We Salute
Loretta Tuell

AndersonTuell, LLP is pleased to announce that our co-founder, Loretta A. Tuell has been chosen to receive the American Bar Association (ABA) - Margaret Brent Award for 2009. She is among five distinguished attorneys to be awarded: Sunday, August 2, 2009 at the Annual ABA Meeting to be held at the Fairmont Chicago (Imperial Ballroom) in Chicago, IL.

Our Featured Artist:

Honoring Students

Corwin "Corky" Clairmont

There is nothing traditional about Corwin "Corky" Clairmont's artwork. In unconventional ways, he's spent a lifetime challenging the viewers of his work to understand what he has to say. Every piece of his artwork gives way to ironic twists and turns, full of social and political commentary as it relates to his American Indian culture.

Introducing 2008-09 The Andrew W. Mellon Career Enhancement Program Fellows

Carmelita Lamb and Michael D. Tosee are the new 2008-09 fellows under The Andrew W. Mellon Career Enhancement Program.

Our Featured Story:

Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History:

Story Of Chickasaw Hero
Lt. Col. Raymond Harvey
Emerges Into Spotlight

Longtime museum Director Roland Earsom was pleasantly surprised last year to learn of Lt. Col. Raymond Harvey, a former Sulphur resident and the only Chickasaw to receive the Medal of Honor for valor during the Korean War. Earsom was shocked by what he then learned.

The Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon
1885-1948

Chapter 3 - Indian Childhood

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Films Tells Inupiaq History

All filmmakers would likely agree that it is a good sign when their film has run out in stores, even if it's not always properly paid for. Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson, a Barrow, Alaska, filmmaker, took it as a compliment when her Inupiaq film "The Duck-In" was snatched off the shelves. But for Edwardson, the film's popularity is second to its importance.

Ho-Chunk Man Wins World Champion Hoop Dance Title

Just one point separated the first, second and third place winners in the adult division of the 19th Annual Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest in Phoenix, Ariz.

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Traditional Games To Begin April 25

The 2009 Cherokee Nation Traditional Native Games are set to begin across northeast Oklahoma as representatives from local towns and cities compete to earn September playoff spots at the tribe’s annual holiday.

Wings Of America Runner Helps Team USA To A 2nd Place Finish!

With Rolonda Jumbo’s(Navajo) ninth place finish at the USA Cross Country Championships while representing Wings of America, she qualified to be a member of Junior Team USA to run at the North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Cross Country Championships at Chain of Lakes Park in Orlando, Florida on March 7, 2009.

Honoring Students

Honoring Students

Lifetime Achiever Credits His Success To Learning Ojibwe In School Playground

Cecil King received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award for education excellence Friday night and he says it all started with learning Ojibwe in the school yard.

University of North Dakota Honors Seven American Indian Grads

As she waited to be celebrated Friday for her professional achievements, Audrey Bercier gathered son Tucker, 7, into her arms. He is a big part of why the physician assistant from Belcourt, N.D., was back on the UND campus, one of seven American Indians honored by the university for seizing educational opportunities and moving - in UND President Robert Kelley's words - "into fields of their interest, their passion," and shattering stereotypes.

Living Traditions

Honoring Students

Pendleton Celebrates 100th Year Of Its Indian Trade Blankets

With 40 different patterns and a history to each, the blankets famed for their Native American designs are coming to the forefront this year as the Scottsdale store and Portland, Ore.-based Pendleton celebrate the 100th anniversary of Pendleton's Indian trade blankets.

Sequoyah Student Spends Week In Washington, Appears On C-Span

Sequoyah High School senior, Anna Walker and SHS College Prep Teacher Augusta Smith, recently returned to Tahlequah after spending a week in Washington, D.C., with the National Indian Education Association at the Close Up Foundation Academy. Walker was chosen as one of only five students nationally to win a scholarship to the prestigious program.

Education News

Education News

Generous Gift from Oscar Howe family to be used for The U’s Howe Museum, Native American Academic Center

The College of Fine Arts and the University Art Galleries announced that they have received a $50,000 donation from Heidi Howe, the widow of Oscar Howe, and their daughter, Inge Dawn Maresh, in support of the legacy of the distinguished Native American artist.

Idaho Professor Awarded At White House

Dr. Aaron Thomas, Navajo, is an associate professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Idaho. His research and work with Native students earned him a recent trip to the White House in Washington, D.C. to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award is based on innovative research and community service.

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

There Is No Place On Earth I Would Rather Be

Twenty-two stones glowing in the darkness of the sweat lodge. There were 11 of us tonight, all glistening with sweat. The first round was Wesley singing Lakota songs and telling the newcomers what to expect.

American Indians Represented On Global Stage

Master artist Dan Namingha, of the Hopi-Tewa Tribe, was among five American Indian artists nominated to represent Indians in an unprecedented global cultural event.

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Traditional Native Parkas Are More Than Garments

Every culture has a story of its history, a tale of how that culture was created, thrived, survived challenges, overcame hardships. Many cultures, over time, have preserved such tales through written documentation, writing down such occurrences so future generations can understand what happened and how. For cultures that embrace oral history, different approaches are taken.

Cherokee Tribes, East And West, To Celebrate Their Connection

This April, the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma will meet in Joint Council at Red Clay, Tenn. This meeting marks the 25th anniversary of their first Joint Council after the removal of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears in 1838.

Preserving Language

Native Languages Project Wins Award

Jason Stein, a reporter with the Wisconsin State Journal, has won the Freedom Forum/American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing on Diversity with his 2008 project on the fate of five Native languages in Wisconsin.

Menominee Tribe Makes Effort To Keep Language Alive

The future of the Menominee tribal language had just awakened from naps.

Education News

Montana State University Native American Studies Setting Standard

The Montana State University Department of Native American Studies has received accreditation from the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium, the first mainstream non-indigenous controlled institution in the world to receive the designation.

Virtual Indian Stamp Collection Grows

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian are continuing to update a digital collection of stamps, “The American Indian on Stamps: Profiles in Leadership, Accomplishment and Cultural Celebration.”

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Gift To Help Build Cal State San Bernardino Observatory

Pauline Murillo remembers as a child camping with her grandmother and picking grapes from vines growing on land where Cal State San Bernardino now sits.

Tanka Bars Blend Traditional Nutrition With 21st Century Marketing Savvy

The Tanka Bar may not be a universally recognized brand name, but it’s well on its way to becoming one.