The Pope's Hypocritical Stance Towards Indigenous Americans Opens New Wounds: An Open Letter

party and Army officers pose over the mass graves at Wounded Knee ...Dear Pope Francis,While the rest of the country celebrates your voice for the poor and disenfranchised, I mourn your disregard for the most disenfranchised people in North America. While you are lauded for your concern over...

Archaeologists Find Artifacts at Illinois Airport

Archaeologists digging at a southern Illinois airport have uncovered Native American artifacts dating back to 1,000 years ago.Crews with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey discovered five house plots from the Mississippian Era at the Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro. The dig also...

I Am A Jailbird

This is my shameful secret... I have spent time in jail. Five weeks to be exact, for possession of marijuana. The judge gave me the maximum sentence allowed by law and fined me $700, the maximum allowed by law.This is my story.In this little town I live in, when I moved here I discovered that...

Indian Tribes Recognized... Maybe

It seems the Federal Government is overhauling the process by which tribes can be recognized as such, and some states, and the cities and towns in them, are kicking up a fuss as it will impact their homes and...

Indians and Envy

Some time ago I made the comment on a thread that one of the reasons a lot of people were so angry and resentful and prejudiced about Indians was because of the perception that Indians "had it made in the shade."Even I, not having been raised on a reservation, thought that Native Americans owned...

Is It Racism?

CBS boss: Behavior on 'Big Brother' is 'absolutely appalling' Anna Chan TODAYIt's not just viewers who take issue with the racist remarks that have been made on "Big Brother" this season. CBS CEO Les Moonves, speaking publicly for the first time about the issue, said he isn't pleased with the...

Kavika's Homecoming Party

We could really give Kavika a good "joke" homecoming.I was thinking of a barbeque at his place complete with "gifts." If we scoured the Internet we could find pictures of a cowhide rug or throw in the same pattern as Tex. We could also find a set of Longhorns to put on his van, and of course a...

Bait and Switch

MARSHALL, Mo. (AP) A Canadian company's plan to build an oil pipeline that will stretch for hundreds of miles through the Midwest, including through many sensitive waterways, is quietly on the fast-track to approval just not the one you're thinking of.As the Keystone XL pipeline remains mired...

The Indians Won!

http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-06-12T120301Z_2_CBRE95B06HA00_RTROPTP_2_USA-GRANDCANYON-SKYWALK.JPG"/>View PhotoReuters/Reuters - A skywalk extends out over the Grand Canyon in this view from the incomplete building that houses the skywalk, on the Hualapai Indian Reservation,...

Government Broke An Agreement?..NO!!!!!

Related ContentView PhotoMembers of the Hualapai tribe protestBy Tim GaynorPHOENIX (Reuters) - A dude rancher who grew up watching John Wayne movies in England is starring in his own Old West standoff with an Arizona sheriff and an Indian tribe over access to a major Grand Canyon tourist...