Health & Social ServicesEastern Band of Cherokee
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Cherokee-run welfare office provides easier access to aid (5/22/2013)
(North Carolina) -- From the outside, Sandy Cloer’s office doesn’t look like much — not even a real office, in fact. The three double-wide trailers...
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Pine Ridge
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Creative Solutions May Help Fix Housing Crisis (5/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- In Thursday's Eye On KELOLAND, we introduced you to people living through a housing crisis on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It's a big...
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Native Sun News: Children in Pine Ridge village get place to play (5/2/2013)
(South Dakota) -- At last count, there were 70 residents living in the community of Red Shirt Village. The colorful HUD houses of the small community are set against the...
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Internet Sweepstake Cafes
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Internet cafe law may have unintended targets (5/16/2013)
(Florida) -- House Bill 155 was designed to sweep the state of illegal gambling cafes, and it worked. Internet cafes from Jacksonville to Key West have closed.
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Internet cafe fallout's 'personal side' (4/28/2013)
(Florida) -- The 62 computer screens are dark and the plush chairs are empty. Lucky Lady Sweepstakes on North Dixie Freeway is closed — one of more than 1,000...
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Seniors say they suffer after Florida closes Internet cafes (4/21/2013)
(Florida) -- Amanda Geter sits on her red sofa, fumbling through her purse. She thumbs through a fistful of credit cards until she locates what had proved so elusive.
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Adoption
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Fears adoption could spark new Stolen Generation (5/13/2013)
(Australia) -- The Northern Territory Chief Minister's suggestion Aboriginal children should be adopted when necessary for their protection has been met with an...
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Native daughter: the baby Ashlyn story (5/10/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- There are about half a million people in Oklahoma who are documented members of a Native American tribe, between 10 and 15 percent of the statewide...
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ABOUREZK: State senator seeking to reduce removal of Native children (4/16/2013)
(Nebraska) -- She would wear moccasins and put her hair in braids. Even before she knew who she really was, Karen Hardenbrook wanted to be Native. She even accepted the...
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Fighting to keep Native children at home (4/14/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Indian Child Welfare Act agencies on the South Dakota reservations are hoping the lawsuit filed against the state of South Dakota will bring attention...
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Native Voices
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WALN: School Boards are responsible for the mental health of students (5/13/2013)
(USA) -- May is designated as Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Balanced children are mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually healthy. Schools...
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HARRIS: In Support of the Indian Child Welfare Act (5/1/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- I am outraged by Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. As a lifelong civil rights activist, I remember the struggle to pass the Indian...
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FORQUERA: American Indians are moving to cities (4/18/2013)
(Washington) -- Seattle is more typical of the urban Indian experience [“Reservation-system questions raised as Indians head for cities,” front page, April...
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PEMBER: Diabetes Watch: It Is Possible to Break the Sugar-Salt Addiction (4/16/2013)
(USA) -- At this time, I was finding that there were several things I could no longer do—or was too embarrassed to do—because of my size.
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First Nations Politics
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APTN’s political panel discusses feds responsibility to sick First Nations children – Part 1 (5/11/2013)
(Canada) -- This week’s political panel delved into the government’s responsibility towards sick First Nations children and the highly anticipated byelection...
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APTN’s political panel discusses feds responsibility to sick First Nations children – Part 2 (5/11/2013)
(Canada) -- This week’s political panel delved into the government’s responsibility towards sick First Nations children and the highly anticipated byelection...
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Census
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The Aboriginal population: younger and more troubled (5/8/2013)
(Ottawa) -- The dry data of the National Household Survey paints a grim picture of the challenges facing Canada’s First Nations youth. But what, if anything, can...
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Baby Veronica
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BREWER: The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part I (5/7/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- It is dinner time at the Brown home in Oklahoma. As dusk settles over the horizon, ground venison sizzles in a skillet on the stove as Veronica Brown and...
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Panelists discuss Supreme Court case (5/6/2013)
(New Hampshire) -- In April, the Supreme Court heard the Baby Veronica case, officially titled Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, and will soon rule whether custody of a half...
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MORON ALERT: Jacqueline Pata Talks ICWA on MSNBC Show Concerning 'Baby Snatching' (5/1/2013)
(New York) -- On MSNBC Sunday morning, April 28, TV host Melissa Harris-Perry likened the removal of American Indian children from their tribal communities, placed in...
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Baby Veronica inspires petition to change ICWA (4/22/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- After 18 happy months in his Owasso home, Ross Harp’s foster son was taken away for just one reason, Harp said. “We’re white, and the...
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Native American Adoption Law Reviewed by High Court (4/22/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Supreme Court could determine the impact of a federal law that gives jurisdiction over adoptions of American Indian children to tribal...
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State of Miss., Choctaws want federal adoption act left intact (4/21/2013)
(Mississippi) -- A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could determine the future impact of a federal law that gives jurisdiction over adoptions of American Indian...
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Baby Veronica: Reading the SCOTUS Tea Leaves (4/19/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Supreme Court of the United States allows no cameras to record oral arguments, but they have allowed audio recordings. Wide access to the...
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Child Caught In Battle Over US Tribal Rights (4/18/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- America's highest court is deciding the fate of a three-year-old girl who was adopted at birth but then forcibly returned to her Native American...
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American Indian tribes to pay close attention to Supreme Court oral arguments on custody case (4/16/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- American Indian tribes across the country will be closely monitoring the oral arguments at the Supreme Court Tuesday in the case called Adoptive Parents v...
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ANTI-NATIVE: Man's Native American roots offer exemption in adoption laws and let him take back daughter from adoptive family (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- A man was able to use his Native American roots to secure custody of a two-year-old child he had fathered but signed away all custody rights to,...
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Group proposes changes to Indian adoption law (4/16/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Baby Veronica: A law gives tribal members preference when placing Indian children for adoption. As the U.S. Supreme Court hears the Baby Veronica case...
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High court wrestles with Indian adoption dispute (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Supreme Court is trying to sort out a wrenching adoption case involving a Native American child, a biological father who first renounced any...
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Justices Hear Case of Indian Child Caught in Custody Fight (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- A Supreme Court argument on Tuesday over the fate of a 3-year-old girl operated on three levels: as a wrenching adoption dispute, as a technical...
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Native American adoption case creates high court rift (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- One is the biological father of nine children. The other is the adoptive father of two. Sitting side by side as always Tuesday on the Supreme Court...
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Native American adoption case reaches US top court (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday from a couple ordered to turn over the two-year-old girl they had raised since birth to her...
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NEW YORK TIMES: A Wrenching Adoption Case (4/16/2013)
(New York) -- The Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978 to prevent state and local welfare offices from separating Indian children from their parents, many without...
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Senator Who Drafted Law In 'Baby Veronica' Case Says Its Repeal Would Be 'Tragic' (4/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in the oddly named and much watched Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl case. And the more you dig into...
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Supreme Court conflicted about what law dictates for Baby Veronica (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Supreme Court justices appeared deeply conflicted Tuesday as they considered the fate of Baby Veronica, whose adoptive parents were ordered to...
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Supreme Court to consider Indian Child Welfare Act ruling (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- For the first time since 1989, the United States Supreme Court will consider a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
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Supreme Court to hear child custody fight; at crux is law on tribal rights (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- US Supreme Court on Tuesday hears an appeal of an adoptive couple seeking the return of the girl they raised for two years. The child now lives with...
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WASHINGTON POST: Indian Child Welfare Act may need some limits (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- IMAGINE ONE of those wrenching custody cases in which every side seems to have the child’s interests at heart but almost every fact is...
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OP/ED: The adoption industry's ugly side (4/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. The facts of the case are straightforward: A South...
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Portland group plays role in Native American adoption case before Supreme Court (4/16/2013)
(Oregon) -- Today, U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl — or, as it’s widely known, the "Baby Veronica"...
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Spirit Lake Tribe
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Keeping Indian children safe an ongoing challenge (5/5/2013)
(North Dakota) -- On a Spirit Lake reservation torn by factional infighting, the leader of an American Indian advocacy group arrives to find 25 percent of all Dakota...
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BIA superintendent, criticized by some, takes early retirement (5/1/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Rod Cavanaugh, superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency at Fort Totten, N.D., and a key figure in the continuing child protection issue at...
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At reservation, challenge can be to keep Indian children safe – and Indian (4/20/2013)
(North Dakota) -- On a Spirit Lake reservation torn by factional infighting, the leader of an American Indian advocacy group arrives to find 25 percent of all Dakota...
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Spirit Lake Nation Elders Vote to Oust Tribal Council (4/13/2013)
(North Dakota) -- More than 30 Spirit Lake tribal elders took the unusual step of demanding new leadership on Thursday, angered by allegations of corruption and...
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Tribal Elders vote to expel entire council (4/12/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Tribal Elders on the Spirit Lake Nation voted late Thursday afternoon with an overwhelming majority to oust the entire tribal council.
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Attawapiskat
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Attawapiskat evacuating hospital due to sewer backup (4/29/2013)
(Ontario) -- Melting snow in Attawapiskat has caused sewers to back up, sending effluent into homes and buildings. Arrangements are being made this afternoon to move 10...
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Red Lake Tribe
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'Twilight' actor part of Red Lake youth conference (4/28/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Red Lake Tribal Council is hosting its annual Youth Leadership Conference this week — and it will feature an appearance by an American Indian...
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Red Lake’s Earth Day Event Focuses on Healthy Homes (4/23/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Healthy Homes is the theme for Aki Giizhigad, or Earth Day events at Red Lake on Thursday, April 25. All events are being held at the Seven Clans Casino...
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Residential Schools
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Abused aboriginal children's archive of pain grows (4/28/2013)
(Saskatchewan) -- Justice Murray Sinclair has travelled across Canada collecting nightmares for almost four years now.
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Florida Gaming
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Florida Bill Would Ban Public Assistance EBT Withdrawals at Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, Casinos (4/13/2013)
(Florida) -- A proposed bill in the Florida state senate would ban people who receive public assistance from withdrawing money from their electronic benefits transfer...
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Other News
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KENT: Native children belong in Native homes (5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- I could fill volumes with the tripe I receive whenever I write about a Native American issue; and usually from the same select herd of Einsteins (no...
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Native Sun News: State officials absent at ICWA summit (5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Tearful testimony marked the first day of the Indian Child Welfare Act Summit on Wednesday, May 15. Mothers and grandmothers, some unable to tell their...
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Tribal Social Service Department family forum set for May 30 in Arlee (5/23/2013)
(Montana) -- The Tribal Social Services Department is hosting a family forum for all community members. This is the second of three Family Forum event that will take...
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Phoenix Sinclair’s godmother embarks on hunger strike (5/22/2013)
(Manitoba) -- The Manitoba woman who took care of Phoenix Sinclair for much of the girl's short, tragic life spent in and out of foster care has set up a tent on the...
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Health reforms penalize some Indians (5/22/2013)
(California) -- When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in...
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Tribal Leaders Support Governor Brewer On Medicaid Expansion (5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- Tribal leaders passed a resolution supporting Governor Jan Brewer's Medicaid Expansion Effort at the May 17, 2013 meeting of the Arizona Indian Gaming...
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SD social services wants tribes' lawsuit tossed (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The head of South Dakota's Department of Social Services asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by two tribes alleging that the state routinely...
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FEMA begins assessing local damage; Individual reimbursements not available (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency began working with local officials this week regarding reimbursements for an April ice storm that caused...
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Help For Cherokee Mothers (5/21/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A nationally-recognized health program launched today to help low income mothers in the Cherokee community.
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Medical emergency response times improve on Reservations (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Response times to medical emergencies on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations have historically been slow because of the long distances from Flagstaff Medical...
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Organization hopes to increase awareness of hazards in homes on Hopi Rez (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Multiple tribal departments, Hopi villages, federal agencies, and organizations are joining forces to create a public outreach strategy for addressing...
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Oklahoma firms support relief efforts after tornado (5/21/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- ... Several Schnake Turnbo Frank clients, including the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association and the Oklahoma Pork Association, had previously planned blood...
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HIV Infections Increasing Among Navajo Tribe, Intensity in Impoverished Regions (5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- An alarmingly high number of HIV infections have been reported on a Navajo reservation near Arizona. This brings a huge concern to public health workers who...
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Rise in HIV Cases on Navajo Nation Spur Fears of an Epidemic (5/20/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Doctors on the Navajo Nation fear the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may become an epidemic on the reservation if education and prevention outreach...
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Native Americans may be affected by US health insurance mandate (5/20/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The impact that the Affordable Care Act will have on the U.S. health insurance sector is often a matter of heated debate. Those supporting the...
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New Milwaukee Group Supports Native American Women (5/20/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- Even though the Native American population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is small—just 0.9 percent according to the 2010 Census—a group of Native...
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Aboriginal advocates warn of youth suicide spike (5/20/2013)
(Australia) -- Western Australia's Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda and Mental Health Commissioner Eddie Bartnik are among a large group of people at a crisis...
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Health reforms could penalize some Nevada Indians (5/19/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- On one hand, Angie Wilson said she’s looking forward to when the health care overhaul takes full effect in 2014 — it’ll allow the...
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Riverwind Casino to host blood drive (5/19/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Riverwind Casino invites everyone to give blood from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday. The blood drive is one of 10 hosted by local casinos teaming up to...
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AP Exclusive: Health reforms penalize some Indians (5/18/2013)
(California) -- When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in...
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