NEW YORK — Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday – for the first time – for massacring...
Travis Nichols | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books
In Mary Rowlandson's hugely popular captivity narrative from 1676, she describes her colony's struggles with the natives and how, when such a struggle was won, the town leaders held days of public thanksgiving.
Patt Morrison | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Considering all the hoopla we make over Thanksgiving, I'd be willing to bet that most Americans believe the Pilgrims were the first non-native American settlers in North America.
Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Amid the Thanksgiving dinners, football, and shopping this week, lets take some time to recognize Native American Heritage Day.
Irene Monroe | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Historically, I am reminded that for many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a cause of celebration, but rather a National Day of Mourning.
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
By looking at what our most revered presidents have said about the meaning of Thanksgiving, we can get a better idea of the purpose of our national holiday.
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
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.
Byron Williams | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports
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?
Tim Giago | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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 11.28.2009 | 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 11.19.2009 | 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 11.18.2009 | 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.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.27.2009 | Home