Mike Graham is a citizen of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation. Founded United Native America in 1993 to form a national group to take action on American Indian issues. The groups main issue is to bring about a federal national holiday for Native Americans.
Graham has been a guest speaker on national and international radio talk shows to include television programs. He has traveled across the country discussing issues with Indian nation leaders.
Articles by Mike Graham
The more Obama talks about "Change", Native Americans see "No Change Nor Commitment" for them with Obama as president.
This racist federal government law of termination against Indians and tribal nations has to stop now.
The Congressional Black Caucus members are beating their chest on capitol hill demanding that Congress and Senate members back them in denying federal health care, school and housing funds for citizens of the Cherokee Nation.
American women should be outraged over Obama's statement. No matter what race a woman is, she has every right to be concerned of any man following behind her no matter what race he is without being stereotyped as racist.
Native Americans in Oklahoma are fed up with the non-support of their two republican U.S. senators James Inholf and Tom Coburn. Senator James Inholf is running for re-election this year and Indian groups around the state are organizing a "vote Inholf out campaign" against him.
Native American veterans will join with active duty servicemen and women in addition to other veterans groups around the country to elect John McCain as our next president.
United Native America has filed a congressional ethics complaint against California congresswoman Diane Watson before the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The group is also drafting a letter of ethics violations against Watson to be sent to the California Democrat Party and Nat...
It's November and this month has been set aside for National American Indian Heritage Month. Summer is over and the tree leaves are turning bright multi colors, the farm crop's have been harvested. Now it's time to celebrate the year and look forward to the new one coming up.
During the month of...
At the beginning of the Iraqi war U.S. troops were told the way home was through Baghdad. President Bush told Americans his administration would hunt down Osama Bin Laden and destroy Al-Qaeda. President Bush repeatedly said they can run but they can't hide.
Well Mr. President, U.S. troops went ...
While the U.S. government is waging a war worldwide against terrorists, it's own past history has to be dealt with concerning it's actions against American Indians. Senator Brownback of Kansas re-introduced a resolution (S. J. RES. 4) calling for an apology from the federal government for it's long ...
America has to undo a great wrong committed against the Native Hawaiian people. The illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiian Government on January 17, 1893 by the United States Government Minister John L. Stevens and a company of uniformed U.S. Marines and two companies of U.S. Sailors has to be...
Have you watched a movie release lately starring a Native American actor as the main character? How about one cast in a supporting roll? The answer is, most likely not. For whatever reason, Hollywood seems to make it a point of not casting Native Americans in movies to include television network ...
Ask most any young school children about Columbus and they will tell you he discovered America. That is a big error in the no child left behind policy. President Bush each year in office has signed a proclamation proclaiming Columbus Day a national holiday in our nation. Schools go about teachin...
Americans are calling into question their tax dollars are paying for Columbus Day holiday when the true history of the man cannot be taught in our nations schools. State school officials are on record saying it would be harmful to teach young school children about atrocities Columbus committed agai...
A fourth grade student attending a rural Oklahoma school could not get out of bed one morning to go to school. His mother not knowing what was wrong with her son was concerned. She asked if he was sick and the child replied, “I don't want to go to school”.
The boy's mother became concerned af...
Congresswoman Watson conducted two town hall meetings that took place in Tulsa and Muskogee, Oklahoma on August 29, 2007. Watson informed everyone that she was not there to hear about any other issue than the Freedman's citizenship. Watson went on to say that the Cherokee Nation broke federal law in...
Got Indian blood?
Some U.S. Congressional Black Caucus members are claiming the Cherokee Nation and its citizens are not honoring an abandoned 1866 treaty. They are referring to article nine of a federal 1866 treaty that pertains to in part toward an African American group going by the name Free...
U.S. California Congresswoman Diane E. Watson has introduced legislation (H.R. 2824) to sever U.S. relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. The legislation calls for cutting all federal funding to the Cherokee Nation, until such time that the Cherokee Nation as she see's it, restores full ...
It seems the American Indian community has been hit with another disease brought to our home land: Racism!
Some African Americans are lining up to tell news groups that Indians are racists and bigots over an abandon 1866 treaty between the Federal Government and Oklahoma Cherokee Nation. In each...
Over two dozen members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus have taken it upon themselves to fuel racial hate toward the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation over its special election vote determining their official tribal citizenship. The issue covers a group of individuals called Freedmen and Intermarried W...
Oklahoma Cherokee Nation members have voted to exclude a group of African Americans going by the name of Freedmen and Intermarried Whites. Members of the Freedmen group claim to be descendents of runaway Black slaves, some claim Indian heritage. Some Eastern Indian Nations were forced by the federal...
Colorado citizens! Americans and people around the world are asking each of you to bring an end to Columbus Day in your state and our nation. In doing so Colorado would be joining seventeen other states that have already taken this action. Columbus Day holiday is a national sick joke!.
On Columb...
American Citizen Groups numbering in the thousands are now calling for an Economic Boycott Against Colorado State Government over Columbus Day being a State Holiday. Colorado citizens will pursue state legislation that would end the Columbus holiday being a state tax paid holiday.
Numerous group...
Although the U.S. Federal Government today does not issue bounties for Indian scalps and calling for their extermination, the Republican party is waging a national political economic war against the Native American community through their anti-Indian politics.
Republican party elected repres...
The Republican party is scraping the bottom of the whiskey barrel when they let Ann Coulter and others like her to go on television news shows discussing issues that affect our life. "Media Matters For America group" has set up a petition on their web site calling on major television networks to sto...
It's a flash back to Paul Revere's famous ride all over again, only this time the cry is about American Indians.
Politicians across the country (mostly Republicans) are rallying the troops against Indians. They are telling anyone that will listen that the Indians are back and they mean business!...
Once again corporate America shows the world it has no limits in degrading or trashing the American Indian community. Gristedes, a New York based Supermarket chain headed by John Catsimatidis, has filed a federal lawsuit against two Long Island Indian nations over their smoke shop sales. This lawsui...
Public letter to Senator McCain, House Rep. Richard Pombo
The federal government committed the world's longest holocaust against the American Indian people! The federal government signed treaties with Indian nations, and made it a point to break every one of them! The federal government enslaved I...
The Republican Party's welcome mat for Native Americans is located at the back door. When it comes to American Indian issues republicans go out of their way to keep them out of site and mind. It's happening at the federal and state government level, the only issue they want Americans to hear about...
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, meeting face to face with Indian leaders, had no answers he was willing to offer covering Indian issues.
South Dakota government senior republicans again refuse to allow a bill before them calling for the name change of Custer state park to Crazy Horse state pa...
The One Nation organization based in Oklahoma City is just another fear mongering group focused on American Indian sovereignty, however U.S. treaties made with Indian nations already cover that. One Nation boasts of a large membership, so large that one has to think that they are counting all people...
South Dakotans and people around the world are calling on the South Dakota government to rename Custer State Park to Chief Crazy Horse State Park. United Native America founder Mike Graham and wife, Sharon, will be at the state capital this January 17th & 18th meeting with state representatives abou...
The Jack Abramoff lobbying issue has put the Republican Party's head on the chopping block. This one issue has shown Americans just how much hate the Republican Party has toward the American Indian community. Jack Abramoff and Republicans set up this lobbying scam against Indians! Republican party ...
It's that time of the year: the so called "holiday season". In America we have holidays for most everything; they cover lots of events. Our federal government has even seen fit to use our tax dollars to pay for the Columbus Day holiday. Remember him? He found the Americas. But you will not see a hol...
While the spirit of Chief Crazy Horse lives on bigger than life, who would have thought that the world's largest man made monument would come about honoring the man Crazy Horse.
Today, American Indians are asking the question, "Who do you think should be honored in America with their name on our ...