Results for keyword: Native Americans
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A patient
Kathleen Tsosie, who has devoted her life to helping others, now faces the frightening possibility that her breast cancer has returned.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
Keeper of the wildlife
Biologist Les Bighorn, a Dakota Sioux, works to restore the swift fox to its native landscape on the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Reservation.
by Cathy Moser, Apr 28, 2008 -
Pillaging the Past
Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.
by Craig Childs, Apr 28, 2008 -
Tribes make a controversial deal on salmon
Rocky Barker says four Northwestern tribes stopped fighting the federal government over dam-breaching on the Snake River largely because they could read the political writing on the walls.
by Rocky Barker, Apr 21, 2008 -
The elephant that was left out of the room …
Indian tribes were left out of the negotiations that divvied up the Colorado River in 1922, but it’s no longer possible to ignore them – particularly in the case of the Navajo Nation.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 17, 2008 -
Seeking the Water Jackpot
The Navajo Nation is determined to finally claim its rightful share of the Colorado River after 86 years of being left out of the region’s water politics.
by Matt Jenkins, Mar 16, 2008 -
Die with me
Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past.
by Annie Dawid, Feb 04, 2008 -
Misplaced Jurisdiction
Law professor Kevin Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, says the justice system in Indian Country is in serious need of overhaul.
by Tanya Lee, Jan 21, 2008 -
Tireless and tenacious storytelling
Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits, the Sho-Ban News
by Ray Ring, Dec 24, 2007 -
Going Native
A unique training program helps the Army Corps of Engineers work better with tribes
by Christine Hoekenga, Dec 11, 2007






