Native American

If You Commit a Crime, Can You Escape Prosecution by Fleeing to a Native American Reservation?

Quora | Posted 05.10.2012

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Each tribe sets the rules on how local and federal law enforcement operate on the reservation, within limits.

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Warren Explains Her Newly RevealedHeritage

AP | Posted 05.02.2012

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BRAINTREE, Mass. -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday she listed herself as having Native American heritage in law scho...

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Gathering Of Nations Brings 500 Tribes Together

Reuters | Posted 05.05.2012

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

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Documentary Follows Native American Spiritual Leader Through Healing Rituals

Posted 04.26.2012

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Shoshana and Nathan Philips are from the Omaha tribe in northeastern Nebraska, where Shoshana served as a healer and educator. She was diagnosed with ...

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VAWA: Because Every Man, Woman and Child in America Is at Risk and Every Crime Victim Deserves Justice

Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.25.2012

It is said April is the cruelest month and certainly this April Florida Governor Rick Scott landed the cruelest act, vetoing funding for rape crisis c...

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On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Internet Access, Navajo Nation, Native American, Native Americans, Tribal Land, The Navajo Nation, Breakdown, Internet, Navajo, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Broadband Access, Wireless, Navajo Indians Internet Access, Technology News

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Like many college students, Wilhelmina Tsosie must go online to complete her assignments. But unlike the vast majority of Americ...

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Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Rebecca Jumper (aka Coleman)

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.22.2012

Michelle's maternal grandmother, Rebecca Jumper, did an admirable job of keeping her past a secret, but that's probably because she didn't know much about it herself. That's unfortunate, because hers is an intriguing history.

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Native Americans Fight To Prevent Languages' 'Extinction'

Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Language Extinction, Linguistics, Native American Languages, Language, Video, Linguist, Native American, Extinction, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/17/2012 06:56 PM EST on LiveScience VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Many of the wor...

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Grammy Protest Fights the Elimination of Cultural Categories

Voto Latino | Posted 04.17.2012

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Did a small minority of industry insiders just eliminate "ethnic" music from the Grammys? It was a week filled with momentous coincidences.

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Can Small Farms Help Native Americans?

Daniel Klein | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Daniel Klein, Perennial Plate, Mirra Fine, North Carolina, Native American, Sustainable, Food, Sustainable Farming, Food News

On our way across North Carolina, we stopped to chat with some Native American Farmers trying to change the food and work situation in their communities.

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Native Americans and the Economic Termination Era

David Kimelberg | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Gambling, Big Tobacco, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Kimelberg, Native American, Seneca Nation of Indians, Indians, Politics News

History does repeat itself, but sometimes in a veiled, and often sinister, way. When market share replaces land resources, overt termination takes on more covert forms.

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Project Bugsplat

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.31.2012

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"Bugsplat" is a term of ultimate disrespect and indifference, and it begins with a state of mind. The global Occupy movement, with its humane and nonviolent core certainty, is tipping the balance. Finally it comes down to this: Occupy consciousness.

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VOTE: Does 'Pocahontas' Opera Snub Native Americans?

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Minnesota, Native American, Opera, Jamestown, American Indian Rights, Native American Rights, Virginia, Powhatan, Pocahontas, Duluth, John Smith, Racism, Native American Opera Singer, Racial Insensitivity, Duluth Festival Opera, Opera Singers, Arts News

A Duluth, Minnesota production of "Pocahontas: A Woman of Two Worlds," an opera, is facing criticism this week for failing to cast a single Native Ame...

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Native American Artifact Dealers Wary After Grave Sites Robbed

AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 10.19.2011

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- It's been two years since swarms of federal agents burst into nearly two dozen homes scattered throughout the archeologically rich S...

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Feds: American Indian Tribes Proceed 'Cautiously' With New Crime-Fighting Authority

AP | By FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 09.27.2011

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A year after a federal law gave American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on reservations, few have taken the steps to...

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Former CU-Boulder Law School Dean Dies

AP | Posted 09.05.2011

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BOULDER, Colo. -- David Getches, a leading American Indian rights lawyer and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Law, has died. He was...

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Presumed Guilty: Group Seeks to Exonerate Four Yankton Sioux Men

Stephanie Woodard | Posted 08.28.2011

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The National Center for Reason and Justice, which has mounted successful campaigns to exonerate those falsely accused of sex crimes against children, ...

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The Blackfoot Indians in New York City: Historic Photos from the Museum of the City of New York

Lacy Schutz | Posted 06.13.2011

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Darkhouse Spear Fishing! And Midwest Ceviche

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, fishing is culture, food, religion, job, escape, and love. Truthfully, I probably could have done 46 episodes on fis...

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The Tough Transition From Indian Reservation To City

Tim Giago | Posted 11.17.2011

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America has always looked at racial injustice as a black-and-white issue, but here is South Dakota, it has always been a red-and-white issue.

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Into Hopi Country

Rachel Dickinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anyone can drive through the reservation on Highway 264, but if you want to visit the villages, the best way to do that is to hire a Hopi guide.

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The Myth of Thanksgiving and the Legacy of Manifest Destiny

Aaron Huey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indian Humor During Thanksgiving Week? Ha Ha!

Alison Owings | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to the Lakota/Navajo cultural coordinator at the American Indian Center of Chicago, this is not only American Indian ...

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American Midterm Candidates Pandered for Pro-Israel Money and Votes

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.

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Friday Talking Points [144] -- Midterm Home Stretch

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many Democrats in this election cycle seem to be getting much better at the tactic known as "the attack ad."

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