I'm a Native who works at a Native-owned and operated smoke shop in a city with a Native presence and a lot of smokers. But strangely enough, most of my customers aren't Native. They come in all shapes, but some customers don't come in the pleasant variety. Anyone who's worked retail can tell you, some times you have to bite your lip.
It was when my lip started to get bloody that I decided to start talking back.
The leader of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
Native people are increasingly faced with a new question: Barack Obama or John McCain? Considering McCain's long history of supporting Native issues, it's a question likely to force Indians to question their own political ideals.
I remember being in kindergarten and wondering why I had to make an ‘Indian’ costume out of a paper grocery sack.
“We don’t dress like this,” I thought to myself as I stared down at my tiny mock-buckskin dress, which was made from an upside down paper sack with three holes in the top of the paper sack for my head and arms. The bottom was cut with scissors to look like fringe.
Although I wrote how much I wanted to embrace my children’s days as babies, however honest, but shallow, I can’t wait until they outgrow certain habits and ways of the early stages of their lives.
Kalyn Free of INDN's List is the third Native superdelegate to express support for the Democratic senator from Illinois.
Great performances by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in 'Baby Mama' are dwarfed by a plot that is only disappointingly OK.
I have a difficult time accepting their growth and their changes because there is a part of me that just wants to keep them cradled in my arms. I want them always to be my babies, and I just don’t know how to let go.
Death is no stranger to Natives. We always have a cousin, aunt or uncle who passes seemingly every year. And then, on a day you don't quite expect it, death comes into your own home, unannounced and uninvited.
College of Menominee Nation: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge and a lesson in Great Lakes recycling 101
Forced dialogue, wildly predictable plot and average performances make "Made of Honor" worthy of only one lone frybread. And that's being generous.
Samuel Kohn, hired two weeks ago to serve as Sen. Barack Obama's Native American outreach coordinator in Montana, hit the road this week trying to get tribes to support his candidate.
From Turtle Talk:
Lawrence Baca, former deputy director of the Justice Department's Office of Tribal Justice, was awarded the high honor of the Attorney General's Medallion for his service related to the civil rights of American Indians.
Growing up in inner-city Cleveland doesn't lend itself to many opportunities for a Native American girl to meet other Natives.
In fact, for a long time I was just as convinced as everyone around me that Natives - outside of my own family, of course - didn't even exist anymore. True ignorance at its best. That may sound stupid to a lot of people who grew up on reservations that might take this privilege for granted. For me it was truly a reality.
More than 200 Lakota youth will ride horseback across the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The ride is being organized to reacquaint young Lakota with their land, help them recognize its beauty and offer the young people healing and rejuvenation of hope in their lives.
Who would have ever thought that the guys who starred in the ridiculous-sounding movie about White Castle would bring laughs amid political and social undertones in 'Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'?
The judge presiding over the nearly 12-year-old Indian Trust case told lawyers yesterday that he intends to place a dollar figure on the government's mismanagement of the individual Indian trust.
Trying to figure out what my 15-month-old son is babbling out is very frustrating. And it's as equally frustrating for him. As a three-time mother, I can pick up on little cues to know when he's hungry or thirsty. Logan is a smart little guy and he'll bring me his empty sippy cup when he wants more milk or juice, and he'll grab my hand and lead me to the kitchen when he's hungry.
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A Proposal to Incorporate Tribal Courts into the Federal Court System Without Compromising Their Unique Status as "Domestic Dependent Nations"
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The NCAI and partners have launched an advertising campaign designed to raise awareness and reduce the use of methamphetamine in Native communities.
Montana state Sen. Ken Hansen (D) wants to tell you why he supports Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign for president.
Most of the time I’m trying to figure out things that seem so simple in a two-parent home, like how to take garbage to the dumpster, but in my case, I have to worry about how to accomplish such a task without leaving my children alone.
NCAI President Joe Garcia issues the following statement in condemning the recent racist remarks about Native people made by radio disc jockeys.
For the first time in 15 years, imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier is scheduled to get a full parole hearing in December. But some say the chances of Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents, getting paroled are slim.
The Clinton campaign today announced that Lena Belcourt, a Chippewa Cree Tribal member, is the new Indian Affairs Coordinator for Hillary Clinton's campaign in Montana.
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