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On Facebook I shared a posting about the Washington Redskins and the US military. Although no longer available, it said something like: W...

Here's a piece I co-wrote to reiterate a point I've made before about Indian mascots. Hey, Redskins Fans, Let's Honor the Real...

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII He is the only original World War II Navajo code t...

Caution! 'American Sniper' Is a Dangerous Movie By Mateo Romero This is a tense war movie that looks great. But just underneath th...

Speaking of Natives and nuclear bombs , here's another item on the subject: Operation Redwing Operation Redwing was a United States se...

A writer lays out the problem with using Native names for killer missiles and aircraft: The U.S. military’s ongoing slur of Native America...

AF Heritage: Gen. Tinker still honored by native Indian tribe By Randy Roughton During the early days of World War II, an Army Air Corps m...

Custer’s Army Don’t Need No More Scouts By Matt Remle Recently, ripples were recently sent throughout Turtle Island, when Colby Tootoosis ...

Pala Documentary About Tribe's History of Military Service in U.S. Nominated for Emmy Award The Pala Band of Mission Indians is proud to...

Native American Women Warriors Receive Mainstream National Coverage on CBS By Vincent Schilling The Native American Women Warriors, an all...

Mitchelene BigMan: Native American woman warrior By Samara Freemark Watch carefully during President Obama’s second inaugural parade this ...

General Excellence: First Female Native American General Officer Honored in Her Home State By Wilhelm Murg Retired Major General Rita Arag...

Elections 2012: A Bunch of Malarkey, the Debate Joe Biden Wanted By Mark Trahant As the conservative blogger Erick Erickson noted on Red S...

Marine Corps Major Flies Helicopters That Transport President Obama By Gale Courey Toensing His military biography says he was born in Bad K...

I finally saw the Code Name: Geronimo graphic novel in my local shop last week. I skimmed through it to see how it handled the huge "...

Choctaw company shows military commitment By M.A. Smith Located at the far end of McAlester with no signs or logos identifying its occupants...

Legal Scholar Matthew Fletcher on Government Slurs of Indians and U.S. Law By Gale Courey Toensing Coming on the heels of the Geronimo/bin L...

I think I mentioned Johnny Cloud, Navajo Ace, before. Here's a brief summary of this DC comic-book character: Johnny Cloud Johnny Cloud...

Warriors' shield Diné‚ artist's design becoming a symbol for Native American veterans By Cindy Yurth Symbols are powerful things. Th...

An excellent essay from an occasional correspondent: Indians still inspiring fear for White America By Melvin Martin Indian sports mascots ...