On Feb. 11, a federal judge affirmed a $28.6 million arbitration award against the Hualapai Tribe of northern Arizona last week favoring a Las Vegas developer who built the Skywalk tourist attraction on the Hualapai reservation overlooking the Grand Canyon. U.S. District Judge David Campbell upheld the arbitration decision that awarded David Jin, the builder of the glass-bottomed Skywalk, millions of [...]

The Portland Oregonian reports today on a law suit by Japanese whalers against the whale protestor group, the Sea Shepherd Society in part: "A federal appeals court panel has branded a Northwest anti-whaling group "pirates," ordering a halt to attacks on Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters. . . . The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of [...]

Many high schools and some professional sports teams continue to use offensive and even racist mascots that demean American Indians.  I believe that the NCAA and colleges have fully addressed this issue and even the University of North Dakota State has now abandoned its "Fighting Sioux" mascot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Dakota_athletics The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on the mall in [...]

I have written and stated many times that American Indian tribes and Indigenous Peoples need to write their own histories because the mainstream academy and historians almost totally ignore the participation, involvement, and influence of Indigenous Peoples on world history and United States history. Thus, I am especially delighted to participate in the following conference being held Friday, May 3, 2013 to [...]

On January 25, 2013, the Oregon Department of Justice announced that a Coos County judge had earlier sentenced a man to five years of probation and fined him $2,000 for intentionally disturbing a Coos County archaeological site. According to the state:  "David Gieselman repeatedly excavated Native American archaeological objects from a site on the north shore of [...]