American Bullfrog

In a remote corner of the Wasauksing First Nation community, Waubgeshig Rice developed a passion for story telling at an early age.

”I’ve always enjoyed writing short stories and part of it was due to my upbringing on Wasauksing and a lot of the traditional stories I heard from my grandmother and my aunts and my uncles,” he says.

It was a hot summer day on July 11, 2008. I was in Sheridan, Wyo., for the WYO Rodeo and Indian Relay. I was just going to watch, but I ended up riding in the Indian Relay for a team from Wyola. We got ready and went onto the track. All the teams lined up to start the race. I had the butterflies. There were five teams in the race. The starter said, “Go!”

The Santee Language Academy's staff and students received a $5,000 education grant today from the Barona Band of Mission Indians. In attendance was Assemblyman Marty Block to join The Language Academy Principal Veronika Lopez-Mendez in accepting the grant presented by Edwin "Thorpe" Romero, chairman of the Barona Band of Mission Indians.

Not often is dancing part of processing food, but the traditional method of removing wild rice from its hulls involves a fun little twist.

Participants at a demonstration of a wild-rice camp Saturday strapped on moccasins to “dance” on the rice, much like Native Americans in the Great Lakes region have done for centuries.

It was only one part of a process that provided a staple of nutrition to tribes such as the Odawa and Potawatomi, while creating a bonding and connecting experience.

Educating Navajo youth about the dangers of substance abuse, domestic violence, bullying and other social issues is at the heart of Project Peace Train.

Project Peace Train, a group of Native American entertainers dedicated to spreading the message about making the right choices in life, is a side project of Walking the Healing Path. Healing Path is the organization founded by father-son team Ernest Tsosie Jr. and John Tsosie, best known for their annual long-distance walk to end domestic violence.

Arizona State Museum presents "Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living," a family-friendly exhibit inspired by a children's book series of the same name to draw attention to the staggering statistics on obesity and the associated health complications.

The exhibit, which will run Oct. 15 through Jan. 7, raises awareness about type 2 diabetes prevention from a Native American perspective. History, culture and health are explored through objects, photographs, artwork, storytelling and video.

Four colors are deeply sacred to the Utes – black, yellow, white and red.

The colors are commonly found in the "stylized symbolism" that Ute Mountain Ute artist Norman Lancing incorporates into his paintings and etched vases that seek to turn historic wounds into today's inspirations.

"Ich nuu'apag'apü uruskwa'èi."

Translated on the pages of a digital dictionary downloaded to the computer desktops of government workers for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the sentence means, "The Ute language is disappearing."

Stepping into the Family Foods supermarket in Plummer, 34 miles south of Coeur d'Alene, is not unlike stepping into a supermarket anywhere in rural America. A case full of day-glow donuts and thickly frosted cakes grab the eye the instant a shopper walks through its door. The deli counter is stacked in crisp brown mountains of deep-fried everything--and apart from a long wall of pricey produce and a rather impressive meat counter--space is given over to a typical assortment of packaged and processed fare.

After writing novels for six years, Cherokee citizen Daniel Wilson will be able to see his New York Times best-seller "Robopocalypse" on the big screen as a Steven Spielberg-directed DreamWorks movie.

"Robopocalypse" is a science fiction novel that takes place in the near future after a robot uprising where several characters from across the world tell their stories and eventually meet and come together in an attempt to fight back.

The country's first Native American television network went on the air this week, fulfilling a dream the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and San Bernardino-based KVCR television have been working toward for years.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest Indigenous media arts festival, celebrates its 12th year October 19-23, 2011 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (TBLB, 350 King St. W) and various other venues in downtown Toronto. imagineNATIVE celebrates new works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media.

The book focuses on a young Navajo girl Shundeen who goes to school off the reservation and ultimately feels like an outsider. She must find a way to retain her culture while trying to find a way to fit in. The book is written in both Navajo and English.

Ask the six siblings of Arizona's Redhouse Family if they are the Native American equivalent of Michael Jackson's Jackson Five family and Tony Redhouse acknowledges, with a smile: "We have some of the same dynamics in that our families were both raised around music and we all began performing at a very early age." Early, as in 5 when Tony was handed a drum and propelled onto the stage—7 when brother Vince took up woodwinds—9 when brother Larry added piano stylings.

The grandstands at Sheridan's WYO rodeo fill early, long before regular rodeo events begin, welcoming a crowd that's gathered to watch one of the wildest, most colorful events in all of equine sports. A long-standing favorite at powwows and Indian rodeos, the sport of Indian relay racing is a crowd-pleasing spectacle that involves expert horsemanship, teamwork, pageantry, and the potential for disaster at every turn. The excitement in the stands is contagious as race time nears, and even newcomers to the sport quickly find themselves caught up in the moment.