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October 22, 2007

Hip hop with a difference

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Native Beatz, Hip Hop With a Real Message Unlike many groups I come into contact with, Native Beatz is different since they are on a mission...

The Cleveland Caucasians

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Shelf Life Clothing Co.--The Cleveland Caucasians
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Only traditional is authentic?

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Native fiction doesn't exist because Indians didn't write novels
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October 21, 2007

Two countries, two myths

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Where did Mexicans come from? They have a choice of 'origin myths'--one a tale of betrayal, another a story of beauty. Here in the U...
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Church sells Navajo pumpkins

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Wantagh church sells pumpkins grown on Navajo reservation When a small Congregational church in Wantagh needed financing to improve its nurs...

Play about Cherokee hero

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Outdoors:  Fall's great for trekking historic hiking hideaways When harsh, shameful federal edicts from the administration of President ...

More on Owen's exorcism

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Owen’s Grand Exorcise Plan Troubled Owen Wilson has had a “spiritual exorcism” in the Grand Canyon to drive out the demons that led him to a...
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Dissing Dick Tracy, Disney

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Cartoonist DB Dowd discusses three old examples of Native stereotyping: Chief Yellowpony in Dick Tracy , the 1956 Disney cartoon A Cowboy ...

The history of Chief Wahoo

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Cartoonist DB Dowd gives us some of Chief Wahoo's history in his blog on visual culture.
October 20, 2007

Review of The Emperor's New School

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I wasn't completely accurate when I said there's only one Native on network TV this year. I just found some more Natives--on a Satu...
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Shakopees give big bucks to Gophers

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U of M receives $12.5 million gift from Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Leaders of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) join...

Pole promotes domestic nonviolence

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'Healing House' totem unveiled SITKA:  Twelve-foot pole is intended to raise awareness about domestic violence. An unusual new totem...

The new Jim Thorpe

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OU quarterback brings memories of Jim Thorpe [A]s an Indian playing the highest-profile position in this sport-crazed state, Bradford is lik...
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Childrearing the Yequana way

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Bringing up baby Published in 1975, The Continuum Concept was inspired by the child-rearing techniques of the Yequana, a tribe of Amazonian ...
October 19, 2007

Review of Bart to the Future

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Bart to the Future is another Simpsons episode with a significant Indian presence. Here's what it's about: "Bart to the Futu...

Yeagley admits he's a chimp

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What David Yeagley (alleged Comanche) said : “Chimpanzees were vicious, male-dominated, practically rapists, and all too willing to reap th...
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One Native on TV

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This year's search for Natives on television is over. I've watched many of the season's new shows, including: K-Ville Journeyman...
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My 10 Questions video

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This video is part of the 10 Questions project , a grassroots effort to coax politicians to answer questions from ordinary people. The tric...

Indians as living fossils

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Media seeing red on Wahoo debate More than any other ethnic group in the United States, American Indians are often associated with a past ex...
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Penguin books about Indians

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A New Look at the Native American Narrative In the spring of 1805, a one-eyed Shawnee notorious for his loud mouth and his hard drinking fel...
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