Yellow Trout Lily

"A Warrior is challenged to assume responsibility, practice humility, and display the power of giving, and then center his or her life around a core of spirituality. I challenge today's youth to live like a warrior."
~Billy Mills~

We Salute
Yvette Roubideaux

Rosebud Sioux tribal member Yvette Roubideaux, 46, was nominated March 23 by President Barack Obama to direct the IHS. If confirmed by the Senate, she will become the first American Indian woman to ever lead the agency.

Our Featured Artist:

Honoring Students

Cherokee National Youth Choir

The Cherokee Nation has released ‘For Our Future,’ the latest CD from the award-winning Cherokee National Youth Choir. ‘For Our Future’ is the choir’s seventh album release since their formation in 2002.

Family's 1st Graduate Plans To Give Back

Candace Begody wears many hats at the University of Arizona. But one more dear to her heart is that she will be a first-generation college graduate May 2010.

Our Featured Story:

Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History:

Recalling the Burro of Indian Affairs

The Heyoka in Lakota culture is a “contrary,” a man who does everything backward, such as walking backward, or saying things that mean the opposite of what he says. He brings humor to the band or tiospaye, which is important, especially in the village during the long months of winter. He is often a holy man as well, and a person who will through humor and ridicule put down a bully, for instance, or someone trying to be bossy.

The Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon
1885-1948

Chapter 4 -
Life on the Reservation

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Bear Butte Mountain:
A beautiful, Sacred Site In South Dakota

Just outside Sturgis is the Sacred Mato Paha or Bear Butte Mountain. Bear Butte, a 4,426-foot mountain, rests on the northernmost part of the Black Hills. It has been a sacred site to the Northern Plains Indians for thousands of years.

Fort Apache Indian Reservation Fully Stocked

For longtime Arizonans, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in the White Mountains has been a hallowed fishing ground with such historic waters as Ditch Camp, Hawley and Horseshoe beckoning year after year.

Education News

Preserving Language

Hopi High Students Attend Broadcasters Conference

Four Hopi High radio students gave presentations at the 34th annual National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) Conference at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower. Approximately 350 people attended the conference.

Language Fair Has Drama In Norman

Most of the audience couldn’t understand the language, but they certainly knew what was going on Tuesday when Cushing High School students presented "Sauc Pre-K in 2011” at the seventh annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

Honoring Elders

Education News

Obama Taps Farmington High Grad For BIA Post

President Barack Obama's nomination of a Farmington High School graduate to help lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs has locals all agog.

Obama chose Larry Echohawk, pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate, to serve as assistant secretary of Indian Affairs. Echohawk would oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education.

Historian Pekka Hämäläinen Receives 2009 OAH Merle Curti Award

Pekka Hämäläinen, University of California, Santa Barbara, has been selected by the Organization of American Historians to receive the 2009 Merle Curti Award, which is given annually for the best book published in American social and/or intellectual history. The award was presented March 28 by OAH President Pete Daniel and President-Elect Elaine Tyler May during the 102nd annual meeting of the organization.

Living Traditions

Education News

Red Scaffold Family Welcomes Soldier Son

It took more than a year to get here, but for the next 18 days Army Spec. Chris Condon, 5th Engineers Battalion, 87th Engineers Company, will savor the sights and sounds of being home in South Dakota.

Tribal Members Recruited Into Medical Fields

For a young Hopi medical student, the problem was overcoming her culture's view of handling a dead body.

For a Navajo student, it was learning to believe that he could become a doctor when every other kid in his graduating class was going to a trade school.

Living Traditions

Living Traditions

Mount Rushmore Continues To Become More Native Friendly

When Gerard Baker, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, was hired as the superintendent at Mount Rushmore nearly four years ago, not much, if anything at all reflected the rich history of American Indians in the Black Hills.

What's in a name? Kiptopeke, Eastern Shore

Unlike many other regional Indian names - think Chincoteague, Wachapreague and Nassawadox - Kiptopeke isn't a moniker handed down over generations. The Indian word means "big water," and it was first used in 1949 to refer to a place on the western side of the peninsula, near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Preserving Language

AAIA Program Saving Endangered Native Languages With Translated Children's Books

Since 1920, the Association on American Indian Affairs has played a major part in creating governmental laws, acts and programs to benefit American Indian people.

Not Just Basketball. Rez Ball

“Rez ball” is what we like to call basketball. It’s a major obsession in Indian Country, and when March Madness is over, we are still gearing up for the Native American Basketball Invitational, held in Phoenix from July 8 – 10. It’s precisely why air conditioning was invented.

Living Traditions

E-Snag: American Indian Answer To Online Dating

American Indian singles looking for that special someone may now find a “snag” from the comfort of their home computers. For better or for worse, snagging has entered cyberspace.

Ten Diabetes Superfoods

The American Diabetes Association released its list of diabetes superfoods earlier this week. The list offers 10 foods that have nutrients necessary for good diabetes management, lncluding fiber, potassium, healthy fats, magnesium and antioxidants. The nutrients included in these foods can promote good health and help prevent some of diabetes serious complications, such as heart attacks and strokes.