Monthly Archives: January 2010

A Canadian newspaper, The Dominion, reports on growing evidence that diabetes, especially among Indigenous people, may be linked to environmental pollutants, according to U.S. and Canadian research. One-out-of-four indigenous adults living on reserves in Canada have been diagnosed with type … Continue reading →

The Montana Historical Society is scheduling the Smithsonian Institution’s “Native Words, Native Warriors” exhibit to tour the state’s Indian reservations. The Smithsonian created the exhibit to tell the story of Indian Marines and soldiers who used their native languages as … Continue reading →

The President of the National Congress of American Indians, Chickasaw Nation Lt. Gov. Jefferson Keel, delivered the State of Indian Nations address at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Though he mentioned some of the persistent problems that continue … Continue reading →

The New York Times reports that the Tohono O’odham Tribe in southern Arizona finds itself as the only large Indian reservation on the U.S./Mexico border and is caught in the middle of the drug war. The reservation is emerging as … Continue reading →

Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, delivered the Third Annual William C. Canby Jr. lecture, “Will the White Man’s Indian Ever Die?” at the College of Law at ASU on Jan. 28. He states … Continue reading →

The Native Village of Kivalina in Alaska sued Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP and more than two dozen other defendants due to its claim that greenhouse gases from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change … Continue reading →