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Gathering Of Nations Brings 500 Tribes Together

Reuters | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Dancing, Video, Native American, Reuters, Native American Culture, Drumming, Lakota, Indigenous People, Gathering of Nations, Religion News

(Fixes spelling of MacDonald in 19th paragraph) By Zelie Pollon ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 28 (Reuters) - Tomé Roubideaux...

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Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) Was a Pure Lakota Traditionalist

Tim Giago | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Tatanka Iyotanka, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Lakota, Sitting Bull, Tatanka, Culture News

One cold winter day Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull), the great Lakota warrior, was sitting on a bench in front of his home with his two wives on the S...

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Why Native American Truths Can Heal The World

Joseph M. Marshall III | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Native Americans, Native American Culture, Wisdom, Oglala Lakota Nation, Green Faith, Spirituality, Lakota, Religion News

There are wise people in the world from all walks of life, from many nations and cultures. It is our hope that one day wisdom -- rather than might, arrogance and bluster -- will rule the world.

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Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands Pipelines

Rocky Kistner | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Oil, Tar Sands, Oglala Lakota Nation, Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone Xl Project, Lakota Hunger Strike, Lakota, Keystone Hunger Strike, Green News

In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a 48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline -- and all tar sands pipelines -- they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the U.S and in Canada.

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Stars Come Out for Wirikuta

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Wixarika, Huichol, Real De Catorce, Wirikuta, Mining, Johannes Neurath, Cerro Quemado, Paul Liffman, Native American Church, Latin America, Mexico, Indigenous Rights, Peyote, Lakota, World News

Some 800 Wixarika people -- 18 busloads -- are gathering in the desert below are expected to descend on this tiny town within an hour and will begin the trek up the sacred mountain of Cerro Quemado, the place where they believe the sun was born.

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Message From the Gods: Unite to Defend the Birthplace of the Sun

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cerro Quemado, Paul Liffman, Native American Church, Huichol, Real De Catorce, Latin America, Lakota, Mexico, Johannes Neurath, Mining, Wixarika, Indigenous Rights, Wirikuta, Peyote, World News

They came by the hundreds from the Western Sierra Madre, native Wixarika or Huichol people on a spiritual quest, seeking to consult with the spirits of their ancestors. This year, however, would be vastly different from years past.

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'The Outside of a Horse is Good for the Inside of a Man'

Tim Giago | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Oglala Lakota, Horses, Lakota, Horse Owners, Foals, Green News

There in a small clearing my flashlight pointed out what had happened. Lacey had given birth and shot the baby under a barbed wire fence so that she and the other horses were on one side of the fence and the foal was on the other.

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The Irony of the Black Hills Buffalo Roundup

Tim Giago | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: The Sioux and the Buffalo, Oglala Lakota Nation, Lakota, Buffalo Roundup, Culture News

What started out as a small roundup attended mainly by ranchers has expanded into a spectacle that includes a Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival, exhibits of Native American and Western arts, crafts, musicians, dancers and poets, and educational programs.

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Berenstain Bears Do Their Part To Revive An Endangered Language

AP | By JAMES MacPHERSON | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Berenstain Bears Endangered Language, Berenstain Bears Language, Matho Waunsila Thiwahe, Video, Sioux Tribe, Endangered Language, American Indian Language, Berenstain Bears Lakota, Berenstain Bears, Lakota, Sioux, Culture News

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Papa Bear, Mama Bear and their cubs have helped children curb junk-food addictions and organize messy rooms for half a century. Now,...

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The Myth of Thanksgiving and the Legacy of Manifest Destiny

Aaron Huey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, History, Native American, Lakota, American History, Genocide, Pine Ridge, Supreme Court, Aaron Huey, Thanksgiving, Prisoner of War, South Dakota, Sioux, P.O.W. Camp, Black Hills, Video, Impact News

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, Native American Health Advocate

The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, American Indians, Health, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Native Americans, Slideshow, Tobacco, South Dakota, History of the Black Hills in Indian Country, Slidepollajax, Lakota, Video, Impact News

Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person' -- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political c...

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From New York to Heligoland: Conversations With Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja and The Hundred In The Hands, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusives Pts. 4 & 5

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacque Renault, Martina Topley-Bird, Young Marble Giants, Phil Spector, Neil Daidge, KT Tunstall, Robert Del Naja, Massive Attack, Guy Garvey, Jason Friedman, Crazy Horse, Damon Albarn, Temper Trap, Lakota, Brill Building, Thievery Corporation, Eleanore Everdell, The Boggs, Richard X, Native Americans, Dar Williams, Timbaland, The Hundred in the Hands, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tim Goldsworthy, Delphic, Entertainment News

Usually Massive Attack's projects are almost like a song cycle. What was the approach while making your the new album, Heligoland?

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Solar Power International 2010 Day 1: Lakota Sioux Leading Nation Away From Fossil Fuels

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Native Americans, Solar Heaters, International, Solar Power, Lakota, Green News

Henry Red Cloud is a respected Lakota elder fighting a war against poverty and unemployment on the reservation and against our nation's dependence on planet-killing fossil fuels.

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The Revival of the Lakota Language

Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lakota Language, Todd County, Todd County Tribune, Oglala Lakota Nation, Lakota in Schools, Lakota, Politics News

There has been a big push of late to re-awaken the language, and it has been a fight for the Lakota instructors to get the young people to respond to their message.

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