Wednesday, February 18, 2026
2018 mid-term elections are weeks away. Are you registered to vote? Do you know where your polling place is? Why don't you take a moment to check. Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the...
I used to like David Guetta. Now that?the Parisian is?edging toward 50 years-of-age, it's apparent that he was born in a time when racism was overlooked. Not anymore, Pierre (that's his real name). In his...
“Blood and soil!” “Jews will not replace us!” You know where people chanted these slogans, don't you? Berlin, circa 1938, right? Technically, yes. But we don't need to take a trip in the way-back machine to hear this chilling rhetoric....
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Every day we find ourselves confronted with yet another kick in the teeth from a new administration that courts controversy like a nineteenth-century libertine. At this point, it's become clear to pipeline protesters that President...
We are at an interesting time in our history. We will not soon forget the 2016 election and whatever transpired or will transpire over the next couple of years. But President Donald Trump's ascendancy is not a...
Record turnout in this year's election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin. They do not want democracy. They want oligarchy. But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not. So to maintain their wealthy donors' hegemony, they work...
Ruth Jim, a member of the Yakama Nation's tribal council.
There has been controversy surrounding an 8,500 year old ancient skeleton that some?Native American tribes have been calling their own. The skeleton was found in Kennewick, Washington at Columbia Park by?Will Thomas and David Deacy?in...
If you've got plans to see the Grand Canyon, do it soon, because if the Trump Administration gets its way, a lift on the ban on uranium mining might be in the near future. According to...
President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget makes dramatic cuts to what little remains of the social safety net. If the budget is approved, many will suffer. But Native Americans will be among those hit hardest by...
It's bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist "America First" caucus in the hallowed House of Representatives. It seems inconceivable there are members of Congress...
Upon assuming her role as the nation's education advocate, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decided to rescind support requiring the U.S. Education Department to investigate loan servicing companies’ past conduct before the government awards lucrative contracts. Interestingly, these are the...
A protester chaining himself to construction equipment at the Dakota Access Pipeline site (image courtesy Desiree Kane, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Sanity has finally prevailed in the eight-month standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it will not grant an easement that would have allowed the pipeline to skirt...
The Burns Paiute tribe in Oregon was the latest group to voice their dissent towards the gun-toting protestors who took over several buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge since last Saturday. The self-styled militiamen, led by Nevada...
Rand Paul's campaign for the GOP nomination is just about kaput, but that didn't stop the Kentucky Senator from trying to do a Donald Trump imitation on the subject of Native Americans during an interview. Paul...
Two key members of President-elect Donald Trump’s team have compared him to former president and Native American genocidal maniac Andrew Jackson. Rudy Giuliani said on election night that it was "like Andrew Jackson’s victory." While...
It wasn't a very good weekend for President Trump. Comments he made Friday at a political rally in Alabama regarding NFL players who kneel during the national anthem set off a firestorm of criticism and...
I'm guessing that you, along with most of us, learned the story of the first Thanksgiving in school. We were told that the Native Americans (who were called "Indians" in our history books) were essential...
Republican John Sununu threw a particularly low blow at a Donald Trump campaign rally on Friday. He cracked a joke about what he perceives as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's lack of sex appeal. The 77-year-old former...
Haven't we been through enough? I say that, of course, as a Native- and when I say "Native" I mean: American Indian, Native American, Indian, or whatever term non-Indians prefer to call us in the...