INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY
Indian leaders address Obama’s budget
March 7th
WASHINGTON – Indian leaders are increasingly weighing in on President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for 2011. A general sense of satisfaction is in the air – especially given an overall federal focus to clamp down on spending – although desired areas for...
Hart: Getting information out to tribes
March 5th
WASHINGTON – When Paula Hart, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, was 13 years old, her father told her he wanted one of his 14 children to become a lawyer and one to work for the BIA.
Commerce secretary commits to Indian country
February 24th
LAS VEGAS – Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the Obama administration supports a new round of jobs-based recovery funds for Indian country.
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Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us?
March 4th
It was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parents first communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots on this continent are not simply Mexican, but both...
Tuition Jumps at Navajo Community College
March 3rd
Marrying into the Tribe
February 28th
A white woman who fell in love with a Hupa man moved onto the reservation and has lived as an honorary member of the American Indian tribe ever since.