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.
Miracle, the white buffalo, has passed on to the spirit world – Miracle is gone. Miracle the buffalo, the symbol of peace, died at 11:07 p.m. Sunday on the Dave and Valerie Heider farm in Janesville.Continue to Miracle, the white buffalo, has passed on to the spirit world →
American Indian author and tribal storyteller Joseph Bruchac shares a new tale of an ancient American people and their progress in the current issue (September 2004) of National Geographic magazine, one of the most widely read periodicals in the world.Continue to National Geographic magazine to feature story about ancient American people →
Former “NYPD Blue” star Rick Schroder and the Tonto Apache Tribe are teaming up to bring the movie “Black Cloud” to audiences around the nation. Former “NYPD Blue” star Rick Schroder and the Tonto Apache Tribe are teaming up to bring the movie “Black Cloud” to audiences around the nation. Schroder was on the reservation Wednesday to discuss details of the tribe’s sponsorship of the movie, which he wrote, directed and produced.Continue to Tonto Apaches team up on movie →
It is time once and for all make our voices known through the voting polls of America!! Enough is enough for only peace meal answers and solutions. Every year we march to Congress to lobby for our needs and concerns and yet in some of our tribal areas we live in worse worse thab third world conditions.Continue to Encouraging Native American Voting in Upcoming Elections →
TULALIP - Two fires burned on the dirt floor of the Tulalip longhouse, giving off smoke and bits of ash that wafted upward through openings in the top of the building. Hundreds of people filled the wooden platforms built into each side of the structure. Tulalip tribal members sat next to public officials from Marysville and Everett. Visitors from nearby tribes such as the Makah and Suquamish, and even a member of the Hopi and Laguna Pueblos, bumped elbows with guests from Seattle. Three wide-eyed sailors in dress whites watched from a front-row bench.Continue to First Salmon Ceremony welcomes the returning salmon →
Here is a partial list of Native American powwows and tribal festivals in the Northwest this summer. Most begin Friday evening and continue through Sunday afternoon. Visitors are welcome. Information phone numbers are listed if available.Continue to Native American Northwest powwows calendar →