Unbelievable - it keeps coming

While laughing children bob in kayaks along the sandy shores of Lake Superior, their somber parents hunch over picnic tables talking about their wild rice, their water, their fish and their way of life. Members of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians worry about what is...

You got to be kidding me

As if news surrounding the attention-hungry Rush Limbaugh could not get any weirder, the conservative radio star has released a new childrens book, due out this fall. The book tells the story of the American Founding Fathers, through the eyes of a new character, Rush Revere.The narcissistic title...

Mysterious Ancient Native Remains Found in Remote Cave

The remains have been identified as Cherokee from the Mississippian period, and are believed to be several hundred years old, before European contact. Certain objects found with the remains helped identify the time period as well as the tribe.In keeping with the Native American Graves Protection...

Good News for a change - Oklahoma highway stretch to honor Choctaw Code Talkers

ANTLERS Oklahoma is honoring a group of World War I Choctaw Code Talkers by renaming a stretch of highway near where many of the men lived.The Choctaw Nation and the Choctaw Code Talkers Association are hosting a dedication ceremony for the event on Friday.The state is renaming 55 miles of...

Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan

On September 4th the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to:1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada;2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized Inherent, Aboriginal and...

Town of Jim Thorpe, Pa., puts up fight to keep the body of its famous namesake

The surviving sons of the famous American Indian athlete have long fought to get the remains of their father moved from Jim Thorpe, Pa., to tribal lands in Oklahoma, where he was born, and they recently won a crucial legal victory that put them close to their goal.Thorpes son, Bill Thorpe, of...

On This Day: In 1877 - Not forgotten

On This Day: In 1877 Lakota warrior Crazy Horse was bayoneted in the back and killed. He was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota and took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including...

150 years ago, Sept. 3, 1863 - Whitestone Hill

The Dakota and Lakota incident remained submerged for years. For whites, Whitestone Hill was overshadowed by the Civil War. (seems... many massacres were overshadowed by Lincoln's civil war. it hasn't been forgotten, another massacre then a large monument was erected for the dead soldiers....

Thought of you Kavika when I found this

Was doing searches for cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes and came across this page on Facebook and thought of you and wonder ifa) you're a biker (it would not surprise me)b) if you know himNowa Cumig Institute10038 Sugar PT Dr. Federal Dam MN 56641 763-242-4242Press Release September...

The Navajo and the Astronaut

A Navajo LegendBack in the 1960s a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface.Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full...