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  • She builds new words in an ancient tongue

    Reba Teran is painstakingly building an audio dictionary of spoken Shoshone, hoping to save both her language and her culture

    by Kerry Brophy, Aug 08, 2005

  • The sacred and the toxic

    Just over the Arizona-Sonora border, Tohono O’odham traditionalists have joined environmental groups in fighting a proposed Mexican hazardous waste landfill.

    by John Dougherty, Apr 16, 2007

  • Problems in Paradise

    The brutal murder of a Japanese tourist shines an unwelcome spotlight on the social problems plaguing Arizona’s beautiful but troubled Havasupai Reservation

    by John Dougherty, May 28, 2007

  • A common problem

    There’s a great diversity among American Indians, but the tribes share some of the same tragic ills that plague the rest of society – particularly those caused by methamphetamine abuse

    by John Mecklin, May 28, 2007
  • Cultural blight

    Cultural blight

    The traditional lifestyles of several Northern California tribes are threatened by a pathogen that is killing off oak trees.

    by Debra Utacia Krol, Jul 15, 2009

  • Tony Hillerman's Navajoland

    In Tony Hillerman’s Navajoland, Laurance D. Linford provides an obsessively detailed guide to the world of Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee Navajo mysteries

    by Staff, Oct 31, 2005

  • Showdown over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and its people

    Caribou Rising by Rick Bass is an impassioned plea on behalf of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Gwich’in people who have hunted caribou there for thousands of years

    by Gary Wockner, Apr 04, 2005

  • Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time

    Lorena Gorbet, a Mountain Maidu Indian, has dedicated her life to saving her tribal culture through forest management in the Feather River area of Northern California

    by Jane Braxton Little, Apr 04, 2005

  • Navajos can't Dine at local diner

    RD's Drive-In in Page, Ariz., is facing a federal lawsuit over its policy of not allowing Navajo employees to speak their native language while at work.

    by Joshua Zaffos, Nov 11, 2002

  • A rez-to-rez film debut

    Skins, Chris Eyre's new film about two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation, debuted on reservations across the country in a mobile cinema trailer.

    by Jamie McEvoy, Oct 28, 2002
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