Metal scuptures at Spirit Ridge, Osoyoos, BC

Came across these beautiful sculptures and tracked them back to their source:Nk'Mip Cellars, Canada's First Aboriginal Owned and Operated WineryIronically, I found more information about them at an RV site. There are many more of them, but of course, it was the horse sculptures that pleased me me...

New Mexico DMV Calls Native Speakers ‘Illiterates’, Refuses To Help With ID Applications

New Mexico recognizes eight Native American languages in 11 of its counties with Native populations. ProgressNowNM called the office from which they obtained the email above. They were told that, where staff was previously able to help Native applicants in completing the basic form, they are no...

2 Ancient Villages Emerge in Arizona National Park

An ancient village has come to light in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Parkand it's the second such find in as many years. The villages are some 1,300 years old, dating from between 200 AD and 700 AD,ABC Newsreports. Archaeologists discovered homes dug into the ground known as pit-houses,...

Indian Village and Crafts exhibition/amusement attraction, Los Angeles, early 1900s

Mr. Antonio Apache has gathered typical groups of Indians from the various American tribes, who live in their primitive habitations, wear their native dress, and work at their aboriginal handicrafts. The principal exhibition building is an exact reproduction of one of the old Maya Palaces of...

Idaho Indian Tribe Books Ted Nugent, Racist Rocker, in PR Disaster

The Coeur dAlene Tribe of American Indians itself the target of a recent racist graffiti attack has booked racist rocker Ted Nugent for a public concert next month at the tribes landmark North Idaho casino. The decision is stirring controversy for a tribe that has proudly involved itself in...

Artist Stops Oil Pipeline Cold

Von Tiesenausen decided to talk to them in their own language: Money. The copyright claim makes his entire property a work of art since he has covered it with visual art scupltures including"a 33-metre-long ship sculpted with willow stalks, winter ice forms, nest-like structures in trees,...

PRESS RELEASE: Cowboy and Indian Alliance Plant Sacred Ponca Corn in the Path of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Neligh, NebraskaOn Saturday, May 31, and Sunday, June 1, members of the Cowboy and Indian Allianceand allies cametogether at the farm of Art Tanderup near Neligh, Nebraska, to hand plant sacred Ponka red corn seeds. (The nineteenth century spelling of the tribe is still used in the official names...

Code talker Chester Nez and the tragic history of native language By Simon Moya-Smith, Special to CNN

(CNN)--Chester Nez, the former Marine and last of the original 29 Navajo code talkers,passed away June 4 at age 93.When an elder dies in Indian country -- especially someone as revered and decorated as Nez, the World War II veteran -- we, Native Americans, feel it, all of us, regardless of tribe...

Holocaust Museum of the Indigenous People Should Be Built at Wounded Knee

Since 1492, the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.There are no true figures to quote about how many millions of indigenous people have perished in this land that was once their own. Those who wrote the history of the...

Saturday’s Illegal Cliven Bundy-Endorsed ATV Rally Runs Through Sacred American Indian Sites

An illegal all-terrain vehicle (ATV) ride planned this weekend through Recapture Canyon in Utah is the latest flashpoint between anti-government activists and federal land managers. The illegal ride is already drawingcriticismfrom the Navajo Nation, putting American Indian burial sites and...