Cobell balks at feds' offer March 30, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
We need to move beyond a century of well-meaning paternalism to recognize an Indian Country capable of managing its own affairs."

Morongo tribe to host debate for Dem hopefuls March 30, 2007
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
"We couldn't be more proud to make history for Indian Country by hosting this extraordinary event." Joely De La Torre, an associate professor of public

Housing needs are still dire, but hope is growing March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Their situation isn't unusual on the tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation, where hundreds of families dwell in overcrowded circumstances, Steele related. ...

Education must prepare Indian students for leadership, citizenship March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Over the past several decades, American Indian and First Nation communities have increasingly gained control over the education of their children.

Budget restorations leave work to be done March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
HIP helps impoverished tribal members keep their houses habitable; the administration considers it duplicative funding, a notion disputed by Oglala Sioux

Navajo Nation officials push for larger BIA budget March 30, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
Navajo Nation speaker Lawrence Morgan called on the federal government to increase funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' 2009 budget last week.

Poway breaks ground on Kumeyaay education center March 30, 2007
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
San Pasqual Nation member Dorothy Tavui, who has spent hundreds of hours sharing her knowledge of American Indian history with schoolchildren who visit the

Indian plaintiffs voice objections to Interior trust settlement March 29, 2007
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne defended the proposal at the hearing, saying money spent on the lawsuit could be better used elsewhere in Indian Country. ...

Tribe asserts its senior water rights, negotiations continue March 29, 2007
Glacier Reporter - USA
... of observers who came to witness the Tribe's water rights negotiating team meet with teams from the State of Montana and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ...

Lawmakers protest Cherokee ouster of freedmen March 28, 2007
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise - Bartlesville,OK,USA
Earlier, the lawmakers vowed to work with black leaders of Congress and bring pressure on the Bureau of Indian Affairs to try to restore the rights of ...

Congressional Black Caucus statements inflame racial hate toward ...March 28, 2007
WEBCommentary - USA
It seems the American Indian community has been hit with another disease brought to our home land -Racism! Blacks are lining up to tell news groups that

Group questions Department of Interior's role in Nation decision March 28, 2007
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said the federal government approves the compacts and applications for Indian gaming.

Feds dispute dismissal of eagle case March 28, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... notice of an eagle permit the Fish and Wildlife Service issued last October to the Jemez Eagle Watching Society, an American Indian group in New Mexico.

Statewide smoking ban approved by Minnesota Senate March 28, 2007
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
Smoking wouldn't be illegal in scientific studies, American Indian ceremonies or tobacco shops. Another foe argued that eliminating public places where

Challenges Face Native American Prospects March 28, 2007
Sports Central - Vienna,VA,USA
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender is the sole Native American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, although Jim Thorpe was perhaps the best-known Native

Preview of 'Living on a Dime' documentary to be shown March 28, 2007
Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands,CA,USA
The second segment, "Ancient Footprints of the Colorado River" is set at the Blythe Giant Intaglios, part of a network of sacred sites along the lower

Search continues at airport for native artifacts March 28, 2007
Shoreline Times - Guilford,CT,USA
Friends of Hammonasset member Dr. Don Rankin, who has studied the Native American culture of the area for over 20 years, said the Griswold Airport site has

Group to protest against project March 28, 2007
San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
"We're very interested in preserving sacred sites," said Julie Hernandez of Concord, a member of Indian People Organizing for Change.

Educators Push For Native American Inclusion March 27, 2007
WLUC-TV - Negaunee,MI,USA
One of the main topics on the table was Native American inclusion, a movement to get native culture incorporated into schools curriculums.

IHS Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention sounds the alert ...March 27, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
For more information about the American Diabetes Association's ''Awakening the Spirit Program'' in Native American communities, visit the web site at

Leaders express concern over BIA budget reductions March 27, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
"Bureau of Indian Affairs funding has not increased the same rate as National Park Service and Forestry," said Morgan. "The BIA budgets for the past few

Protest to Protect Sacred Site Medicine Lake-SF April 6. Invite ...March 26, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Invite & Challenge to Bay Area Environmental & Social Justice Organizers to Support Native-Led Efforts to Protect Sacred Sites: Medicine Lake Highlands in

Peltier prison monologue rallying cry for supporters March 26, 2007
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Two years earlier, the Oglala Sioux had briefly reclaimed Wounded Knee after an armed standoff. The next three years were marked by police brutality,

SNC to offer six Native American scholarships March 26, 2007
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
Sierra Nevada College has established six full-tuition scholarships to be awarded to qualified Native American high school students, beginning in the 2007

Owner of illegal dump fined $46.9 million March 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"There are several illegal dumps operating on the reservation, and this judgment gives the EPA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs another way to convince

Author says code talkers a `great irony' of American history March 26, 2007
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Caught in a nonfictional crossfire of words, during a time when thousands of Native American children were stripped of their language and forced to speak

A mother, a daughter, a warrior March 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Piestewa, 23, a Hopi from Tuba City, was the first American woman to die in the war in Iraq and probably the first Native American woman to die in combat

Despite past injustices, tribe regrouping March 26, 2007
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Their plight began to change a few years later when the US Bureau of Indian Affairs funded a study of the Indians in Mississippi. In 1945, the US Department

Protesters demand new Pine Ridge election March 26, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
PINE RIDGE, SD - Claims that the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general and primary elections last fall were tainted with corruption, illegally held and in violation

The 9th US Circuit protects the sanctity of a Native American ...March 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
After a disappointing ruling on the upgrade proposal for Arizona Snowbowl, overturning a previous US District Court decision allowing snowmaking and other

Senate Finance Committee Hears Testimony on Indian Health Care ....March 26, 2007
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
The American Indian health care system "desperately needs more funding," advocates and lawmakers said Thursday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing

Utes, legislators oppose health-care cuts March 26, 2007
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
The Senate's resolution urges the US Congress to support the Urban Indian Health Program and Bureau of Indian Affairs police programs.

Former Interior deputy guilty in Abramoff case March 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The department oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs, w

Indian AIDS awareness focus of day March 21, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... have been aware of AIDS and HIV for the past 25 years, health leaders and community advocates only recently began addressing it in Indian Country.

Public schools in South Dakota to include American Indian education March 19, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
PIERRE, SD - Students in South Dakota will hear different approaches to the state's history in the next school year: they will be exposed to American Indian

Protesters to gather in Pine Ridge March 19, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Demonstrators will gather in Pine Ridge Village on Tuesday to protest last fall�s tribal elections on Pine Ridge Reservation, an organizer said

Natives struggle with sacred site catch-22 March 19, 2007
Cowichan Valley News Leader - Duncan,British Columbia,Canada
... at the University of Victoria, believes if the ritual isn�t spoken about at some level, the Coast Salish are in danger of losing the sacred sites

Rolo: Indians, not government, decide tribal citizenship March 19, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Anyone who understands the cornerstone of federal-Indian policy should know that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has a notorious history of bullying tribal

Revived organization works toward creating Oklahoma tribal solidarity  March 19, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Representatives from the Native American Rights Fund and the US Census Bureau, and NCAI President Joe Garcia, are scheduled to attend.

Bison may graze on prairie at Badger Plant March 19, 2007
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... for more finds is high, considering the land is near Devil's Lake State Park, home to several sacred sites and mounds both in and outside of the park.

Cherokee Nation Vote: No Such Thing As A Black Or White Indian March 19, 2007
WEBCommentary - USA
There is no such thing as a Black American Indian or White American Indian! You're American Indian or you're not! If you're Black or White and have Indian

$10 Million Sovereign Nations Scholarship Fund Endowment Campaign ...March 17, 2007
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
It is in this spirit that the American Indian College Fund (the Fund) created the Sovereign Nations Scholarship Fund Endowment (SNSFE).

Hugo Chavez Steps Up for Native Americans and the Poor March 17, 2007
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Native American journalist Jodi Lee Rave of Lee Enterprise Newspapers was recently lambasted in a letter to the editor to our local daily for having the

Native American Bank gets OCC approval March 17, 2007
Denver Business Journal - Denver,CO,USA
Native American Bank has obtained approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a deal that will result in the Montana-based bank

Honor Code Talkers by including all tribes March 17, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
While it is widely known that the US Marine Corps enlisted members from the Navajo Nation to serve as radio operators in 1942, other Native American tribes

Rondon pushing ahead Navajo woman says mayor's race was just the ...March 16, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
GALLUP � For Gallup voters hoping to make history this year by placing the first American Indian in the mayor's seat, March 6 ended in disappointment.

Court upholds traditional native beliefs in ski decision March 16, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
"Essentially, Native Americans have had no recourse challenging government land use decisions, which oftentimes impact sacred sites and culturally

Open government bills in 2006 March 16, 2007
Visalia Times-Delta - Visalia,CA,USA
Native American sites: Would exempt from public disclosure information about Native American sacred sites held by state agencies. SB922. Signed into law

Wickham: The floating heads of Mount Rushmore March 16, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
The center of the world for the Oglala Sioux is the Black Hills. The conceptual ''sacred center'' once crossed all cultures, depicted as a terrestrial

Utes seek help with crime fighting efforts on reservation March 15, 2007
Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USA
The US Bureau of Indian Affairs' law enforcement in Towaoc faces tough challenges. It's underfunded, understaffed and the reservation - along with that of

Tribe Receives Heating Assistance March 15, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have received financial assistance for their home heating bills. A tribal official says the money came through a

Sad to say, racism exists in Cherokee nation March 15, 2007
High Springs Heralds - High Springs,FL,USA
The Cherokees were the largest of Native American nations in the Southeast. Before the many broken promises and treaties by the US government that took

Tax refund anticipation loans prevalent on Indian reservations March 15, 2007
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
That's a lot of money in Indian Country, where unemployment is high and consumer goods are expensive, said Barbara Stiffarm, development director for

Indian Education Committee plans election today March 15, 2007
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
... 3 through 12th grade and are one-quarter Indian and recognized by the secretary of the Interior as being eligible for Bureau of Indian Affairs services.

9th Circuit Courts Rule: No Sewage on Sacred Land March 15, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Native American rights groups say the courts ruling is a first for recognizing Native American Religious Freedoms over government action

Letter: Tribal councils shouldn't neglect the old ways March 15, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
What will happen to Indian country when all our elders pass on to the spirit world? Take a look around your reservations and ask yourself that very question

Actor feels honor taking Peltier role March 15, 2007
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Foote will play Leonard Peltier, an American Indian imprisoned for 30 years and considered by many to be a political prisoner, in Theatre 13's world

Stage adaptation of Leonard Peltier novel premieres March 14, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
... of the staged adaptation of ''Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance,'' written by imprisoned human rights activist Leonard Peltier with Harvey Arden.

Fatherhood forum set for American Indian men March 14, 2007
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
The First Nations Outreach Center will be conducting a twelve-session program that aims to help Native American men become better fathers.

Free Mich. American Indian tuition should continue, official says March 14, 2007
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
As more American Indian students enroll and tuition costs have risen, the state's contribution to the universities has been far less than the cost of the

Black congressional leaders question legality of Cherokee vote March 13, 2007
WLOS - Asheville,NC,USA
More than two dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed a letter to the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs

Pueblos agree to dismiss claims against ski area expansion March 13, 2007
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
The lawsuit contended the mile-long Millennium Chairlift would intrude on sacred sites and practices. The lift went into operation this winter, however.

Steal Their Land, Steal Their Money March 13, 2007
TomPaine.com - Washington,DC,USA
... the United States has been responsible for the oversight and management of most of the tribal and Indian land and assets in Indian country

Freedmen vote may haunt Cherokees in the future March 12, 2007
Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee,OK,USA
OKLAHOMA CITY – For years, those of us in Oklahoma government have stood with Native American tribes to protect their sovereignty under treaties with the

Billy Walkabout, decorated American Indian veteran, dies at 57 March 12, 2007
USA Today - USA
He was believed to be the most decorated Native American soldier of the Vietnam War, according to US Department of Defense reports.

Indigenous Peoples Day 2007 March 12, 2007
UN Observer -
Subjects of priority discussed were the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Self-determination and Decolonization, Sacred Sites,

Pomos say EPA disturbed history March 12, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
In 1970, the US Bureau of Indian Affairs used mine spoils for road foundations and housing pads on the adjacent reservation.

Rape often unreported among Native American community March 12, 2007
Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck,ND,USA
Norma Rendon has seen too many women blame themselves for being raped. But women need to learn to report the crime to police, she said, and understand the

Native American 'Shadow Wolves' hunt for terrorists March 12, 2007
USA Today - USA
The Shadow Wolves are an all-Native American law enforcement tracking unit, now assigned to the Department of Homeland Security, who for years have searched

Appeals court: No fake snow at Arizona Snowbowl March 12, 2007
Lompoc Record - Lompoc,CA,USA
"Hopefully, this stands because it creates a tremendous precedent for tribes to protect their sacred sites," he said. Snowbowl could ask for a rehearing by

Jamul tribe to demolish homes of evicted residents despite promise March 12, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
They claim the Bureau of Indian Affairs recognized the wrong people as being tribal leaders and members. Rosales says he is the duly elected tribal chairman

Guatemalan Mayas to Exorcise Bush March 12, 2007
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... indigenous people attended a vigil and a Mayan ceremony in Tecpan city to protest the visit by US President George W. Bush to sacred sites on Monday.

American Indian Tribal Clinics in Urban Areas Told To Deny ...March 9, 2007
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
The clinics are funded under the American Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976, which requires clinics to serve members of tribes that are recognized

Cherokee Nation Votes to Oust Freedmen From Tribal Rolls March 9, 2007
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
In conducting its own referenda and initiatives, Indian country could benefit from studying this experience at the state level.”

Ex-counsel for Oneidas to head Bureau of Indian Affairs March 9, 2007
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
By Brian Tumulty. WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's new assistant Interior secretary for Indian Affairs credits his past service as legal counsel to

Tucson Indian Center may lose federal funding March 9, 2007
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
It has no connection to the funding of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bush is proposing some increases in 2008 in the HHS budget for certain health

Tribes differ on opinion over embattled game warden March 9, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Officers for the Cheyenne River, Lower Brule and Oglala Sioux tribes continue to work with Prieksat. And directors of the wildlife department for the Lower

Bones found near Indian Beach March 9, 2007
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
SARASOTA -- The remains of what appears to be an American Indian have at least one local archeologist both excited and dismayed.

American Indian center struggles March 8, 2007
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
Alameda County community members are scrambling to raise $30000 to save the oldest American Indian community center in the country before it is handed over

Indian inmates' religious rights supported March 8, 2007
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Of the 2080 incarcerated, Lord said after the hearing, 47 identified themselves as American Indian. Information about the number of Indians serving

NY Oneidas want impartial Indian Affairs head March 8, 2007
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
VERONA — The Oneida Indian Nation is reminding newly confirmed Bureau of Indian Affairs head Carl Artman, a Wisconsin Oneida, that he needs to remain

AP Enterprise: Some health clinics deny care to urban Indians March 7, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Under the American Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976, Congress funds health care programs for members of tribes recognized by states or the federal

The fight at Wounded Knee: Trapped inside the bunker March 7, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
The FBI, the federal marshals, and the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) police just looked the other way. They had nobody to rely on, so they asked the

Indians say no to $7B lawsuit offer March 7, 2007
Billings Gazette, MT - 9 hours ago
At issue is a decade-old lawsuit by Indians against the government claiming the government has mismanaged more than $100 billion in oil, gas,

Artman OK'd as BIA director March 7, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
"It has been more than two full years that this position has been vacant, and our responsibility to address the bona fide crises ... in Indian Country have

Lakota educator brings his traditions to the classroom March 7, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
PORCUPINE, SD - Sunday mornings on KILI Radio, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the quick-witted ''Blues Disc Jockey'' Bryant High Horse spins blues

Freedmen Challenge Special Election March 6, 2007
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
"We are calling on the American people to bombard Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, all media outlets, that justice be done."

Senate confirms Bureau of Indian Affairs chief March 6, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
WASHINGTON – The Senate has confirmed Carl J. Artman as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, filling a post that has been vacant for two years

Lumbee Indians Deserve to have Full Federal Recognition as an ...March 6, 2007
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
The survival of American Indian tribes as cohesive units, uniquely identifiable and able to maintain certain historical and cultural elements crucial to

Seminoles mark largest single acquisition by American Indian tribe March 6, 2007
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... to buy Hard Rock International Inc. for $965 million from London-based Rank Group PLC -- the largest single acquisition by an American Indian tribe

Found bones Native American March 6, 2007
The Salinas Californian - Salinas,CA,USA
A week after the bones were found in the cave, an excavation site at Pebble Beach unearthed part of a Native American jawbone.

Resisting Desert Rock March 6, 2007
Infoshop News - USA
... on tribal lands has always violated and disrupted traditional indigenous culture and values, by destroying sacred sites and ceremonial grounds

supreme Court denies appeal on New Mexico jurisdiction case March 5, 2007
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
Privately held lands "remain Indian country," the state Supreme Court ruled, reversing decisions by the state Court of Appeals

Dropped by Cherokee, they wonder 'Now what?' March 4, 2007
Indianapolis Star, IN - 7 hours ago
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Cherokee Nation vote this weekend to revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves was a blow

Emotional vote defines who is Cherokee March 4, 2007
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
At issue is a group barely known outside Indian country, the Freedmen. These are the descendants of black slaves owned by Cherokees, free blacks who were

Sturgis students study Bear Butte controversy March 3, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
On Wednesday, students in Kerry Skinner’s seventh-grade class took a project concerning the Bear Butte buffer zone controversy to a competition in Pierre

Heating help on the way for low-income reservation families March 3, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Robert Running Bear, coordinator of energy assistance programs for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said Friday that the big boost for home heating needs will come

Cape Cod tribe struggled for years before government recognition March 3, 2007
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
15, the Mashpee Wampanoags the US Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs -- after 32 years of legal tug-of-war, officially recognized them as a

Presentation reveals ugly 'Faces of Meth' March 3, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
Burke said state police agents often work in conjunction with Bureau of Indian Affairs to locate meth labs. "We're going to do everything we can to get that

Putting to a Vote the Question ‘Who Is Cherokee?’ March 3, 2007
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
At issue is a group barely known outside of Indian country, the Freedmen. These are the descendants of black slaves owned by Cherokees, free blacks who were

Native American Bank branches out March 3, 2007
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
The bank, owned by 27 American Indian tribes, has struck a deal to get a charter from the state of Colorado to operate branches here.

Assistant Professor Launches Radio Program on Indigenous Politics March 2, 2007
Wesleyan Connection - Middletown,CT,USA
based Schaghticoke Tribal Nation since 1987, who discussed his tribe’s legal battle in response to the Bureau of Indian Affairs reversal of their federal

Harvard forum educates on US/Native nations relations March 2, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
''The Bureau of Indian Affairs used to run all our programs - education, police, health care. But we are moving away from that and running those programs

Michigan tribe member helps create database on Indian crimes March 2, 2007
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
"Nationally, crime statistics from Indian Country are not collected well," said Tom Heffelfinger, a former US attorney in Minnesota.

WBGH series to provide video phones to Native Americans March 1, 2007
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
The first workshop is being scheduled for late April or early May in Phoenix, where the program will work with primarily four Native American tribes,

American Indian activist to give speech March 1, 2007
The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA
Humboldt State University Associated Students presents American Indian activist and former vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke today at 7 pm in HSU’s

Mohawks move forward; racist rhetoric sets us all back March 1, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
And, like Indian Country Today, the Post participates in Newspapers in Education, which is an international program to advance the use of newspapers in