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  • How the West was really won

    Paul VanDevelder digs into the rotten core of the American experience in his new book, Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory.

  • Dueling Claims

    Dueling Claims

    A tribal attempt to protect New Mexico's Mount Taylor sparks a bitter struggle over uranium mining, religious differences and claims to an ancient landscape.

  • A new land grab

    A new land grab

    The Oglala Lakota are determined to reclaim both their land and cultural heritage.

  • Blood Quantum

    The system that determines membership in most American Indian tribes could threaten the survival of those tribes.

  • Here comes change

    Here comes change

    Learning from an elderly Navajo woman with an intimate, lifelong connection to the land.

  • Native Americans walk the talk across America

    Brenda Norrell accompanies a group of Native Americans on a 3,600-mile walk across the country.

  • Run before dawn and other advice from a Native American elder

    Logan Hebner talks with a Paiute elder in Utah who advises, among other things: "Run before dawn."

  • Preserving native language is more than just words

    The writer explains why the Yavapai tribes try so hard to keep their 10,000-year-old language alive

  • Don’t blame the Indians for the Abramoff scandal

    The writer, a tribal chairman, says Indians have every right to lobby in Washington, D.C.

  • Cheers for Arizona’s governor and a Hopi warrior

    Tim Giago cheers the renaming of an Arizona mountain -- and blasts those who’d rather retain the word "squaw."

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