Many Feathers and Much Paint Don't Make an Indian

1868, June 24. New York Daily Herald.       Mr. Corbett, (rep.) of Oregon, offered a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill to secure to the Indians the right to testify in cases of murder or manslaughter between whites and Indians. He explained that in Idaho a white man has recently been acquitted of murder because Indians were not allowed to testify.  1868, June 24. New York Daily Herald.

Fight over nickname heats up again by Matthew Burglund 1985, June 18. Indiana Gazette        Every few years - when it seems the calm has set in - the war erputs again.       Armies enlist new recruits. Plans of attack are charted. Battle lines are drawn.      All because of a nickname.       The seemingly endless battle over just what the Indiana University of Pennsylvania athletic teams should be called has begun again, fueled by charges of ignorance, greed and disrespect. And it seems it's a war that might never end.       The latest installment finds the school's student body preparing to vote on a new nickname later this month to potentially replace "Indians," which the university's teams have been called since the late 1920s, when the Indiana Evening Gazette began referring to them that way.       ... "This has to change at some point," said Laura Cramer, president of Student Congress and head of the Nickname Renaming Committee. "I

Natives led by American Indian Movement dragged off monument,  demanded treaty be honored Alysa Landry • June 6, 2017 At dawn on June 6, 1971, a group of Native Americans led by members of the American Indian Movement set up camp on top of Mount Rushmore to demand that the federal government honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which a century earlier had granted the Sioux rights to all land in South Dakota west of the Missouri River.  Click here to read the article ...