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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.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured American Indians on Thursday that they have a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tr...
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
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.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
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.
Jim Thomas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver
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.
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
DENVER — A Denver parade in honor of Christopher Columbus is on – despite a phony e-mail that circulated Thursday saying the downtown cele...
Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
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.
Deanne Stillman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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.
Tim Giago | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
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.
Melinda Gopher | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Tim Giago | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
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.
Tim Giago | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Nicole Williams | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
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.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
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?
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Essentially, honest-services fraud makes prosecutors omnipotent, because they can charge anybody they want with a federal felony.
Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living
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.
Tim Giago | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
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.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.
Tim Giago | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home
Our motto has always been and will continue to be, "We are human beings and not mascots for America's fun and games."
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.27.2009 | Entertainment
Together Through Life is a tonic whose pace is moderate, music is organic, lyrics are intelligent, and feel is refreshingly human.
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Tim Giago | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics