Mark has been a correspondent for Indian Country Today, director of the Native American Journalists Association and is author most recently of the memoir My Mother Is Now Earth.
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Mark Anthony Rolo
Belated Justice for Cherokee Slaves
The Cherokee were wrong to exclude their black brothers and sisters from membership. more
Sep 6, 2017 2:07 PM Op-Eds
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Ruling Won’t End Fight Against Redskins’ Name
Despite a June 19 court decision protecting the Redskins name and logo as an expression of free speech, the team's days touting a racial slur as a name may be numbered. more
Jul 13, 2017 11:27 AM Op-Eds
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The Supreme Court Ruling Won’t End the Fight against Redskins’ Name
Like Little Black Sambo, Frito the Bandito and other racial stereotypes, the days of the Redskins name and image are numbered. more
Jul 3, 2017 3:18 PM Dispatches
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The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
The history of Native Americans is clouded in illusions of transcendence, but the standoff at Standing Rock is only the latest in a never-ending dynamic that has raged since the Puritans landed. more
Jan 26, 2017 10:59 AM Magazine 1 Comments
My Tribe's Stand Against Corporate Mining
The protection of their homelands could never be for sale. more
Oct 31, 2016 1:34 PM Magazine
Fighting Back in Indian Country
Today, in 1758, the first American Indian Reservation was established. That was just the beginning of a siege against Native American sovereignty and the environment. more
Aug 29, 2016 12:54 PM Dispatches
New Economies for Native Nations
"You want to screw up your economy? Screw up your government." more
Jul 25, 2016 5:42 PM Magazine
The Founders Saw My People as ‘Savages’
A declaration of domination. more
Jul 6, 2016 12:15 PM Op-Eds 1 Comments
The Pope’s Shallow Apology
The trails blazoned with Native blood by these first Catholic missionaries became paths towards the rise of religious imperialism. more
Feb 17, 2016 3:47 PM Op-Eds 2 Comments
Keystone XL: a 'Declaration of War' in Indian Country
"We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such." Image credit: Shield the People more
Jan 29, 2015 5:39 PM Magazine
Remembering Wounded Knee occupation 40 years later
It's been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian country.In February 1973, activists in the American Indian Movement came to the Pine Ridge Indian Res... more
May 8, 2013 11:57 AM Dispatches
An Indian “prayer of thanks”
By Mark Anthony Rolo This Thanksgiving, don’t call on me, as an American Indian, to offer up a prayer of thanks. I sure wouldn’t want to offend anyone with a prayer that dredges up key events of the dark past such as the forced, deadly remo... more
Nov 21, 2011 1:13 PM Op-Eds
The immigration debate, from a Native perspective
Two years after the Indians greeted the first European immigrants to this land that was new only to them, the good life may now be taking a turn for the worse as rumors spread about a proposed plan to send the English settlers back to their... more
May 10, 2006 9:42 PM Op-Eds
Top Native official should go
The top Native American at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dave Anderson, needs to immediately resign from his post. Anderson has neglected a major part of his job, and he seems more interested in maintaining the Bush administration's agenda ... more
Jun 16, 2004 12:00 AM Op-Eds
