August 24, 2009

Parole commission won't grant Peltier request (August 24, 2009)

American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier won't be getting out of prison for the murders of two FBI agents. The U.S. Parole Commission rejected Peltier's...

Tribes hopeful for fix to land-into-trust ruling (August 24, 2009)

Tribes are hopeful the Obama administration will offer a fix to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carcieri v. Salazar. A fix could come through...

Melvin Martin: My own encounter with an Aryan (August 24, 2009)

"You seem...disturbed." My old friend Jacques, a Canadian Indian from Montreal remarked as we sat last week in one of the waiting areas at Albuquerque,...

Travel: New generation of reservation tourism (August 24, 2009)

"On the road through the tree-studded high desert toward the small town of Chinle, Ariz., the car radio was bringing in the local Navajo...

Column: EchoHawk's long run to Washington (August 24, 2009)

"It wasn't a homecoming, exactly; Larry EchoHawk grew up in Farmington, about 150 miles up the road from here. But it felt like coming home,...

Pasatiempo: Killing the Indian in Western film (August 24, 2009)

"The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs this month passed a resolution apologizing to all Indian nations for violence perpetrated by citizens of the United...

Interview with IHS leader Yvette Roubideaux (August 24, 2009)

The Great Falls Tribune interviewed Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota who is the first woman to...

Opinion: Alaska must deal with its racist past (August 24, 2009)

"The decision to refer the recent attack on a Native man in downtown Anchorage to the FBI for consideration as a hate crime is the...

Marc Simmons: Assimilation at Indian schools (August 24, 2009)

"In the early 1880s, the federal government vigorously moved into the creating of off-reservation industrial boarding schools for Indian students around the country. With...

Steven Newcomb: Tricking Indians out of land (August 24, 2009)

"In an article published in “The Journal of Libertarian Studies” in 1983, Carl Watner examined the subject of American Indian land rights. He began with...

Peter d'Errico: The 'nasty' loophole in NAGPRA (August 24, 2009)

"When Congress passed the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act in 1990, four crucial definitions were enacted into law: (1) “‘burial site’ means any natural...