September 2006

• Decline in violence bypasses Indians September 23, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... same can’t be said in American Indian communities ... there are likely several reasons why Indian women are ... often conflict with reservation land bases, hampering..

• Indian health bill's renewal still being diagnosed September 23, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... health care provided by the Indian Health Service. The IHCIA of 1976 was passed into law based upon findings that the health status of American Indians ranked...'

• Area students explore Indian history September 23, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... the United States. Then, it was all Indian country, he said. Land for Natives shrunk in 1830 with the Indian Removal Act. In 1851 ...

• Students learn survival techniques during Native American Week September 23, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... was just one of the activities being offered this week to MacDonald and hundreds of other students at Poplar schools as part of the annual Native American Week ...

• Audio tour invites Indians to Rushmore September 23, 2006
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
  ... who became Mount Rushmore's first American Indian superintendent in ... and democracy now invites American Indians to celebrate and teach their culture here in...

• Tribe memorializes reburial of remains September 23, 2006
  The Herald - Everett,WA,USA
  ... The state hired archaeology crews that have been working at the site on and off ... Cama Beach, he said, was the site of an American Indian village that could date..

• Native American artifacts available at special auction September 23, 2006
  Newport Independent - Newport,AR,USA
  By Melissa Lore / Independent Reporter. For more than 50 years Steven J. Graham of Tuckerman collected Indian artifacts and arrowheads ...

• Herseth opposes bill requiring card to vote September 23, 2006
  Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
  ... was, in my opinion, seeking to disenfranchise voters, especially in South Dakota, some of our older citizens and including our elders in Indian Country who may ...

• Native American graduation rate rises September 23, 2006
  Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
  ... dress, language and songs. But Eileen Quintana wants something more for Raven-Sky and other Native American children. She hopes that ...

• Jamul Indians divided on tribal membership September 23, 2006
  San Diego Union Tribune - United States
  ... list, but he was not. He says he doesn't know why. “They used to say the (US) Bureau of Indian Affairs does that,” he said.

• Hospital opens area for Indian families September 21, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  GREAT FALLS - Benefis Healthcare has opened a 1,200-square-foot space for American Indian families to gather, wait and pray while loved ones are in the hospital ...

• ACROSS the BIG SKY September 21, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... A small group of community members gathered to discuss ways to increase awareness about the prevalence of breast cancer in Indian Country and the effectiveness ...

• Arizona Indian tribe could force gap in border fence September 21, 2006
  Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
  ... I am O'odham first, and American or Mexican ... federal government, the trustee of all Indian lands, could ... Just this year, the tribal council adopted a law barring...

• One Land, Many Nations September 21, 2006
  Hartford Courant - United States
  ... filmmaker Chris Eyre, written by Scott Garen and Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek nation, and produced by the National Museum of the American Indian, focuses on....

• Director of the National Museum of the American Indian to speak September 21, 2006
  UO News - Eugene,OR,USA
  ... 20, 2006)—W. Richard West, Jr., director of the National Museum of the American Indian, will lecture on "Native America in the 21 st Century: Out of the ...

• Native American Symposium at UA September 21, 2006
  University of Arkansas Daily Headlines - Fayetteville,AR,USA
  Set for Sept. 25-27, the 13th annual event focuses on Native American culture and modern experiences. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University ...

• 9 people also named to elite group September 21, 2006
  AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
  ... all of Arizona's tribes, helping secure tribal sovereignty for ... 1988, he founded a magazine titled Native Peoples ... Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community and...

• Antiquities Act helps to preserve cultural sites September 20, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... Dorothy Firecloud, Rosebud Sioux and Devils Tower National Park's first American Indian superintendent, said that 85 percent of the climbers respected the ...

• Census Bureau Facts for Features: American Indian and Alaska ...September 20, 2006
  U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /US Newswire/ -- The following are Facts for Features on American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month from the US Census Bureau: ...

• Venezuelan firm will buy fuel oil for Alaska villagers September 20, 2006
  Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
  ... programs in several Latin American countries, Lowenthal ... a nonprofit representing Alaska's tribal governments, agreed ... with help from regional Native nonprofits.

• Recycling program draws acclaim in tribal study September 20, 2006
  Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
  ... by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. ... economic development programs on Indian reservations to ... the beauty of this land, protecting our...

• Feds get an earful September 20, 2006
  Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... Several members of American Indian tribes said there ... representing the Wind River Indian Reservation tribes ... companies are working to protect the environment.

• Attacks on Navajos renew call for federal intervention September 20, 2006
  Houston Chronicle - United States
  ... assault, and are being prosecuted under the state hate-crimes law, which allows ... But Larry Emerson, chairman of the New Mexico Indian Education Advisory Council...

• Local Women Donating Items to Indian Reservation September 20, 2006
  WFMZ-TV Online - Allentown,PA,USA
  ... Since Fannie is Native Lumbee from North Carolina- the women made stops at more than 30 Native American reservations, a few in the country's badlands.

• Native American Symposium at UA September 20, 2006
  University of Arkansas Daily Headlines - Fayetteville,AR,USA
  Set for Sept. 25-27, the 13th annual event focuses on Native American culture and modern experiences. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University ...

• Miss Indian Nations outlines goals September 20, 2006
  Kansas.com - KS,USA
  Ponka-We Victors plans to inspire American Indian youths, who, she said, have largely lost their way. ... "We're educated," she said of American Indian women. ...

• Indian Artists Comment on a Booming Economy While Helping to Fuel ...September 20, 2006
  New York Times - United States
  ... They work in multiple mediums. Subodh Gupta’s installations offer cow-dung patties, kitchen fuel for millions of Indian country homes, recast in brass. ...

• Abuse unrelenting September 20, 2006
  The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... women's needs. The effort has been praised as one of the greatest collaborations in Indian country in recent years. Together, they ...

• Device may help preserve American Indian languages September 20, 2006
  Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
  ... the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum, Library and Research Center recently for a demonstration of the Phraselator, a tool for revitalizing American Indian languages ...

• Dismissal of Chief Illiniwek lawsuit upheld September 20, 2006
  Chicago Sun-Times - United States
  An Illinois appellate court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's dismissal of an Illinois Native American Bar Association lawsuit that claimed dances by the ...

• Native Americans and environmentalists fight to preserve San ...September 17, 2006
  Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
  ... Snowbowl Ski Resort has plans to use reclaimed waste water to make artificial snow on the San Francisco Peaks, an area that is sacred to Native American tribes ...

• Native women face higher rates of violence September 17, 2006
  LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
  ... women’s needs. The effort has been praised as one of the greatest collaborations in Indian Country in recent years. Together, they ...

• Committe chair says Interior Department needs 'adult supervision' September 17, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  ... irregularities, massive project collapses, bonuses awarded to people whose programs fail and failure to correct deplorable conditions in Indian Country. ...

• Renzi: A candidate tribes like September 17, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... In an interview with Indian Country Today, Renzi noted that more American Indians are represented in his vast northeast Arizona district than in any other ...

• Professor tells Native American woman's story of cultural survival September 17, 2006
  Hillsboro Argus - Hillsboro,OR,USA
  A history professor and author will lecture on the life of a Clatsop woman named Celiast, and her tale of survival after the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached ...
   
• 15th edition of Women of the Navajo calendar a big hit September 17, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... WINDOW ROCK — It's the most talked about calendar in Indian Country, and anyone who hasn't heard about it probably has been living under a rock. ...

• SEC accuses Native American firm of defrauding investors September 17, 2006
  KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
  WASHINGTON A San Francisco company that promoted itself as the first US firm to be majority-owned by Native Americans has been charged with securities fraud. ...

• Chief is reflection of American Indian education September 17, 2006
  Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island,IL,USA
  ... weekend in Washington DC As a member of the Okanagan Indian Band of southern British Columbia, visiting the new National Museum of the American Indian was on ...

• Man to swim miles today as a statement September 13, 2006
  Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
  ... Bridge to raise awareness about methamphetamines on the reservation and to ... the continuing concerns about repatriation issues, about American Indian graves and...

• Rare white buffalo born to farm for third time September 13, 2006
  Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
  ... Women have long been revered in American Indian culture but men now need to take ... As we hear about it more and more, tribal interest will be drawn to it," he...

• American Indian woman promotes growth as head of electronics firm September 13, 2006
  San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
  DULUTH, Minn. - Mary Moldenhauer typically keeps a low profile. She has to, considering the classified nature of some of the contracts she handles. ...

• Language immersion schooling can restore 'confidence in learning' September 13, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM - An Aug. 31 congressional field hearing in Albuquerque on Native languages generated a wealth of testimony, oral ...

• New Miss Indian Nations crowned September 13, 2006
  Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
  ... Her interests are in American Indian health care reform. ... The Miss Indian Nations program is open to American Indian women ages 17 to 26. ...

• Labor law exemption fight continues September 13, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  By Erica Werner--Associated Press. SAN MANUEL INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) - Once steeped in poverty, the San Manuel Band of Mission ...

• Native American surgeon to present Miller Lecture September 13, 2006
  AU News - Alfred,NY,USA
  ... Alvord received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1979, with a double major in psychology and sociology, modified with Native American Studies ...

• Indian tribes significantly contribute to tax base September 13, 2006
  The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
  ... Poverty still plagues Indians across America. But there is more hope in Indian Country today than there has been in over 100 years. ...

• Comanche Nation Keeps its Traditional Life Alive September 13, 2006
  Voice of America - USA
  By Joseph Mok. Comanche is a Native American people known as the "Lords of the Plains" in the Great Plains in the Central United States. ...

• Discovery into the lives of Native American Indians
  WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA
  A window into the lives of Native American Indians is opened as archeologists find a centuries old system of caves. by News Channel 8's Tina Detelj. ...

• A special message from Leonard Peltier on his birthday September 13, 2006
  Infoshop News - USA
  Well here it is another year. Another birthday. This one makes me 62 years old. Also this makes it my thirty plus years in prison. ...

• Native American Film Festival September 13, 2006
  KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
  ... others about Indian topics. Native Voice, the nation's largest independent national American Indian newspaper, sponsors the event.

• Judge refuses to block Arizona voter identification requirements September 13, 2006
  Douglas Daily Dispatch - Douglas,AZ,USA
  ... voter registration cards, utility bills, Indian census cards ... challengers include the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona ... Network and the Mexican-American Legal and...

• Local Briefs: UNC to establish Native American research center September 9, 2006
  Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
  CHAPEL HILL -- CHAPEL HILL --UNC will create one of the only centers on the East Coast to focus solely on American Indian issues and research. ...

• Piscataquis County leaders want 'squaw' names restored September 9, 2006
  Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
  ... caused such hard feelings with the native people," Soctomah ... Fred Trask, who is a American Indian, said his ... of the board of commissioners when the law went into...

• Lumbees get HUD grant September 9, 2006
  Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USA
  ... The money is part of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination grant the tribe receives each year from the US ... The Tribal Council has passed...

• Emergency help sought for clinic September 9, 2006
  Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
  ... A spokesman for Collins acknowledged that her office had contacted the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service, urging them to help reopen the...

• UNC Grant to Train American Indian Teachers September 9, 2006
  abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA
  (08/31/06 - PEMBROKE) - The University of North Carolina at Pembroke has received a $1 million grant to recruit American Indian teachers in Robeson and Hoke....

• Hatch: Feds killed planned nuke storage site in Utah September 9, 2006
  Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
  SALT LAKE CITY — The US Interior Department on Thursday rejected a nuclear waste stockpile at an American Indian reservation in Utah’s west desert. Sen.

• A celebration of American Indian tradition September 9, 2006
  The Porterville Recorder - Porterville,CA,USA
  ... Gatherings such as this were once banned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of a government crackdown on American Indian culture and ceremonies meant to ...

• Find near Foxwoods may rewrite history September 9, 2006
  Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
  ... it uncovered more than 8,100 Indian artifacts at a ... McBride explained American Indians 9,000 years ago didn't ... archaeologist at the Public Archaeology Survey Team...

• Reburied cave items finally back at museum September 9, 2006
  Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
  ... on the federal repatriation law, the Royal ... Congress enacted the Native American Graves measure in 1990 ... federal agencies to return American Indian, Hawaiian and...

• LONGTIME DIRECTOR OF TRIBAL MUSEUM THERESA BELL STEPS DOWN  September 9, 2006
  Westerly Sun - Westerly,RI,USA
  ... and coordinated all cultural and Tribal Council events, including ... Mashantucket Pequot's and other tribal nations ... among seven eastern Native American museums and...

• Weapons report prompted Navajo school scare September 7, 2006
  KRQE - Albuquerque,NM,USA
  ... Many children added. The FBI became involved in the situation because it is charged with investigating serious crimes in Indian Country.

• American Indian artifacts unearthed on former hospital grounds September 7, 2006
  Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
  PRESTON, Conn. -- An archaelogical service has unearthed American Indian artifacts right in the middle of planned $1.6 billion entertainment complex to be ...

• Free Peltier & Cuban Five September 7, 2006
  Workers World - USA
  Leonard Peltier, an Anishnabe and Dakota/Lakota member of the American Indian Movement (AIM ... a June 26, 1975, shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South...

• Did the FBI target Dean? September 7, 2006
  Pulse of the Twin Cities - Minneapolis,MN,USA
  ... director at Many Rivers and the American Indian Housing and ... approved seven housing lots for Indian housing for ... granting Klodt special access to land ripe for...  

• Housing officials discuss consolidated plan update September 7, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  ... Up to $1 million is available to Sioux Falls and American Indian reservations. The money comes from last year's unused funds, which...

• Navajo County Fair Went Through Many Changes From 1949-1979 September 7, 2006
  AzJournal.com - Holbrook,AZ,USA
  ... fair’s heritage and “75 Years of American Tradition ... irrigated farm crops; Ted Smith, dry land crops; Ben ... performed, along with the Holbrook Indian Club and...

• Money to help American Indian radio station return to airwaves September 7, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... dial. Casey said the station's goal is to reflect the community it serves and highlight positive events going on in Indian Country. ...

• Cherokee Nation awards summer youth program participants September 7, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - A special banquet was held July 28 to honor young adults who received awards from the Office of Cherokee Nation ...

• John Sr. announces his candidacy for president of the Seneca ...September 7, 2006
  Evening Observer - Dunkirk,NY,USA
  ... and the Seneca Nation Council, we have promoted ... We enforced TERO (Tribal Employment Rights Office) regulations ... of the Museum of the American Indian for both New...

• A year later, 1,500 Houma Indians still unaccounted for September 5, 2006
  WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA
  Tribal Chief Brenda Dardar Robichaux is still searching for ... During the college spring break, as many as 80 ... turned to the Red Cross and American Indian Web sites...

• Program helps bring financial independence to remote reservation September 5, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... The Native American Community Development Corporation, based in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation, created an extensive financial education Web site and is...

• Suicide prevention task force schedules walk to raise awareness September 5, 2006
  The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... big problem on Indian reservations. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death, behind unintentional injury or accidents, for American Indian and Alaskan...

• Part of Glass Mounds snapped up for conservation September 5, 2006
  Vicksburg Post - Vicksburg,MS,USA
  ... is the same style as that found at Natchez Indian villages in ... appears in the current issue of the conservancy's quarterly magazine, “American Archaeology.”.

• Program helps bring financial independence to remote reservation September 3, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... Financial education efforts are becoming more common for banks and credit unions — and not just in Indian Country, Baiamonte said. ...

• Indian vets may get burial help September 3, 2006
  Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
  ... At present, tribal governments are not eligible for department money ... By the end of 2006, there will be an estimated 181,361 American Indian veterans, according...

• Dickson Mounds plans revitalization September 3, 2006
  Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
  ... in 1992 in response to an outcry from the local American Indian community that ... more hands-on than ever when Wiant creates a new field archaeology program that...

• Navajos march to honor victims of discrimination ...September 3, 2006
  The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... is not limited to incidents between American Indians and ... an organizer of the walk, said tribal leaders recognize ... too much awareness of who our native people are....

• One of 16 charged in drug bust gets 10 years September 3, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  RAPID CITY - One of 16 people charged with drug trafficking on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison...

• Feds may step in after Goshutes vote to shut down tribal business September 3, 2006
  Salt Lake Tribune - United States
  ... At least two American Indian law scholars say, though rare in modern times, the kind of help the Goshute dissidents request is available under the law.

• Which American Indians originally lived in Central Florida? September 3, 2006
  Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
  ... In 1856, the Seminoles were assigned land in Indian Territory. Today only 0.3 percent of Florida residents are American Indians..

• FNB Makes 1,000th American Indian Loan September 1, 2006
  Tecumseh Countywide News - Tecumseh,OK,USA
  of Shawnee recently made the state's 1,000th American Indian loan under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 184 mortgage program.

• Congressional hearing focuses on native languages September 1, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
  ... legislation _ the Native American Languages Preservation ... president of the National Indian Education Association ... own processes for certifying tribal members as... 

• Interview with John Trudell September 1, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... In a running conversation with Indian Country Today Senior Editor Jose Barreiro, Trudell seeks to address lingering issues in the dissolution of AIM and ...

• Charging taxes on Indian cigs is fair September 1, 2006
  Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
  ... There is a continuing controversy over New York's American Indian reservations' selling unlicensed, untaxed tobacco products. And last month Gov. ...

• UNC grant to train American Indian teachers September 1, 2006
  Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
  PEMBROKE, NC -- The University of North Carolina at Pembroke has received a $1 million grant to recruit American Indian teachers in Robeson and Hoke counties ...

• Crime stats show ethnic connections September 1, 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. ...

• Utah officials and tribal leaders happy with time spent at summit September 1, 2006
  Salt Lake Tribune - United States
  ... chiefs agreed Thursday - at the end of the two-day Native American Summit - that ... Main topics on the table: health care, public safety, education, the economy.

• Report: U of I to drop Chief after this year September 1, 2006
  Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
  ... Illiniwek's dance was derived from "Indian Lore" studies ... to preserve elements of Native American culture. ... practiced today by many Native Americans at pow-wows.

• Colleges enroll record numbers September 1, 2006
  Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
  ... The college's American Indian student population is still about 20 percent, or well below ... But the college may be able to separate the tribal college from the...