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August, 2006
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Houma tribe's recovery featured in
documentary
August 31, 2006
KATC -
Lafayette,LA,USA
... mention of how the storm impacted Indian
communities. ... She said she's been
interested in American Indians and ... to
learn more about the Cajun culture and
problems...
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Crime stats show ethnic connections
August 31, 2006
Farmington Daily Times
- Farmington,NM,USA
... by the Farmington Police Department
shows that a majority of serious crimes
committed against Native Americans are
committed by Native American suspects. ...
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Attorney General
August 31, 2006
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
The Attorney General will be providing legal
advice on a wide range of governmental
issues affecting the Yavapai-Apache Nation,
its tribal departments ...
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Indian groups join forces to boost business
August 31, 2006
Phoenix Business
Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The Washington, DC-based National Indian
Gaming Association and Mesa-based National
Center for American Indian Enterprise
Development signed an agreement ...
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State's 12,000-year-old artifact goes missing
State archaeologist Rick Jones has been displaying one of
Indiana's oldest man-made relics at public events for so long that he
never considered the possibility someone might steal it.
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Tribes want rights protected
August 29, 2006
The Desert Sun - Palm
Springs,CA,USA
... On Monday, however, tribal leaders
applauded the draft report on the ... Energy
Resources Tribes (CERT), a consortium of 57
American and Canadian Indian tribes...
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College to offer new degree
August 29, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT,
USA
... origins of land tenure and its status,
major concepts of Native "property,"
management of American Indian lands and
reacquisition of a American Indian land
base...
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Aaron Neville Remembers Pre-Katrina New Orleans
August 29, 2006
FOX News - USA
... Growing up in New Orleans Neville and his
brothers, who are part Native American, would
soak in the tambourine-led chants of Indian
bands and sing-song vibrato ...
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Celebrating women, equality and the 19th
Amendment
August 28, 2006
Tahlequah Daily Press
- Tahlequah,OK,USA
... PJ Moore, Cherokee Nation citizen and
employee, gave a slightly different Native
American perspective on the equality of
women. ...
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Madison will host Trail of Tears rally
August 28, 2006
AL.com -
Birmingham,AL,USA
... the Indian Removal Act of 1830 - the
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and
Seminole. The ride traces the forced removal
of American Indians to reservations...
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SDSU To Host
Native American Media Symposium
August 28, 2006
KELOLAND TV - Sioux
Falls,SD,USA
Olympic gold medalist and South Dakota
native Billy Mills is scheduled as the
keynote speaker for the 2006 Native American
Media Symposium at South Dakota ...
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Indian tribes ramp up spending on lobbying
August 28, 2006
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
... Jerry Bread with the University of
Oklahoma's Native American Studies program
says tribes pouring money into lobbying is
part of a social evolution. ...
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"One People, A Diversity of Culture"
August 27, 2006
Civilrights.org -
Washington,DC,USA
... This encourages Native American students
to realize their potential and provide
leadership in their community and schools,
continue their higher education, and ...
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Who owns the past?
August 27, 2006
Seattle Times - United
States
... efforts in the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee to ... repatriation law, a
righteous law that establishes ... agencies
to return certain Native American cultural
items...
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Indians also fed up with high gas prices
August 27, 2006
Niagara Gazette -
Niagara Falls,NY,USA
... “In Indian Country, where poverty and
unemployment rates tend to be higher than
other areas in the country, filling up has
become downright painful ...
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Ruling clears way for suits over tribal
housing August 27, 2006
Great Falls Tribune -
Great Falls,MT,USA
... or leased the homes through the HUD
Mutual Help and Homeownership Program, which
was designed to address housing needs of
low-income American Indian families. ...
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Preschool for American Indians to open
August 27, 2006
Bellingham Herald -
Bellingham,WA,USA
The Ferndale School District is hoping to
close the achievement gap for American
Indian students with the help of a new
preschool, funded by a $955,000 federal...
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Science and tribal beliefs
August 27, 2006
Seattle Times - United
States
... tribal beliefs, there is no monolithic
Native American view of ... "When the land
was created, the land also said, I will take
care of the Indian people from...
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Charles Towne Landing restores history
August 27, 2006
News & Observer -
Raleigh,NC,USA
No longer does a paved tram road spread
through the Gullah cemetery, an interpretive
center cover the Native American ceremonial
grounds or a geodesic dome ...
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land into trust August 25, 2006
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - The BIA takes an average of
more than a year to process a request to
take non-gaming land into trust status, and
the data in its database were ...
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Ponca Tribe to bury time capsule
August 25, 2006
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
... tribal regalia and dried food. It's not
scheduled to be opened until the year 21-36.
The Smithsonian Institution National Museum
of the American Indian is...
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South Dakota Ordered to Comply with Voting
Rights Act
August 24, 2006
ACLU (press release) -
New York,NY,USA
... this year upholding the rights of Native
American voters. ... the court ruled in
favor of Native Americans who ... plan that
did not discriminate against Indian
voters...
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Diabetes still rising among Indians
August 24, 2006
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
... reduction in diabetes risk. The
conference is sponsored by the Indian Health
Service and the Oklahoma Native American
EXPORT Center.
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A Tribal College Crumbles August 24,
2006
Inside Higher Ed -
Washington,DC,USA
DQ University, near Sacramento, has long
been one of the leaders of the American
Indian tribal college movement. One of the
first ...
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NM charter school caters to urban Indians
August 24, 2006
Casa Grande Valley
Newspapers - Casa Grande,AZ,USA
... The Native American Community Academy in
Albuquerque, which opened this month, is one
of 18 charter schools nationwide that cater
to urban Indians and other
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LCSC to receieve more than $1 million for
AISLE program August 24, 2006
Lewis-Clark State
College - Lewiston,ID,USA
... Director of the American Indian Student
Leadership in Education (AISLE) Teacher
Project, says the grant will help LCSC
support 12 Native American students who
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Redmen: Last of
the best?
August 24, 2006
Tahlequah Daily Press
- Tahlequah,OK,USA
... The NCAA approved NSU’s use of the
Redmen mascot. NSU has one of the highest
percentage of Native American students in
the nation.
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American Indian
Chamber, NMSBA sign agreement
August 24,
2006
New Mexico Business
Weekly - Albuquerque,NM,USA
The New Mexico Small Business Administration
has signed a strategic memorandum with the
American Indian Chamber of Commerce to help
strengthen and expand ...
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Search for justice widens August
21, 2006
Rapid City Journal, SD -
... In South Dakota, a young Oglala Lakota
woman, Laveeta Elk, is suing the federal
government under an 1868 treaty which says
that if “bad men” among
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Schools recruit Indian educators to teach
August
21, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT,
USA
... Belief in the possibility may be the key
to success, but it's can be a hard sell to
American Indian children raised on an
isolated reservation awash in poverty ...
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Aidan Quinn tends to HBO's "Wounded Knee"
August
21, 2006
Reuters - USA
... a Massachusetts lawmaker who introduced
legislation in 1887 that became known as the
Dawes Act, which granted land allotments to
each American Indian family. ...
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If no child
is to be left behind, Texas must do a better
job of ...August
21, 2006
Houston Chronicle -
United States
... The state doesn't count Asian, American
Indian or mulitracial schoolchildren.
Arkansas is the only other state that tracks
so few categories. ...
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Mission trip to reservation takes me out of
comfort zone
August
21, 2006
Huntsville Times -
Huntsville,AL,USA
... Growing up on the reservation is a hard
life for the children, which is why ... We
can only hope that the American Indian
culture can regain a more prominent place...
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Mayflower: A Voyage To War
August
21, 2006
Sydney Morning Herald
- Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... has been a matter of framing: most
people seeing the first Thanksgiving supper
of 1621 as a natural conclusion, a feast of
Native American-English harmony and ...
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A Proud legacy
August
21, 2006
Charlotte Observer -
Charlotte,NC,USA
By RON MORRIS. BUCK GEORGE DOES not hide his
pride. He is an American Indian and son of a
full-blooded American Indian. As he sits...
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State schools flunked by 'No Child' August
20, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT,
USA
... "Nothing about it is the same,"
McCulloch said. "The shame is that no one
has done much of any research on Native
American students' needs.". ...
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Tribes taking varying paths in war on meth August
20, 2006
The Desert Sun - Palm
Springs,CA,USA
... ''Several years ago, this wasn't Indian
country's biggest substance abuse issue,''
said Jackie Johnson, executive director of
the National Congress of American ...
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American Indian
language preserved for posterity August
20, 2006
Contra Costa Times -
CA,USA
By Christine L. Romero. PHOENIX - The boxes
had been tucked away in storage for about 20
years when the government found Curtis Cook
on the Internet. ...
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Arizona tribes stand on cusp of tourism boom August
20, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT,
USA
PHOENIX - A survey that has surprised
Arizona's tourism officials indicates that
although American Indian casinos draw a fair
share of customers, the real ...
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Whalen Responds to Howard Dean! August
20, 2006
Dakota Voice - Rapid
City,SD,USA
... Howard Dean", said Bruce Whalen.
Democrats for years have not put words to
action in Indian Country. South Dakota
became a state ...
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Garcia pushes for changes August 20, 2006
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
... Because of the work of Garcia and other
American Indian leaders, relationships with
Congress and the White House have improved
in recent years. ...
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Kennewick Man: to disturb or not to disturb?
August
19, 2006
Houston Chronicle -
United States
... But since the court's ruling, Congress
has tried twice to extend NAGPRA to cover
even ancient remains on American Indian
tribal lands.
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American Indian Writing, Seen Through a New
Lens
August 19, 2006
New York Times -
United States
LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, Minn ... here does
not look like the received image of a Native
American. ... and brown hair, many people
would not even take him for an Indian.
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Six Nations women lay claim to windmills
August
19, 2006
Hamilton Spectator -
Ontario, Canada
... A spokesman for the Department of Indian
Affairs has ... that the provincial Ministry
of Environment is looking ... of the British
Crown during The American Revolution...
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Pechanga denies disenrolled family's appeal
August
19, 2006
North County Times -
Escondido,CA,USA
... live on the reservation. It is unclear
whether they will be asked to leave. That
decision may involve the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
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Feds, tribal police unite in meth bust August 16, 2006
Arizona Republic -
Phoenix,AZ,USA
... and federal narcotics agents. Officials
targeted drug dealers preying on addicts in
Arizona's Indian country. Salt River police
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FBI names head of criminal investigation August 16, 2006
Houston Chronicle -
United States
... the FBI in 1983, Burrus has served on
the security detail for three attorneys
general, won an FBI director's award for
work in Indian country as assistant ...
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Native land should not be a biker bar
August 16, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune -
United States
... Despite treaty guarantees, Indian holy
land continues to be sold, mined ... These
places represent more than acres of real
estate for American Indians.
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ASU Law School holds free workshop for new
students
August 16, 2006
AZ Central.com -
AZ,USA
... law firm in New Mexico, headed the
Indian practice group ... Appeals and the
San Carlos Apache Tribal Court of ... in
consumer bankruptcy law by the American
Board of...
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Cherokees approve resolution to support
Delaware recognition
August 16, 2006
Bartlesville Examiner
Enterprise - Bartlesville,OK,USA
... Nation to maintain its separate tribal
status and ... In 1979, the assistant
secretary for Indian Affairs issued ... the
National Congress of American Indians
affirmed...
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88th annual Crow Fair begins today
August 16, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT,
USA
... The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of
Law Enforcement and Security coordinates the
fair's law enforcement, which involves BIA
and FBI agents, BIA and tribal....
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Tribes don't bite at oil offer
August 16, 2006
The Herald -
Everett,WA,USA
... donate 4 million gallons of home heating
oil to American Indian tribes this winter.
Officials from Citgo Petroleum Corp. were
expecting 15 tribal leaders from....
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Settlement reached in Indian burial site August 15, 2006
Seattle Post
Intelligencer - USA
... pay more than $17 million to tribal and
local officials to settle lingering disputes
over the state's disturbance of an ancient
American Indian village and ...
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Veto for taxes on Indian smokes
August 15, 2006
Albany Business Review
- Albany,NY,USA
... in negotiations that also included
Indian land claims and ... Non-Indian
vendors, especially convenience store owners
... cancer control for the American Cancer
Society...
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Indigenous in Americas just say 'no' to
papal bull
August 14, 2006
by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today
Summit: Doctrine of Discovery was 'political
fiction'
PHOENIX- Indigenous in the Americas are
demanding that the ''doctrines of
discovery,'' the papal bulls that led to the
seizure of American Indian homelands, be
rescinded.
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Motorcycle rally August 14, 2006
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
Kempthorne traveled to the Black Hills, as
he told Indian Country Today, to support the
Sturgis Fire Department and to help dedicate
a motorcycle stamp. ...
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Indians stymied in buying homes August
14, 2006
Arizona Republic -
Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Financial Services to hold a
subcommittee hearing recently on the Yavapai-Apache
Reservation to try to knock down the
barriers to Native American homeownership
...
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Indians challenge use of 'Redskins' name
August 14, 2006
USA Today - USA
... challenge to the Washington Redskins'
trademark, contending the NFL team's name is
racially offensive, speakers at the Native
American Journalists Association ...
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Tempe Union schools step up dropout
prevention
August 11, 2006
Arizona Republic -
Phoenix,AZ,USA
... The percentage of Native American
students who dropped out at Desert Vista and
Mountain Pointe high schools in 2006 was
zero, she reported.
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EPA is Proposing a Plan to Help Protect Air
Quality
August 11, 2006
NewsBlaze -
Folsom,CA,USA
... efforts to update and improve the New
Source Review (NSR) permitting program, the
plan would implement NSR requirements for
the first time in "Indian Country.". ...
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High IQ can't keep woman out of prison
August 11, 2006
Duluth News Tribune -
Duluth,MN,USA
... Duluth and an Indian women's advocate
from the Fond du Lac reservation all wrote
... said he thought she could be a success
story to the American Indian community.
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Conference addresses Indian education law
August 11, 2006
Great Falls Tribune -
Great Falls,MT,USA
... Indian? Native American? American
Indian? Any of the above, said a state
Indian Education official, but be accurate
when talking about a specific tribe.
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Bear Butte
Debate
August 10, 2006
Yankton Daily
Press, SD -
Laws protecting places of worship from
"undesirable" establishments protect
structures on city streets, not the Sioux's
sacred Bear Butte.
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Indigenous
summit at Bear Butte asks Pope for help
August 10, 2006
The Casper Star
Tribune, WY -
BEAR BUTTE, SD — Tribal leaders and
indigenous rights groups will ask the pope
to rescind a 1493 Vatican document which
they believe paved the legal road for
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`We're a vulnerable population' August
10, 2006
Chicago
Tribune, United States -
... grants. Domestic violence is epidemic in
Indian country, often linked to the high
rates of alcoholism and drug abuse.
According
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Farrakhan too extreme for some Navajos
August 10, 2006
MSNBC -
... Farrakhan doesn't know the Navajo Nation
or culture; he doesn't know beans about
us,'' Henderson told Indian Country Today.
''What was Shirley looking for?
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Heard Museum to open retail gallery
August 10, 2006
Phoenix Business
Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... say the $1 million expansion of the
museum's retail and bookstore area will
provide an innovative way to view and
purchase contemporary American Indian art by
...
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Conference addresses Indian education law
August 10, 2006
Great Falls
Tribune, MT -
... At the end of the conference, teachers
posed a handful of questions to state
representatives. What's the right term?
Indian? Native American? American Indian?
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Buffy Sainte-Marie's censored sounds
August 9, 2006
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
... But Sainte-Marie continued with her
music and efforts with children after ...
she created the Cradleboard Teaching Project
to link American Indian students with...
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Kempthorne,
American Indian leaders meet
August 8, 2006
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- USA
RAPID CITY, SD -- Tribal leaders from five of
South Dakota's American Indian reservations met
with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on
Sunday to discuss ...
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Booted members protest
August 8, 2006
Enterprise-Record -
Chico,CA,USA
... the council and state the facts about the
disenrollment and the tribal council's actions.
Carla and Mark Maslin, of American Indian
Research Opportunities (AIRO...
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Red Lake chairman faces accusations in election
dispute August 8, 2006
Minnesota Public Radio -
Saint Paul,MN,USA
The Red Lake Indian Reservation's Tribal Council
meets ... And our tribal council is obligated to
uphold the ... The Native American Press/Ojibwe
News newspaper has...
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A Call for Honoring Seneca Nation Treaties
August 8,
2006
The Empire Page -
Albany,NY,USA
... on the record declaring this action "…an
assault on [Native American] sovereignty."
(Governor ... of New York has attempted to use
sales tax on Indian land as a...
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A swift movement to dismiss claims
August 8, 2006
Connecticut Post -
Bridgeport,CT,USA
... But that has not occurred. The Paugussetts
have twice been denied federal recognition by
the Department of the Interior's Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
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3 missing after Montana lodge fire
August 8, 2006
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- USA
... The fire also destroyed the fishing shop and
another business, the ... of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
were investigating...
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Indian languages should be preserved
August
8, 2006
Bismarck Tribune - ND,
USA
... federal initiative aimed at preserving
American Indian languages marks ... single
tribe, like on a reservation, rather than
... a limited number of Indian students
get...
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Banished Indians fighting back
Aug
6, 2006
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... earlier this year founded the American
Indian Rights and ... step up enforcement of the
Indian Civil Rights ... Once vice chairman of
his tribal council, he initiated...
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Lumbee Indian Tribe Closer To Federal
Recognition
Aug
6, 2006
Raleigh Chronicle -
Raleigh,NC,USA
... According to her office, the tribe is the
largest American Indian tribe east of the
Mississippi River and the largest non-federally
recognized tribe in the ...
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Tribes say no to feds
Aug
6, 2006
Arizona Daily Star -
Tucson,AZ,USA
... big sectors.". But as tribes develop
commercial enterprises, labor policy and laws
are becoming big issues for Indian country. And
...
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For
Sacred Indian Site, New Neighbors Are Far From
Welcome (This
was on the
FRONTPAGE of
the NY Times!)
New York Times, United States - Aug 4,
2006
... of tribes hold as one of the most sacred
sites in ... Nearby Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation was the site of the ... The Sioux
call it an emergence site, where their
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Indians Confront Sturgis Bikers
Aug 4, 2006
Yankton Daily
Press, SD -
... Motorcycle Rally. The native people are
protesting entertainment venues and other sites
being developed east of town near Bear Butte.
For ...
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Indigenous summit at Bear Butte asks Pope for
help
Aug 4, 2006
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY -
BEAR BUTTE, SD — Tribal leaders and indigenous
rights groups will ask the pope to rescind a
1493 Vatican document which they believe paved
the legal road for
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Publisher’s daughter leads Indian magazine
Aug 4, 2006
Rapid City Journal - Rapid
City,SD,USA
... American Review Magazine, formerly Indian
Education Today, replaces Tim Giago, who retired
this week as editor and publisher of the
American Indian magazine. ...
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MSU-B pulls in grants for Indian education
Aug 4, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Montana State University-Billings will receive
$293,290 in federal funds to recruit and train
American Indian teachers and school
administrators, US Secretary ...
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