Just Announced: “A Tribe Called Red” Summer Tour Dates!

Ottawa-based Aboriginal DJ group, A Tribe Called Red, has just announced their upcoming Summer ’12 tour dates!  I am thrilled that they will be returning to New York City on May 31st for a performance at SOBs!  (I will definitely be there…let me know if you will, too!) Here are the dates the group has [...]

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National American Indian Heritage Month is almost here!

November is National American Indian Heritage Month! If you’ve never heard of American Indian Heritage Month or don’t know about the history of it, here’s some background, according to the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs: What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition [...]

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Rangel Lends Support to NY Assembly Candidate Robert J. Rodriguez

“He’s young. He’s got energy. He comes with the least amount of personal and professional and political baggage, which means he doesn’t have to give into a lot of things that some of the other candidates have to. And, I think he can be more open and listen to the people and hear their concerns.”

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Michael Steele Cancels NABJ Appearance Last Minute

SAN DIEGO, CA – I was shocked not really that surprised to see that RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, was not going to be at this afternoons’s plenary. After spending the early part of my day attending one workshop after another and spending what seemed like forever in the career fair, I really wanted to skip [...]

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Don Lemon speaks with Shirley Sherrod at the 2010 NABJ Conference

Please excuse the unsteady, raw, uncut footage. -NativeJournalist

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Native American Journalists Association thanks conference goers for a successful event

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – In an e-mail to it’s members, NAJA says thank you for helping make the 2010 Native Nations Media Conference a success: We would like to thank all of our members, presenters, mentors, students and everyone else who contributed to our successful 2010 conference. It was great to see new and familiar [...]

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UCI Holds 9th Annual PowWow May 22nd & 23rd

I hope to see you there! And, for a list of other pow wows across the country, click here. -NativeJournalist

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Native Journalist meets the US Surgeon General at Families USA Health Action 2010 Conference

I had the privilege of meeting and getting to know Reza Clifton (Blogger, New Media Producer, Radio Program Host, and DJ) who was at Health Watch 2010 representing UrbanHealthWatch.net. We were both very excited to meet US Surgeon General, VADM Regina M. Benjamin who gave a very uplifting and inspirational closing speech. Here’s a video [...]

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Final Day of Health Action 2010

WASHINGTON, DC – Today is the last day of the Families USA Health Action 2010 conference. Also today, at 10:30am is the American Indian Health Policy workshop called “Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going.” From the conference agenda: American Indians and Alaska Natives experience some of the most significant health disparities in the United [...]

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Amy Stretten, Winner of the 2010 Consumer Health Advocate of the Year Award!

WASHINGTON, DC – Families USA awarded me the Consumer Health Advocate of the Year award at the Health Action 2010 conference!…Well, me and the other hundreds of registrants who were in attendance, to encourage us all to continue to advocate for health care reform. -NativeJournalist

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