Brian Daffron
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Past articles by Brian:
Choctaw Nation: Focusing on Healthy, Educated Community with Three New Facilities
The Choctaw Nation broke ground on three new facilities that will aid in the health and education of its community in Poteau, Oklahoma. → Read More
Oklahoma City Theater Company Premieres Native American New Play Festival
The Oklahoma City Theater Company is a major outlet for Indigenous playwrights to get their work onstage through the Native American New Play Festival → Read More
Beloved Pow Wow’s Master of Ceremony Hammond Motah Walks On
Known throughout the United States and Canada for his bold sense of humor and knowledge of traditional protocol Hammond Motah, 75, has walked on. → Read More
Making Pow Wow Regalia Raw Materials into Modern Traditional Art
Artist Jeffrey Gibson has turned Pow Wow Regalia raw materials into modern art at his 'Speak to Me' exhibit at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. → Read More
Tribes Will Soon Be Able to Process Native Veterans VA Eligibility
An upcoming change in the Code of Federal Regulations will give tribes the opportunity to process VA eligibility applications for its Native veterans. → Read More
Reggae On The Oregon Rez: Kenny Sequoia Lewis and Sol Seed
Sol Seed's Kenny Sequoia Lewis brings Reggae to the Rez → Read More
Indigenerds Unite! Indigenous Comic Con Coming to Albuquerque
Indigenous Comic Con Coming to Albuquerque this November! → Read More
‘Very Honored’: Lac Du Flambeau Woman First Female Army National Guard General
Joane Mathews has many firsts in her combined active duty and National Guard military career. → Read More
35 Years of Good Medicine: Iroquois Indian Museum Celebrates with Huge Art Retrospective
With 35 years of exhibitions to its credit, the Iroquois Indian Museum celebrates its history with “35 Years of Iroquois Art: A Retrospective.” → Read More
Racist Comments Flood in After UNM Drops Gathering of Nations
The “North America’s Biggest Powwow” for more than 30 years, the annual Gathering of Nations (GON), has to move. Racism erupts. → Read More
'To the Disappearance': Poetry Collection Intertwines Birth, Death and Pawnee Cosmology
Poets through millennia have tackled the subjects of life, death, the vastness of the cosmos and how insignificant human beings are compared to all of this. → Read More
Komplex Kai: A Tulalip Rapper’s Journey to ‘Do Right’
Around the time Dr.Tulalip Rapper Komplex Kai: VIDEO (and interview) ‘Do Right’ → Read More
Tribal Self-Sufficiency Behind Pokagon and South Bend Agreement
On March 22, elected officials with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and the City of South Bend reached an initial agreement. → Read More
VA Helps Seminole Vets Get Homes
Through memorandums of understanding (MOU) with specific tribes, the Department of Veterans Affairs is finding ways to get home loans to Native vets. → Read More
Soldiers Unknown: Graphic Novelist Chag Lowry on World War I’s Native Warriors
The graphic novel centers on Yurok soldiers who were part of the 91st Infantry in the first 10 days of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. → Read More
Speaking Through Canvas: J. NiCole Hatfield
As a child, Comanche and Kiowa artist J. NiCole Hatfield studied old pictures of her people. In many cases, the men would be identified, but the women would not be listed by name. “Growing up, I used to see these old photos,” Hatfield said. “I would see the photos of the women. They wouldn’t have a name. It would say, ‘This is the wife of so-and-so. This is the squaw of’ so-and-so.’ It made me… → Read More
VA and HUD ‘Fulfilling a Commitment’ to End Native Veteran Homelessness
The Departments of Housing and Urban Development and the Veterans Affairs announced nearly $6 million in HUD-VASH vouchers for 26 tribal governments. → Read More
World Mourns Indigenous Rugby Great as New Zealand’s Jonah Lomu Walks On
Many sports have internationally known, iconic players. Boxing has Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis. Soccer has Pele and David Beckham. For international rugby, the past 20 years has been indelibly stamped by Jonah Lomu. Lomu’s career was one of great highlights and accolades. He burst onto the world stage as one of the All Blacks’ youngest debut players in 1994. A year later, he was in the 1995 Rugby… → Read More
10 Things You Need to Know About the Comanche Nation
ICTMN asked Juanita Pahdopony, Dean of Academic Affairs Emeritus, to share what she knew about the Comanche that other people may not know. → Read More
10 Things You Need to Know About the Comanche Nation
ICTMN asked Juanita Pahdopony, Dean of Academic Affairs Emeritus, to share what she knew about the Comanche that other people may not know. → Read More