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Michelle Tirado

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“There is no one individual in any tribal community that knows all of the traditional purposes of every plant or plant part in their region.”
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National Park Service Does Face-Plant With New Rule on Gathering Plants

By Michelle Tirado
This image was taken when the state adopted the plan to make an American Indian/Alaska Native curriculum mandatory. Pictured, from left, are Matt Eide, Education Northwest (co-facilitator); April Campbell, ODE (co-facilitator); Se-ah-dom Edmo, Oregon Indian Education Association Chair (Advisory Panel member); Robin Butterfield, Independent Contract (Advisory Panel Member); Artis Clark, Jefferson County School District (Advisory Panel Member); and Rob Saxton, ODE Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Mandatory Native American Curriculum in the Cards for Oregon

By Michelle Tirado
Itai Jeffries posted this image of Serpent Mound on Facebook July 5 saying: “Under normal circumstances, I would never take or post photos of a sacred ancient burial mound. It is with a heavy heart that I post this for everyone to see… It turns out, some locals went on a joyride last night, celebrating the 4th by doing donuts on a mound that is thousands of years old. Sadly, in many ways there is nothing more traditionally American for celebrating the 4th than with colonial violence and brutality.”
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Nabbed: Fourth of July Serpent Mound Vandal Arrested

By Michelle Tirado
Ishmael Bermudez lives in his Miami home with his father and artist Burke Keogh. The home, at 87 SW 11th Street, is mostly surrounded by luxury high-rise buildings. Ishmael gestures as he explains how Native Americans used a conch shell to signal each other about the activities of the Europeans who settled in the area.
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Backyard Archaeologist’s Miami Property Valued at Nearly $2M, But He’ll Never Sell

By Michelle Tirado
“In practice today, it is always a challenge to bear in mind that many judges and lawmakers have little, if any, awareness of the legal status and the history of Indian tribes and Indian peoples and our values and cultures that remain important today.”
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A NARF-Lifer?: Heather Whiteman Runs Him Hopes So

By Michelle Tirado
Goodluck: “As long as I am working to move our tribal issues forward, then I will be happy.”
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Meet Indian Country’s Latest D.C. Insider, Presidential Management Fellow

By Michelle Tirado
A recent report out of the University of Utah has cast a spotlight on the disproportionate rates at which American Indian students are thrust into Utah’s school-to-prison pipeline.
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Report: Too Many Indian Students Shoved Into Utah’s School-to-Prison Pipeline

By Michelle Tirado
“Just being able to work here is very rewarding. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity.”
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Matt Campbell Works the Dream Job at NARF

By Michelle Tirado
Alison Grigonis named Senior Director, Cabinet Affairs
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Alison Grigonis named Senior Director, Cabinet Affairs

By Michelle Tirado
NARF Attorney Staff Hard At Work in the 1980s
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NARF Marks another Big Anniversary

By Michelle Tirado
William Buffalo Tiger, the first tribal chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, passed away on January 6, 2015.
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Buffalo Tiger, Miccosukee Tribe’s First Chairman, Walks On

By Michelle Tirado
From his office, Eastern Band Chief Michell Hicks uses a LifeSize endpoint to speak with Police Chief Ben Reed.
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Face Time: Video Conferencing App Improves Business Relations for Eastern Band of Cherokees

By Michelle Tirado
The front façade of the Red Barn in January 2012 (left) and after some renovations in March 2013 (right).
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Seminole Landmark Gets Some Well-Deserved Attention

By Michelle Tirado
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10-Year-Old Boy Held on $500,000 Bond Awaits Next Court Date at Mental Health Facility

By Michelle Tirado
Taíno: A Novel, out in paperback
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José Barreiro Bridges Two Realities and Two Worlds With Taíno: A Novel

By Michelle Tirado
A sign of the earliest times: Pre-Colombian drawings in a cave in San Cristobal prove that the Taíno have been here for centuries. (AP)
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I Am Taíno: Exploring the Indigenous Roots Throughout the Caribbean

By Michelle Tirado
Red Cloud, with his son, Silas, left, has been working with renewable energy for more than a decade, and started his own company, Lakota Solar Enterprises, in 2006. (Courtesy TWP)
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Henry Red Cloud Leads the Renewable-Energy Charge at Pine Ridge

By Michelle Tirado
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Geronimo, Updated: New Biography Sheds Light on the Hero and the Forces That Shaped Him

By Michelle Tirado
Left to right: Mark Tilsen, Danaj Edmond and Karlene Hunter promoted Native American Natural Foods' jerky and energy bars at the NASFT Fancy Food Show. Again this year, Native American Natural Foods's team will present its products at the 56th Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City, June 30-July 2, 2013. (Courtesy Native American Natural Foods)
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Karlene Hunter Turned Buffalo Jerky-Cranberry Bars Into a Successful Business, Improved Native Health and Brought Jobs and Economic Growth to Pine Ridge

By Michelle Tirado
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Seminole Tribe Employees Contribute to PAC To Prevent Expansion of Commercial Gaming in Florida

By Michelle Tirado
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Second Presidential Debate: About Mitt Romney's ‘Binders Full of Women’

By Michelle Tirado
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Kanani Kagawa Fu, Native Hawaiian Candidate for Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees, Talks With ICTMN

By Michelle Tirado
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Gets Out the Native Hawaiian Vote With 'Hawaiian Voice, Hawaiian Vote' Campaign

By Michelle Tirado
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Annual North American Gaming Almanac Offers Bits of Good News

By Michelle Tirado
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Amid Casino Slump, A Few Signs of Life

By Michelle Tirado
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A Seminole Warrior Gets His Due in Osceola and the Great Seminole War

By Michelle Tirado
Arnold blew off part of his face with a hunting rifle in an attempted suicide when he was a teen.
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Suicide Survivor Works to Eradicate Stigma of Silence Preventing Indian Youth From Getting Help

By Michelle Tirado
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In His Own Words: Book Showcases What Fuels the Activism of Hank Adams

By Michelle Tirado
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Despite Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban, Students Can Still Enroll in Native Programs

By Michelle Tirado
Dr. Everett Rhoades, the founder of the Association of American Indian Physicians
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Revolutionary Rhoades: At Age 80, the First Native IHS Director Is Still Improving the Indian Health System

By Michelle Tirado
A quantity of crystal methamphetamine totaling 6.4 grams (AP Photo)
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Oneida Indian Nation Police to Host Homeland Security-Funded Meth Investigations Workshop

By Michelle Tirado
Lori Nalley, CEO of Tiger Natural Gas
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RES Luncheon Honors Women and Supports a Cause Personal to Many

By Michelle Tirado
New Choctaw Chief, Phyliss J. Anderson
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Mother, Leader: Mississippi Choctaw Has First Female Leader

By Michelle Tirado
Saubel with her Certificate of Congressional Recognition from Congresswoman Mary Bono at the Malki Museum's 47th annual Kéwet celebration over Memorial Day weekend, 2011.
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Dr. Katherine Siva Saubel, One of the Few Fluent in Cahuilla, Walks On

By Michelle Tirado
Jake Swamp-Tekaronianeken was a Mohawk leader and founder of the Tree of Peace Society.
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Trees Planted in Honor of Late Mohawk Leader Jake Swamp

By Michelle Tirado
While many paintings of “the First Thanksgiving” show a single long table with several Pilgrims and a few Native people, there were actually twice as many Wampanoag people as colonists. It is unlikely that everyone could have been accommodated at one table. Rather, Wampanoag leaders like Massasoit and his advisors were most likely entertained in the home of Plymouth Colony’s governor, William Bradford.
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The Wampanoag Side of the First Thanksgiving Story

By Michelle Tirado
T.J. Manson (center) at her graduation from Arizona Western College with two of her Matador teammates, Amy Browne (left) and Teanna Boxley (right).
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Q&A with Rising Women’s Basketball Star T.J. Manson

By Michelle Tirado
Maya Archaeology Initiative’s logo and Toucan Sam
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Mayan Message to Kellogg: Toucan Play This Game

By Michelle Tirado
Native American astronomer Dennis Lamenti hopes to recruit more Native American students into the field of astronomy.
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The Native Astronomer

By Michelle Tirado
Body Rock Spa at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
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Seminole Hard Rock Casino’s Body Rock Spa

By Michelle Tirado
A large selection of Bigfoot footprint casts is shown at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, Sunday, June 11, 2006, in Pocatello, Idaho.
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Looking for Bigfoot in Indian Country

By Michelle Tirado
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Books: Yanking ‘Queer’ Out of the Native Closet

By Michelle Tirado
Two-Spirit Dancers prepare, from the film Two Spirits
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On Two-Spirits and Native Identity

By Michelle Tirado
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Nádleehí and Proud

By Michelle Tirado
McConnell (front row, far left) was in the Third Alamo Scout Graduating Class, 1944.
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Remembering the Alamo Scouts: Many American Indians Fought in World War II

By Michelle Tirado
Rendering of the proposed Yurok Tribe's Native veteran cemetery.
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Yurok Tribe Plans Cemetery for Native Veterans

By Michelle Tirado
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Military Prosecutors Pull Away from Analogy Likening Seminoles to al Qaeda

By Michelle Tirado
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Quechan Casino Resort opens way ahead of schedule

By Michelle Tirado
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Apache Stronghold Golf Course reopens after recession shutdown

By Michelle Tirado
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Miccosukee will keep fighting to stop Everglades bridge

By Michelle Tirado