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Tonemah Sings Pow Wow Song
Tonemah Sings Pow Wow Song
Native American Singer Songwriter Darryl Tonemah performs his popular song "Pow Wow Snag" to a full crowd at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. (9/5/2008)

Native Americans and Spelling Errors

One of my responsibilities at Reznet is updating the redlines section every weekday and during the weekend if I'm feeling partiuclarly zazzy. You come across all kinds of odd things with a web crawl like that.

One of them being a grammatical error that most word processors just can't catch: Native American.  Unless you're dealing with journalists who don't lean on spell check, you'd spell it just like that. Capitals, two of them.

But those journalists who do rely on spell check like a crutch end up spelling it "native American."

A Native Teen's Plea: 'We Need More Parental Supervision'
A Native Teen's Plea: 'We Need More Parental Supervision'
Wyoming reservation mourns loss of three young tribal members. 'We need more guidance,' says a 16-year-old Northern Arapaho. 'We need more activities out there that will keep kids involved.' (8/21/2008)
That Scary Word: Sovereignty
That Scary Word: Sovereignty
'Sovereignty is a lot more mundane' than many non-Indians think, says Osage lawyer Elizabeth Homer. All it means is the power for tribes to govern themselves and to provide something that states don't do: basic services for tribal members. (8/11/2008)
Iron Eagle Consulting Project
Iron Eagle Consulting Project
Improving the quality of life for Aboriginal people by providing information about their local, regional and national health & fitness opportunities.  (8/8/2008)

Man Protest Tribal Sovereignty

A Billings man is screaming to the heavens about how unfair it is that, as a non-Native man, his hunting rights are restricted on Reservations in Montana. 

We could go on for ages about how this doesn't matter due to things like Tribal Sovereignty, Indian being a legal matter and not a racial one in this case and a plethora of other inalienable factors that this stubborn man cannot seem to comprehend.  

It is also of note that he can get permission to hunt on Indian Land from a Native.  Why isn't he doing this?

Yankton Sioux Tribe Protesting Hog Farm Construction
Yankton Sioux Tribe Protesting Hog Farm Construction
The Yankton Sioux Tribe of Marty, S.D., is fighting Longview Corp.'s construction of a hog facility on non-Indian fee land within the reservation, which will produce more than 70,000 pigs annually.  (5/1/2008)
Adam Beach: ‘Our Worst Enemy Is Us’
Adam Beach: ‘Our Worst Enemy Is Us’
The Native actor’s role on 'Law and Order: SVU' is coming to an end, but he plans to stay busy with an Internet TV show, a book and a new baby.  (4/28/2008)

  • Tell us what you think about the 'Navajobama' T-shirt, and we'll send your comments to the manufacturer—and to the Obama for President campaign. (No profanities, please.)
  • A Native American gay wedding ceremony takes place at a Two Spirit gathering in Montana.
  • Omission disappoints Native Americans attending the presidential candidate's speech in Wisconsin. Others express concern over Obama's stance on Indian gaming.
  • The Native actor’s role on 'Law and Order: SVU' is coming to an end, but he plans to stay busy with an Internet TV show, a book and a new baby.
  • Crows wait in line for more than six hours to hear the Democratic presidential candidate. 'Somebody finally recognized us enough to come an extra few hours,' says one tribal member.

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