Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2007.
— Billionaire donates $5 million to Crazy Horse Memorial
— Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe celebrated in Smithsonian exhibit
— Old Indians mounds claimed by Eastern Cherokee tribe
— Duck Valley Indian Rez without water, running low on food after fire destroys village
— Crow Tribe wants to exploit coal
— Makah tribal member kills whale without permits or tribal sanction
— Multibillion-dollar Canadian residential school settlement passed
Faith leaders, tribal officials, and musicians from two states are battling tribal domestic violence, teen suicide, and sexual assault by supporting the nation’s first battered woman’s progam for Native Americans through a free benefit concert at a church in Custer,…
WHAT: Sauk-Suiattle 2007 Pow Wow and Celebration WHEN: AUG 24-26th, 2007 WHERE: Darrington, WA Sauk-Suiattle 2007 Pow Wow and Celebration AUG 24-26th, at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival Grounds, one mile south of Darrington, WA, on Hwy 530, plenty of showers,…
National Powwow hosted by Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Tens of thousands of people will gather in Washington for a three-day celebration of American Indian dance and culture at the largest pow wow on the East Coast. The…
AUTHOR: by Amanda May Whistle When Sitting Bull drew Self-Portrait in Battle in 1874, two years beforethe Battle of Little Bighorn, he drew himself not only as he was, but alsohow he saw himself spiritually. Sitting Bull proclaimed he’d had…
The Adkins Collection of native art is among the most important private collections of work by Taos artists and other native americans in the US. It contains more than 3,300 pieces of art in a number of native american art…
There is a dire emergency at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Owyhee, Nevada. It’s a very isolated reservation on the Nevada/Idaho border. One of the many fires that have been burning out of control in the west devastated this…