WASHINGTON — Summer is fast approaching, and with it comes millions of vacationers from at home and abroad. Travel experts cite growing interest in Native American tourism, “authentic” cultural exchanges with tribes beyond gambling at tribal casinos. Native tourism can be beneficial to tribes, boosting economies, creating jobs and allowing Native communities to control their own […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON D.C.— U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Congressman Don Young (R-AK) Tuesday introduced bicameral legislation, the Native American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Act. This legislation creates a domestic pilot project, based on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which promotes sustainable economic growth and creates efforts to reduce poverty in remote Native American and Native […]
While walking the streets of Washington, D.C., last month, a pleasant sound stopped me. A male robin was singing, high in a sidewalk sycamore. It was December, months away from when that bird would use the same voice to declare his breeding territory. I wondered why he practiced now, as I stood amid the urban […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON, D.C. | The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is applauding a decision by Little League® International (the governing body of all global Little League-affiliated leagues and teams) to institute a new official policy in its 2019 Rulebook prohibiting the use of “racially insensitive, derogatory or discriminatory” team names and mascots, which NCAI […]