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September, 2005
 

  • Who says BIA hasn't been busy? Sept 29, 2005
    (IDAHO) -- It's an old wheeze that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was advised by General Custer as he rode out of the fort not to do anything until he returned from the Little Big Horn. Not true.

  • Mayor's note heats Columbus Day spat Sept 29, 2005
    (COLORADO) -- A reproving letter Mayor John Hickenlooper wrote to the leaders of the opposing sides regarding Columbus Day backfired Wednesday, angering both men instead of furthering dialogue between the groups and the city.

  • Rehabilitation center coming to Shiprock area  Sept 29, 2005
    (NEW MEXICO) -- Navajos suffering from a drug or alcohol addiction will soon have a top-level rehabilitation facility available in Shiprock, according to Rita Cantsee, program supervisor for the Shiprock Outpatient Treatment Center.

  • NCAA: N. Dakota Can't Use Fighting Sioux Sept 29, 2005
    ... is not reasonable to cover up or remove all of the Native American imagery in ... that UND offers perhaps the best opportunity for many American Indian students to ...

  • Navajo Nation honored for aiding peace through no nukes  Sept 28, 2005
    (NEW MEXICO) -- The Navajo Nation was recognized Saturday in Oslo, Norway, for seeking a more peaceful world through the elimination of nuclear energy and weapons, according to a press release from the office of Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr.

  • N. Dakota at center of 'hostile' debate Sept 28, 2005
    ... At best, the logo and nickname place American Indians in ... obscene sexual scene involving an Indian cartoon character ... "Native people won't go to sporting events

  • Childhood Abuse Linked to Alcoholism Sept 28, 2005
         ... With the help of Native American interviewers and the cooperation of leaders of ... tribe or someone from another tribe, depending on tribal leaders' preferences

  • Schools Pushed on Diverse History Courses Sept 28, 2005
    ... lessons on the Holocaust, while New Mexico's legislature required Indian education lessons ... but that teachers already have limited time to teach American history

  • Ancient find delays construction project Sept 27, 2005
    ... The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 calls for American Indian remains unearthed in excavations to be offered to tribes that can ...
     

  • NativeEnergy, LLC is now Native-owned  Sept 27, 2005
    ... ''This is a great day for Native American people everywhere because we are demonstrating that living in harmony with our Mother Earth is not only good for the ...

  • New Version of Native Hawaiian Bill Announced Sept 27, 2005
    ... several provisions of the bill, fearing it would empower Native Hawaiians to set up gambling operations similar to those allowed for Indian tribes
     

  • Tribal elders connect with U students Sept 27, 2005
    ... beginning of the ceremony, Robert DesJarlait, the event moderator from Red Lake, passed the ... Don Blackhawk of the Ho-Chunk tribe said American Indians have come ...

  • Kick Out the Sports! Sept 27,2005
    ... little fanfare, to separate Lemont from all the other Indian-nicknamed teams in ... to drop its Fighting Illini nickname and Chief Illiniwek mascot, threatened to ...

  • Tradition meets political correctness Sept 27,2005
    ... 2001: San Diego State recommends changing the image of its mascot, Monty Montezuma. 2002: Bill introduced to ban use of American Indian

  • Conference cracks down on racism Sept 26, 2005
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- A Florida social worker with more than 25 years of experience in drug prevention and treatment will present a free public lecture Tuesday, Sept. 27, dealing with racial tension and how it affects children in Rapid City.

  • Navajo legalize religious use of peyote Sept 26, 2005
    (ARIZONA) -- The leaders of the Navajo Nation joined a ceremony proclaiming the tribe's new law which decriminalizes the use of azee', commonly known as peyote, in ceremonies.

  • Talks with tribes delay civic center Sept 26, 2005
     
    (NEW MEXICO) -- It's not clear whether Tesuque Pueblo leaders will win their battle to stop excavation of what they say are remains of their ancestors in downtown Santa Fe. But the tribe has succeeded in delaying work on a new civic center and underground parking garage.

  • Tulsa set to host Indian congress  Sept 25, 2005
    (OKLAHOMA) -- The National Congress of American Indians will hold its annual convention Oct. 30-Nov. 4 at the Tulsa Convention Center.

  • Blackfeet Nation has its own ban Sept 25, 2005
    (MONTANA) -- Montana's new indoor smoking ban does not apply on American Indian reservations, which have some of the highest rates of tobacco use in the state.

  • Longhouse anniversary honored Sept 25, 2005
    (WASHINGTON) -- Guests at traditional Northwest coastal potlatches can expect to leave with a gift in hand. Historically, members of American Indian tribes hosted the events to establish or uphold their places in society.

  • Cherokees vote to display Ten Commandments Sept 24, 2005
    ... is not between you and the tribal council; it ... issue involved, and even if the American Civil Liberties ... to Cherokee, nor to any other Native American tribe for ...

  • Tribal ousters also take identity Sept 24, 2005
    ... directs UCLA's Joint Degree Program in Law and Native American Studies. ... "Indian tribes are not corrupt ... But corrupt tribal people are getting into power in tribes ...

  •  When is a Indian not a Indian? Sept 22, 2005
    The federal government is questioning grants totaling $1,089,745 that 24 Arkansas school districts have won based on the number of their American Indian students — a population that’s made a meteoric jump over 2002 census figures, if the documents accompanying the grants are correct.
  • Changing attitudes about diabetes Sept 22, 2005
    ... Wednesday morning at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation at ... dozen community events scheduled for Native American Week ... was completed Wednesday by tribal employees and ...
  • A crucial time for Indian country to be heard Sept 22, 2005
    ... The founding meeting of the American Indian Policy and ... and self-governance rights of tribal peoples in the ... Hosted by veterans of Native journalism, it brought ...

  • ANWR protesters rally at Capitol Sep 21,2005
    ... Gwich'in elder Sarah James, from Arctic Village, has been holding a vigil for weeks near the National Museum of the American Indian. ...

  • Barona tribe to help save holiday festival Sep 21,2005
    (CALIFORNIA) -- The Barona Band of Mission Indians has committed $75,000 to the city's December Nights holiday festival, providing much of the money needed to keep the 27-year-old event alive this year.

  • Code Talkers museum could become reality  Sep 21,2005
    (NEW MEXICO) -- Years of talking about building a first-rate museum to honor the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II in Gallup could soon be turning into action.

  • Navajo Nation approves $535 million budget for 2006  Sep 21,2005
    (NEW MEXICO) -- The proposed $33 million transfer from the Navajo Nation Land Acquisition Fund to chapters for capital improvements died Tuesday as delegates passed a $535 million budget for 2006 without discussing the controversial plan.

  • Havre to join water authority Sep 21,2005
    (MONTANA) -- The Havre City Council Monday took the city a step closer to connecting to the Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana Regional Water System by voting to join the system's regional water authority.

  • Len Nah Weh acquires property  Sep 21,2005
    ... a ceremonial place honoring the Indian history of ... The Leh Nah Weh Native American Organization closed the ... The National Tribal Development, an organization that ...

  • A frustrating taleof non-accountability   Sep 21,2005
    ... In their corner is a federal judge who has come down hard on the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the US Treasury, agencies

  • While cleaning out garage, woman finds box with Indian remains Sep 20,2005
    TECUMSEH - A Tecumseh woman cleaning out her garage made an unusual discovery recently. The woman, in the midst of divorce proceedings, contacted Tecumseh police Sept. 6 to report she had found a box with what her husband had told her were the remains of several American Indians.
     
  • NCAA extends Indian mascot ban to bowl games Sep 20,2005
     
    INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA is requiring bowl games to ban the "hostile" or "abusive" use of American Indian nicknames, mascots and logos beginning next year. ...

  • The lessons learned from Katrina Sep 19,2005
    I am also reminded of the terrible tornado that hit the community of Oglala on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota several years ago. Then Governor Bill Janklow showed up in person, rolled up his sleeves and worked side-by-side with the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Harold Salway, to help clean up the debris. The governor called in some of the prisoners from the state prison to lend a helping hand.

  • Choctaws give large check to Red Cross Sep 19,2005
    The Choctaw Nation generated a little under half a million dollars during a series of recent fundraisers designed to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Tribal officials recently presented the Red Cross with a check for $443,911.33.

  • Teens proud of crosswalk, national award Sept 19,2005
    ... is one of five members of Great Falls High School's Native American Club who ... Indian Education Coordinator Corrine Addison learned of a national traffic safety ...

  • Makah Tribe Hopes for Return to Whaling Past Sept 19,2005
    (WASHINGTON, DC) -- The whaling canoes are stored in a wooden shed, idle for the past six years. They were last used when the Makah Indians were allowed to take their harpoons and a 50-caliber rifle and set out on their first whale hunt since the late . 1920's

  • For Native Americans, peyote is dwindling  Sept 19,2005
    ... of peyote from Mexico and creating legal cultivation centers in the United States -- are being studied by the Native American Church, Indian-rights advocates ...

  • Mont. town confronts racist label Sept 18, 2005
    Havre, Mont. - Surrounded by fields of knee-high wheat and rolling prairie, Havre proudly shows off the icons of an All-American town: city bands and manicured parks, high school mascots and flags on porches.

  • Indian tribe begins new life in Sherwood after Katrina
    (LOUISIANA) -- Facing down the death toll still rising from the rubble left behind by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Chief Elwin “Warhorse” Gillum leads members from the Chahta tribe of St. Tammany Parish with resolve to rebuild their homeland.

  • Homes await Ohlone artifact hunt
     But the practice has spurred some American Indian leaders to press for more ... huge Wal-Mart,'' said Ines Hernandez-Avila, professor of Native American studies at ..

  • Top secret messages
    ... who appeared Thursday at a Native American celebration at ... To infiltrate American lines, the Japanese would often ... to go through a full tribal cleansing ritual ...

  •  American Indian women fight back
    (WASHINGTON, DC) -- When Lisa M. Iyotte was raped in 1994, she became part of a staggering statistic: One out of every three American Indian women will be raped in their lifetimes.
     

  • Houma Nation aerial survey reveals total devastation
     
    GOLDEN MEADOW, La. - United Houma Nation tribal officials and representatives of the National Congress of American Indians surveyed Houma tribal communities on the Louisiana coast by helicopter and found communities blown away and under water.
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  • 3 could face banishment by fledgling Viejas court
    VIEJAS INDIAN RESERVATION – Using modern-day legal practices to apply an ancient custom, the Viejas Indian band is setting up its own formal court in which three members could be banished from the tribe.

  • Ancient points unearthed at library site
    ... library Moe Road site has produced evidence of a pre-historic American Indian presence rarely seen ... The work is being done by Landmark Archaeology of Altamont.

  • Aid process streamlined for evacuees
     
    NEW ORLEANS, La. - President Bush has granted ''evacuee'' status to victims of Hurricane Katrina, which the federal government says will streamline survivors' enrollments in federal programs and for benefits. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said many victims of the hurricane no longer have the records or legal documents to help prove their eligibility for benefits from various government programs.
  • Tribal IDs to satisfy polling place requirements
     
    MINNEAPOLIS - A deal reached in federal court will allow American Indians to use tribal identification cards to register for voting on Election Day in Minnesota.
     
  • Houma Nation homes underwater
     
    GOLDEN MEADOW, La. - Houma Nation tribal officials believe the homes of at least 1,000 tribal members are underwater and the homes of thousands of other tribal members have structural damage as a result of Hurricane Katrina on the coast southeast of New Orleans.
     
  • Education program expands at Glacier National Park
     
    That's because 2006 should see tangible results of an effort to greatly expand activities and exhibits about the Blackfeet Tribe, which shares a long border with the eastern side of the park, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, whose reservation is just adjacent on its west.
     
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  • Save Nez Perce Wallowa Site
     
    Long before Old Chief Joseph died in 1871, he extracted a promise from his sons that they would never sell the Wallowa Valley. "You must stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a treaty selling your home," the old chief said. The young Chief Joseph never forgot.
     
  • Roberts' 'dishonesty' concerns Indian country
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    is drawing attention from one group - the American Indian - that already ... of Alaska in its suit against the Native village of Venetie's tribal government, he
     
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  • OSU grad returns for job as Native American coordinator
     
    ... whatever he can to promote his program to American Indian students and ... Jessica Moore, Native American Student Association president and architecture junior was ...
     
  • Rediscovering Tribal Wizdom
     
    My late father was in AIM (the American Indian Movement), and ... gas canisters and beating on our native brothers and ... the hip-hop collective known as Tribal Wizdom ...
     
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  • LPDC: Leonard Peltier Turns 61: Approaches 30 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment..."
    Over the last year, Leonard has suffered the passing of several relatives and been denied many basic human rights. He has been placed in solitary confinement for no reason, denied phone privileges, religious rights, and visitation privileges, and was even unable to write letters to family and friends. Peltier's health has deteriorated in the last year and he has repeatedly been denied adequate medicine. Without reason, Leonard has been moved to several prisons with no concern for his health.
  • MUST READ: Chief justice nominee Roberts shaped limits on sovereignty
    (WASHINGTON, DC) -- For better or worse, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts knows more about Indian law than any nominee in recent memory. Now that his nomination has been upgraded to that of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he could be the major force in the court's decisions on Native issues for the next generation.
  • Tribe receives $6M for road projects
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- As part of the $236 billion Transportation Bill, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Transportation Department has received $6 million for road projects and equipment.
  • OP/ED: Renewing act a priority for Indian Country
     
    (MONTANA) -- Congress has a lot of high-profile business on table in the next three months, from Supreme Court nominees to Hurricane Katrina relief, to estate-tax repeal.
     
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  • While people suffer, IHS reserves funds
     
    RAPID CITY, S.D. - Some IHS-reliant Great Plains tribes question whether the regional office's withholding of ''residual funds'' has harmed the quality of their health care. The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association resolved to require a full accounting of expenditures and asked for monthly financial reports.
     
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  • Summit to focus on preservation of leadership, sovereignty
     
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - American Indian leaders are making great strides in leading their nations into economic prosperity, improving public services and protecting treaty rights. Protecting sovereignty and preparing the next generation for leadership are the big challenges as well as the key topics at the California Tribal Leadership Conference and Summit Sept. 20 - 22 in the Sacramento Convention Center.
     
  • Indian voters face hurdles
     
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- Forty years after their creation, provisions of the Voting Rights Act are still needed to protect South Dakota's American Indian voters from discrimination at the polls, panelists said Friday at a hearing in Rapid City.
     
  • Poverty reaches 'almost epidemic' proportions in state, Four Corners
     
    (NEW MEXICO) -- Poverty is an “almost epidemic” issue in New Mexico, affecting families and school-aged children across the state and in the Four Corners area, according to Mary-Dale Bolson, cabinet secretary for Children, Youth and Families Department, and local school officials.
     
  • Indian rock carvings help us walk in their steps
     
    (PENNSYLVANIA) -- To think like an American Indian, it is said, you must walk in his steps. At noon on a Saturday last month (the hottest day this year), 18 people from Lancaster, York, Dauphin and Perry counties climbed onto a very bare rock in the center of the Susquehanna River to wonder at markings left by Indians between 800 and 1,000 years ago.
     

  • NRC clears way for Utah site
    (UTAH) -- Federal regulatory officials Friday morning authorized a private nuclear waste storage site in the state, a decision that could eventually bring train loads of highly radioactive waste rolling through Utah County communities.

  • Tribal guide tells full story
    (MONTANA) -- Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece "War and Peace" tops the list of Veronica Velarde Tiller's favorite books. But it wasn't enough that she was able to lift and read it.

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  • Super majority needed to pass Navajo Nation budge
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    (NEW MEXICO) -- The Navajo Nation Council passed a $33 million amendment to the budget Thursday that would take money from the Navajo Nation Land Acquisition Fund and place it into the general fund, according to George Hardeen, communications director for Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr.
  • Herbert "Ike" Whitish, 1955-2005: Native leader led Shoalwater Bay Tribe through crisis
    A Native American leader who played a central role in saving a tiny southwest Washington tribe from extinction has died after a lengthy illness. He was 50.
     
  • Skeleton found to be Native American from 2,000 years ago
    Analysis of a rare find in northeast Nebraska has shown the guesses of four months ago were on the mark -- the human skeleton unearthed in rural Newcastle was that of a Native American who died about 2,000 years ago.
     
  • Tribal Leaders Meet with UNM Officials   
    If nothing else, Sandra Begay-Campbell finally got university officials and tribal leaders talking. Begay-Campbell, a regent at the University of New Mexico, said she ran out of patience waiting for the school to hold a tribal summit — a meeting involving UNM and representatives from all the state's tribes
     
  • FWP Commission gives bison hunt thumbs up
     
    Nobody showed up in a bison costume. No buckets of guts were splashed in front of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission. And, believe it or not, there weren't even any lawyers threatening lawsuits or animal-rights activists chanting catchy slogans.
     
  • Red Lake sues for access of records of shooter
     
    The Red Lake School District, facing hundreds of workers compensation claims from employees and the possibility of multiple lawsuits, is seeking to view a complete video record of a student's killing spree at Red Lake High School as well as the killer's academic and psychological records.
     
  • Whiteclay a step in the right direction
    Nebraska's governor signed an agreement last week that will allow Pine Ridge tribal police to patrol the border town of Whiteclay. The agreement can only improve the situation at the tiny town that exists only to sell alcohol to residents of the reservation where alcohol sales are illegal.
     
  • Nez Perce Tribe and owner clash over Marr property
     
    The rhythm and singing of a Nez Perce drum group at the foot of Wallowa Lake on a sunny summer morning last week set the tone for a press conference held in response to recent bulldozing work on property the Nez Perce consider sacred.
  • Plan developed for old Indian school
    ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The Albuquerque City Council has approved a development plan for the old Albuquerque Indian School property that has been vacant for about 20 years.
     
  • North Dakota Tribes vote against mascots
    The Board of Directors of the United Tribes of North Dakota voted unanimously to support the NCAA ban on Indian mascots, which includes a ban on UND's Fighting Sioux. This vote came following a debate earlier today with UND's president.
     
  • Tribal leader wants to rename towns
     
    BILLINGS, Mont. -- The president of the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe is proposing renaming at least two communities on his southeast Montana reservation, replacing names assigned by whites with those that he said would foster "a stronger pride in our community."
  • Homes and hearts opened to Katrina victims
     
    (NEW ORLEANS) -- American Indians opened their homes and pocketbooks, while others boarded buses and fire trucks as medics and firefighters, to help in Louisiana and Mississippi, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and its storms.
     
  • Cherokee Nation aids in disaster relief
     
    (OKLAHOMA) -- The Cherokee Nation, its principal chief, deputy principal chief, Tribal Council, employees and citizens are embracing the opportunity to assist those affected by the devastation of hurricane Katrina.
     

  • Connecticut Casinos Offering Jobs To Qualified Victims Of Katrina
    (CONNECTICUT) -- Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun might be able to help some of the 14,000 employees displaced by the destruction of casinos in the Gulf coast of Mississippi and New Orleans.

     

  • National Indian Gaming Association joins member tribes in HURRICANE KATRINA relief efforts
    (WASHINGTON, DC) -- The National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) today announced its partnership with its member tribes to assist in raising money for the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Fund. An account has been set up to collect funds from American Indian nations to help provide relief for the hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gulf Coast states affected by Katrina.

  • Hurricane Katrina uncovers a tale of two Americas
    Most all of the white folks got out. Many people of color, it would seem, did not. This is the unavoidable and indelible reality confronting anyone and everyone who watched on television the horrific series of events that has unfolded in the city of New Orleans. In the face of an impending and overwhelming catastrophe, as Hurricane Katrina increased to Category 5, then dropped to 4 and set its sights on the Gulf Coast communities of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, evacuation orders went out. Yet, as is now evident, many in Katrina's path did not have the means to evacuate.
     
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  • New Orleans lessons mirror American history
     
    NEW ORLEANS - President Bush and members of Congress vowed to begin probes into the delayed response of the emergency evacuation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
    As stranded people waved for rescue with no help in sight the week after the hurricane struck southeastern Louisiana, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard said, ''We have been abandoned by our own country ... Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.''
  • Moving company donates shipping for textbooks
     
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- Thanks to a donation from Bekins Van Lines, Amherst-based literacy organization Reader To Reader is bringing thousands of textbooks to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. McKee's Moving & Storage, an agent for Bekins Van Lines, arranged the shipment that will enable the students of the Pine Ridge School to have a mountain of new textbooks.
     
  • Tiny tribe makes big relief effort
     
    (OKLAHOMA) -- One of the smallest tribes in Oklahoma has sent both crews and equipment to the hurricane-ravaged regions.
     

  • National organizations raise disaster relief funds
    (NEW ORLEANS) -- As American Indian tribal members on the Gulf Coast seek refuge in their home communities, the National Indian Gaming Association and National Congress of American Indians are raising funds for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.

  • Racism meeting postponed
     
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- Because the U.S. Department of Justice mediator has been sent to help with relief efforts in the Gulf Coast area, the Undoing Racism Task Force meeting scheduled for Friday, Sept. 9, in Rapid City has been indefinitely postponed.
     
  • Principle denies appeal to long hair rule
     
    September 8, 2005 — The mother of two Los Fresnos students placed on “in-school suspension” at their middle school for failing to comply with the dress code policy will take her complaint to district administrators after the principal refused to let the boys back on campus.
     
  • Judge hears arguments in Oneidas' case
     
    (NEW YORK) -- The Oneida Indian Nation might be required under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to pay property taxes, but that doesn't mean Madison County can foreclose on nation land, a nation lawyer argued Wednesday in federal court in Utica.
     
  • Abuse bill aims to protect Native American Women
     
    WASHINGTON - When Lisa M. Iyotte was raped in 1994, she became part of a staggering statistic: One out of every three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes. That means they are nearly twice as likely as the average American woman to be sexually assaulted, according to figures released by the National Congress of American Indians.
     
  • Goodall visits science classes
     
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- The world's foremost authority on chimpanzees visited science classes Tuesday on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to encourage leadership for change. 
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  • Wells Fargo, Citibank donate to Crow Creek
     
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- Citibank of South Dakota and Wells Fargo Financial Bank jointly announced today a $37,500 donation to a South Dakota Community Foundation fund to help defray some costs of temporary housing for Crow Creek Tribal School students whose dormitory was destroyed by fire April 24.
     
  • Red Lake students have strong first day
     
    (MINNESOTA) -- Most of the student body at Red Lake High School returned to school for fall classes Tuesday in a sign of resiliency six months after a deadly shooting.
     
  • Fort Belknap joins tribes in sending aid
     
    MONTANA) -- The Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes of the Fort Belknap Reservation joined Indian tribes across the nation this week in their efforts to generate money and assistance for survivors of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
     

  • NCAI Coordinating Hurricane Relief Fund for Tribes in Gulf Region
    (WASHINGTON, DC) -- As our brothers and sisters in southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama deal with the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the U.S., NCAI offers it prayers of support to the tribes and people of the region.

  • Navajo police vehicle upgrades in the works
    (NEW MEXICO) -- By Thanksgiving, 250 Navajo police vehicles across the reservation, including those in Shiprock, will have the best navigational, database searching and Internet communication technology available in the country.
  • Standing Rock kids welcome new school
    (NORTH DAKOTA) -- Students on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation endure exhausting educational challenges, sometimes, even often, without the proper and sufficient support and resources.
  • Documentary to film at sanctuary
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- A documentary to be shown on the History Channel will be shot at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in October, according to a spokeswoman for the sanctuary.
  • Tribes offer help
    (OKLAHOMA) -- Several of Oklahoma's American Indian tribes have organized disaster relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
  • Indian Country responds to victims of Katrina
    (USA) -- Tribal nations across the United States are sending their support to the victims of Hurricane Katrina as federal officials pledged to help tribes affected by a disaster that battered the Gulf Coast.
  • Standing up for Indian trust rights
    (NEW MEXICO) -- Sam and Esther Valdez got running water at their green cinderblock house in Blanco Canyon, 40 miles from Farmington, only a year ago.
  • Bison hunt regulations on table
    (MONTANA) -- State wildlife commissioners this week will consider regulations for what stands to be Montana's first bison hunt in 15 years.
  • OP/ED: Economic change needed on reservations
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- The book that appears to have become required summer reading is "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. It is an extraordinary book that discusses the phenomenon of globalization and what it means for the U.S.
  • Navajos receive award for banning uranium mining
    (NEW MEXICO) -- The Karl Souder Water Protection Award of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center was awarded to three Navajos, including a youth and a tribal councilman, for their role in banning uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.
  • EDITORIAL: Whiteclay deal is helpful step
    (SOUTH DAKOTA) -- Finally, it's official. An agreement allowing Pine Ridge Indian Reservation tribal police to enforce Nebraska law in the small town of Whiteclay has been signed - by both tribal and Nebraska officials.
  • Group wants to ban a.m. alcohol
    (NEW MEXICO) -- A local group of activists vows to have the streets of Gallup covered with posters and flyers in the coming days asking you to help them ban all package and by-the-drink alcohol sales until noon within city limits.
  • 2 more colleges get OK from NCAA on mascots
    The Utah Utes and Central Michigan Chippewas were removed Friday from a list of Native American mascots banned by the NCAA from its championships. Less than a month after the NCAA announced a list of 18 Native American mascots deemed "hostile or abusive" -- none in Indiana -- three schools have won appeals. The other is Florida State, whose nickname is the Seminoles.
     
  • NCAA approves Utah's use of UTE's name
    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The NCAA gave Utah permission to continue using its Utes nickname Friday, just hours before the school's nationally televised football game against Arizona.
     
  • Non-profit makes offer to acquire Si Tanka closed campus
    PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A nonprofit group has made a proposal to buy the closed Si Tanka University campus in Huron and resurrect it as a national college that focuses on American Indian students, former state lawmaker Ron Volesky said Friday.