PassingNative Voices
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LaDUKE: A great chief, Randy Kapashesit, passes on (5/14/2012)
(Minnesota) -- "Moose Factory, Ontario: When Chief Randy Kapashesit returned this time his remote community in northern Ontario, the earth shook: tremors of 4.4...
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LADUKE: A Great Chief, Randy Kapashesit, Passes On (5/13/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Moose Factory, Ontario: When Chief Randy Kapashesit returned this time his remote community in northern Ontario, the earth shook: tremors of 4.4 shook the...
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Doug George-Kanentiio: On Audrey Shenandoah's passing (3/28/2012)
(New York) -- When Onondaga Nation Clanmother Audrey Shenandoah-Gonwaiani passed into the spirit world on March 15 not only her family and community mourned but the...
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Cobell
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The burial of Elouise Cobell (11/22/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell filed her class action suit in 1996 and originally thought it would take only three years to resolve the issues. She joined Interior...
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OP/ED: Native American rights: Elouise Cobell, 'Blackfoot warrior,' R.I.P. (10/29/2011)
(Oregon) -- It is the rare human being who gets to be enshrined in the pantheon of heroes. I remember the Herblock cartoon that came out the day after Dwight Eisenhower...
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COMMENTARY: A Blackfeet Warrior Who Enforced Federal Promises (10/27/2011)
(USA) -- Elouise Cobell was a warrior, as Jim Scott, vice chairman of the board of directors for Montana’s First Interstate Bank, told mourners at her funeral...
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Exclusive: President Barack Obama Remembers Elouise Cobell (10/27/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- With the passing of Elouise Cobell, a proud member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, we have lost a champion of Native American rights. Her...
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Nick Rahall to Speak on Elouise Cobell in Front of House of Representatives (10/25/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- The honorable Nick J. Rahall, III of West Virginia will take to the floor of the House of Representatives today and deliver a speech in honor of the...
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Blackfeet, friends and admirers pay tribute to Cobell's courage (10/24/2011)
(Montana) -- Lifelong friends and government dignitaries joined the family of Elouise Pepion Cobell to celebrate and honor her life at a funeral Mass on Saturday in the...
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Cancer claims Cobell, warrior of the people (10/23/2011)
(Arizona) -- Throughout the 16 years she pursued litigation against the federal government on behalf of 500,000 holders of individual Indian trust accounts, Elouise...
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Native Americans come from across U.S. to pay respects to Cobell (10/22/2011)
(Montana) -- They came from the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, from the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, from the Seminole Tribe in Florida.
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Woman behind Indian trust case remembered for grit (10/22/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell was remembered on Saturday as a warrior whose compassion and grit drove her to dedicate the last 16 years of her life to holding the U.S....
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Elouise Cobell’s Documentarian Says Goodbye (10/21/2011)
(California) -- Melinda Janko, a filmmaker with Fire in the Belly Productions, has been following Elouise Cobell around the country for years, documenting the latest...
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Cancer claims Cobell, warrior of the people (10/20/2011)
(Arizona) -- Throughout the 16 years she pursued litigation against the federal government on behalf of 500,000 holders of individual Indian trust accounts, Elouise...
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GERARD: Remembering Elouise Cobell (10/20/2011)
(USA) -- The Cobell Family, the Blackfeet Tribe and Indian country has lost a tireless and intelligent leader whose perseverance contributed $3.4 billion in...
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PASSING: Elouise Cobell (10/19/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, whose Blackfeet name was Yellow Bird Woman and who has died aged 65, sued the United States government for billions of dollars plundered...
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Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk statement on the passing of Elouise Cobell (10/18/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- Indian Country, as well as the entire nation, has lost a champion of human rights. Elouise Cobell battled to make our country acknowledge historical...
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Cobell funeral service set for Saturday (10/18/2011)
(Montana) -- A funeral service for Native American activist Elouise Cobell will be held Saturday in Browning. Family spokesman Bill McAllister says the funeral will be...
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Elouise Cobell's impact felt far beyond the Blackfeet Reservation (10/18/2011)
(Montana) -- The death of Elouise Cobell, the famed woman who led a 15-year fight for Native Americans' land rights, is being felt all the way from the Blackfeet...
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Indian Country mourns passing of Elouise Cobell (10/18/2011)
(Montana) -- The Blackfeet woman responsible for the successful 14-year legal battle with the federal government over Indian Trust Fund accounts has passed away. Elouise...
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OP/ED:" Cobell embodied fighting spirit (10/18/2011)
(Montana) -- The tributes and remembrances began showing up first thing Monday morning, and continued all day. Sen. Max Baucus called Elouise Cobell “a warrior for...
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Secretary Salazar statement on the passing of Elouise Cobell (10/18/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- I am deeply saddened by the loss of Elouise Cobell, who dedicated her life to the betterment of Indian people. She sought justice to address...
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Blackfeet Woman Sued Washington for Unpaid Indian Royalties (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell's determination to see justice done for thousands of Indians resulted in a recent $3.4 billion settlement, among the largest government...
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Elouise Cobell dies at 65; Native American activist (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, the treasurer of the Blackfeet tribe who tenaciously pursued a lawsuit that accused the federal government of cheating Native Americans out...
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Elouise Cobell, Blackfeet woman and pioneer of Indian trust lawsuit, dies (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet woman who led the largest lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of Native Americans, died Sunday at a hospital in...
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Elouise Cobell, Native Leader Dies in Montana (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, an enrolled member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe who led a 16-year landmark legal fight to get the federal government to pay an...
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Leader in Indian trust lawsuit dies (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet Indian who fought the federal government for 15 years over the mismanagement of individual Indian trust accounts, died Sunday...
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Leader in Indian trust lawsuit dies (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, who led a 15-year fight to clean up the federal government's management of individual Indian trust accounts, died Sunday in Montana,...
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Native American leader Elouise Cobell dies at 65 (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell took personally the death of each American Indian who never saw a dime in the U.S. government's $3.4 billion settlement in a long battle...
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Obama, other top officials, comment on Cobell's death (10/17/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- "Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Elouise Cobell yesterday. Elouise spoke out when she saw that the Interior...
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UM Students, Staff Mourn Elouise Cobell (10/17/2011)
(Montana) -- The Blackfeet woman who took on the Department of Interior to win a record $3.4 billion settlement for Indian people has died in Great Falls. Elouise Cobell...
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Call For Claims In Native American Class Action Suit (10/17/2011)
(Wyoming) -- Keepseagle vs Vilsack class action lawsuit stems from a more than a decade old lawsuit claiming that the US Department of Agriculture discriminated against...
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Elouise Cobell, force behind Indian trust case, dies at 65 (10/16/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet woman from Browning who won a historic $3.4 billion settlement for Indian people cheated by the federal government, died...
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Indian leader Elouise Cobell dies (10/16/2011)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell, who spearheaded a legal campaign that resulted in a historic multi-billion settlement on behalf of Native Americans, has died.
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Residential Schools
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Residential school pain eased by teen's funeral (10/26/2011)
(Canada) -- The funeral was for Charlie Hunter, a teenager who died nearly 40 years ago while attending residential school. He was buried in Moose Factory, hundreds of...
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Aquash Murder
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Theda Clarke, Suspect in 1975 AIM Killing, Dies (10/12/2011)
(Nebraska) -- Theda Clarke, Oglala Sioux Tribe member and activist with the American Indian Movement most known for her connections in the 1975 killing of fellow AIM...
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AIM Member Suspected, Not Charged in Killing Dies (10/11/2011)
(Nebraska) -- An 87-year-old woman suspected of being involved but never charged in the 1975 killing of a fellow American Indian Movement activist in South Dakota has...
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Former AIM activist connected to Aquash case dies at 87 (10/11/2011)
(Nebraska) -- Theda Clarke, the former American Indian Movement activist often mentioned in connection with the 1975 murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, died Saturday at...
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Former AIM Activist Theda Clarke Dies (10/11/2011)
(Nebraska) -- A woman in her 80s who was suspected but never charged in the 1975 killing of a fellow American Indian Movement activist has died at a nursing home in...
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Other News
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Navajo Police Sgt. Darrell Curley remembered at National Police Week memorial events (5/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Navajo Police Sgt. Darrell Curley, who was shot and killed after responding to a domestic dispute between two brothers in Kaibito, Ariz., June 26,...
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Code talker dies in Farmington (5/11/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Flags are flying at half-staff over the Navajo Nation after the recent death of a code talker. Samuel Tso, 89, died Wednesday in Farmington. He...
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Shelly orders flags at half-staff to honor Code Talker (5/11/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation has lost another heroic Code Talker. Samuel Tso, 89, of Lukachukai, Ariz., passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2012 with family members beside...
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VP of Navajo Code Talkers Association dies (5/11/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The Navajo Nation has confirmed that Navajo Code Taker Samuel Tso, who campaigned for a Navajo Code Talkers museum and WWII veterans' center, has...
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Flags ordered at half-staff for code talker Samuel Tso (5/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tso, 89, of Lukachukai, Ariz., passed away Wednesday evening with family members beside him at San Juan Regional Medical Center in...
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Samuel Tso, Navajo Code Talker Walks On (5/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Samuel Tso, 89, a United States Military Veteran and Navajo Code Talker passed away the evening of May 9 at the San Juan Regional Medical Center in...
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Battle brews over Don Barden's estate (5/9/2012)
(Detroit) -- Two of Don Barden's siblings have alleged "gross irregularities" in the handling of the late casino mogul's estate, including a...
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Ultra-marathoner died from heart disease (5/8/2012)
(New Mexico) -- A 12-mile run for Micah True was like an easy cruise. The ultra-marathon runner was used to tackling more than four times that distance over much more...
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'The greatest gambler who ever lived' (5/6/2012)
(California) -- It was 3 a.m. in Las Vegas in May 1972. Thomas Austin Preston Jr., better known as Amarillo Slim, had won the main event at the World Series of Poker...
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Amarillo Slim, Gambler With a Sly Wit, Dies at 83 (5/6/2012)
(New York) -- Amarillo Slim, the pencil-slender, cornpone-spouting Texan who became poker’s first superstar by overpowering opponents with charm, cunning and...
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Condolences Pour in for Chief Randy Kapashesit, MoCreebec Council of the Cree Nation (5/5/2012)
(Ontario) -- Condolences are pouring in for Randy Kapashesit, chief of the MoCreebec Council of the Cree Nation, who passed on unexpectedly into the spirit world on...
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Cherokee Nation's Registrar Ummerteskee dies (5/2/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Principal Chief Bill John Baker said in an all employee email that “it is with great sadness that we announce the death of the Cherokee Nation’...
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Chuck Bount: Gambling world loses an icon in Amarillo Slim (5/2/2012)
(Texas) -- There is an interesting subculture to gamblers involving nicknames. Once you get one, it's yours for life.
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Western NY boy, 6, dies from burn injuries (5/1/2012)
(New York) -- Authorities say a 6-year-old western New York boy has died of injuries suffered last month when he kicked a can of paint thinner into a smoldering bonfire.
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Well known tribal church leader dies (4/30/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Reverend Alchesay Arthur Guenther, Pastor of the Whiteriver Lutheran Church and Pastor to the White Mountain Apache Tribe, passed away Monday morning.
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Search for missing teen reaches one-year mark (4/29/2012)
(Saskatchewan) -- Family members and friends of a 17-year-old Saskatchewan boy who has been missing for exactly one year are continuing to search for the teen, as are...
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Poker icon 'Amarillo Slim' Preston, 83, dies (4/29/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Poker legend "Amarillo Slim" Preston, who dominated the tables long before the game's massive growth in popularity, died early Sunday...
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Tulsa Ballet co-founder Moscelyne Larkin dies at 87 (4/27/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- As a young girl, Edna Moscelyne Larkin wrote in one of her school books: "One thing is for sure: I will never be a dancer."
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Choctaw Co. deputy killed in crash laid to rest (4/27/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Law enforcement officers, family, and friends came together Thursday to remember a Choctaw County sheriff's deputy who was killed in a collision last...
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Famous Slot Machine Designer Dies (4/26/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Robert Phillip Manz, the designer of some of the most widely recognized slot machine games in history, died after suffering a medical emergency while...
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