Lawmakers want committee for American Indian issues  February 28, 2007
Fremont Tribune - Fremont,NE,USA
Lawmakers think state government needs to be more knowledgeable of issues facing American Indian tribes in the state. The Legislature gave first-round

HUD Secretary Highlights More Assistance For Native American Housing February 28, 2007
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
"At HUD, we are committed to partnering with you to create and sustain strong Native American communities through creative and effective housing and

Ned Blackhawk: US must return Lakota land  February 28, 2007
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
This seizure in 1877 violated the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and deepened one of the most enduring tragedies in American Indian history.

Indian artist creates design for Pendleton  February 28, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
Once a popular trade item, the blankets remain integral to American Indian traditions, often used as "giveaway" items and to honor others

Alaska Native civil rights history shaped state  February 28, 2007
UAA Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA
In some communities, Natives who went to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools locally, and were caught speaking their indigenous tongue, were sometimes forcibly

Tribes get funds to help in meth February 27, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
"The kids see the use out there," Bureau of Indian Affairs Chief of Police John Grinsell Grinsell said. "They need to know that it isn't right,

Cherokees to Vote on Who is an Indian February 27, 2007
Voice of America - USA
American Indian tribes are considered sovereign nations within the United States, and their citizens are entitled to tribal benefits, including subsidized

Alaska Native civil rights history shaped state February 27, 2007
UAA Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA
In some communities, Natives who went to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools locally, and were caught speaking their indigenous tongue, were sometimes forcibly

Protein linked to elevated BMI in people of American Indian ...February 26, 2007
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a variant of a common blood protein, apolipoprotein C1, in people of American Indian and Mexican

Housing opens for American Indian elders February 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
NORTH-CENTRAL PHOENIX - A grand opening for a facility that will house Valley American Indian elders is scheduled for Tuesday in north central Phoenix.

Nellie Two Bulls passes to the spirit world February 26, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Grandma Nellie was a member of the advisory committee for the Journey Museum in Rapid City, a board member of KILI radio on the Pine Ridge Reservation and

Secretary touts funding for Indian meth fight February 26, 2007
Mohave Valley News - Laughlin,NV,USA
In its proposed 2008 budget, the Interior Department plans to add $11 million for 51 new law enforcement officers in American Indian communities throughout

Murder on Indian reservation offers glimpse at broader violence February 26, 2007
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Marcos Escareno's neighbors say he was raised amid a culture of violence on this tiny American Indian reservation. And residents say the disproportionate

Commentary: Mementos Of People No Longer Here February 26, 2007
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
And therein lies one of the hottest controversies in Native American studies: How many Indians were here in 1492? The map in the Inquirer last week showing

COMMENTARY: Wampanoags helped the Pilgrims survive February 26, 2007
Cohasset Mariner - Hingham,MA,USA
... the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on their recognition as a sovereign Native American nation by the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs

Senate Bill 887 Looks to Increase Native American Teachers in New ...February 26, 2007
UNM Today - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Senator Pinto’s Senate Bill 887 will continue the Institute for American Indian Education (IAIE). Scholarship Program, which began in 2004.

Sitting Bull's survivors want remains moved February 26, 2007
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
Then the Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota arranged to have the family enrolled there.

Great leader cast his legend in Eastern Montana February 26, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
As they ranged westward, the Lakota increasingly clashed with other tribes in ever-shrinking Indian Country. As a teenager, Sitting Bull counted his first

Sandoz seminar focuses on Crazy Horse February 26, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
It also is an in-depth look at the culture and spirituality of the Oglala Sioux. An added feature at this year’s conference will be a limited enrollment

Memoir of an interesting life also illuminates a key time for ... February 26, 2007
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... with the Lakota nation after violence erupted during the American Indian Movement's protests at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973

Reporter's Notebook: Lakota matriarch known for singing February 23, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
She was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and grew up in the Payabaya Community, a child born from a long line of traditional medicine men

Native American Business Conference February 23, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Many people living on reservations struggle to make ends meet because of the lack of businesses and jobs. It's why organizers of a conference held today in

Help to Save the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland! February 23, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
It has also served as the meeting place and organizing center for American Indian activism of the 1960s and '70s including the occupation of Alcatraz, ...

Tribe Debates Benefits of Fed Recognition, After Long Wait February 23, 2007
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts has become the first American Indian tribe to be recognized by the US government since President Bush

American and Canadian First Nations co-operate to protect river system February 23, 2007
Canada First Perspective - Scanterbury,Manitoba,Canada
Following the historic signing of the St. Marys River Treaty in November, 2006, two First Nation communities in Northern Ontario and two Native American

Navajo Times endures shutdown, gains independence February 23, 2007
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
19, 1987, under then-Chairman Peter MacDonald Sr., the tribe closed the only daily newspaper in Indian Country at the time, citing an audit of the paper

Interior chief, tribes meet to discuss meth problem February 23, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The other proposed budget increase discussed Thursday would add $16 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Safe Indian Communities Initiative to fight

White House hopefuls to debate in Indian Country February 22, 2007
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Organizers are hoping to tap into that interest with something: a debate that will bring all the Democratic candidates vying for president to Indian Country

'My Life is My Sun Dance' February 22, 2007
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,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

Treatment of American Indian students challenged February 22, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
RAPID CITY -- An altercation last week between an American Indian student and adults at Central High School prompted a meeting of adults and students

Sitting Bull's survivors want remains moved February 22, 2007
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
Then the Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota arranged to have the family enrolled there.

McCloud River land sale tied to Shasta Dam raising proposal February 21, 2007
Mount Shasta Herald - Mt. Shasta,CA,USA
“Any raising of the dam, even a few feet, will flood some of our last remaining sacred sites on the McCloud River sites we still use today,” said Caleen

Tribes can encourage entrepreneurs, expert says February 21, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
RAPID CITY -- American Indian entrepreneurs can bring great benefits to reservations, but an expert in economic development in Indian Country said Wednesday

The Key to an Accurate Census of American Indians is Early ...February 21, 2007
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Additionally, the Census Bureau plans to conduct a series of American Indian and Alaska Native consultation meetings this year with federally recognized

Oak Grove May Be Native American Burial Site February 20, 2007
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA
Rediscovered evidence of Native American burials at the site of UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium—omitted in university environmental documents—raises new

County hears public speak about museum's Indian mound February 20, 2007
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
About 11 people, including developer William Manfull, neighbors and representatives from the American Indian Movement, spoke to commissioners during the

Indian population a factor in Az's high rate of heart disease February 19, 2007
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
American Indian populations also have seen an increase in diabetes, a disease that sometimes contributes to heart disease, Ewy said.

Sacred Medicine Lake Near Mt. Shasta Faces Destruction! February 19, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Who: Speakers at the protest include Jonothan Freeman of Seventh Generation Fund, Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites, Radley Davis and Mark LeBeau

University of Illinois ditches Indian mascot February 19, 2007
The Dartmouth - Hanover,NH,USA
The University of Illinois announced that it would stop using its Native American mascot, Chief Illiniwek, at its Urbana-Champaign campus after the last

Let us bury Chief Illiniwek, not praise him February 19, 2007
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
How so many could have reveled in watching a man dressed in feathers and buckskin and pretending to be Native American jump around a basketball court and a

Assimilation Not Elimination-Part two February 19, 2007
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
Today, there are 11500 American Indian children living in an Indian boarding school dormitory in one of 56 boarding schools, 14 peripheral dormitories or

Native radio/Web program launched February 19, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
''Kauanui's radio show brings important American Indian and indigenous voices to Connecticut's airways, providing crucial commentary rooted in the scholarly

Judge says state-recognized tribe can claim water rights February 19, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
... to as the ''Winter's Doctrine,'' gives American Indian reservations first water rights and could be applicable to tribes in the Eastern United States.

Burial mound put on auction block February 19, 2007
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
The Native American burial mound could be in jeopardy, however, as developers eye the historic site, which was put on the market recently by the South

Tribes' sovereign status under fire February 19, 2007
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
In "Indian Country," there's nothing more sacred than tribal sovereignty -- the vague legal principle that tribes are equal in stature to states and thus

Developer Bulldozing Sacred Sites in Marin County? February 19, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by brightpathvideo. Marin County has been blessed with abundant open space preserves and special locales thanks to the hard work and dedication of teams of

New Mexico concerned about Desert Rock February 19, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been working on an environmental impact statement, which inspects plants' impacts on social, economic, environmental and

Inspector general lists ethics, other problems at Interior February 17, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
Many problems plague the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including a lack of staffing and dilapidated conditions at Indian detention facilities, Devaney said.

Illiniwek's exit: Some say abrupt, some say it's about time February 17, 2007
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
In 2005, echoing the view of many Native American advocates on campus and beyond, the NCAA blasted Illiniwek as "hostile or abusive."

U of I says Chief Illiniwek will no longer perform February 16, 2007
WQAD, IL - 13 hours ago
The U-of-I today announced that the 81-year-old mascot will no longer perform at athletic events on the Urbana-Champaign campus after this season

Mashpee Wampanoag win federal recognition February 16, 2007
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe won federal recognition today as a sovereign Native American nation, capping a 32-year legal battle that will likely intensify

A history of the Wampanoag February 16, 2007
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
The council notifies the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs that the Mashpee Wampanoag intend to seek federal recognition. The Mashpee Wampanoag file suit in

Stokes: Time for new eagle feather law February 16, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
This certificate would replace the tribal enrollment requirement while ensuring that only approved participants in bona fide Native American customs are

American Indian College Fund Announces Historic Grant from Lilly ...February 16, 2007
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
To continue providing financial support to individuals such as these and the nation's tribal colleges and universities, the American Indian College Fund

Indian inmates say religious rights are being denied February 16, 2007
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — American Indian inmates at Maine State Prison have sued prison officials, alleging that their First Amendment religious rights were

University of Illinois prepares to retire Chief Illiniwek  February 16, 2007
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Last month the Oglala Sioux tribe that sold the university some of the chief's regalia, including moccasins, peace pipe pouch, breastplate and war bonnet

Heat Assistance Runs Out On Reservations February 15, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
The tribal energy coordinator says he is working with congressional delegation officials to find other funding. The tribe, on the Pine Ridge reservation,

Native meth bill clears committee February 15, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
A bill allowing Native American agencies to apply for methamphetamine-fighting grants passed the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee last week.

American Indian history revisited February 15, 2007
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
"Killing Custer" begins in 1870, six years before this battle, with the Marias Massacre, an event that shaped American Indian history drastically,

Commissioners defend at-large elections February 15, 2007
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
She is the first American Indian -- enrolled in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa -- ever elected to the Fremont County Commission.

INDIAN EDUCATION COORDINATOR February 15, 2007
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
The State of Idaho recently announced a new position at the Department of Education that would oversee all of Idaho's 4200 American Indian students from all

Politics & Policy | American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Health ...February 14, 2007
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
More than 300 Alaska Native and American Indian tribal health organizations are suing HHS' Indian Health Service for nearly $1 billion, alleging that the

Health group to push for tobacco use ban on Navajo land February 14, 2007
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
An American Indian health group is pushing the Navajo Nation Council to ban tobacco use in public places on Navajo land. The Black Hills Center for American

Anthropologists Back Native American Claims February 14, 2007
UNM Today - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... years before Judge John Jelderks found that he could not be defined Native American under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Frequently asked questions about tribal recognition February 14, 2007
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
Once a tribe is federally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or by an act of Congress, tribal officials typically negotiate a settlement agreement

Bear Butte no-alcohol zone dies February 13, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
PIERRE--A proposal to create a four-mile no-alcohol zone around Bear Butte was killed in a legislative committee Tuesday morning in Pierre.

Committee Dumps Bear Butte Bill February 13, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
The House Local Government Committee killed a bill to set up a four-mile buffer zone around Bear Butte in the Sturgis area

Indian inmates claim right to practice religion is denied February 13, 2007
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
BANGOR - American Indian inmates at Maine State Prison have sued prison officials, alleging that their First Amendment religious rights were abridged

Diabetes Rate Increased by 128% During 14-Year Period Among ...February 13, 2007
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Brosseau noted that in the past, lack of funding for American Indian and Alaska Native alcohol treatment programs resulted in increased mortality rates.

Credit union consortium looks to start a Native loan portfolio February 13, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
NCUF has started a Native American Initiative, which includes the meeting and the white paper. ''Consumer loans, auto loans, home mortgages on and off the

US, Navajo law collide at Dartmouth February 13, 2007
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
Their session was part of a campaign to educate people across the United States on American Indian sovereignty. The justices have traveled to other

County wants authority to decide liquor licenses Febrauary 12, 2007
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
PIERRE - Liquor licenses for businesses near Bear Butte, a mountain considered sacred to some Native Americans, are for the county to decide, a Meade County

9:01 am: EPA determines parcel near Church Rock is Indian Country February 12, 2007
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
ALBUQUERQUE, NM (AP) - The Navajo Nation believes a US Environmental Protection Agency ruling that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is "Indian Country"

Native Americans neglected February 12, 2007
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian - Amherst,MA,USA
Our Eurocentric textbooks fail to explain the hypocrisy behind the colonization of America - an oversight that explains the condition of Native American

INDIGENOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS STRUGGLING TO DEFEND THE ANCESTRAL ...February 12, 2007
Canada First Perspective - Scanterbury,Manitoba,Canada
This exploitation, privatisation and contamination upset the balance of cultural resources and sacred sites. As Indigenous Peoples and communities come to

Oglala Sioux Tribe to review election process February 12, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
PINE RIDGE, SD - The Oglala Sioux Tribe will bring together a three-judge panel to review the tribal election code and regulations, procedures and the

Rep. Jo Ann Davis introduces apology bill February 12, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
The Jamestown settlement, she said, survived because of the help American Indian nations provided to the colonists. Davis said the founders of the United

South Dakota tries to ban abortion, again February 12, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
However, most rapes are not reported to law enforcement, especially within the American Indian community, opponents claim. The IHS does not perform rape

American Indians Urge Oklahoma State Lawmakers to Oppose 'English ...February 9, 2007
FOX News - USA
OKLAHOMA CITY — American Indian leaders, citing a desire to preserve their native languages, urged state lawmakers Thursday to defeat "English only"

Bones of contention go home February 9, 2007
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Many museum officials feared the repatriation act would strip their shelves bare of Native American objects - which had come to them through donations,

Bill Would Limit Booze Sales Near Bear Butte February 9, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
A South Dakota House committee was urged to approve a measure that would ban businesses that sell alcohol from an area near Bear Butte, which is considered

Indigeneous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining February 8, 2007
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
He continued, "Today, large sweeps of Ansu Province--dotted with sacred sites--appear to have succumbed to an overdose of chemotherapy

Bear Butte bar bill argued, postponed February 8, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
A legislative committee on Thursday postponed action on a bill that would ban bars near Bear Butte, northeast of Sturgis. American Indians worship at Bear

Topics include civil rights, ‘rolling Indians’ February 8, 2007
Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USA
A local American Indian group held a second public meeting Tuesday night to decide what to do about racism in the Four Corners, including the possible

Bush budget slashes Indian health care, education funding February 7, 2007
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
WASHINGTON — Behind the modest funding increases in President George Bush’s proposed 2008 budget for American Indian programs lie glaring cuts in funding

Inter-American Commission Considers Global Warming-Human Rights Link February 7, 2007
Environment News Service - USA
... meet reforestation commitments to restore habitat, and violation of wilderness protections and road construction through Native American sacred sites.

Bureau holds another land trust hearing February 7, 2007
News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA
It's been a debated topic for over a year and once again the Bureau of Indian Affairs held a meeting regarding the Oneida Indian Nation's land-into trust ...

Congressional action restores UTTC funding February 7, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
The self-determination law, which carries the number PL 93-638 as amended, is simply referred to in Indian country as ''638.''

UA Web portal launching free program for tribal leaders  February 7, 2007
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The UA’s ArizonaNativeNet Web portal is launching a free distance learning program designed to give tribal leaders targeted information on American Indian

UA Web portal launching free program for tribal leaders February 6, 2007
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The UA’s ArizonaNativeNet Web portal is launching a free distance learning program designed to give tribal leaders targeted information on American Indian

Mortality rate shows disparity February 6, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
For American Indian babies born in sparsely populated areas of western South Dakota, the first year of life comes with a certain amount of risk.

North Dakota delegation criticizes Bush budget  February 6, 2007
Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck,ND,USA
3 Suggests $16 million more for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to strengthen law enforcement and counter growing methamphetamine production and use in Indian

ANWR funds again in federal budget  February 6, 2007
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
Meth abuse is rampant in Indian country and the federal government needs to act, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said Monday, but Alaska’s unique

Before the seeds come the catalogs February 5, 2007
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Native American tobacco seed is available only from Native Seed/SEARCH, which is devoted to preserving the indigenous crops of American Southwestern tribes

Panel to review OST election February 5, 2007
Rapid City Journal, SD -
Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellow Bird Steele is bringing in a three-judge panel from outside the tribe to study the 2006 OST election in a move that

Senate committee approves BIA nomination February 5, 2007
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
WASHINGTON - The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has approved Carl J. Artman to be head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, trying for a second time to fill a

Native trackers to patrol US border February 5, 2007
The Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei Darussalam
AN ELITE group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the US'

2007 State of Indian Nations address promises steady push on ...February 5, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
And NCAI's call for federal cooperation against methamphetamine or ''meth'' abuse and trafficking in Indian country has been met, he said

Tiny, remote tribe in East County owes existence to late matriarch February 5, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
Officials at the US Bureau of Indian Affairs are unable to confirm that information, saying it would require an exhaustive search of the agency's archives

Indians' voting rights trial set for today February 5, 2007
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
"Plaintiffs' desire to elect an American Indian candidate to the Commission is nothing more than a desire for racial or tribal cohesion, not political

Dorgan Introduces Legisltion to Help Prevent Child Abuse, Teen Suicide February 2, 2007
Tulsa Native American Times - Tulsa,OK,USA
“Suicide is often linked with child abuse, and we must put an end to the high number of cases of suicide and child abuse in Indian Country,” said Dorgan.

State of the Tribal Nations: Speech mixes optimism with struggles February 2, 2007
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
"Something is wrong" in Indian Country, which has a 50 percent unemployment rate compared to the state's overall 2.8 percent rate, said Venne

School Hears Calls to End Mascot's Act February 2, 2007
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
In 1982, during a trip to the Pine Ridge reservation, the school's former band director purchased the outfit from tribal elder Frank Fools Crow for $3500.

Wisconsin Man to Head US Bureau of Indian Affairs February 2, 2007
WSAW - Wausau,WI,USA
A Wisconsin Oneida man will become the head of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. President Bush nominated Carl Artman to oversee the agency in August

'Indian Pride': Coming to a public television station near you February 2, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
18 at the National Museum of the American Indian. The evening reception featured the world premiere of the half-hour public television production

Newcomb: Anti-Indian rhetoric in the 21st century February 2, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Every area of Indian country seems to have its own version of the anti-Indian movement. It is a movement that crafts messages by using some of the deepest

Indians' heritage, eagles collide February 2, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
American Indians across the nation revere the eagle as a sacred bird, and many of the estimated 46000 practitioners of American Indian religions require the

Native Americans and Environmentalists Resist Energy Development ...February 1, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Native American rights activists and environmentalists gathered at Calpine headquarters in San Jose today to dissuade the energy company from its decades

Enviromentalists say proposed coal power plants will give region a ...February 1, 2007
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
A draft environmental impact statement on the project prepared by the Bureau of Indian Affairs is due in February, according to the project’s Web site

State Senator introduces bill for the third time to require voters ...February 1, 2007
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... a US passport, US naturalization documents or other documents established as proof of citizenship, a Bureau of Indian Affairs card or a tribal treaty card.

Couple first to get loan to build on tribal land February 1, 2007
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
... a local bank to build a house on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation, a milestone in the history of home ownership on any American Indian reservation

State board to consider question of Native American mascots February 1, 2007
Ashland City Times - Ashland City,TN,USA
In 2005, the TCIA voted to endorse the “Resolution for the Discontinuation of Native American Indian mascots in the State of Tennessee.” ...