Online Network Offers Free Native American Video Content

Native American Entertainment Network (NAE Network) announced on March 11 the launch of its Web site, which offers free video content that features Native stories and news. The site’s content is targeted to both Native and non-Native audiences, NAE Network said in a press release. Video categories include: news, government, sports, health and wellness, lifestyle, [...]

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Ghosts of Machu Picchu

Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western Hemisphere and an iconic symbol of the power and engineering prowess of the Inca. In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories [...]

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The Legend of Tillamook’s Gold

Tillamook Treasure, now known as The Legend of Tillamook’s Gold, is an independent 2006 family film set in the city of Manzanita, Oregon, United States. Based on a Native American legend about a treasure buried on Neahkahnie Mountain by Spanish sailors in the 1590s, this is the story of a 14-year-old girl’s discovery of what [...]

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Indians in Varley’s Superheroes

Superheroes and their daring-do are no longer confined to the cartoons, as a recent “biography” of Superman and this playfully entertaining collection of superhuman adventures attest. Co-editors Varley and Mainhardt wisely avoid episodes from the established superhero pantheon in favor of those from imaginative, even twisted, superhero variations. Using Varley’s own wry tale of an [...]

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ICT reviews Seeing Red

By Lisa Garrigues “Seeing Red” takes us back to a different time, the 19th century, and examines how anger was communicated as a force for social change by three different American indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Sarah Winnemucca. Callahan, Johnson and Winnemucca used a prevailing literary genre of the time–sentimentality. Though [...]

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The illustrated Bury My Heart

By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) When Dee Brown wrote his book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” he could not have known that it would become a classic. This year an illustrated 40th anniversary edition was published in hardback. It is a beautiful book and the photos add so much to the stories that made [...]

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