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Traditional Dance Added to Trail of Tears Memorial
Society & Culture (tags: Trail Of Tears, Native Americans, culture, interesting )

Lone
- 30 minutes ago - kansas.com

Had it been another pow-wow, Jillian Conine probably wouldn't have bothered to stop by at Wichita's Mid-America All Indian Center on Saturday. But because it was a Stomp Dance , she wasn't going to miss it. "I'm not a pow-wow person

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Oregon Family at Heart of Sticky Issue: Does Intermarriage Threaten Native American Culture?
Society & Culture (tags: mixed marriages, Native Americans, culture, children )

Lone
- 1 hour ago - oregonlive.com

Aaron Luke is only 7, but his father, Marcus Luke, is already coaching him on whom to marry when he grows up: a Native American. It's ironic advice from a man who married a white woman

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"INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY" : SIGN PETITION!
Society & Culture (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, politics, sadness, news, government, ethics, rights )

Kat
- 1 hour ago - thepetitionsite.com

Do you really want to celebrate the legacy of a man who committed heinous crimes against the Indigenous people of the Caribbean and throughout the Americas? Indian governments and the people they represent are requesting that the federal government...

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Hike Is First Step for Native Youth Center
Society & Culture (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Addiction Prevention, children, activists, culture, society, safety, ethics, education )

Kat
- 9 hours ago - recordcourier.com

Project Venture and the other programs at the new Native Youth Resource Center evolved from an ancestral trail hike Washoe tribal youth made in 2006. The two-day hike began at King's Canyon in Carson City, over the mountain to a camp-out at Spooner...

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'North American Indians in the Great War' By Susan Applegate Krouse
Society & Culture (tags: great war, Native Americans, interesting, service )

Lone
- 1 day ago - indiancountrytoday.com

ANADARKO, Okla. - For those who want to read about the experiences of American Indian soldiers and sailors who served their country before many of them were considered U.S. citizens

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Native American Veterans Sought for 'Words of War' Project
Society & Culture (tags: survey, war veterans, WW11, Native Americans, interesting )

Lone
- 1 day ago - indiancountrytoday.com

BOSTON - An anthropology professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston is inviting Native American veterans to participate in an anonymous online survey to track the relationships between Native American history, colonial wars, and U.S. military

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Obama Pledges to Help Native American Tribes
Society & Culture (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, obama, americans, news, ethics, culture, society, rights, politics, government, freedoms, ethics )

Kat
- 1 day ago - cbsnews.com

(AP )"Only in America could the adoptive son of Crow Indians grow up to be president of the United States." President Obama spoke those words this morning, in reaching out to Native Americans at the start of a White House Tribal Nations...

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Obama to Attend Summit With American Indian Tribes
Society & Culture (tags: Native Americans, meeting, President Obama, interesting )

Lone
- 2 days ago - nytimes.com

Janice Rowe-Kurak, chairman of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, has come to Washington to meet with President Obama and other top administration officials in hopes of improving a troubled relationship between American Indians and the federal government

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Moundbuilders' Lessons
Society & Culture (tags: Native Americans, culture, moundbuilders, education, interesting )

Lone
- 2 days ago - newsok.com

November is Native American Heritage Month. What better way to celebrate than to learn about the cultures of some of the first people who inhabited Oklahoma?

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Navajo Nation Suspends President
Society & Culture (tags: native Americans, Navaho nation, rights, politics, usa, government, news )

Cal
- 8 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com

With a major investigation of tribal leadership ongoing, the Navajo Nation Council has voted to suspend long-time President Joe Shirley Jr.

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Buffy Ste. Marie: Musician and Native American Activist
Society & Culture (tags: culture, GoodNews, Great Woman, Native Americans )

Lone
- 10 days ago - motherearthnews.com

Buffy Ste. Marie lives on a farm in Hawaii, has a house in Maine, and is the wife of a former surfer--now farmer--named Dwayne Kamaikalani Bugbee. Periodically she leaves these havens, visits various reservations around the United States, and gives concert

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Senecas Oppose Cigarette Tax Collection At State Hearing
Society & Culture (tags: government, taxes, Native Americans, politics )

Lone
- 10 days ago - post-journal.com

NEW YORK - While the New York State Police are worried about a confrontation if the state tries to block the sale of tax-free cigarettes on New York's Indian reservations, local Seneca Nation of Indian officials say the ongoing discussion could be an

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New Trail of Tears Markers to Go Up in Arkansas
Society & Culture (tags: Native Americans, land, culture, government, death )

Lone
- 12 days ago - baxterbulletin.com

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- New signs and markers along Arkansas' portions of the Trail of Tears should be erected by spring, officials said after President Barack Obama signed an act that expands the historic trail to more than 4,900 miles in nine states

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Tribal Leaders to Congress: End BIA Homeownership Bureaucracy
Society & Culture (tags: government, Native Americans, young people, reservation )

Lone
- 14 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com

- Tribal leaders testified before Congress that government bureaucracy involving the leasing of Indian lands must cease, or increasing numbers of Native American young people will continue to leave their reservations.

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Why Do We Still Have Native American Mascots in Sports?
Society & Culture (tags: Native Americans, sports mascots, prejudice, wrong )

Lone
- 15 days ago - associatedcontent.com

As I was watching football on television last weekend there was one question that kept coming to me, one that had nothing to do with winning or losing, Brett Favre's latest comeback, or the antics of some flamboyant player. My question was, why do we

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Hike Is First Step for Native Youth Center

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Oregon Family at Heart of Sticky Issue: Does Intermarriage Threaten Native American Culture?

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