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Native Times is Cherokee owned and managed. Native American Times is one of the few independent Native American news outlets in the country.
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This page is a place not only for active discussion of Native American news, but also Native issues, life, culture and the occasional outburst of "NDN" humor. This page is more a personal reflection of me, Lisa Snell, the publisher of the Native American Times, than a strictly news page. I post what interests me, what makes me laugh, what makes me sad and what makes me shake my head.

01/20/2025

Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents

With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving live in prison.

10/08/2024

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and MATT O'BRIEN MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including "probably hundreds of hours" colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So when that same game studio, Firaxis, approached the tribal natio...

05/28/2024

Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted by the South Dakota Board of Regents in December.

Read the story at the CUJ online: https://cuj.ctuir.org/2024/05/pronouns-and-tribal-affiliations-are-now-forbidden-in-south-dakota-public-university-employee-emails/

📸Megan Red Shirt-Shaw speaks at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, on Jan. 17, 2023.

RYAN PAGELOW | DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY PHOTO

05/23/2024

04/21/2024

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Redbone's hit cracked the Billboard Top 5 this month in 1974. It was a first for a band with all Native and Mexican American members — but the song itself had a quietly political message, too.

01/12/2024

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Native American Times was one of the few independent Native American news outlets in the country. No longer a print publication, the Native Times lives on through this page.

This page is a place not only for active discussion of Native American news, but also Native issues, life, culture and the occasional outburst of "NDN" humor. This page is more a personal reflection of the publisher of the Native American Times, than a strictly news page.

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