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  • "Prez on the Rez" brings candidates to Indian Country

    Democratic presidential hopefuls and tribal leaders will meet face-to-face this summer on California's Morongo reservation.

    by Michelle Blank, Apr 02, 2007

  • 'People of the Earth' stress "natural laws'

    Dineh CARE earns reputation as a Navajo environmental group, but is involved in many other areas.

    by Ernie Atencio, Oct 31, 1994

  • 'Spiritual hucksterism' attacked in Boulder

    Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., is being sued by a former student who says that Eagle Cruz, co-founder of the school's Native American Studies program, falsely claimed to be a Lakota spiritual leader.

    by Matt Sebastian, Dec 06, 1999

  • 'There's a notion that Indians practicing their religions are less than religious'

    In her own words, Lakota Sioux spiritual and cultural leader Charlotte Black Elk discusses the clash between Native and white spirituality at places like Devils Tower.

    by Elizabeth Manning, May 26, 1997

  • 'They wasted a lot of money'

    Mary Belardo, chair of the Torres-Martinez Band of Desert Cahuilla Indians, talks about the Indian perspective on the Salton Sea.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 19, 2000

  • A 700th generation fisherman

    Umatilla Indian Donald Sampson, director of the Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Commission, defends Indian rights to fish for salmon.

    by Paul Larmer, Dec 20, 1999

  • A banker battles to hold the government accountable

    Browning, Mont., banker Elouise Cobell uncovers a huge financial mess involving billions of dollars of tribal money somehow misplaced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    by Greg Hanscom, Aug 03, 1998

  • A breath of fresh air

    For over 30 years, the Northern Cheyenne have stood firm against energy development and its environmental impacts, but now, faced with crushing poverty, some are starting to think about developing the reservation’s coal and methane resources

    by Bob Struckman and Ray Ring, Jan 20, 2003

  • A brief, interpretive look at the Indian Wars

    Michael Blake’s new nonfiction book, Indian Yell, fails to live up to its ambitious subtitle, “The Heart of an American Insurgency,” with its quick tour of 12 battles between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians.

    by Jared Blackley, Apr 30, 2007

  • A Cherokee charade

    Harley "Swift Deer" Reagan's Cherokee spiritual and sexual techniques are labeled counterfeit by the Cherokee Nation.

    by Staff, Nov 15, 1993
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