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Passamaquoddy basketmaker Jeremy Frey wins top Heard honor (03/09)
A Passamaquoddy basketmaker who entered the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market for the first time ended up walking away with the Best of Show Award. Jeremy Frey, 32, who lives in Indian Township, Maine, won the award...
Column: Documentary features Catawba potter Margaret Robbins (03/09)
"There are billions of people in the world. Only a few thousand of those people are members of the Catawba Indian tribe. Of those, just a couple of handfuls are Catawba potters. Of those handful, maybe the most recognized...
Dozens audition for Indian roles in Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery (03/09)
Dozens auditioned in Billings, Montana, for six Indian roles in a pilot based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series by author Craig Johnson. The series follows a sheriff who works on a fictional reservation in Wyoming. The sheriff's best...
A&E casts for six Indian roles for Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery (03/08)
A&E is holding casting sessions for six Indian roles for an upcoming pilot based on the Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series by author Craig Johnson. The series revolves around Longmire and friend Henry Standing Bear. A&E is looking for someone...
Book Review: Chief Leschi and 'Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek' (03/07)
"When Isaac Stevens, territorial governor of Washington, implemented plans to move the Nisquallies from their ancestral lands to reservations in 1853, Chief Leschi turned from "good Indian" to incendiary. Implacably opposed to removal to a place "where the sting...
Book Review: Siletz restoration in 'The People Are Dancing Again' (03/07)
"When the U.S. Congress began terminating American Indian tribes during the 1950s -- ending the special relationship between formerly sovereign tribes and the federal government -- many Indians thought they would be better off without the Bureau of Indian...
'The Indian and the White Guy' headed to North Dakota after all (03/04)
The Williams and Ree comedy duo, otherwise known as “the Indian and the White Guy," are going to play in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after all. The duo tried to book a show at the Alerus Center but the gig...
Dixon Palmer, Kiowa artist from Oklahoma, passes on at age 90 (03/04)
Dixon Palmer, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, died on Thursday. He was 90. Palmer was an artist, dancer and tepee maker. His tepee work was featured in the Southern Plains Indian Museum and at the Smithsonian Institution....
'The Ghosts of Celilo' returns to theater after successful first run (03/04)
The Ghosts of Celilo, a production named for Celilo Falls, the place where Pacific Northwest tribes fished for centuries, returns to the stage tonight. The musical theater debuted to sold-out crowds and favorable reviews in September 2007. It's back...
Comedy duo asked not to use 'Indian' during North Dakota show (03/03)
The Williams and Ree comedy duo, otherwise known as “the Indian and the White Guy," were recently faced with an unusual request when trying to book a show in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The team was asked not to use...
Oneida Nation leader heads to Los Angeles to promote filming (02/25)
Oneida Nation leader Ray Halbritter is headed to Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards and to promote central New York as a filming location. Halbritter said filming could provide a boost to the local economy. "Beyond the much needed...
Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux artist a 'Living Indian Treasure' (02/23)
The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman. All content © Native Sun News. PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA — Oglala Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte received the 2011 Living Indian Treasure Award on Feb. 16, joining five other recipients of...
KPCC: Native American artists showcased at music trade show (02/23)
"The NAMM show, the annual music industry trade show, recognized something old that’s new during its recent run in Anaheim: a Native American Pavilion that featured musicians from tribes across the country. Here, a flutist makes it sound like...
Film Review: Christopher Columbus revisited in Even the Rain (02/18)
"Icíar Bollaín’s bluntly political film “Even the Rain” makes pertinent, if heavy-handed, comparisons between European imperialism five centuries ago and modern globalization. In particular it portrays high-end filming on location in poor countries as an offshoot of colonial exploitation....
Obama's new budget reduces Indian programs at Smithsonian (02/15)
Indian programs at the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History will be reduced under the budget proposal released by President Barack Obama on Monday. A cultural interpreters program at the NMAI will be...
Gathering of Nations wins Grammy for Native American album (02/14)
The producers of "2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance" won the award fro best Native American music album at the 53rd annual Grammys ceremony on Sunday night. The album was recording during the 27th annual Gathering of...
Review: Frank Big Bear paintings inaugurate new Indian gallery (02/11)
"For more than a decade Frank Big Bear was the artist/poet of E. Franklin Avenue, the guy with the amazing colored pencils whose intricate drawings captured the shabby street's decay, the drink and drugs and hard times that so...
Ute woman from Colorado a percussionist on Saturday Night Live (02/09)
Valerie Dee Naranjo, a Ute woman from Colorado, is the percussionist for the Saturday Night Live band on NBC. Naranjo's heritage inspired to play drums and other instruments. "I was fortunate to grow up with the traditions I did," her...
School district won't remove Sherman Alexie's award-winning book (02/03)
A public school district in Montana won't be taking award-winning Sherman Alexie book out of the curriculum. Michele Smith, a parent, and several others objected to the use of language in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian."...
Filmmaker puts finishing touches on 'Moonhair' with all Indian cast (02/01)
Jack "Happy" Feder is putting the finishing touches on Moonhair, a film with an all Indian cast. Moonhair is fiction but is loosely based on Blackfeet legends. Harold Ernest Gray, also known Long Standing Bear Chief, helped with the story...
Review: Short stories from Eddie Chuculate in 'Cheyenne Madonna' (01/26)
"I don’t usually like collections of short stories, but Eddie Chuculate’s book Cheyenne Madonna could change my mind. He uses the short story as the narrative of Jordan Coolwater’s life. A life of artistic talent and too much alcohol. “You...
Rocky Boy's Reservation woman first in line at Snoop Dogg show (01/24)
A woman from the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana was the first in line at the Snoop Dogg concert in Great Falls on Sunday night. Jalen Small, 26, brought canned food to the show so she was allowed to...
Gallery puts century old Yup'ik Eskimo mask on market for $2.1M (01/11)
An art gallery in Ontario, Canada, has put a century-old Yup'ik Eskimo mask on the market for over $2.1 million. The 34-inch tall mask was used for ceremonial dances. It was purchased in Alaska in 1905 and has changed...
Interview: Louise Erdrich on Ojibwe family in 'The Years of My Birth' (01/03)
"Louise Erdrich, whose story "The Years of My Birth" appears this week in the magazine, discusses her work with Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of The New Yorker. “The Years of My Birth” is the story of a white...
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