INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY

The basic belief in evidence-based psychology is that thoughts cause feelings in most cases.

The Pueblo of Zuni became the first tribe in the nation to join the MainStreet Project—a national economic development project focused on cultural and historical preservation. The tribe signed a proclamation of their participation at 2 p.m. at the Zuni Visitor and Arts Center, reported the Cibola Beacon.

New York Yankees relief pitcher, Joba Chamberlain, Winnebago, is going to see action in a minor league game for the first time since he injured an ankle during spring training playing on a trampoline with his 5-year old son, Karter.

As a kid, to me the Fourth of July was all about one thing: fireworks. I grew up in the country in the Dakotas, where lighting off fireworks was pretty much a rite of passage for reservation kids. Roman candles, firecrackers, smoke bombs, artillery shells, and oft dreaded bottle rockets are still sold from make shift stands and big top tents on rural roadsides all across the prairie. Sure, in school we read about George Washington, Paul Revere and the Revolutionary War, but as Natives, we felt pretty disconnected from mainstream American history.

ANTHONY “THOSH” COLLINS is a photographer from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Thosh works as a freelance photographer in the greater LA area and works extensively with the Native communities locally & internationally. Thosh started doing photography at the age of 15 at The New School for the Arts High School of Scottsdale, Arizona, and later attended the San Francisco Art Institute on a full-ride scholarship.

Native peoples are no stranger to forced relocation. It is a bitter chapter in the history of North American tribal peoples.

By this time in the 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama was an adopted member of the Crow Nation of Montana, smiling and hugging his new parents, Sonny and Mary Black Eagle. Jodi Gillette, of the Standing Rock Sioux, Wizipan Garriott, of the Rosebud Sioux, and other Natives were out canvassing for him all around Indian country. A real Native network had taken shape, and many, including Gillette and Garriott, were later rewarded with jobs in the administration. Obama’s rival, John McCain, former chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, had reached out to tribal leaders, asking them not to blindly vote for the Democrat. When McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, his camp eagerly reminded Indian voters that her husband, Todd, and her children were of Alaska Native descent.

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Dogs react to a person who is crying whether it is their owner or an unfamiliar person, University of London Department of Psychology researchers found, reported Live Science.

“ One does not sell the land people walk on. ”  — Crazy Horse

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