May 2006

• Native American grads get wish, may wear eagle feathers on caps May 25, 2006
  Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
  Thanks to an appeal by tribal leaders to school administrators, a group of Native American students at Westwood High School in Mesa got their graduation wish ...

• Tribes file lawsuit to stop BIA school reorganization May 25, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... “It will bring in a higher level of people to provide management and tools to almost 50,000 students in 184 schools across Indian Country,” Darling said. ...

• ID requirement Challenges to voting law stacking up May 25, 2006
  Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
  An American Indian tribe and others said the requirement to show identification at ... the latest lawsuit include the Hopi Tribe, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona ...

• Indian nations join in tax-free cigarette fight May 25, 2006
  Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
  ... Cigarette sales to American Indian customers are tax exempt, but state law requires businesses to collect taxes on sales to non-Indians.

• Anglos once were the immigrants May 24, 2006
  Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX -
  ... destructive immigrant practices such as greed and elitism that were brought here ... their own historical facts: they are descendants of immigrants who came ...

• Devil's Tower National Monument has new manager May 24, 2006
  KRTV - Great Falls,MT,USA
  ... FireCloud holds a law degree from the University of New Mexico. She has worked previously with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and the US Forest Service.

• Peoria Tribe gets money to help with wildlife conservation May 24, 2006
  KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
  ... recognized American Indian tribes will get mor than one-point-7 (m) million dollars to manage, conserve and protect fish and wildlife resources on tribal lands

• Students, school clash on graduation feathers May 24, 2006
  AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
  A group of Native American students at Mesa's Westwood High School are ... Schools officials to discuss the situation at Westwood, Tribal Council member Ricardo ...

• Bank of America Community Development Lending Exceeds $85 Billion May 24, 2006
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  ... goal, Bank of America has also earmarked $25 billion to stimulate affordable housing, job creation, and economic opportunity in rural markets and Indian Country ...

• Mashpee Wampanoag ponder federal recognition status May 24, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts gathered at Harvard University's Peabody Museum on April ...

• News briefs from Southern California May 24, 2006
  Monterey County Herald, CA - 8 hours ago
  ... (AP) - The US Supreme Court refused to intervene in a long-running lawsuit filed by an American Indian family fighting to remain in the Pechanga Tribe of ...

• Clinic protest planned May 24, 2006
  Rapid City Journal, SD - 2 hours ago
  PINE RIDGE -- American Indian elders, youths and community members will meet today to organize a march protesting a proposed women's clinic offering abortion ...

• NSU to change `Redmen' nickname May 24, 2006
  KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
  ... The name change is voluntary and isn'ta result of pressure from the NCAA, which in August banned the use of some American Indian mascots by sports teams during ...

• Court Rejects American Indian Argument for Hemp Farming May 18, 2006
  FOX News - USA
  SIOUX FALLS, SD — An American Indian treaty and US law do not allow industrial hemp to be grown on an Indian reservation, a federal appeals court ruled ...

• Native leader says culture aids suicides May 18, 2006
  Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
  ... Martin was one of several witnesses who told the US Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday that while the causes of Native American suicide are ...

• Voting-rights report slams SD May 18, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... That contributed to other problems within Indian country, including high pervasive poverty and high dropout and infant mortality rates, she said. ...

• School OKs American Indian garb at commencement May 18, 2006
  WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
  LAFAYETTE, NY Officials at a Syracuse-area school will allow a group of graduating seniors to wear traditional American Indian garb during commencement ...

• Student given ok to wear regalia May 18, 2006
  News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA
  ... The seniors who choose to wear Indian regalia must have their outfits approved by the school's Native American counselor before wearing it at the June 25th ...

• White construction worker sues Colville tribe May 18, 2006
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
  ... two Colville tribal corporations, contending that racial slurs by American Indian co-workers ... shields tribal for-profit corporations doing off-reservation work.

• Native Indian reserves brace for opportunists May 13, 2006
  Reuters Canada, Canada -
  ... Many native reserves are rural and offer few employment opportunities, leaving many residents to live in poverty. Mason said many

• Navajo power plant lease approved, opponents vow to fight May 13, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
  A $2.5 billion coal-fired power plant that Navajo Nation officials are touting as one of the largest economic development projects in Indian Country is one ...

• Navajo council approves lease for power plant May 13, 2006
  KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
  ... billion dollar coal-fired power plant that Navajo Nation officials are touting as one of the largest economic development projects in Indian Country came one ...

• Indian Center Needs Funding May 13, 2006
  Yankton Daily Press - Yankton,SD,USA
  FORT PIERRE (AP) -- The state's congressional delegation is trying to secure more federal money for an American Indian reconciliation center being built near ...

• Hundreds rally in opposition to reservation meth use May 13, 2006
  Billings Gazette - MT, USA
  ... Tribal Council next week to join a Cooperative Agency Task Force that is being created and includes law enforcement from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the FBI...

• Man convicted of drug deals on reservations appeals life sentence May 13, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  DENVER - An attorney for a man serving life in prison for selling nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine on a Wyoming Indian reservation told a federal appeals ...

• Geronimo Descendant Will Ask Bushes to Help Return Warrior's ...May 13, 2006
  New West - Missoula,MT,USA
  ... An active member of the Mescalero Apache Tribal Council until he retired five ... from the presidential family, he has called on Native American medicine people ...

• Fire Thunder confirms plans for clinic May 13, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... Fire Thunder is one of the leaders advocating for the creation of a South Dakota Indian Gaming Association to better negotiate compacts and promote gaming.

• Pine Ridge radio station tries to get back on air after lightning May 13, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  ... that serves the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation off ... basketball and baseball tournaments and tribal council meetings ... Oglala Lakota College has committed some money ...

• Tribal leaders meet to discuss Haskell funding May 13, 2006
  Kansas City Star - MO,USA
  ... Vigil said Haskell will begin asking more American Indian associations and tribes to add the school to its lobbying priorities, selling the school rather than ...

• Caledonia Occupation - End May Be in Sight May 12, 2006
  CD98.9, Canada - 4 hours ago
  Potential good news for residents of residents of Caledonia. Federal, provincial and aboriginal negotiators met again today in a

• Indigenous join global protest of Newmont gold mining practices May 12, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. - Western Shoshone and Colville tribal members protested in early May at Newmont Mining Corp.'s annual shareholders ...

• Graduating seniors want to honor their American Indian heritage May 12, 2006
  Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA
  LAFAYETTE, NY (AP) — Six seniors are asking officials in this rural upstate New York school district to let them graduate wearing their traditional Onondaga ...

• Haskell president to retire May 11, 2006
  Lawrence Journal World, KS -
  ... “We want to let them know what we do here, what our needs are and the role that Haskell plays in Indian Country,” said Regents President Gil Vigil.

• In Navajo country, a battle brews over proposed power ...May 11, 2006
  Santa Fe New Mexican, NM - May 10, 2006
  ... But this is also the center of a brewing battle over what would be one of the biggest economic development projects ever in Indian Country _ a $2.5 billion coal ...

• Schools in trouble no surprise May 11, 2006
  Helena Independent Record, MT -
  ... flunking No Child Left Behind rules. And every single one of them was in Indian country. Conditions on the state’s reservations

• Buffalo herd helps tribe reconnect with past May 11, 2006
  Indian Country Today, NY -
  By Debbie Bryce -- Idaho State Journal. FORT HALL, Idaho (AP) - On a 4,300-acre range on the Fort Hall river bottoms, a piece of

• Jail requests magazines to help pass time May 11, 2006
  Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
  ... a desire for other kinds of magazines, Caron said, especially back issues of the black-oriented periodicals Jet and Essence and Indian Country Today, which ...

• Grant helps American Indians become administrators  May 10, 2006
  Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
  ... The students in the grant program must be of American Indian descent and must also write an essay about why they want to be principals and serve American ...

• Educators to learn how to pinpoint learning problems May 10, 2006
  ESU News and Events - Emporia,KS,USA
  ... She taught and served as diagnostician for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Arizona and Alaska and was the director of a teacher-training program for the

• Letter May Back Yale Claim On Geronimo May 10, 2006
  CBS News - USA
  ... society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. ... actually those of the famed Indian leader ... ancestral tribal lands and force them onto reservations.

• Reservation school nearly complete May 10, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  RED SHIRT, SD - A twin-domed school being built at Red Shirt, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is nearly finished. The building ...

• Blackfeet council member arrested May 10, 2006
  Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
  A Blackfeet Tribal Business Council member was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to a Bureau of Indian Affairs spokesman, but the BIA official did not ...
   
• MTSU scientist helping solve mystery of ancient skeleton May 10, 2006
  Robertson County Times - TN,USA
  ... Kennewick Man was originally thought to be Native American but his facial structure appears to be more European in origin, and more closely resembles natives ...

• Eighth annual NAMMY nominees announced May 10, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  NEW YORK - On April 15, the Native American Music Awards announced the nominees for this year's eighth annual awards program, which will take place June 8. ...

• Lobbyist with Hoosier ties admits role in bribery plot May 10, 2006
  Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
  ... The court papers also say that after asking Volz what Abramoff wanted the congressman to say, Ney assured an American Indian tribe in Texas that Abramoff was ...

• Akaka Bill Should Be Opposed by US Senate May 10, 2006
  Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
  ... Our most tragic experiences have occurred when we have treated people differently based upon race, whether they were African-Americans, Native American or of ...

• Canadian history, at a price May 10, 2006
  Globe and Mail - Canada
  ... According to the venerable auction house, the collection is "believed to be the most historically significant group of American Indian art ever to be offered ...

• Grant loss saddens some May 10, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  RAPID CITY -- For some American Indian parents in the Rapid City School District, news that the Bush administration had eliminated the $16.4 million Johnson-O ...

• Puyallups seeking funds for new jail May 10, 2006
  Seattle Times - United States
  ... In the letter, Indian-affairs committee members pointed to the many problems facing Indian country, including rates of poverty, alcoholism, tuberculosis and ...

• Asetoyer's platform based on women's and family rights May 10, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... Charon Asetoyer, Comanche, is one of those women. She is one of 10 American Indian candidates who is vying for a seat in the state Legislature. ...

• Another Idaho School Receives Million-Dollar Gift To Help Indians May 10, 2006
  KIFI - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
  ... the school's first endowed professorship. It's in the Native American Business Administration program. Anne Voilleque and Louise ...

• Navajo Head Start funding suspended May 4, 2006
  Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
  ... to one of the nation's largest American Indian Head Start ... Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr., tribal Head Start ... members of the Navajo Council Education Committee ...

• Indian groups plan protests during Sturgis biker week May 4, 2006
  Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
  ... he will be able to draw upscale crowds and stage country music festivals at ... Opponents talked at length about Bear Butte and its role in American Indian culture ...

• Indian community earned respect May 4, 2006
  Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
  ... anymore. Why is it that the non-Indian always has a higher and better use for the American Indian's land and water (and their money)? ...

• Diné won't join NCAI May 4, 2006
  Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
  ... the Navajos as a leader among Indian nations, it's ... need for unity and cooperation among tribal governments for ... sovereign rights for all Native American nations ...

• Abenaki celebrate recognition May 4, 2006
  BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
  ... American Indians in Vermont as a minority population, allowing members to seek American-Indian college scholarships and sell crafts labeled as Native American. ...

• BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS APPROVES AGREEMENT WITH CROW TRIBE May 4, 2006
  Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
  ... GP Energy") GPE.V is pleased to report that it has received the final signed and approved lease agreement from the Bureau of Indian Affairs between GPE Energy ...

• Hawaiians Challenge US Violations May 4, 2006
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
  ... ongoing human rights violations against native Hawaiians since ... with the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, a second ... and only remotely addresses American Indians and ...

• South Dakota minority students' needs aren't ignored, official ...May 4, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... Cook, who taught 14 years in tribal schools before moving to Rapid City, said the ... into the curriculum, and the goal is to get more American Indian students to ...

• Teenager dies during horse ride May 2, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... BUTTE -- As part of his American Indian tradition, Morgan ... family and the Cheyenne River Tribal Law Enforcement ... Grass on Cheyenne River Indian Reservation when ...

• Court backs US on AIM prosecution May 2, 2006
  Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
  The government had the right to prosecute American Indian activist Leonard Peltier for crimes that occurred on a South Dakota reservation, a federal appeals ...

• Report: People of color don't receive adequate health care May 2, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... suffer from this disease. ''We really don't know the full extent of cancer in Indian country,'' she said. SEER, the government's

• Event will address HIV/AIDS in Natives May 2, 2006
  Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
  ... a video about an Alaska Native man diagnosed ... will include research, mental health, education and prevention ... First Nations people from Canada and American Indians ...

• 'Death to Meth' boasts message May 2, 2006
  Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
  ... Indian Health Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Department of Public Health will establish booths and offer information about meth use with recovery and ...
   
• Budget-Cutting Endangers Indian Clinics May 2, 2006
  Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
  ... Eight of the targeted clinics are in California, including United American Indian Involvement in downtown Los Angeles, near Good Samaritan Hospital; the San

• Groups honors leaders in American Indian education May 2, 2006
  KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA
  GREAT FALLS The Montana Indian Education Association has announced its 2006 award winners in Indian education efforts. Sandra Murie ...

• Tribes intervene in Yellowbear case May 2, 2006
  The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
  ... Brannan added that he believes federal courts will uphold the status of Riverton as part of “Indian country,” which would invalidate Yellowbear’s ...

• Hometown Prosperity Plan set to spur Plains economy May 2, 2006
  Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
  ... The area hit hard by last summer's Hurricane Katrina will be rebuilt, but that could never happen in Indian country, according to Harold Frazier, chairman of ...

• Ute Mountain Utes want new agent; BIA lacks law enforcement ...May 2, 2006
  Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USA
  The US Bureau of Indian Affairs' law enforcement arm is investigating complaints from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council about Towaoc's BIA supervisory ...