Archived NDN News

November, 2006

• FBI: Rules out abduction by relative in missing Red Lake boys November 28, 2006
  West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
  ... Thanksgiving after going to play outside their house on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. ... The boys, both American Indian, have short brown hair and brown eyes.

• Mobile mammography brings screening to more Native American women November 28, 2006
  EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
  ... Many rural American Indian women are not regularly screened for breast cancer ... the study, a mobile unit of the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service was equipped... 

• Oneida Land Trust Battle November 28, 2006
  WTVH - Syracuse,NY,USA
  Nov 24, 2006 - A new report from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs examines options for the Oneida Indian Nation's request to put 17-thousand-370 acres of...

• Meeting to focus on assault Woman claims abuse by BIA officers November 28, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... Tuba City regarding the Bennett Freeze compact and the apparent assault of an 84-year-old Navajo woman at the hands of Bureau of Indian Affairs police officers...

• Pentagon Releases New Report of Spying on Quakers, Peace Activists ...November 28, 2006
  UN Observer
  ... Island, the International Indian Treaty Council brought together ... on attorneys at the Native American Rights Fund, a US senator, Indian tribal leaders and... 

• Ground search for missing Red Lake boys called off November 27, 2006
  Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
  ... boys. The boys, both American Indian, have short brown hair and brown eyes. Tristan ... said. Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr. told...

• Foster families are often at a shortage November 27, 2006
  Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
  ... 25 of the United States Code of Law, the Indian Child Welfare Act requires that placement cases involving American Indian children be heard in tribal courts if...

• Trustees take a look at dropout rates November 27, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... whether they received free or reduced-price meals, were in special education or were ... Native-American students were 3.5 times more likely to drop out than white

• Hundreds search for brothers November 27, 2006
  Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
  ... who disappeared from an American Indian reservation two ... heavily wooded Red Lake Indian Reservation in ... their home before they disappeared, Tribal Chairman Floyd...

• Mandaree residents say soldier was ’good, kind-hearted’ person November 27, 2006
  Minot Daily News - Minot,ND,USA
  ... Tex Fox, Mandaree, former captain of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police, said, of Nathan, "He was a good boy – kind-hearted and always friendly.

• Study supports land-into-trust November 27, 2006
  Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
  ... 14 public hearing and 45-day public comment period, following which the US Bureau of Indian Affairs will recommend a step for the US Interior Secretary to...

• Amid strong economy, homelessness on rise in Wyo November 27, 2006
  Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... American Indians comprise just 3 percent of the state ... did not visit the Wind River Indian Reservation in ... The clinic provides primary health care and other...

• McCloskey played role in Pombo's loss November 27, 2006
  Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
  ... And just like strip miners on American Indian land, drug war profiteers will continue raping the environment because prohibition makes doing so very profitable

• Reporter's Notebook: Indian college students deserve better November 27, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  By Jodi Rave. NEW HAVEN, Conn. - American Indian students are pushing a number of tribal community ... But American Indian students' needs aren't always a priority

• Boys still missing after search on Red Lake Indian Reservation November 24, 2006
  Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
  ... the boys wandered away or if a crime had been committed on the remote reservation north of ... The boys, both American Indian, have short brown hair and brown eyes

• Tribes hope for true census November 24, 2006
  The State - Columbia,SC,USA
  ... of us,” said Barbara Morningstar Paul, Native American Affairs program ... The state Department of Education reports each year that American Indians have...

• American Indians march for change in child welfare November 24, 2006
  Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
  ... An empty seat at the front of the room signified the absence of all children who have been taken from Native American families through removal or death while

• Native Americans Celebrate Alcatraz Anniversary November 24, 2006
  CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
  ... consider the birth of the Native American civil rights ... attention to the plight of Indian people," said ... ceremony has also focused on preserving the environment

• THE IROQUOIS AND THE CONSTITUTION. November 24, 2006
  New Republic - Washington,DC,USA
  ... River, have a wider array of health and environmental ... The Native American Rights Fund, which works through the courts to solve Indian problems, has

• young brothers reported missing on Red Lake reservation November 23, 2006
  West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
  ... were called after the boys' mother didn't see them playing outside, Tribal Chairman Floyd ... The boys, both American Indian, have short brown hair and brown eyes

• Thanksgiving: The National Day Of Mourning November 23, 2006
  CounterCurrents.org - India
  ... hard to keep our land as you the whites did to take our land away from ... it is a beginning of a new determination for the original American: the American Indian

• Native Americans Will Mourn Thanksgiving November 23, 2006
  New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
  ... They will also demand the release of Leonard Peltier, a former American Indian Movement activist convicted in 1977 for the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents

• America is Indian Country November 23, 2006
  Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
  ... will come back in an infinite cycle. We become aware that America is Indian country. Italian Americans have much to celebrate and

• Navajo code talker, artists will present at CSU's Native American ...November 23, 2006
  Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
  FORT COLLINS — Native American Awareness Month ends next week with a series of events planned by the Office of Native American Student Services at Colorado

• Mining firms again eyeing Navajo land November 23, 2006
  Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
  ... Unconvinced, the tribal council last year passed a ban on mining or processing uranium in "Navajo Indian country," a term that embraces both the reservation

• Indian group honors Rapid City teacher November 23, 2006
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
  ... to improve quality of life for Native American, Alaska Native ... at Crow Creek, Little Wound and Lower Brule tribal schools and the Red Cloud Indian School.

• March Honors Native American Foster Children November 23, 2006
  KTIV - Sioux City,IA,USA
  Members of the Native American community marched over the bridge from South Sioux City, Nebraska to Iowa Wednesday, hoping to send a strong message to the

• Dartmouth president apologizes to Native American students November 23, 2006
  Boston Globe - United States
  The president of Dartmouth College has apologized to Native American students for a series of events on the Hanover, NH campus that many of those students view

• A Native view of immigration November 23, 2006
  Workers World - USA
  ... The 19th century in particular is rife with accounts of the foreign intruders’ invasions of Indian country, especially in the Southeast and West, and the

• Drive Launched to Reopen Stewart Indian School Museum in Nevada November 23, 2006
  KRNV - Reno,NV,USA
  ... in part because of a bill passed by the 1888 Nevada Legislature requiring the establishment of a school to train and educate American Indian children

• The struggle for Indigenous sovereignty and immigrant rights November 23, 2006
  Workers World - USA
  ... James stated that once again this year’s NDOM will be dedicated to Leonard Peltier, the Native-American leader who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976.

• Senator-elect is first Indian woman legislator November 20, 2006
  Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  LEWISTON, Idaho -- The first American Indian woman to be a Washington state senator ... The Nez Perce Indian Reservation is in Idaho, but the tribe's territory

• Tribes want true population count November 20, 2006
  The State - Columbia,SC,USA
  ... And the result has been low population figures that do not accurately reflect South Carolina’s American Indian community. To blame, tribal leaders say, are... 

• VA honors heritage of Indians November 20, 2006
  SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
  BILOXI - November is National American Indian Heritage Month and the Biloxi VA honored the more than 160,000 American Indian and Alaska Native US veterans with

• National Museum of the American Indian Opens New Exhibition about ...November 20, 2006
  Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
  The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opened “Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake” Monday, Nov. 13

• A warrior laid to rest November 17, 2006
  Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
  ... They took care of the land, foods, the four-legged ... about 21,700 American Indians currently serving in the armed forces, and the first American Indian with ties...

• Diabetes Fair aims to spread information November 17, 2006
  Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
  ... common in African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian ... have it, from the American Diabetes Association ... and Medical Center, and the Inter Tribal Council

• Central teacher named Indian educator of year November 17, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... for his or her efforts to improve the quality of life for American Indian, Alaska Native ... studies at the Crow Creek, Little Wound and Lower Brule tribal schools...

• History repeated in wind-farm debate November 17, 2006
  Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
  ... Bosnia and American Indian reservations. Big business only pays pennies on the dollar's worth of pollution that they generate. How bad must our environment get...

• Dental care goes to the people November 17, 2006
  St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA
  ... mobile clinic will serve those in nursing homes, people with disabilities, elementary school students and residents of American Indian reservations, along with

• Native language lives in woman November 17, 2006
  HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
  ... in a desperate era for American Indian tribes. Tribal children went to boarding schools where they ... event sponsored by Everett Community College's Diversity and

• Abramoff takes 'nightmare' to prison November 16, 2006
  Houston Chronicle - United States
  ... moolah." Abramoff, in an e-mail to an ally, about an American Indian tribe's contributions ... will serve a six-year sentence for a fraudulent Florida casino deal

• School boards make room for tribal leaders November 16, 2006
  San Diego Union Tribune - United States
  ... newest board members include two American Indian tribal leaders and ... I'm pleased to see that Native American people will ... 15 percent of the students are Indian.

• Illegal cigarette ring busted November 16, 2006
  Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
  A multimillion-dollar illegal cigarette enterprise based out of an American Indian reservation in Suffolk County was snuffed out after a 10-month-long

• Film explores Cherokee cultural identity issues November 16, 2006
  Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC,USA
  ... The 90-minute documentary, produced by an all-Native American team, explored cultural, social, education, economic and health issues that are central to life

• Snuffed out November 16, 2006
  Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
  ... like heart disease, are on the rise among Natives, many of whom receive free health care paid for by the federal government through the Indian Health Service

• A different kind of occupation - American Indians and Alcatraz ...November 16, 2006
  Atlantic Free Press - Groningen,Netherlands
  ... were an unlikely mix of Indian college activists, families ... The fledgling American Indian Movement (AIM) visited the ... a powerful multi-tribal protest organization

• Native American singer helps those in need November 16, 2006
  Mesabi Daily News - Virginia,MN,USA
  ... highest award that can be given to a Native American recording artist ... Cooperative, Delta Dental, Lake Country Power, Hibbing Indian Education, Hibbing Family

• Reporter's Notebook: American Indian war heroes not always honored November 14, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  ... How many of know us about American Indian veterans? ... Hollywood has taken note of Indian contributions to ... a Pima from Arizona's Gila River Reservation, and five

• Judge says federal gov’t shows indifference to American Indian ...November 14, 2006
  Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
  ... to respecting the religious beliefs of American Indians, a ... Lawyers for Indian groups say the order by US ... dialogue with tribes about allowing tribal members to...

• Ancestors contribute to green-eyed Indian November 14, 2006
  Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
  ... as the epitome of assimilation into the American melting pot culture. ... But, being mostly American Indian, tracing any European background connected to my

• Armor Plant Awarded Military Contract November 14, 2006
  Houston Chronicle - United States
  ... BISMARCK, ND — An American Indian-owned armor plant based in ... all the 210 employees are American Indians ... tribe, on the Spirit Lake reservation in northeastern.....

• Fighting Sioux November 14, 2006
  Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck - Bismarck,North Dakota,USA
  ... can’t we vote on it?’ “Most tribal members would ... poll, 81 percent of Native American respondents said ... and college teams should stop using Indian nicknames

• Questions remain as schools still struggle to implement No Child ...November 13, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... Whatever happens next, those in education believe the focus should stay on ... students, but this year 91 percent of fourth-grade Native American students are

• New office offers help to Native Americans November 13, 2006
  Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
  ... The New Mexico Human Health and Services Department, as part of November's Native American Heritage Month ... All are Indian Health Service health care facilities.

• Navajo Nation to discuss uranium mining at summit November 13, 2006
  Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
  ... international guests, members from other Native American tribes and ... waste from being dumped on native lands, and ... one of the most important laws in Indian law.".

• Diabetes deadlier than AIDS for world's indigenous populations November 13, 2006
  ABC Message Stick - Sydney,Australia
  ... have had in the Indian Health Service for the last 10 to 15 years, a diabetes specific health program in about 130 different American-Indian communities and

• Funding supplements research November 13, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... an effort to lower the death rate from cancer among American Indians in ... in communities on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud and Cheyenne River Indian reservations and in

• Attorneys begin gathering witnesses in American Indian farmers' ...November 13, 2006
  San Diego Union Tribune - United States
  AP. BISMARCK, ND – Attorneys for American Indian farmers and ranchers are gathering information and witnesses for a discrimination case against the federal

• Guest Opinion: Freedom of the press an ongoing struggle in Indian ...November 13, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  ... In the relatively new world of the media in Indian country, these two words are most noted for their absence. Amanda Takes War Bonnet hopes to change that

• Ancient American Indian remains in limbo in SC November 13, 2006
  The State - Columbia,SC,USA
  ... at the Savannah River Site might be as many as 6,000 years old, said Barbara Morningstar Paul, the state program coordinator for Native American Affairs.

• Stolen artifacts shatter ancient culture November 13, 2006
  Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
  ... core looters school themselves in archaeology and zealously ... a Web site for Native American artifact collectors ... Search for "Indian artifacts" on Google and you

• Convicted antiquities dealer claims he was digger, collector, not ...November 13, 2006
  AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
  ... career as a digger and trader of Native American artifacts. He admits being caught many times on government lands and Indian reservations while unearthing

• Yavapai tribe leader joins Arizona Women's Hall of Fame November 13, 2006
  Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott,AZ,USA
  ... At the time of her death, the Arizona Inter Tribal Council's executive director called her a national leader in smaller American Indian tribes' efforts to

• Buffy's full life, blacklist sorrow November 13, 2006
  Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
  ... Sainte-Marie has lived for four decades, creating music and computer ... official" history, geography, social studies and spirituality to American Indian children

• Eagle feather law snags holy services November 13, 2006
  San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
  ... Hundreds of other tribes are awaiting recognition by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and more petitions have been turned down than those granted, said Jacqueline

• 14th Annual NW Regional Tacoma Leonard Peltier March Statement November 13, 2006
  Infoshop News - USA
  ... no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded Knee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian Country since the

• Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq was member of Umatilla tribe November 11, 2006
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
  ... they began preparing for solemn military and spiritual American Indian ceremonies next ... from White Swan High School on the Yakama Reservation, near Toppenish

• Lakota Sioux mourn a son, pray for Eddy - a 'Fiery Star' November 11, 2006
  Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
  ... the reservation's enforcement rangers bowed his head. In 2003, Francis Jamie Big Crow served as an escort for Lori Piestewa, the first female American Indian...

• Club's goal: 20,000 sweat shirts for tribe's youth November 11, 2006
  San Bernardino Sun, CA - 7 hours ago
  ... The campus has classes from preschool through eighth grade. The Pine Ridge Reservation belongs to the Oglala Lakota tribe. Almost

• How Indian is Indian enough? November 11, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
  In 'Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960,' Bill Anthes examines the period during which confining definitions of modernity and Indianness formed

• Judge says feds show indifference to American Indian religion November 11, 2006
  San Diego Union Tribune - United States
  By Ben Neary. AP. CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Saying the federal government pays no more than lip service to respecting the religious beliefs

• Lawmakers won't appeal redistricting November 11, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... an area that includes Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations. ... approved a redistricting plan, four Indian voters filed ... The American Civil Liberties Union filed the

• An American Indian accuses federal agents of using wildlife laws ...November 11, 2006
  Houston Chronicle - United States
  ... congregations. ''If you don't meet the government's definition of a Native American, you can't worship God as a Native American.".

• PG&E Apologizes to Ariz. Indian Tribe November 11, 2006
  FOX News - USA
  ... Gas&Electric apologized for desecrating the sacred site of an American Indian tribe when it ... berms and furrows forms a series of lines that tribal ancients are

• Seven indicted at Twin Buttes school November 11, 2006
  Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
  ... To think of only PERSONAL GAIN instead of the greater good for the children is a shameful thing in indian country.I know of colleges where only the adults are

• Week-long event to conclude with mascot discussion November 11, 2006
  The Dartmouth - Hanover,NH,USA
  ... NAD will host a panel discussion on Native American Studies focusing specifically on American Indians and the War in Iraq and Judicial Issues in Indian Country

• Unofficial results show John Steele as OST president November 8, 2006
  Rapid City Journal, SD - Nov 8, 2006
  If the unofficial results are accurate, John Yellow Bird Steele has been elected to his fourth term as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe

• Indian Code Talkers honored in exhibit November 8, 2006
  KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
  ... The exhibit will complement the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian traveling exhibit "Native Words, Native Warriors.".

• Democratic Wins Affect Indian Affairs in Washington November 8, 2006
  New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
  WASHINGTON, DC – Indian Country woke up to a major shift in power as Democrats reclaimed control of the House and inched towards a majority in the Senate on

• Navajo President Hopeful About Dems November 8, 2006
  Forbes - NY,USA
  ... president of the Navajo Nation said he hopes that the Democrats' takeover of Congress will help the nation's largest American Indian reservation, saying it was

• Boeing Signs Agreement to Mentor Native American Company in ...November 8, 2006
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA - News) has signed an agreement with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians...

• United States Respects Indian Tribes Right to Self-Determination   November 7, 2006
  Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
  ... of Indian Affairs (BIA) within the US Department of the Interior manages 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians

• State issues will affect Navajos November 7, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... $3 million for the Native American Cultural Center at ... other provisions, provides for a water trust fund. ... on Indians residing within Indian Country, according

• Navajo/Hopi Land Dispute Settled November 7, 2006
  KCPW - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
  ... The neighboring Hopis sued for access and in 1966 former Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert Bennett banned Navajos living on the land from making

• Rising Violence Against Native Women Has ‘Colonial Roots’ November 7, 2006
  The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
  ... At her missionary boarding school, where American Indian children were taken to be educated, she was taught how to conform and listen to authority.

• Desecration Bridge November 7, 2006
  SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA
  ... Ketchikan Indian Community does not speak for the Taan ... human remains or an unmarked graves law, §41.35.190(c ... NAGPRA is an acronym from Native American Graves &....

• Exploring ‘Indian Country:' PBS documentary increases ...November 7, 2006
  Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
  ... and culture with financial empowerment. The documentary, “Indian Country Diaries,” is a two-part series. The first part looks

• News briefs November 7, 2006
  Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC,USA
  The Eastern Band of Cherokee will host a screening and discussion around the upcoming public television series, “Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire.”.

• Water being trucked to isolated Indian community November 3, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
  NAVAJO MOUNTAIN, Utah (AP) - Trucks have been delivering water to an isolated, mountainous American Indian community near the Arizona border, and officials are...

• Intertribal walk focuses on health November 3, 2006
  Kansas.com - KS,USA
  ... will not only honor American Indian ancestors but provide support for today's families and youths. Walkers are encouraged to carry their own tribal flags and...

• Indian vote could be the difference November 3, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... 2004: A National Survey and Analysis of Efforts to Increase the Native Vote In ... said Stan Juneau of Browning, a former Blackfeet Tribal Council member whose wife...

• Unlike '02, '04, South Dakota election free of cheating charges November 3, 2006
  Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
  ... following American Indian voters and writing down their license plate numbers. Other allegations in 2004 included vote buying on Indian reservations, though

• Measure looks to reduce smoking November 3, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... said the campaign’s statistics are accurate considering that more than half of South Dakota’s American Indian population do not live on the reservation

• Few hard knocks November 3, 2006
  Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
  ... Grant, by executive order, created Indian reservations around the ... Americans, bolstered by the Indian Civil Rights ... is hardly the first Native American group to...

• UCLA Gets $1.5 Million To Study Criminal Justice In Indian Country November 2, 2006
  NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
  ... National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center for a project entitled "A Study of the Administration of Justice in Indian Country," focusing how ...

• Border town racism subject of forum November 2, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... enforcement officers. "You don't have to kill our people," said Foster. "Gallup is Indian Country," he added. And addressing Rosebrough

• PBS TV series features American Indian cuisine November 2, 2006
  Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
  A 5-part series from Public Broadcasting offers "Seasoned With Spirit," a culinary celebration of America's bounty, combining Native American history and...  

• Nevada voters may smoke out one of its Wild West activities November 2, 2006
  San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
  ... government relations director for the American Cancer Society ... are facing increased competition from Indian casinos in ... Haney said, is that casino business could....

• Stinging from scandal, tribes trim donations November 2, 2006
  USA Today - USA
  ... Ron Allen of the National Congress of American Indians, an ... 90 — until the mid-1990s, when Indian gambling flourished ... a deal to buy a fleet of casino ships in
   

• Time to trust Natives to manage lands  November 1, 2006
  The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
  ... remove from the federal government responsibility for managing American Indian trust lands. ... filed in 1996 by Elouise Cobell of Montana's Blackfeet Reservation

• PBS film to explore Cherokee vitality in the 21st century November 1, 2006
  Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC,USA
  Part of the Indian Country Diaries series, the film explores how the fusion of tourism, cultural preservation, and spirituality is working to insure the tribe

• Feds bust Native American artifact looters November 1, 2006
  KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
  ... man set for sentencing Wednesday in new Eugene federal courthouse as authorities reveal details of 3-year probe into looting of Native American artifacts.

• Election a go on reservation November 1, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... proceed as planned on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, although ... been a tribal attorney, and Joe American Horse has ... The tribal council had not taken action on the

• Video, Booklet Promote Breast Cancer Screenings Among Native ...November 1, 2006
  Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
  The Anchorage Daily News on Sunday profiled a movie and booklet promoting breast cancer prevention and education among Native American women

• National American Indian Heritage Month, 2006 November 1, 2006
  Whitehouse.gov (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
  During National American Indian Heritage Month, we honor the generations of American Indians and Alaska Natives who have added to the character of our Nation.

• American Indian Film Festival November 1, 2006
  SFStation.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
  The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) proudly presents the 31st annual American Indian Film Festival, November 3-11, 2006. As

• American Indian facts November 1, 2006
  The State - Columbia,SC,USA
  November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Each day during the month, The State will present facts about American Indians.

• Indian drug trackers to take on new role November 1, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
  AP. WASHINGTON -- The Shadow Wolves, an elite group of American Indian drug trackers, have been moved to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after lawmakers ...
   

• Rising from the Shadows, Zapatistas in Northern Mexico, by Brenda ...November 1, 2006
  UN Observer
  ... to become warriors, according to our legend”, Marcos told O’odham and others gathered here during the Other Campaign’s tour of Indian country in northern

• Oneida Pantry needs help stocking shelves November 1, 2006
  Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
  ... Though the pantry provides services to any family living on the Oneida Indian Reservation and to households with at least one Native American tribal member

• Crackdown has reservations grappling with immigrants, feds November 1, 2006
  San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
  ... Members of other American Indian tribes also worried about ... The San Francisco-based International Indian Treaty Council ... other points, calls for tribal members

• Political candidates often overlook minority issues, report says November 1, 2006
  Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
  ... Indian voters. Treaty rights ensuring sovereignty on American Indian land is also important to this group, she said. The study found...