November 2011

( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Prior to contact, the Modoc people inhabited an area approximately 5,000 square miles in southern Oregon … Continued

Foster Child’s Autopsy Results Released(You Tube) Naomi Whitecrow, a 2-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes “died of blunt-force injury to the head, abdomen … Continued

The Navajo Community College was established in Tsaile, Arizona in 1969.  This college was an outgrowth of the idea of self-determination in which the tribes … Continued

During the 1930s, the conservation policies of the federal government collided with Navajo culture. What the Navajo perceived as the callous disregard of the government … Continued

By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part … Continued

I mourn the loss of my specific tribal heritage due to my biological family being assimilated into Christianity, the shame that religion put into them, … Continued

“Rez” is a slang term for “reservation.” When the media focuses its attention on a reservation, there is a tendency to shore pictures of abject, … Continued

The clear origins of the Native American Flute date back several thousand millennia to flutes made of bone, to petroglyphs, and oral history. Unclear “origins” … Continued

The United States came into existence in its current governmental form with the adoption of the Constitution in 1787. Under the Constitution, the federal government, … Continued

European nations assumed that they had a right to govern the Indian nations they encountered. This right stemmed from the legal and religious Doctrine of … Continued