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The Freedom Forum is accepting applications for this summer’s American Indian Journalism Institute, an intense, two-week journalism boot camp that has launched careers in the media.

Rosebud Sioux hoop dancer Dallas Chief Eagle teaches cultural appreciation—along with some hoop dancing moves—to refugee children in a South Dakota summer day camp.

'Sovereignty is a lot more mundane' than many non-Indians think, says Osage lawyer Elizabeth Homer. All it means is the power for tribes to govern themselves and to provide something that states don't do: basic services for tribal members.

Here's what it's like to be an Alaska commercial set-net fisherman: Be prepared to get dirty. You'll be soaked with fish slime and water. Scales will land on your face and chunks in your hair. Your drenched clothes will grow heavy. You could drown.

Tribal members 'can't drive 100 miles to shop at a big store,' says one gas station manager, and they're beginning to ask themselves, 'Am I going to eat or put gas in my car?'

Many tribes are reassessing driving practices, reallocating funding, or making cutbacks on transportation services for tribal members.

The Democratic candidate's youth does not bother older Flandreau Santee tribal members, who have traditionally picked elders to lead them.

'What you will learn in the next three weeks will change your life for the better,' 21 Native journalism students are told on opening night of American Indian Journalism Institute.

A Native American reporter has some tips for the aspiring journalist: 1) Find your voice, 2) write concisely, 3) bug people.

Suddenly the world depended on a little tribal paper for news about a plane crash.