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President Barack Obama Addresses the 2015 Gathering of Nations
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President Barack Obama spent a special message to the 2015 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow.
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Meet Your Tribal Ambassadors – 2015 Gathering of Nations
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Wow, we had another incredible night at the Gathering of Nations Powwow 2015!! Tonight was the talent portion of Miss Indian World 2015 at the Kiva Auditorium in downtown Albuquerque, check out this awesome crowd ... Read more »
5 Sure-fire Ways To Annoy Everyone Around You At A Pow Wow
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5 Sure-fire Ways To Annoy Everyone Around You At A Powwow
1) Show up to a Powwow in a Costume
I can’t tell you how many times I have seen someone come to a powwow in a costume, dressed as someone fro... Read more »
Indigenous Students Achieving Greatness
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Yesterday I met with Joseph Montoya, a student at San Jose State University and President of his club the “Native American Student Organization” which he started the Spring semester of his Freshman year at SJSU. I w... Read more »
#ThereIsHope – Suicide Prevention and Awareness on the Pine Ridge
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The Pine Ridge Reservation, a place that is often painted as one of the most impoverished, unhealthy and downright ugly places that you can imagine, whose 28,000 residents call this place home and choose not only to o... Read more »
Akicita Owicahe – Lakota Freedom Veterans Cemetery
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Growing up in a family of veterans, I was very used to seeing images of time served and hearing military talk that never seems to leave the individual, even if they’ve been separated from the military fo... Read more »
8 Native Women Fighting to Preserve Their Culture
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The September issue of Marie Claire (UK) magazine features eight strong and beautiful Native American women who are working hard to preserve their culture for future generations. Let's take a quick look at who they fe... Read more »
Campaign To Raise Awareness on Violence Against Native Women
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The Indian Law Resource Center and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) have launched the first videos in a new campaign to raise awareness of and help end violence against Native women and girls.
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AMERICAN INDIANS & THE 2ND AMENDMENT
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AMENDMENT II
The 2nd Amendment reads as follows with punctuation:
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed... Read more »
A More Accurate Historical Thanksgiving -What Are You Celebrating?
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Like most of our history, it comes from miss-history and the fact that most people think of the Pilgrims as these “incredibly righteous people” who invited the “savage Indians” to their first Thanksgiving so that the ... Read more »
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