Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2004.
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—The National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington, D.C.
—Arlo Looking Cloud was convicted and received a life sentence for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash (also known as Annie Mae Pictou) in 1976, then the highest ranking female in the American Indian Movement.
AUTHOR: DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer In the Boreal Forest, a storm is developing. The elders used to say that one should not make a sound when crossing the water here, lest one awaken the thunderbird who lives just up there, up there.Continue to Poplar River First Nation fears for one of the Earth’s lungs →
Natives from all over the country are invited to enjoy the snow-covered grounds of the Alaskan Native Heritage Center for programming that will highlight fun and educational activities that traditional and contemporary Alaska Natives experience. Winter Celebration is on December 18th from 10am to 5pm.Continue to Greetings from the Great White North: Winter celebrations heat up chilly nights →
Who was that masked man?...
"Kemosabe," the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found.
The ruling was delivered by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal last week in a case involving a native Canadian woman who complained that the manager of the store where she worked had created a poisoned environment by calling her Kemosabe.
AUTHOR: Doreen Yellowbird On the day of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., I attended a press conference of the National Indian Gaming Association. From my seat at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., I could see media people, tribal officials and staff I recognized from the National Indian Gaming Association. There were others whom I thought probably were members of the association’s staff. It was then that I realized my knowledge…
Students, parents, teachers and all people interested in Native American and local history will have an opportunity to experience the Muscogee and Cherokee cultures up close Friday, Nov. 5 at the Tennessee Riverpark’s West Pavilion. The Chattanooga Indigenous Resource Center and Library (CIRCL) will host the Native American Gathering at the River, an interactive, educational program ex ploring the cultures, both past and present, of the people who first inhabited the region.Continue to Native American Gathering Educational Program On Nov.…
AUTHOR: Terrance H. Booth, Sr., Director, Native Nations Sustainable Alliance and A. David Lester, Executive Director, Council on Energy Resources Tribes (CERT) “Indian business is not about money, it is about expressing our deeply held Indian Values in economic terms, to allow us to serve one another. Money is not the goal, money is a means, to allow a person to live according to our Indian ways.” (1) The late Ira C. Booth, Tribal Historian, Tsimshian quotes “Tribal Economic Development…