Reel Injun: How Filmmakers See Native Americans in 4000 Films

Great article. Got to love Graham Greenehttp://www.reellifewithjane.com/2013/08/reel-injun-how-filmmakers-see-native-americans-in-film/"our tribe never hunted buffalo, we were fishermen".Great read

Wonderful time at my first Pow Wow

Of course, being me, something had to go wrong. We made it OK to Harrisburg and to the parking lot of the event. Once we arrived to the top of the stairs from the parking lot there were many ways to go and for some unknown reason I remembered my ex-husband's words "follow the crowd". We did. But...

For Apache, The War Horse

I am of the horse, the horse is from me. My muscles are his muscles, his Heart mine, our Souls one. We are a great Horse Nation and without them we would be mere humans walking about, lost and poor. When I am on the War Road and I sleep with my horse, I know his every move in the darkness. I feel...

First Nations Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade On Ships Along Lake Superior

Native women, children, and unfortunately even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the Canadian and U.S. border on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Duluth Minnesota.The fact that these horrendous crimes are taking place right under the noses of North...

A piece of HIstory

Decided to do some research after watching the last episode of Hell of Wheels in which a soldier makes some despicable remarks about Native-Americans and came across this article.Commissioner of Indian Affairs William Atkinson Jones sent this letter to superintendents of all federal reservations...

Native Americans tipped scale to end WWII

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_23843224/native-americans-tipped-scale-end-wwiiFantastic!!!During war, secrecy is paramount and nothing is more closely guarded than codes and encryption devices. Such devices shredded words into a fraction of their original size and interjected...

Is South Dakota being “demonized” over treatment of Native Americans?

http://peoplesworld.org/is-south-dakota-being-demonized-over-treatment-of-native-americans/Recently, after South Dakota's genocidal snatching of Native children received wide publicity, one of the state's newspapers saddled up and charged out in the best cavalry style of the Old West cinemas to...

10 Pow Wow Do's and Don'ts

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/10/10-pow-wow-dos-and-donts-150822Love the costumes. The real ones, that is

On a brighter side

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/03/10-things-native-americans-can-do-better-you-150724I fully agree and add11th: ride a horse

Peruvian Ministers Resign over Amazon Gas Project

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/08/peruvian-ministers-resign-over-amazon-gas-project/It is not about North American Natives but Natives nevertheless and a sad story. It just shows that people so easily forget the lessons History has taught us.And to read comments like thisThe government does not...