First tribe receives direct road funding from stimulus

Washington, D.C. (AP) – Transport-ation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the first tribal grant of direct road repair funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

Swine flu death reported on Gila River Reservation

Laveen, AZ. (AP) – A 57-year-old woman from the Gila River Indian Community died after contracting the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu,...

Larry EchoHawk confirmed as assistant secretary

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New Native writers competition

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Controversy at Women of nations

The controversial departure of the  executive director of Women of Nations has sparked public outcry over the decline in American Indian representation within  the...

Powwows

Sept. Sept. 4-6 Red Lake Traditional PowWowPonemah, MN. Red Lake Nation Labor Day Traditional Pow-wow Ponemah, MN.Sept. 9-12 41st Annual United Tribes International Powwow...

Call for Alaska Native/Native American Artists

Submission Deadline: August 10th, 2009A project of Catalyst, curated by Carolyn Anderson & Emily JohnsonThe art exhibit, This is Displacement: Native Artists Consider...

Unlocking prejudice

I was about 13 years-old when my family moved from New Jersey to central Minnesota. My parents, both raised in urban areas, decided to...

Where The Buffalo Used To Roam

My Fellow Skin,z Out here on the prairies of South Dakota,stll rezzin miss the city life a li'l to much peace...

Never knew I was Native….

I was adopted out of my birth family shortly before I turned 1 year...   I grew up in a white family and never knew...

Archeological dig creates youth interest

LCO Reservation is site of uncovered layers of history By Mark St. GermaineMay 22, 2009Lac Courte Oreilles, WI – Recent Ojibwe high school graduates...

Native Fisheries Alliance

We are an Alaska Native Company formed specifically to work with Alaska Native, First Nations of Canada and Native Americans in role of liaison...

Suffering

Many bad and horrible things happened to Native Americans during the boarding school era that caused us and them all to be very courageous....

Boarding School Era

During the late 1800’s the Native American people were taken away from their homes and sent to boarding schools.  This was very dramatical.  They...

Courage during the Boarding School Era.

A lot of things happened to Native American people during the Boarding School era that required them to be courageous. They needed to be...

Courageous

Native American people had to be courageous because of the false promises the white man gave them like telling them that material possessions would...

The Lost identities

A lot of things had happen to the Native children during the Boarding School era. They been taking away from their family and put...

Boarding Schools

Native children were put into federal boarding schools.  The white man did this to have Indians forget their language, and to adopt the white...

Amelia and Me

In the book The Good Path, it tells you how it was back in the Boarding Schools Era. But the movie “Where the Spirit...

Boarding School Era

Native American people had to be courageous during the boarding school era because they had already suffered from disease and starvation.  Some of the...