The Lawless Border With Canada Was Once America’s Main Security Concern

Near the westernmost point of the border between the United States and Canada, the Peace Arch straddles the world’s longest undefended international boundary. The inscription atop the monument honors the friendship between two “children of a common mother,” but this was not always the case. The...

Old Dog - A Short Story.

The sun shone brightly in the north country, belying the bitter cold that surrounded her. Old Dog pushed on through the snow, deep, cold and seeping the remaining strength from her body. Yet she pushed on, single- minded, survival her goal. Old Dog remembered better days, happy days on their...

Downwind From Evil - A Short Story

East Grand Forks, Minnesota. August, 2001. Duncan Brown shuffled along the street looking for discarded cigarette butts. He had reached the bottom of a long hard road. His life, while never good, was now only survival. But he wasn't sure survival was what he wanted. Dying would be so much...

WEDNESDAY Flanagan became the highest ranking Native American woman elected to the Executive office

Inauguration day is a big day in politics as it can mean the start of a new administration, new ideology or a new shift in focus.However, For Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan it meant making history. With the utterance of two words, I do, Flanagan became the highest ranking Native American...

The Hunting Wind - A Short Story

In the farthest reaches of the lower 48 lies an area named the Northwest Angle. A mistake that was corrected after the boundary between the United States and Canada was laid, creating this notch of land known by the few inhabitants as ''The Chimney'' - the most northern point in the lower 48....

Murkowski to reintroduce bill to help abused Native American women

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) aims to reintroduce legislation in the next Congress to combat violence against Native American women.Murkowski told reporters last week that she spoke to outgoing Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), who first introduced the bill in 2017 and vowed to make it a...

A 'super blood wolf moon' and five eclipses are among 2019's major astronomy events

There are a number of great events (eclipse) coming this year. (Click on seeded article for all of them)...But this one. Blood Wolf Moon is going to be really spectacular....I would advise if you are going to be staying up until midnight to watch this that you prepare yourself for some strange...

DNA from Ice Age Baby Uproots Native American Family Tree

DNA analysis of a six-week-old baby girl, buried some 11,500 years ago in what is now Alaska, has identified her as a member of a previously unknown Native American population. The discovery strongly supports the theory that the Americas were settled by people from Siberia, and presents...

Niibaa' Anami'egiizhigad & Aabita Biboo (T'was the Night Before Ojibwe Christmas)

    'Twas the Night Before Ojibwe Christmas By Tara Prindle 'Twas the night before Niibaa-anamaíegiizhigad, when all through the wiigiwaamNot an awakaan was stirring, not even a waawaabiganoojiinh;The moccasins were hung by the smoke hole with care,In hopes that Miigiwe Miskwaa Gichi...

Interior Secretary resigns; critics call him 'a monumental disaster'

Public interest group says Zinke one of the most 'dubious' members of presidential cabinet with 17 investigations Two years ago Ryan Zinke was riding high. He was moving from representing Montana in the Congress to running the Department of Interior. In the West it’s the gig to get. The...