Utah tribal church cites ‘religious liberty’ in fight against ban on using peyote in ceremonies

embers of the Tahteya Topa Native American Church of Utah renewed a long-standing battle against a state ban on using peyote during their ceremonies, saying it violates their freedom of religion, KSTU-TV reported.People say its a hallucinogen, which its not, church member David Hamblin said...

Couple who found 400-year-old body of native American woman in their yard forced to PAY $5,000 for archaeologist to look at it

A Canadian couple found a skeleton while digging for a new fence at their home in Sarnia only to be told that they had to pay $5,000 for its archeological assessment. Ken Campbell and Nicole Sauve found the remains of a 400-year-old Native American woman while carrying out their home...

DNA Suggests America's First People Arrived in a Single Wave

A genetic analysis of ancient and modern humans suggests that the ancestors of Native Americans entered the North American continent from Siberia some 23,000 years agoand that they did so in a single wave.According to the new study, which now appears at Science, the original Americans came to...

Oak Flat: The Latest Land Grab From Native Americans

This Doesn't Just Grab The Sacred Land, It Destroys ItThe method of mining "block cave mining" that is proposed is going to, by design, completely devastate the land. In Truthout's "The Apache Way: The March to Oak Flat," Roger Hill explains:This process involves a series of deep underground...

Cops Shoot Many, Many Native Americans

Not only do Native Americans get killed at an astounding rate, many of them live in extreme poverty conditions.http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/cops-shoot-many-many-native-americans

The herd has arrived

Theyre here. We werent expecting them last weekend. We thought we had until the end of the month before they arrived, but we got a call from the shipper who said he was delivering another horse in our area, so he was leaving Sunday morning and would be here Sunday evening. We did get the pipe...

Native American School Mourning 4 Student Suicides Gets Emergency Federal Aid

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, is in a state of crisis. Over the past year, 14 school-age children on the reservation have killed themselves.At the time of their suicides, four of those children were attending Pine Ridge School. On Wednesday,...

UND releases list of nearly 1,200 potential new nicknames

From "Amber Waves" to "Zombies," the list of potential new nicknames for University of North Dakota athletic teams ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous.UND released a list of nearly 1,200 potential new nicknames Monday night, from which a committee will make a short list of finalists that...

This Seemed Like A Normal Funeral. Until These Soldiers Did Something Unforgettable.

A Haka is anancestral war cry originallyperformed by Maori warriors before going to battle. In a moving tribute, over 200 New Zealand soldiersfrom the 2nd and 1st Battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment honoredthree of their fallen comrades with a heartbreaking Haka ceremony...

Fracking Could Topple Anasazi Ruins

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's approval of 130 fracking permits in the New Mexico's Four Corners region threatens an environment that includes extensive prehistoric Native American relics, Navajo environmentalists claim in court.Din Citizens Against Ruining Our...