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When running back Marshawn Lynch asked Seahawks fan John Scott in the crowd for his Native American hand drum at the team’s Super Bowl victory parade last Wednesday, Scott hesitated at first, but then he gave it up. “I was kind of concerned; he doesn’t know how sacred it is….

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. A lot of famous paintings have been found amongst the racks of posters, dishes and old clothing at your local Goodwill. Have you ever seen any Native American items up for sale? Last year a Goodwill in Seattle found a beaded….

Iceland may be the first nation to get its own cryptocurrency, but if Payu Harris has his way, it won’t be the last. This week, he hopes to mine the genesis block for mazacoin, an altcoin for the Native American nation in the US. Specifically designed for the Traditional Lakota….

Coming off the success of his film More Than Frybread, Holt Hamilton is hoping to recreate that magic in a TV/Web Series. The pilot TV episode of “Frybread” is sixty-percent completed, and features several cast members from the movie More Than Frybread. The release of the pilot by Holt Hamilton….

Mia Prickett’s ancestor was a leader of the Cascade Indians along the Columbia River and was one of the chiefs who signed an 1855 treaty that helped establish the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde in Oregon. But the Grand Ronde now wants to disenroll Prickett and 79 relatives, and….

A Republican county official in Michigan is in hot water after making racial comments about Detroit, including the idea that the city should be turned into a detention center for “all the Indians.” In a recent interview for a profile by The New Yorker titled “Drop Dead, Detroit!” Oakland County….

I feel so blessed to be able to represent Native Country on such a platform as American Idol #NativePride #PomoNation. This nationwide campaign took place on my very own reservation, Big Valley Rancheria. – Via Aranesa Turner’s Facebook Are you listening, Indian country? On Thursday night, 20-year-old Aranesa Turner was….

This video has been passed around for years now, but what exactly inspired Gatorade to make it? According to a post by the Red Circle Agency out of Minnesota they were contacted by PepsiCo to help create a TV campaign to be show at the 2009 Gathering of Nations celebration….

Savage Media, created by a group of Native American students at Dartmouth College, published a video this week to call for an end to Native American mascots. Through the delivery of a poem, Preston Wells, of the Choctaw Nation and a junior at Dartmouth College, imagines what the Indian mascot–a….

Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck sent a model down the runway wearing a makeshift feathered headdress, with the not-so-subtle message “stop racism” scrawled across it in what looks to be red paint.  This was obviously a jab towards Karl Lagerfeld and all the eyebrows he raised last month with his….

The Winnebago Veteran’s Pow Wow is one of the oldest continuous Pow Wows in North America. The event commemorates the return of Chief Little Priest and the Fort Omaha Scouts, Company A, Nebraska Volunteers of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.  Our friend Bob Uhl, who runs the Midwest PowWows blog,….

If you’re in the New York City area don’t miss out on this.  Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, will present Thunderbird American Dancers in their annual Dance Concert and Pow Wow from January 31 to February 9, 2014. There will be dances, stories and traditional music from….