Banking Myths
Unbanked people spend an average of $2,412 per year on interest and fees for financial services, while banked people spend only about $100. So why not just get banked? Not all accounts are created equal.
Natives to Know: Bertha Parker
Bertha “Birdie” Cody is the first Native woman archaeologist. She discovered and excavated several sites, including the Scorpion Hill pueblo site. In 1930 she made one of the most significant discoveries of her time, 15 miles east of Las Vegas in the Gypsum Cave.
Internet Access on Native Lands
Accessing the internet can be expensive and difficult. This is more true for Natives than it is for other Americans. But that doesn't have to be the case.
Natives to Know: Notah Begay III
All of the other tour pros were playing at the Kemper Open on May 26th, 1999; but Begay, a member of the Navajo tribe, found himself in a wood-paneled room testifying before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs instead.
Women Growing as Investors
It must have been strange for Native women to hear about the very first “Women’s History Month” celebrated in March of 1987. In indigenous cultures, women’s history was not separate from the culture. It was the culture.
Natives to Know: Nicole Aunapu Mann
Nicole Aunapu Mann is the first Native American woman to go to outer space — pilot and US Naval Academy graduate. Mann joined NASA in 2013, and achieved her childhood dream of going to space less than 10 years later.
Planning for Holidays
Valentine's Day gets me every year. It’s one of those special occasions that sneaks up on you somehow. You’ve barely had time to break your New Year’s resolutions, and then there it is, the day before payday and the week after the Super Bowl.
Natives to Know: Ellie Mitchell
Every week, Ellie Mitchell teaches nearly 40 Michigan State students about Indigenous Studies on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. But last week was very different.
Native American Tax Exemptions
Will Rogers was a comedian, cowboy, and Cherokee whose common sense humor made him famous in the vaudeville era. He liked to make light of complicated issues from politics to taxes. On taxes, he had a lot to say.
Natives to Know: Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins
Every year in January, masses of people set new wellness resolutions. They promise themselves they’ll start a workout routine or diet in the new year for a variety of motivations — health, medical reasons, bikini season.