Hello. I am very happy to have found this site! Yea!! Like another writer here, Kitsap River, I am from Kitsap County in Washington State, but have only moved back here again recently, after 20 years of living in Germany. I know that I have Anasazi, Hopi, and Navajo ancestry, but it is sadly too … Continued
This is the second in a three-part series on the Dark Ages of American Indian Religious Freedom. For the past five centuries, American Indians have had their religions suppressed (sometimes brutally and violently) and denied. With the formation of the United States and the adoption of the Bill of Rights which speaks of freedom of … Continued
Since the very beginning of the United States, the idea of American citizenship for Indians has been a controversial subject. American government is based on Native American models. American democracy was inspired in part by the Indian democracies which the European colonists saw around them. After independence from England, the newly formed United States wrote … Continued
This is the first in a three-part series on the Dark Ages of American Indian Religious Freedom. For the past five centuries, American Indians have had their religions suppressed (sometimes brutally and violently) and denied. With the formation of the United States and the adoption of the Bill of Rights which speaks of freedom of … Continued
In Oregon and California, an agreement has been reached for the removal of four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River. The tribes in the area have fought for decades for the removal of these dams because they block salmon from their spawning grounds. The struggle for the removal of the Klamath River dams is only … Continued
How can I dry your tears? How can I make right the things that have been so wrongly done to you? Where is justice that was promised? Would you hate us all? If you did you are justified in doing so. My heart aches as I read the life accounts of the brave men and … Continued
One of the concerns of American Indians has been the ongoing desecration of American Indian graves and the sale of sacred artifacts. There has been a long history of the ghoulish exploitation of Native American remains in museums and popular tourist attractions. After decades of struggles by Native American tribal governments and individual Indians, in … Continued
An ongoing series sponsored by the Native American Netroots team focusing on the current issues faced by American Indian Tribes and current solutions to those issues. Publisher/Founder navajo (Neeta Lind) Navajo Nation Neeta is the community organizer of SFKossacks, the readers of Daily Kos in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also founded Native … Continued
One way of getting to know and understand Indian people is through biography. However, too often Indian biographies focus on war leaders (almost always male) and on leaders from the nineteenth century. What is often lost is the twentieth century and common people. Jackson Barnett was one of those ordinary twentieth century Indians and it … Continued
Thanks to navajo and a robust crew of volunteers and diarists, the snow emergency on the Indian Reservations in the Dakotas found its way to the TV (thanks, Keith!) and more donations have started to flow. (Navajo’s excellent compilation of donation contact info and links here.) My intention is to add a little background to … Continued
