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2004 Native American News Archive

Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2004.

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2004 Native American News Highlights

—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.

Traditional stories inspire art exhibit

AUTHOR: Katherine Rushworth Myths often live as oral histories passed from generation to generation, linking the old with the new and the real to the imagined. The many stories of the Haudenosaunee people – the people who comprise the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy – are robust historical narratives, more imaginative than real, which resonate with timeless messages of humility, survival and the struggle between good and evil.Continue to Traditional stories inspire art exhibit →

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Stopping the Alcohol Epedemic

AUTHOR: Thomas Ivan DahlheimerI believe that by drawing attention to the Rum River name-change issue “white guilt” will increase, because of a heightened awareness of the catastrophic consequences caused by white settlers introducing and selling alcohol to Native Americans; and that this increase of “white guilt” will, in a lot of ways, cause white Euro-Americans (or, generally speaking, the dominate culture) to offer all Native Americans their long over due restitution justice, especially when it comes to making amends to…

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Rum River Name Change Initiative

According to historical documents found in, “Minnesota Geographic Names”, a book written by Warren Upham, and published by the Minnesota Historical Society… in the late 1700s, white men gave the Rum River its current name by way of a “punning translation” that “perverted the ancient Sioux name Wakan”. In Minnesota, “the land of ten thousand lakes”, there is a large and beautiful lake named Mille Lacs. Its outlet river is named Rum. The Sioux name for the Rum River is…

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Fact vs. fiction regarding Indigenous Red Nations and people

INDIGENOUS RED NATIONS AND PEOPLES: Fiction and Fact

Much the same as foreign, european-based, white “immigrants” - currently called “Americans” - dislike the word “honky”, and African “blacks” disagree with the word “negro”, Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations and Peoples must be afforded the same respect - not to be associated with the following misconceptions. Discard everything you have been “taught” so far in your life, as the following information are probably facts you have never been allowed or fortunate to have heard about. So hang on and open your mind – which can also bring you true happiness! Read on for the real facts.

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