In Wisconsin, new iron-ore mining legislation threatens the Penokee Mountains, upstream from the Bad River reservation. Some say that Gov. Scott Walker and other mining proponents are about to encounter a force of nature: Objibwe women bent on preserving family and community.

Double Edge Theater's staging of The Odyssey in Western Massachusetts inspires rural leaders to dream big and, in the spirit of Native peoples, bring art's magic back home.

Wisconsin's legislature is considering rules that would make new mining operations swfiter to begin and less subject to oversight. But the state's Native American tribes, with experience behind them, are prepared to defend their land and water.

The best Christmases are the ones in our memory. An Sicangu Lakota blogger recently asked her Facebook friends about the holiday — and these are the memories that came in return.