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US Congressman Mullin, Cherokee, and Family have Received Death Threats

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Briefs »

WASHINGTON – The Congressional office of US Congressman Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, has issued a statement this afternoon that indicates there have been death threats made against Read More »

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Fort Ross State Historic Park is Going Back to the Future

Kashaya Pomo Dancing Today

Arthur Jacobs in Entertainment »

FORT ROSS, CALIFORNIA – Today visitors attending the "Fort Ross Winter Celebration" will have the opportunity to go back to the future with dancing by members of the Kashaya Pomo in full regalia in the fort compound Read More »

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Leonard Peltier on Idle No More: "Remain United with One Another"

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges »

COLEMAN, FLORIDA – Leonard Peltier, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, who has been imprisoned for the past 36 years, issued an Indigenous Day statement Read More »

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Young Chickasaw Trombonist Performs with Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Native News Network Staff in Entertainment »

CHICAGO – When 12 year old Chickasaw Steven Warren first picked up a trombone, he had little idea how music would shape his life Read More »

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EPA Proposes 84 Percent Emissions Reduction for Navajo Generating Station

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

SAN FRANCISCO – The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing air pollution limits for Navajo Generating Station, one of the largest sources of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in the country Read More »

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Photo of the Week

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Entertainment »

The texts began shortly after noon on this past Sunday. I was one of two who received the text from former Tribal Chairman Derek Bailey, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, asking if we Read More »

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Book Review

Washington Football Team Remains Clueless When it Comes to Its Name

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Entertainment »

Reading "Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins" allows the American Indian reader a fast clue as to why the ownership of the football team, located in the nation's capital city, has remained clueless as to Read More »

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Guest Commentary

President Should Appoint More American Indians

Start with National Labor Relations Board

Ron Andrade in Native Condition »

A considerable amount of time is being consumed in the Washington version of musical chairs with the now Cabinet openings for secretarial position at the US Department of Labor and US Department of the Interior, now that Secretary Salazar announced he wants to go home to Colorado Read More »

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Revised Schedule of Events

Native Youth Alliance has Packed Agenda for Presidential Inauguration

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Currents »

Editors note: – Overnight the Native News Network received an updated schedule of events from the Native Youth Alliance. The updated information below includes cancelled events and revised event times during President Barack Obama's second inauguration. Read More »

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NACA Teams Up with Hispanic and Black Chambers of Commerce

Launch Business Development Portal

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

WASHINGTON – The Native American Contractors Association, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the US Black Chamber Inc. are pleased to announce their partnership in launching NACA's Business Development Portal Read More »

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Kayenta Health Care Center Meet Half-way Point of Construction

Native News Network Staff in Native Health »

KAYENTA, ARIZONA – The new Kayenta Health Care Center has been starting to take shape over the past two years. In December 2012, the construction met its half-way point Read More »

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Save the Date

NCAI President Keel to Deliver State of Indian Nations February 14

Native News Network Staff in Native Briefs »

WASHINGTON – Jefferson Keel, President of the National Congress of American Indians will deliver the annual State of Indian Nations Address on February 14, from Washington DC Read More »

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Wanted: Native Students Interested in Health Field

Native American Youth Initiative

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) will soon be accepting applications for the 15th National Native American Youth Initiative. American Indian/Alaska Native high school students Read More »

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Around the web

Veronica could make history

Glenn Smith, The Post and Courier

When Matt and Melanie Capobianco watched the birth of their adoptive daughter in 2009, they had no idea their love for this little girl would put them at the center of a decades-old national debate with racial, cultural and Read More »

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Hunger Strike – Day 38

Pleas to Top Canadian Officials Urged on Chief Spence's Behalf

Native News Network Staff in Native Briefs »

VICTORIA ISLAND, OTTAWA, CANADA – In what may be the beginning to a tragic end of life for Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, information coming from Read More »

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Michigan Indians Bring "Idle No More" Peace Movement to Their State Capitol

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges »

LANSING, MICHIGAN – With Michigan lawmakers and their staffs making their way into the Michigan State Capitol late yesterday afternoon to hear Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder make his Read More »

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Stillaguamish Tribe to Invest $5 Million in MicroGREEN Environmental Products

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

ARLINGTON, WASHINGTON – MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc. yesterday announced that the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians has made a strategic investment of $5 million in MicroGREEN Read More »

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Around the web

Hundreds March in Windsor, Warn of Bigger Protests to Come

Doug Schmidt, The Windsor Star

WINDSOR,CANADA – Commercial traffic was backed up beyond the city limits, and some US-bound tractor-trailers were idled several hours, but authorities say Wednesday's Idle No More march and rally at the Ambassador Bridge took place without incident Read More »

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Center for Native American Youth to Receive First Inouye Indigenous Spirit Award

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents

WASHINGTON – To honor the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii) and his decades of service in the US Congress of on behalf of indigenous people, The American Indian Society has announced the "Daniel K. Inouye Indigenous Spirit Award." Read More »

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NCAI on the Enduring Legacy of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday morning, the White House announced Secretary US Department of the Interior Ken Salazar will leave President Obama's cabinet at the end of this March Read More »

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Indian Health Service Director Dr Yvette Roubideaux Encourages Flu Vaccinations

Native News Network Staff in Native Health »

WASHINGTON – With the increased cases of flu – and even death from the illness this year, some hospitals around the country are restricting visits to see patients in fear Read More »

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Secretary Ken Salazar to Leave Post as Secretary of the Interior

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Briefs »

WASHINGTON – The White House announced this morning Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar well depart the Obama Cabinet at Read More »

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Chief Spence Releases Letter to First Nations Chiefs and Grand Chiefs

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges »

VICTORIA ISLAND, OTTAWA, CANADA – Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence on Tuesday, Day 36 of her hunger strike, released the contents of the a letter she sent to First Nations Chiefs and Grand Chiefs Read More »

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Around the web

Around the Web National Park Service Restores Native American Graffiti on Alcatraz

Michelle Lanz, Southern California Public Radio

The old federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island is at once, both one of the most iconic landmarks in California, and one of the most famous lockups in the world. Hosting more than one million visitors a year, tourists flock to the tiny island to Read More »

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Call for Entries for Long-running First Nations Film Festival

Native News Network Staff in Entertainment »

CHICAGO – The First Nations Film and Video Festival is seeking film submissions for its Spring 2013 Festival. Native filmmakers are invited to submit films or videos of any length for inclusion Read More »

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Today, Michigan Indians Bring Flash Mob to State Capitol

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges »

LANSING, MICHIGAN – American Indians from throughout Michigan will be at the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing today for an "Idle No More" peace movement round dance flash mob prior to the State of the State address by Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder Read More »

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It's Never Too Late to Get Your Flu Vaccine

Native News Network Staff in Native Health »

TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA – Last year flu cases peaked in March. This season confirmed cases of the flu first spiked in December. The Cherokee Nationâ€™s W.W. Hastings hospital alone has reported Read More »

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Chief Spence Begins 6th Week of Hunger Strike: Do Harper or Johnston Care?

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Condition »

Last Friday was a big day among First Nations in Canada. Thousands of First Nations peoples arrived at Parliament Hill in the bitter cold in Ottawa to give support of the Read More »

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Worldwide Day of Action Called by "Idle No More" Peace Movement

January 28

Native News Network Staff in Native Challenges »

FIRST NATIONS, CANADA – Idle No More grassroots founders and organizers from across Canada, in solidarity with Common Causes - a new initiative bringing together social justice, environmental, labour and other activist groups - are planning a national and worldwide day of action on January 28th Read More »

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Sports Mascot Symposium Set for February 7

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

WASHINGTON – The National Museum of the American Indian presents "Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports," a symposium and community conversation Read More »

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Indigenous Peoples Call for Inclusion in Global Mercury Treaty

Native News Network Staff in Native Currents »

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Representatives from the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus have convened in Geneva, Switzerland to make the final push for the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations global mercury treaty Read More »

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Dr. J. Nadine Gracia Named Director of Minority Health

Native News Network Staff in Native Briefs »

BETHESDA, MARYLAND – Last week Dr. J. Nadine Gracia was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and the Director of the Office of Minority Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services Read More »

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Millions of Americans Newly Eligible for Quality, Affordable Health Coverage in 2014

Native News Network Staff in Native Health »

WASHINGTON – Because of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obama Care, millions of Americans will be newly eligible to receive quality, affordable health care through Medicaid and the new health Read More »

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First Nations National Chief Atleo Steps Aside Temporarily

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Currents »

OTTAWA, CANADA – The Assembly of First Nations released a statement today from National Chief Shawn-A-in-Atleo, who Read More »

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Guest Commentary

On "Ceremonial Meetings" and Great White Fathers

Lee Sprague in Native Condition »

A 'Ceremonial Meeting' has two meanings: When a colonial government describes a meeting as ceremonial, it is a meeting of no substance. You show up; admire the quaint costumes; and get your required photo-op with the Natives Read More »

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Chief Atleo Calls on Canada to Reset Relationship Between Crown & First Nations

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges »

OTTAWA, CANADA – On Friday the head of the Assembly of First Nations, National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, presented Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada a list containing eight items called "Fundamental Change Remedies and Actions Required for First Nations Immediately" Read More »

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Guest Commentary

"Idle No More" has Ignited a New Generation of Native Youth

Rhonda LeValdo-Gayton in Native Condition »

For those who felt the Native Youth were apathetic, there is a hopeful outlook with the Idle No More movement. With the use of social media many young people have participated in the peaceful protests to show solidarity Read More »

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Tribes Invited to Green Bay as PTAC Bring Washington to Them

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Briefs »

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – The "2nd Growing Your Capacity with Federal Contracts" is slated to bring the "largest gathering of federal agency representatives and federal contractors to the Midwest this year," according to Gwen Carr, program manager of First American Capital Corporation PTAC Read More »