd annual Santa Fe Indian Market, organized by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.
Sherman Alexie reflects on the 20th anniversary of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Actor Johnny Depp is blaming bad reviews for the poor performance of The Lone Ranger at the box office.
The Navajo Nation failed to reach a settlement with retailer Urban Outfitters over the sale of 'Navajo' items.
Newspaper calls on federal government to help Hopi Tribe of Arizona reclaim its cultural property from an auction house in France.
Dina Gilio-Whitaker wonders why Felipe Rose continues to parade himself around in an Indian costume with the Village People.
Reviewer says The Lone Ranger is filled with racist slurs and stereotypes.
The Lens blog of The New York Times interviews photographer Ian Willms about his work on the effects of tar sands development on First Nations in Alberta.
Montana Public Radio sits down with several Native actors with roles in Winter In The Blood, a film set on Indian Country in Montana.
Indian Country Today interviews Sonny Skyhawk about the failure of The Lone Ranger, including the casting of Johnny Depp as Tonto.
A Tribe Called Red is one of 10 finalists for the Polaris Music Prize, an award that recognizes the best album in Canada.
The Lens blog of The New York Times explores a new book, A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country.
A sacred item that was sold during a controversial auction in France has been returned to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
The New York Times reviews the solo show of Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, at the National Academy Museum in New York City.
Gyasi Ross shares a short film, based on one of his short stories, with actual Indian actors.
A reviewer takes on The Lone Ranger from a religious perspective.
Aura Bogado discovers that Gabriel Good Buffalo, the man behind a fashion collaboration for The Lone Ranger, isn't Indian.
Kevin Gover, the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, reviews The Lone Ranger.
The film version of The Lone Ranger is definitely not a box office hit.
Adrienne Keene reviews The Lone Ranger for her Native Appropriations blog.
The Idyllwild Arts Academy is hosting its first Native fashion show this Friday.
A Tribe Called Red discusses how they make their music and some of the issues, including mascots and stereotypes, they address in their music.
Comanche Nation activist LaDonna Harris doesn't think it matters that a non-Indian is portraying Tonto in The Lone Ranger.
A.O. Scott reviews The Lone Ranger for The New York Times.
Tonto means “stupid” in Spanish and this movie obviously relishes not only that name but uses it to describe anyone suckered into this 150 minute mess.
Actor Johnny Depp explains why he played Tonto in the film version of The Lone Ranger.
Johnny Depp was playing Indian long before his role as Tonto in The Lone Ranger.
The Wall Street Journal rounds up some White actors who played prominent Indians on the screen.
Actor Saginaw Grant, Meskwaki, is in the rare position of sharing the limelight with Johnny Depp in the Lone Ranger and beginning work on another Hollywood film, Eagle Lake, which will explore the wisdom of a respected Native elder
A Tribe Called Red appeared on CBC Radio this morning.
The New York Times highlights The Son, a novel about a man who was captured by Comanches in Texas.
The Ak-Chin Indian Community of Arizona signed a naming rights deal for a concert and entertainment venue in Phoenix.
Lillian St. Cyr, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, was a film star who Carlisle Indian School.
The Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California, has opened a permanent gallery.
Della Warrior, a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, has been named director of the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Warrior, a former president of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, was selected after a...
The Ottawa Citizen gives four stars to Nation II Nation, the second release from A Tribe Called Red: The Ottawa trio’s entrancing music, a mix of contemporary electronica and powwow traditions, has always had an undercurrent of activism. The three...
A young man is captured by the Comanche Tribe in The Son by Philipp Meyer.
Indian Country Today interviews Sonny Skyhawk about Indian roles in Hollywood.
Laketa Pratt, an artist from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, won the Grand Award at the 27th annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival. Pratt was selected for “Miss Powwow," her beaded Indian doll. The intricately made doll features...
Mato Nanji, Ihanktowan Nakota, the songwriter-guitarist-lyricist of the ever-evolving band, Indigenous, is home on the Yankton Reservation after an East Coast tour.
Vincent Shilling, the host of Native Trailblazers, on the state of Native music: Starting the first Friday in June, my Native Trailblazers radio show will be highlighting for the third year in a row an impressive amount of Native American,...
Virgil Ortiz, a potter and designer from Cochiti Pueblo, will debut his new fashion line in Los Angeles, California, next week. Ortiz will debut the collection at the Autry National Center on Saturday, June 15. He also will give...
Native youth participate in SuperFly filmmaking program: Each year, 50 teens from all over the country fly into Seattle to participate in a fast-and-furious film challenge. They have to produce short films in 36 hours, or "on the fly." Which...
[YouTube: Tiger Eyes Official Trailer (2013) - Judy Blume Movie] Tatanka Means stars in the film adaptation of the Judy Blume classic "Tiger Eyes." His late father, Russell Means, also appears, in his last film role before his death...
A Tribe Called Red continues to grow in popularity: t’s unlikely that the average U.S. citizen could name a single North American indigenous film or actor, musician or album, book or author (excluding, maybe, Sherman Alexie). But the Canadian-bred hip-hop...
Manuelito Wheeler, the director of the Navajo Nation Museum, on the Navajo version of Star Wars.
Two tribal members have are among this year's recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship.
Writer addresses 'blatant racism' in The Lone Ranger.
The Navajo Nation is in talks to settle a lawsuit over the unauthorized sale of "Navajo" products. The tribe sued the company for a line or products that were labeled "Navajo" or "Navaho." The tribe is alleging violations of trademark...
James Junes of the comedy duo James and Ernie landed the role of Han Solo in the Navajo-dubbed version of the first Star Wars film. Junes is a fluent speaker of the Navajo language. But he doesn't read the written...
A Tribe Called Red, a Native group based in Ontario, isn't afraid to add a political message to its unique style of music. The group consists of three DJs who mix contemporary music with powwow and Native sounds. During...
Imagine if all it took to pursue your dream of making movies was to come up with seven written pages. Adrian Baker, producer of the animated series of nine half-hour shows, “Injunuity” did just that.
Seven Navajo language speakers have been cast for roles in the Navajo-dubbed version of Star Wars. The Navajo Nation Museum and the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department secured approval from Lucasfilm to dub the iconic film, a first for...
Longmire, the television show on the based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire book series, returns for a second season on Monday. The show is set in Wyoming on and near a fictional reservation. Episodes in the first season tackled disenrollment,...
Deborah Young reviews Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, a film starring Benicio Del Toro as a Blackfeet man.
Some members of the cast of Smoke Signals will meet Friday to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the film. Elaine Miles and Evan Adams will be among those on hand for a screening of the landmark film. The Seattle...
The Navajo Nation is dubbing the first Star Wars film in the Dine language: In a first for both Hollywood and the Navajo tribe in America, Obi-Wan Kenobi will soon be saying, "May the Force be with you" in the...
Detail of fresco at the Vatican. Jonathan Jones on a fresco in the Vatican that appears to be the first European depiction of Native people in art: The discovery of what seems to be the first European depiction of...
New York Fashion week finale look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo is already hard at work on a new collection she will be showing at New York Fashion Week this...
Praise for The Lakota Sioux Indians by Robert Bolen: "Lakota Sioux Indians" is a fascinating journey of this Plains tribe that ruled the Dakota area of the United States in the 19th century. For those who are not familiar with...
Over 50 tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which wraps up this weekend. Native musicians have been performing on main stages at the event. There's also a tribal village...
NOW Magazine gives 4 "Ns" to Nation II Nation, the second release from A Tribe Called Red: Turns out they’d teamed up with aboriginal co-op label Tribal Spirit Music, which helped bring the trio of electronic artists together with a...
New York Fashion week finale look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. KUNM talks to fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo about her journey to Project Runway: Last spring, Michaels was scrapping by and had just been...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo almost won it all on the season finale of Project Runway.
A Tribe Called Red from Canada and Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo and are among the Native performers who are in the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. A Tribe Called Red, a DJ group that...
The Native American Music Awards will induct the late activist Russell Means into its Hall of Fame. Means, who passed away last year at the age of 72, was a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. He released two albums...
The Navajo Nation has translated the first film of the Star Wars saga into the Dine language. The Navajo Nation Museum and the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department secured approval from Lucasfilm to dub the iconic film, a first...
Richie Havens, one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, died on Monday. He was 72. Havens was born in Brooklyn in 1941. He claimed Blackfeet ancestry from his father, whom he said lived on the Shinnecock...
A review of The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars: Second Lt. George Bascom was “a fine looking fellow” and a gentleman, a white settler of Arizona recalled, “but he was unfortunately a...
Lee Tiger, a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, is back in the music business with the release of "New Era." Tiger stepped away from music after losing his brother, Stephen, in 2006. The pair formed the ground-breaking Tiger...
Levi Rickert reviews Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Ojibwe author Anton Treuer: I once was asked by a high school English teacher if I could come speak to her students about contemporary...
Fergus W. Bordewich reviews two books about Apache leaders Cochise and Geronimo for The Wall Street Journal: In essential ways, both Indians and white Americans see their common past as a story shaped by violence, competing martyrdoms and the collision...
A music video/biography film about 23-year-old Frank Waln's growing up on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation has been nominated for a Native American Music Award.
Week 13 look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo cleared one last hurdle on the finale of Project Runway on Thursday night. Michaels, who is the first Native American to...
Actor Wes Studi, a member of the Cherokee Nation, will be inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Western Performers on Saturday. Studi is known for his roles in “Dances with Wolves," “The Last of...
The auction of 70 masks that are considered highly sacred to the Hopi people was allowed to take place in Paris after a French judge refused to step in on behalf of the tribe.
Newspaper urges caution on H.R.1066, a bill to amend the Indian Arts and Crafts Act: Congress should think twice before amending the Indian Arts and Crafts Act to water down protections for Indian artists. The act, established in 1990, prohibits...
A poster for The Lone Ranger. Actor Johnny Depp says he wanted to put new spin on the role of Tonto in the film version of The Lone Ranger. Depp, who has claimed Indian heritage, didn't want Tonto to merely...
Indian Country Today interviews Christopher Marinello, the executive director and general counsel at Art Loss Register London, about a controversial auction in France where tribal items were sold: What is your opinion on the Paris auction of Hopi art, and...
KOGU interviews Mary Jo Watson about the Native American Art and Art History degree program at the University of Oklahoma: WATSON: If you can imagine, for almost a century people have looked on this art as primitive and not "good"...
A controversial auction of tribal cultural items went ahead as planned on Friday. According to news reports, all but five of the 71 items in the collection were sold. The auction brought in less than $1 million amid protests inside...
Maria Tallchief, a member of the Osage Nation who rose to fame as a ballerina, died on Thursday. She was 88. Tallchief was born and raised on Osage territory in Oklahoma. Her family moved to California, where she made her...
A judge in France refused to halt a controversial auction where tribal cultural items are due to be sold today. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona filed suit to prevent the Néret-Minet auction house from selling over 70 items pending resolution...
A poster for The Lone Ranger. Actor Johnny Depp, who is reprising the role of Tonto in the film version of The Lone Ranger was adopted by a Comanche Nation family last year and given a name in the...
Week 11 look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo will be appearing on the finale of Project Runway. Michaels made history as the first Native designer to appear on the show....
The Bureau of Indian Affairs won't be seeing much of an increase under the fiscal year 2014 budget that President Barack Obama released on Wednesday but the agency will be gaining some new authority. The budget transfers the Indian Arts...
A judge in France held a hearing today to discuss a controversial auction where Hopi cultural items are due to be sold. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona says the items being offered by the Néret-Minet auction house were stolen. The...
Author Sherman Alexie appears on Moyers & Company this weekend. Check local listings for air time: In an extended clip from this weekend’s Moyers & Company, writer Sherman Alexie, who was born on a Native American reservation, talks to...
A judge in France is holding a hearing tomorrow to decide the fate of a controversial auction where Hopi, Zuni and Pueblo items are due to be sold. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona authorized Survival International to represent its interests...
The U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, is asking the Néret-Minet auction house to let the Hopi Tribe examine cultural items that are going on sale later this week. The auction has drawn considerable controversy. Philip J. Breeden, the Embassy's cultural...
Week 11 look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. After two very close calls, fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo is one of the last remaining contestants on Project Runway. Michaels, the first Native American to...
A review of The Five Acts of Diego Leon, a novel about a mixed-race Indian actor from Mexico who finds fame in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s: In America of the ’20s and ’30s, Mexicans were sprayed and...
Jerry Fogg, a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, shares "Native Soul" at the Center for Western Studies: About 60 pieces of mixed-media artwork are waiting for the creative slide from Jerry Fogg’s brain to a canvas....
Photo from Jerry Bruckheimer on Twitter The Navajo Nation hopes the upcoming release of The Lone Ranger boosts interest from Hollywood. Parts of the The Lone Ranger were filmed on the reservation. Shiprock in New Mexico, Monument Valley in...
An auction house in France says a collection of Hopi, Zuni and Pueblo items was acquired legally despite complaints from tribal representatives. Gilles Néret-Minet, the director of the Néret-Minet auction house, called the April 12 sale an "homage" to the...
The Hopi Tribe of Arizona says its culture isn't for sale. The tribe is asking an auction house in France to suspend a sale of 70 cultural items that's due to take place next week. Most of the objects have...
Jessica Metcalfe, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, started her fashion blog, Beyond Bucskin, four years ago and expanded with an online boutique last year. "Creativity is our tradition and there's a lot of talent in...
The Hopi Tribe of Arizona is seeking to stop the auction of cultural items in France. The tribe doesn't know how the ceremonial items ended up in Europe. But the tribe said they belong with their rightful owners. These are...
An amendment proposed to the Native American Arts and Craft act by Rep Nick Rahall (D-WV) if passed would potentially remove protections from Native American artisans across the country and allow for non-Tribal members to label work they create as “Native American produced."
Author Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has won North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and often sets stories on a fictional reservation in the state....
Week 9 look from Patricia Michaels. Photo from Project Runway website. With just six designers left in the competition, Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo has outlasted most of her colleagues on the latest season of Project Runway. Michaels, the first...
Renelle White Buffalo, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is taking part in an art competition: Since Renelle White Buffalo now lives in Los Angeles, our interview had to take place via Skype. Yet even the...
Robin Poor Bear, center, and her two children, Darian and Anthony, are all now involved in the fight against sexual abuse. Photo © Native Sun News. Kind Hearted Woman, a documentary about abuse on the Spirit Lake Nation of...
Frank Buffalo Hyde “In-Appropriate #3″ at the All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Arts column reports on a new exhibit at All My Relations Arts that takes on cultural appropriation: When Dyani White Hawk Polk asked a group...
Luther Nakapaahu, a security guard at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Photo Karsten Moran for The New York Times. Luther Nakapaahu, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, is a security guard at...
Mary Annette Pember explores the life of Raymond Thundersky: Some people thought he was a great Mohawk chief, some thought he had royal blood, some thought he was Jesus and some just thought he was crazy. Raymond Thundersky’s life was...
Claudia La Rocco of The New York Times reviews the bizarre-sounding Pocahontas, and/or America: So, you know, blah blah and something something. In other words, the onus is on you, dear reader, to supply the content in the Little...
Actress Michelle Williams on the cover of AnOther Magazine. AnOther Magazine said actress Michelle Williams wasn't dressed up to look "Native" even though her appearance has been widely interpreted as such. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, the magazine...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo has made it through another week on Project Runway. Michaels, the first Native American to appear on the show, has repeatedly earned praise from the judges for her unique looks and innovative...
The Santa Fe New Mexican criticizes the Mike & Molly show for perpetuating stereotypes about Native people: Words matter. And telling a joke is no excuse to use words in a hateful, racist way — so despite the blowback these...
Three members of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana entered guilty pleas for organizing big-game hunts with country music stars. Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap Jr. admitted they didn't obtain licenses for the hunts. They each pleaded guilty...
The Mitsitam Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian offers the best food on the National Mall, according to Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times. Steinhauer urges visitors to the Capitol Visitor Center to skip the food...
Indian Country Today interviews author Anton Treuer, Leech Lake Ojibwe, about his latest book, Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Why do Indians have long hair? There are around 500 distinct Indian tribes in...
The Navajo Nation and the Native American Journalists Association are demanding an apology for a "drunk Indians" comment made on a CBS television show. A character on the "Mike & Molly" show made a joke about the state of Arizona...
Sandee Suitt of The Murfreesboro Daily News-Journal reviews The Round House by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich: The Round House, the most recent novel from author Louise Erdrich, is set in 1988 on a fictitious Native American reservation in North...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo made it through another week on Project Runway on Thursday night. Michaels actually got low marks from the judges for her design, seen above. But she got by on the strength of...
The following story was written and reported by Christina Rose, Native Sun News Staff Writer. All content © Native Sun News. Shaun Taylor-Corbett Distant Thunder rumbles into New York theatre scene By Christina Rose Staff Writer Native Sun News For...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo survived another round of Project Runway as the show enters its sixth week on Thursday night. Michaels was neither in the top nor the bottom on last week's episode. But so far...
"Susan Fedorko was 40 years old when she found her birth family—or rather, when a long-lost sister found her. Her first book, Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel (Outskirts Press, 2012) chronicles Fedorko’s journey from Native American adoptee-turned...
"Napoleon Chagnon’s “Noble Savages” is a sprawling book that explores his complicated relationship with the Yanomamo Indians of Venezuela, as well as his war with anthropology. Author of one of the best-selling anthropology texts of all time, “Yanomamo: The...
"Deborah Miranda's new book, "Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir" (Heyday, Jan. 2013), is both a tribal history of California Indians and a memoir of her own family's experiences. She is associate professor of English at Washington and Lee University...
"What were our early ancestors really like as they accomplished the transition from hunter-gathering bands to more complex settled societies? The anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon may have come closest to the answer in his 35-year study of a remarkable...
"This begins with a young boy with a big imagination and a thirst for the past. The young boy digs in his yard, spurred by knowledge that a tribal hunting encampment once occupied this same land. He finds an arrowhead,...
"North America’s Jicarilla Apache tribe cloaked themselves in trade, diplomacy, and intermarriage and nearly escaped incarceration on an American Indian reservation. How they did it has been a mystery of the historical American Southwest – until now. “In some...
"As I read “Noble Savages,” Napoleon A. Chagnon’s memoir of his years among the Yanomamö, an isolated Amazonian tribe, I started hearing Linda Ronstadt’s cover of “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me,” first as a low background hum that grew louder...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo survived another week on Project Runway on Thursday night. Michaels showed a look that one judge termed "powwow chic." The design was composed of materials sourced from a flower shop and a...
"Among the hazards Napoleon Chagnon encountered in the Venezuelan jungle were a jaguar that would have mauled him had it not become confused by his mosquito net and a 15-foot anaconda that lunged from a stream over which he...
The Makah Nation of Washington is a finalist for an ArtPlace America grant. If selected, the tribe will use the $750,000 grant to build an outdoor dance platform and meeting space at the tribal senior center. The money will also...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo was on the top again as Project Runway entered its third week on Thursday night. Michaels was one of the three highest scorers for the look pictured above. The judges praised her...
"Watching A Tribe Called Red’s Bear Witness, Ian “DJ NDN” Campeau and Dan “DJ Shub” General clown around during their photo shoot, you’d never suspect that they’ve just narrowly avoided an ugly pileup on the icy drive from their home...
[The Ledger Art of George Flett - Tinman Store] George Flett, a member of the Spokane Tribe of Washington who was recognized for his ledger art, died on Wednesday. He was 66. Flett preserved tribal legends, history and other...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo survived a second week of Project Runway on Thursday night. Michaels collaborated with another contestant to produce the look pictured above. It wasn't among the top scorers but her team's winning designs...
"Father and son co-authors Matthew S. Makley and Michael J. Makley bring “Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place” to life in the form of a 132-page paperback book. The Makleys chronicle a struggle between two...
"The trio that could be Ottawa’s hottest musical export at this moment will blast Winterlude with its distinctly aboriginal sounds on Friday night. A Tribe Called Red, which is getting rave reviews in Canada and the United States, makes electronica...
"For Native author, comedian and filmmaker Sherman Alexie, getting off the point is the point. "Tangents are highly sacred among my tribe," he said, laughing. Perhaps as a way to honor that tradition, the Seattle poet spun off on many...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo earned high marks for her design on the season opener of Project Runway on Thursday night. Michaels's dress was one of the top three on the runway. She was praised for creating...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo makes her television debut on Project Runway tonight. The show has posted two new clips of Michaels. One is her casting session, in which she received praise for unique approach, which mixes...
The following story was written and reported by Brandon Ecoffey, Native Sun News Staff. All content © Native Sun News. Rage Rocc of Kyle, SD is one of many up and coming artists on the reservation. His Warrior Cubs mix...
A Tribe Called Red, a Native group from Ontario, performed at the globalFEST 2013 in New York City on Sunday. The group consists of three DJs who mix contemporary music with powwow and Native sounds. They often perform with Native...
The following story was written and reported by Brandon Ecoffey, Native Sun News Staff Writer. All content © Native Sun News. K-Dawg, of Pine Ridge Reservation, hopes to start a hip-hop movement based in the heart of the Oglala Lakota...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo is making history on Project Runway. Michaels is the first Native American to compete on the show, now in its 11th season. She hopes to encourage other Native designers. “It’s about time...
"The custom among the Pirahã Indians of Brazil is that women give birth alone. The linguist Steve Sheldon once saw a Pirahã woman giving birth on a beach, while members of her tribe waited nearby. It was a breech...
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo welcomed Project Runway to her home on her tribe's reservation in northern New Mexico. Michaels, whose name in the Tiwa language means Water Lily, is competing on season 11 of the show....
It looks like Project Runway will feature an Indian designer for the first time in the show's history. Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo can be seen in a preview clip for the 11th season. The official list of competitors...
Three members of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana were indicted for organizing big-game hunts with country music stars. Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap Jr. each face six charges, including the theft of tribal wildlife. Federal prosecutors said...
"Adam Beach is the star of the hit CBC series Arctic Air. He plays Bobby Martin, the son of a legendary Dene bush pilot, who finds his share of drama in Yellowknife as he tries to learn the ropes of...
"What is the role of an artist? What is the role of an Indian artist? And by Indian I mean Native American, Indigenous, etc. -- choose your terms, by your decade. Let’s not obfuscate the meaning or the question. What...
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