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Salon.com
May 12, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Flesh and blood and DNA A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots...   |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Family Ties African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Brendan I. Koerner |
Mr. Know-It-All: How Green Are Rechargeable Batteries? Alkaline batteries are the clearly worse than rechargeable batteries when it comes to leaving a carbon footprint... Payback for a damaged laptop during an airport security check... Errors in determining ancestry from DNA... |
Scientific American
June 5, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Trace Elements Even as population geneticists battle over the meaning of race and biogeographical ancestry, a small industry has emerged out of the quest to understand human migration and identity. One new firm helps African-Americans reconnect to their ancestral past. |
Wired
November 2002
David Ewing Duncan |
DNA as Destiny DNA is the book of life. It's also the book of death. In the future we'll all be read cover to cover. Here's what it's like to take the world's first top-to-bottom gene scan. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
John Goff |
The Long Trail The government's tallying of Native American trust money may well be the most ambitious accounting project in U.S. history. It's also the most controversial. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
John Goff |
The 5 Cent Empire Native American tribes parlayed legalized gambling into a $22 billion lifeline. Now states want a piece of the action. |
Managed Care
April 2002
Michael S. Victoroff |
Medically, Race Means Nothing Because it is indistinct and unreliable, race has limited value from a biological perspective. It may have some weak physiologic validity, but primarily, race is like citizenship... |
American History
April 10, 2004
Robert V. Remini |
Andrew Jackson Versus the Cherokee Nation "Old Hickory" had been an Indian fighter, and he continued the struggle as president with the Indian Removal Act. |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Parlaying Casinos Into Empires Why Indian expansion beyond gaming is triggering a backlash on Main Street. |
CFO
February 1, 2007 |
Native American Facts and Fiction Letters to the editor: The 5 Empire... The Author Responds... Capital-market Shortcomings... |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Susan Konig |
Merrill's Long March for Native American Business Today, nearly two decades after Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, it's obvious why Wall Street's multicultural-marketing efforts include Native Americans. But Merrill Lynch can claim that it was way ahead of this trend as the first retail brokerage to cater to this market. |
Salon.com
November 20, 2001
Andrew Nelson |
Wilma Mankiller The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't ask where she got her name... |
Reason
July 2004
Steven Vincent |
Grave Injustice Federal laws about burial remains put politics before science. |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Kevin Davies |
First Base: Genes, Geography, and History The National Genographic Project will collect blood samples from populations around the globe, then use genetic data to trace population origins and migration routes. Some groups are critical. |
Real Travel Adventures
October 2009
Neely & Neely |
Cherokee Nation History and Culture Near Tulsa, OK You'll find plenty to do while exploring Native American culture |
Salon.com
December 1, 2000
Scott Malcomson |
Mixing it up The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry... |
Sports Central
March 27, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
Challenges Face Native American Prospects Baseball is arguably the sport most intertwined with its history and legacy along with its impact on society. Its past demands that it be revisited, as this article explores two notable and historically unique minor league prospects. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Simon A. Cole |
Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control? |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Robert M. Frederickson |
Crime Pays for DNAPrint Genomics DNAWITNESS 2.0 is used by law enforcement agencies to determine the likely genetic heritage of DNA samples obtained from crime scenes -- thereby narrowing the potential pool of suspects or victims. |
Smithsonian
March 2007
Joshua Hammer |
Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness |
AskMen.com
September 30, 2014
Migizi Pensoneau |
Think Washington Shouldn't Have To Change Their Name? This Might Change Your Perspective The NFL has so many controversies going on right now, it's hard to know where to start. But the league still has some issues in the mix when it comes to race and culture. |
Job Journal
August 1, 2004
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: NLRB Ruffles Indians' Feathers The National Labor Relations Board ruled that it has jurisdiction over union disputes at casinos operated by Indian tribes. The ruling reverses three decades of a "hands off" policy when it comes to tribal business. |
Wired
November 2005 |
Rants + Raves Jon Stewart: Leader of the TV World?... Yahoo! in TV... Playing poker against robots... Identity politics... etc. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Jeff Hwang |
Seminoles' Hard-Rocking Purchase Last week, the Seminole Tribe of Florida announced a $965 million purchase of Rank Group's Hard Rock International, expanding the tribe's business interests well beyond the limits of its reservations. |
Reason
June 2002
Mike Lynch |
Ethnic Engineering An elementary school in the small Sierra Nevada town of Colfax, California, entered the era of educational accountability this year when the state withheld $31,000 in special funds on the grounds that 69 American Indian students had failed to measure up academically... |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies. |
CFO
December 1, 2007 |
The War for Talent Is Being Waged on Many Fronts Letters to the editor: Lights, Camera, Audits!... Accounting is interesting, but more from a theoretical and research point of view... etc. |
