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Thanksgiving: Celebrating The Harvest

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Native Americans, Festivals, Giving Thanks, Pilgrims, Children, Harvesting, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Games, Living News

Ultimately, all harvest festivities celebrate one more season of our tenuous survival. We have managed to live through another year. Another fertile period has passed in our favor.

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Native American Insensitivity: An American Tradition

Byron Williams | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports

Read More: Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Indians, Native Americans, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, Sports News

This Sunday, the Oakland Raiders will honor Native American Heritage Month. But I question their choice of opponent--the Kansas City Chiefs. Is it possible to be any more insensitive?

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The Mysterious Deaths of Three Arapaho Teenage Girls

Tim Giago | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Politics News

While the national media can give 24-hour coverage to the disappearance of one, young white girl, the mysterious deaths of three Arapaho teenagers goes unnoticed.

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

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans Summit, American Indians, Cherokee Nation, Tribal Leaders, Domestic Policy Council, Native Americans, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Kimberly Teehee, Indian Health Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Reservations, Indians, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Obama Native Americans, National Congress of American Indians, Dr. Yevette Roubideaux, Barack Obama Campaign Promise, Politics News

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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Columbus: Blundering into Immortality

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: History, Gold, Columbus, Indians, America, Genocide, New World, Taino People, Christopher Columbus, Spice Islands, Native Americans, Discovery of America, World News

It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.

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On Columbus Day: Senate Apology Should Be Followed With Action

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. History, Native American Rights, Native Americans, Senate, Columbus Day, Politics News

It's hard for a country to change its founding mythology, but the U.S. Senate has taken an important step towards accomplishing that by approving an apology to Native Americans.

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Reconceiving Columbus Day

Jim Thomas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Casimiro Barela, Legal Holidays, Columbus, Denver Columbus Day Parade, Columbus Day, Native Americans, American Indians, Italian-Americans, The New World, Denver, Denver News

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

Read More: Denver Columbus Day, Columbus Day Hoax, Columbus Day, Native Americans, American Indians, Columbus Day Protests, Columbus Day Native Americans, Denver News

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

Read More: American Indians, George Will, Native Americans, Pechanga, Raina Kelley, Native Times, Huffington Post, Willaim Safire, Racial Profiling, Newsweek, African Americans, Home News

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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Barack Obama, Yom Kippur, Chief Plenty Coups, and Wild Horses

Deanne Stillman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Yom Kippur, Senate, Obama, Wild Horses, Politics News

Alas, the wild horse has endured yet one more violent season. This summer, the dwindling herds that still roam public lands were again besieged with massive takings -- and there are more scheduled for the fall.

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In Whose Honor?

Tim Giago | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Native Americans, Sports Mascots, Indian-Mascots, Cleveland Indians, Living News

The Cleveland fans say the team is named to "honor" Sockalexis. It is not an honor to be mimicked, aped, ridiculed and insulted every Saturday and Sunday in the name of sports.

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Misplaced Loyalties: Montana Native American Elected Leaders and Voters Silent in Health Care Debate

Melinda Gopher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Native Americans, Max Baucus, Minority Voters, Indian Health Service, Politics News

Maybe it is time for Native Americans to step up and seriously re-think their allegiance to Max Baucus and further; to ponder 30 years of failed policies that have not made their communities better off.

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They Could Not Kill the Spirituality of the Lakota

Tim Giago | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Chief Little Wound, Lakota Religion, Native Americans, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indians, South Dakota, World News

The spirituality of the Lakota nearly died after a summer night in 1939, pushed to a waiting grave by the Christian ministers urging the federal government to end the Sundance and other Lakota rituals.

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Health Care Through the Eyes of an Independent

Tim Giago | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native American Rights, Native Americans, Health Reform, Health Care, Canada, Indian, Politics News

I watch the shouting matches, the misinformation, and the outright lies passing across the health care argument scene. It has brought out the meanness in too many otherwise good Americans and it must stop.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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Celeb Career Thermometer: Megan Fox vs. Jessica Simpson

Nicole Williams | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Careers, Megan Fox, Jessica Simpson, Celebrities, AskMen.Com, Jessica Simpson Blonde, Jessica Simpson Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson Gaffe, Tony Romo, Tmz, Native Americans, James Bassill, Entertainment News

While there's no doubt this has been the summer of Megan Fox -- so much so that websites are having a Megan-media-blackout on August 4 -- poor Jessica Simpson can't catch a break.

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How Leonard Peltier Could Leave Prison by August 18

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Leonard-Peltier, Federal Parole Commission, Justice, Prison System, Fbi, Politics News

For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.

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When Liberals and Conservatives Are Two Sides of the Same Oppressive Coin

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Liberals, Attention-Deficity-Hyperactivity-Disorder, Native Americans, Justice, Bigotry, Bruce E. Levine, Politics News

Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified.

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Today We All Stand Before Leonard Peltier's Parole Board

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: American Indian Movement, Native Americans, Leonard-Peltier, Barack Obama, Incident at Oglalla, Prison Sentence, My Life Is Sundance, In the Sprit of Crazy Horse, Robert Redford, Living News

Meditate, pray, march, dance, sing, shout, laugh, cry....do whatever you can to help move this man out of his jail cell and into the open air after 33 hellish years.

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Yoga Levels: Meat Eaters are More Spiritual than Vegetarians

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Religion, Dalai Lama, Vegetarian, Hunting, Physics, Native Americans, Eckhart Tolle, Meat, Spirituality, Trees, Living News

Our world is made of different vibrations of pure energy and nothing else. How can it be better to eat one type of vibrating energy than to eat another type of vibrating energy?

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The Fraud of Honest-Services Fraud

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Brokers, Tribal Casinos, Salvatore DiMasi, Michael Scanlon, Lawyers, John McCain, Jack Abramoff, Referral Fee, Lobbying, Congressional Record, Quid Pro Quo, Antonin Scalia, Native Americans, Bribery, Suborning Perjury, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Plea Deal, Kickback Scheme, Orthopedic Surgeons, Public Relations, Tom Delay, Honest-Services Fraud, Title Insurance, Constitutional Law Professors, Defense Attorneys, Politics News

Essentially, honest-services fraud makes prosecutors omnipotent, because they can charge anybody they want with a federal felony.

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Ask Maddisen: What Is a Vision Quest and Why Do One?

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Rites of Passage, Vision Quest, Native Americans, Rite of Passage, Ritual, Spirituality, Living News

Vision quests are seen as both personal and collective events that are guided and witnessed within the community, and often involve the "quester" spending time alone in nature in search of a personal vision that becomes a vision to support the entire community.

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It's Time for Native Americans to Start Thinking Independent

Tim Giago | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Indian Reservations, Independents, Democrats, Indians, 2010 Elections, Republicans, Indian, Politics News

The advantages of becoming an Independent are many and the detractions few. It is something I encourage all Native American voters to look into, to thoroughly research, and to openly consider.

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Dick Cheney: The Quintessential Villain of the American West

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joan Didion, Big Oil, Railroads, Big Coal, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Westerns, Native Americans, Wyoming, Torture, Dick Cheney, Old West, Republicans, Gop, Politics News

Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.

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Small Successes Come Hard in Battle Against Mascots

Tim Giago | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Indians as Mascots, Native Americans, American Indians, Native American Mascots, Home News

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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