RED INK: A Native American Student Publication will be holding a fundraiser and water rights symposium tomorrow and Saturday. The fundraiser and reception will be held Friday, March 23 at the Arizona State Museum from 6 to 9 p.m. Featured…
March 22, 2012
Native Student Publication Holding Water Rights Symposium
March 19, 2012
Crazy Horse Monument 65-Years in the Making, and Counting
The numbers are staggering. Sixty-five years in the making, the Crazy Horse Memorial will be the largest sculpture on the planet when it’s completed, all though no one can say when that will be. Slated to stand at 563 feet…
March 15, 2012
Videos: Standoff at Pine Ridge
Native Impact has posted several videos of the goings-on on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where concerned Lakotas formed a blockade to prevent passage by unauthorized trucks carrying building materials. It was initially thought that the convoy was associated with construction…
March 9, 2012
March 5, 2012
$13,500 to Kill Sacred White Buffalo in Texas—Can This Be True?
American Indians across the internet are flocking to the website of Texas Hunt Lodge today—and not because they’re planning a hunting trip. No, they’re alarmed by a page on the site dedicated to the White Buffalo Hunt Package, which advertises…
February 12, 2012
Compassionate Woman: Biography of Activist Patricia Locke
One of Patricia Locke’s earliest babysitters was a medicine man who made objects dance around the room on their own to amuse her and her sister. Born in 1928 into an American Indian world in which the spiritual and ineffable…
November 10, 2011
What Do You Think of the Crazy Horse Monument?
Even though there are claims to participation and acts of acknowledgement by some of his descendants, the effort has been deemed a commercial venture. It is being touted as a non-profit endeavor, but seems to provide a comfortable living for…
August 7, 2011
Filmmaker Chronicles Walter Littlemoon’s Emergence from ‘The Thick Dark Fog’
Randy Vasquez has just finished shooting his second feature-length documentary, The Thick Dark Fog. Seven years in the making, with a projected release date of spring 2012, the film examines Wounded Knee resident Walter Littlemoon’s fight to escape the debilitating…
June 1, 2011
The Next Chapter in the Lakotah Revolution for Freedom
Two weeks ago, I went to New York with a delegation from the Republic of Lakotah, to utilize the annual meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII, May 16-27). The primary purpose of the trip was…
May 19, 2011
Oglala Sioux Tribe Revives Native Health Program After Fire, Wins Award for Aberdeen Area
The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s alcohol and drug treatment program rebuilt itself after a devastating electrical fire destroyed its Rapid City, South Dakota-based facility in April 2010. “It was really sad to see that go, because it was all we had,…
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