Read Top 9 Native American Flute Tips

By Craig Chambers Native American flutes are definitely one of the most magical of instruments. Music played on a Native six hole flute has a way of captivating people. They can calm your spirit. If you are familiar with flute music you must appreciate it too. If you are new to flutes, or searching for [...]

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Most Influential Native Woman Since Pocahontas?

By Kara Briggs By 1948, Mary G. Ross was on the ground floor of what would become the space race. In 1952 Lockheed asked her to be one of 40 engineers in what became known as the Lockheed Skunk Works, a super-secret think tank led by legendary aeronautics engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson. It was the [...]

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Cobell Settlement A Dream Come True

The U.S. government has settled a long-running lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians. The Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims. The department also will spend $2 billion to buy back and consolidate tribal land lost by [...]

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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in Redskins Trademark Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal by a group of native american activists that claims that the Washington Redskins’ team name is “offensive, disparaging, and demeaning and perpetrates a centuries-old stereotype,” USA Today reported this morning. The team started using the Redskins name in 1933; and the trademark was first issued in [...]

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Natives march in Copenhagen

AMY GOODMAN: Shortly before President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize today, a coalition of North American indigenous groups marched to the US embassy here in Copenhagen, calling on Obama to stop what they described as the war on native peoples and lands waged by the US energy industry. Speakers at the protest included Faith [...]

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The Redskin Mascot Debate

In Skin Tone Newsweek covers a “mainstream” American Indian issue. While the article does a nice job presenting the dispute, the only reason this American Indian cause has garnered attention is because the complaint is directed against a popular football team. In a city of transience, the Redskins may be the only continuous group to [...]

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