Toyacoyah Brown

Are you a Longmire Fan? In case you’re not familiar with the show, Longmire is an A&E drama television series based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by author Craig Johnson. One of the characters in the Longmire world is Henry Standing Bear, a Cheyenne man who….

Native News Online reports that Brad Pitt’s Make it Right non-profit foundation will be partnering with the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck, Montana to build sustainable homes, buildings and communities on their reservation. From Make it Right’s website: This year we will build the first twenty Cradle to….

The Heber Valley Pow-Wow at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah was recently held June 13th weekend. Park City Television attended the event and interviewed dancers, singers and other attendees. Take a look at the video below. Thank you Park City Television for showing us around the pow wow! Hopefully our….

What started out as a 1,000 acre fire on the Navajo Nation has now grown to 11,000 acres in the Chuska Mountains according to reports by Navajo Times and other news outlets. Many native communities have been evacuated and it is feared more will be asked to leave as well…..

NPR recently ran a story on the Silver Horn calendar and how it had documented weather events in the Oklahoma region, such as tornadoes.   The first year of the Silver Horn calendar was 1828, known as Pipe Dance Summer. The hot days of 1855 were recorded with a drawing….

Warning – Does contain mature language! British comedian John Oliver has just become a new Native ally in the fight against the Washington Redskins name debate. He featured the “Proud to Be” commercial that was recently shown during the NBA finals and had this to say: “For the average American,”….

Currently there are 566 tribes in the United States that are federally recognized. That could change if proposed new rules are put into place. The Washington Post reported that there could be some changes coming to the stagnant rules that grant federal recognition to Native American tribes. These revisions could….

Big news today! Via Thinkprogress.Org, we got word that The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” and thus cannot be trademarked under federal law that prohibits the protection….

Renowned Chickasaw bladesmith Daniel Worcester was born in 1955 and grew up on his grandparents’ allotment near Pontotoc, Oklahoma. His grandparents were original Chickasaw enrollees, and their heritage inspired the bladesmith to contribute to the Native American art community. Watch this video as he explains his artistic process and how….

In case you missed it, here’s President Obama’s speech that was delivered at the Cannon Ball Flag Day celebration at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota June 13, 2014. He even tries to get a few Lakota words in! Take a look below. And here’s a good highlight….

This one is an oldie but a goodie. This video came out two years ago but it keeps popping up in my newsfeed from time to time so I wanted to make sure you guys have seen it too. The video is for dubstep artist Skrillex’s collaboration with Damian “Jr…..

For the third annual PBS Online Film Festival, PBS is featuring 25 short films online from June 16 – July 31, 2014. The PBS Online Film Festival showcases diverse films from Independent Lens and POV, as well as collaborations with public television producers, including the Center for Asian American Media,….