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Obama To Native Americans: "You Will Not Be Forgotten"

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured American Indians on Thursday that they have a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tr...

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Reconceiving Columbus Day

Jim Thomas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

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Jim Thomas

Columbus Day can be an Americas day, plural not possessive, and can honor the original peoples of the hemisphere as it reminds us, its current peoples, that we share more than a land mass, we share a future.

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Denver Columbus Day Parade, Long A Source Of Tensions, Still On Despite Hoax

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

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DENVER — A Denver parade in honor of Christopher Columbus is on – despite a phony e-mail that circulated Thursday saying the downtown cele...

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Racism Against Native Americans Must Be Addressed

Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home

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Tim Giago

Less known in most of America, but well known to Native Americans, is the covert racism that afflicts those Americans with "red skin" as opposed to black.

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Small Successes Come Hard in Battle Against Mascots

Tim Giago | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home

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Tim Giago

Our motto has always been and will continue to be, "We are human beings and not mascots for America's fun and games."

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Listen to We, the People, Not They, the Obstructionists

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Charles Karel Bouley

Republicans and their war bankrupted us and put us in harm's way. Now those same Republicans are helping Rush Limbaugh get his wish by making Obama and America fail.

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Stimulus: American Indians Could Reap $3 Billion

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — American Indians stand to gain almost $3 billion as part of the economic stimulus moving through Congress, money that could help so...

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An Open Letter to George W. Bush

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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Gary S. Chafetz

After conducting an investigation, I concluded that Jack Abramoff did not defraud his tribal clients, did not bribe any elected or appointed federal officials, and did not corrupt the political process.

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A Journey to Heal and Forgive

Tim Giago | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living

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Tim Giago

I urge every Native American that has ever felt the repercussions of the boarding school experience to go to info@whitebison.org and find out about the CD, The Road to Wellbriety.

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Why Are There So Many Memorable TV Episodes About Thanksgiving?

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 12.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Etan Bednarsh

The first Thanksgiving was an amalgam of individuals and groups fused through a manufactured sense of community, with people thrust, tentatively, into foreign roles.

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Greening Hollywood: Water Unifies For Running Dry

Paige Donner | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

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Paige Donner

University of California, Irvine's Urban Water Research Center hosted an evening in September at the St. Regis Monarch Resort in Dana Point that broug...

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Navajo Nation Takes The Plunge

Tim Giago | Posted 06.28.2008 | Living

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Tim Giago

The once-reluctant Navajo Nation is finally joining the ranks of the other 225 tribes in America and will open their first casino in October. They project an income of $32 million in the first year.

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