“Our fight has just begun. We are just like that Penokee Mountain. We're not going anywhere. We will use every tool in our war chest to defend our water and air.”read more

The Bad River Chippewa stand to lose one of the best natural wild rice beds.read more

This Thanksgiving, don’t call on me, as an American Indian, to offer up a prayer of thanks.read more

He was more than a brash balladeer. He was an engaged citizen and artist concerned about the human condition.read more

The 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre should serve as a reminder of the U.S. government’s brutal war on American Indians.read more

If there is any American narrative that has done more damage to America itself, it is the founding myth being celebrated today in parades and barbecues. Christopher Columbus didn't discover America any more than George W. Bush liberated Iraq. There were millions of people already here -- Cherokee, Aztec, Inca, and every other nation across the hemisphere. What should have been a bridge between two worlds instead became a genocide. Now the survivors of the European invasion are making their own discoveries -- rediscovering their own languages and proud traditions.read more

Native American women come to terms with an epidemic of sexual assault.read more

This Thanksgiving, as an Ojibwe woman, I will grieve for what Europeans did to native peoples here. But I will also give thanks for life.read more

A green jobs economy and a new, forward-thinking energy and climate policy will transform tribal and other rural economies and provide the basis for a robust and sustainable recovery.read more

As an American Indian, I can’t think of anything more depressing than sitting around the dinner table tracing the legacy of a holiday that began with a questionable decision to save a band of starving pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.read more

The Trail of Tears began 170 years ago this week. We should recall it not as an aberration but as a logical outgrowth of an inhumane policy.read more