After a five-day journey through four states, youth runners from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana completed a 400-mile journey Jan. 15 in commemoration of their relatives who escaped from a military fort in Nebraska in January 1879.

Earlier this month, 97 runners from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, mostly grade school and high school students, participated in the Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run.

Members of the American Indian Student Association at UCLA spent their Thanksgiving Day traveling to San Francisco to participate in the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving at the Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island. They were following in the footsteps of UCLA Indian students 40 years ago who made the infamous trek from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

America's premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL, recently announced the recording and creation of a new album of contemporary classical works by 11 American Indian students (ages 13-19) of the Chickasaw Nation. Slated for a Summer 2010 release on the Thunderbird Records label, the album is the first in history to release works of American Indian student composers (students of composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, a citizen of and official composer-in-residence of the Chickasaw Nation).

Rosetta Stone Inc. today announced the release of the Chitimacha language version of Rosetta Stone® software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. The last fluent Chitimach speaker died in 1940 but the tribe is trying to revive its language.

Rosetta Stone helps people learn a language by linking the meaning and structure of a new language directly to real world objects and events without translation.

There may be nothing more important to a culture's identity than its language.

According to National Geographic explorer Wade Davis, at the time today's typical adult was born there were 6,000 languages spoken on earth. Today, "fully half" are no longer being taught to school children.

A new series of books on traditional Tlingit carving offers an innovative approach to learning the art, by providing a detailed description of the techniques in printed form.

In 1951, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center saved a totem pole from being turned into pulp at a Los Angeles lumber yard.

"Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" also reflects on the history of a vibrant culture of many Native American societies.

Every school child may know about the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the newly purchased territory for President Thomas Jefferson at the beginning of the 19th century.

For the past month, Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera's family has been busy preparing for feasts. Wednesday's Three Kings Day culminated the celebrations after the Dec. 12 festivity of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the pueblo's patron saint.

Gutsy young snowboarder Callan Chythlook-Sifsof of Girdwood made history on Monday when she capped a remarkable comeback season by becoming what is believed to be the first Native Alaskan to earn a berth on an Olympic team

Since she was old enough to pick up a paintbrush, Winnipegger Jackie Traverse knew she would be an artist. Her destiny was confirmed Monday when she received national honours for art that will be displayed at the Vancouver Olympics.

What is most striking about Tom Jones's photographs are the relaxed and very heart-warming pictures of the Ho Chunk people. In a recent interview, Tom Jones said that he was selective about what pictures he took. He wanted to show the lightness and sense of humor that is an integral part of his community, his tribe, the Ho Chunk Nation.

Inside a nondescript garage in the shadow of the Government House mansion, Steven Point is carving out a small piece of B.C. history.

The province's 28th lieutenant-governor has almost finished transforming an ancient hunk of red cedar into a four-metre-long handmade inland river canoe.

He's hoping to launch it in a local stream later this month and then donate it back to the people of B.C., as a rare example of an often-overlooked type of First Nations canoe.

"Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch" does not attempt to prove or disprove the existence of sasquatch, but instead looks at how and why the story is so ingrained in the cultural fabric of the Northwest.

The story of sasquatch certainly goes far beyond the 1987 movie "Harry and the Hendersons" or recent beef jerky TV commercials. It has been told for centuries among Northwest Indian tribes.

An Australian Aboriginal dreaming story has helped experts uncover a meteorite impact crater in the outback of the Northern Territory.

Duane Hamacher, an astrophysicist studying Aboriginal astronomy at Sydney's Macquarie University, used Google Maps to search for the signs of impact craters in areas related to Aboriginal stories of stars or stones hitting the ground.

Last weekend, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian hosted a reading and autograph session for the fall 2009 edition of Appalachian Heritage magazine. The magazine is published by Berea College and edited by George Brosi.

But it also represents an 1800s treaty that was broken and led to the largest and most costly Indian war in the United States