PassingResidential Schools
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In a grassland graveyard, pupils pay tribute to Alberta’s long-lost native children (5/23/2013)
(Alberta) -- Lucie Sinclair. Lizzie Devins. Charles Godin. Esther Wolf. Louisa Wolf. One by one, the students read aloud the names of children buried in this grassland...
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Code Talkers
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Albert Smith, Navajo Code Talker from New Mexico, passes on (4/18/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Albert Smith, a Navajo Code Talker from New Mexico, died on Wednesday. He was 88. Smith lied about his age in order to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps at...
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Code Talker Albert Smith passes at 88 (4/18/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Another Navajo Code Talker has departed this world. Navajo Code Talker Albert Smith, 88, has died, according to his family. Smith was born on Dec. 13,...
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Code Talker's legacy resonates with strangers (4/18/2013)
(New Mexico) -- The recent death of a Navajo Code Talker has touched a Valencia County couple who have never even met him.
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In eulogy, grandson says Code Talker was a family man, proud Marine (11/9/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The funeral service spoken in both English and Navajo was a fitting homage to Navajo Code Talker George Smith, who delivered the code, based on the...
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A Navajo Tribute To Code Talker George Smith, Who Has Walked On (11/2/2012)
(New Mexico) -- We are saddened by the passing of Navajo Code Talker George Smith, who walked on October 30. The Navajo Nation is commemorating the life of Smith, and...
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Navajo Code Talker George Smith dies at age 90 (11/2/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The Navajo Nation is flying flags at half-staff through sundown Sunday after the death of Code Talker George Smith, 90, on Wednesday at Gallup Indian...
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Navajo Nation loses another Code Talker at age 90 (11/2/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The Navajo Nation has lost another Code Talker. George Smith, 90, of Sundance, N.M., died Tuesday at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, according to...
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Native Voices
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Tim Giago: Eulogies for three great leaders in Indian Country (1/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Perhaps there are many people in America who do not know of the three great Native Americans I am about to eulogize, but all three passed away within...
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Sen. Inouye
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PRESCOTT: Sen. Inouye Was a Champion and Honorary Chief (1/6/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The following letter is from Leonard Prescott, the former Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, and is a reflection on Sen. Daniel Inouye...
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LETTER: Inouye defended tribal rights (12/25/2012)
(Washington) -- The passing of Sen. Daniel Inouye is a loss for his state and nation, as especially for our own state, in which he took a very special interest over the...
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HARJO: A Life and Death in the Family: Appreciating Daniel K. Inouye (12/24/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Senator Daniel K. Inouye – unerringly thoughtful and with a keen sense of occasion – used to host a private gathering around each...
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Fawn Sharp: Inouye Best and Greatest Friend Tribes Ever Had (12/23/2012)
(USA) -- From the day Senator Daniel K. Inouye first stepped foot into Indian country he has been known as a friend, a brother and a champion of our people—to all...
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NAFSA Honors the Life of Sen. Daniel Inouye (12/23/2012)
(USA) -- On December 17 at age 88, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the second longest serving member of the Senate, walked on. In honor of the life of nine-term senator...
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NCAI remembers Inouye as ‘distinguished warrior’ (12/23/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii died from respiratory complications on Dec. 17 at age 88, with his wife and son by his side at the Walter Reed...
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Onondaga Nation: Haudenosaunee and Sen. Inouye Had Special Relationship (12/23/2012)
(New York) -- The Onondaga Nation sends its condolences to the family and friends of the Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii who passed away on December 17, 2012.
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Senator Daniel Inouye: Integrity and Service That has Honored a Nation (12/23/2012)
(USA) -- The following is a reflection on the life of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) from Brian Patterson, president of United South and Eastern Tribes.
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Statement from Director Kevin Gover on the Passing of U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012 [PDF] (12/22/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- We at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian feel a deep loss with the death of Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Inouye...
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RILEY: Honoring Senator Inouye by Working Together (12/20/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The United States, and all of its indigenous peoples, lost a hero and a champion this week, with the passing of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-...
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Inouye Remembered By Native Communities (12/19/2012)
(Arizona) -- Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye was being remembered Tuesday as a World War II combat veteran, as the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and as the...
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Richard Monette: Indian Country loses a warrior in Dan Inouye (12/19/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- When Dan Inouye moved on to the next journey, our world lost a giant of a man. Indian Country lost a warrior, a leader, a true chief.
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Inouye Remembered By Native Communities (12/18/2012)
(USA) -- Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye was being remembered Tuesday as a World War II combat veteran, as the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and as the...
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NCAI: Inouye ‘A Distinguished Warrior;’ and Other Reactions From Indian Country (12/18/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- One of Indian country’s most reliable allies in the Senate walked on December 17, and as news of Sen. Daniel Inouye’s (D-Hawaii) passing...
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Sen. Daniel Inouye, Democrat from Hawaii, passes at age 88 (12/18/2012)
(Maryland) -- Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat from Hawaii, at a Seante Indian Affairs Committee hearing in July 2003 Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HawaiI), a former chairman of...
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Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at age 88 (12/17/2012)
(Maryland) -- Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye has died at age 88, his office confirmed Monday night. His last words, according to a statement released by his staff...
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Shakopee Mdewakanton
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Late Shakopee Chairman Crooks Named Person of the Year (1/6/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The late Stanley R. Crooks, who served as the chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for 20 years, was named the 2012 Person of the Year by...
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IN MEMORIUM: Stanley R. Crooks: Lifting a people (1/3/2013)
(Minnesota) -- In 20 years as tribal chairman, Stanley R. Crooks, 70, became perhaps the most powerful and philanthropic force in Indian Country, transforming the...
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Idle No More
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Manitoba elder takes hunger strike to Ottawa (12/31/2012)
(Manitoba) -- A Manitoba elder who has been on a hunger strike since early December is on his way to Ottawa to sit in solidarity with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.
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National Indian Gaming Association
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A Message on the Passing of Senator Daniel K. Inouye (12/19/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- We mourn the loss of our friend, leader and elder statesman, Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Dan Inouye was one of the giants of our time, serving in the...
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Whiteclay
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No foul play in Native American's death in Whiteclay (12/14/2012)
(Nebraska) -- A preliminary autopsy report indicated that no foul play was involved in the death of a Native American man who was found on a street in Whiteclay, Neb.,...
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Cobell
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Cobell settlement comes too late for beneficiaries who passed (11/29/2012)
(Montana) -- The $3.4 billion settlement to the Cobell trust fund lawsuit was announced in December 2009 but payments were delayed amid opposition in Congress and...
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Russell Means
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Means family schedules honoring events (11/17/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Lakota honoring ceremonies for the late Russell Means have been scheduled in 2013, according to Means' website. The first of three scheduled...
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Hello, Relatives: A Thank You from the Family of Russell Means (11/10/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Hello our relatives. We have completed the four sacred days in preparation for sending Russell Means’ spirit on his journey and his ashes have...
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Russell Means: In Memoriam (11/9/2012)
(California) -- On October 22, 2012, at 4:44 p.m., Oglala Lakota leader Russell Means began his journey to the spirit world. He did so at his ranch in the town of...
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Ceremony honoring life of Russell Means (11/1/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The first of four ceremonies to honor the life of former American Indian Movement activist Russell Means took place Wednesday on the Pine Ridge Indian...
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LADUKE: Hero who taught us moves on (11/1/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Russell Means was a hero. His death is a great loss to America, not just to American Indians. He challenged us to be better people.
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BLOG: Means always ready with quotes (10/31/2012)
(Montana) -- “You have made red niggers of my people!” Russell Means shouted at the standing-room-only crowd in the Cheyenne tribal building in Lame Deer.
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Native Sun News: Hundreds gather to remember Russell Means (10/31/2012)
(South Dakota) -- “The first thing about freedom is: You are free to be responsible.” This is the self-declared mantra by which longtime indigenous rights...
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Russell Means: More Than Meets the Eye (10/31/2012)
(Minnesota) -- It would be a shame for Russell Means (1939-2012) to be remembered only as a maker of trouble, an unreasonable negotiator, and someone who pushed the...
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Oglala Sioux President Declares 'War on Cancer' after Passing of Russell Means (10/28/2012)
(South Dakota) -- After Oglala Sioux Tribal President John Yellow Bird Steele heard the news of Russell Means' passing, he decided it is time to declare "war on...
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Means to the End: A Lasting Vision From America's Greatest Indian Activist (VIDEO) (10/28/2012)
(California) -- I felt deeply honored when Russell Means and his wife, Pearl Daniels, paid a visit to the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism in February.
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OP/ED: My Brief Encounter With Russell Means (10/28/2012)
(Arizona) -- I was a reporter with an NBC news station in New Mexico in the winter of 2003. The morning newspaper I was reading reported that Russell Means was going to...
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Russell Means: A Photographic Journey (10/28/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Indian country lost a warrior on Monday, October 22 when Russell Means walked on. A man many call larger than life. He was an activist, an author and...
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Russell Means: Soaring voice gone (10/28/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Native American activist Russell Means, who gained national attention as a leader in the American Indian Movement and rode that wave into acting and...
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BLOG: A Warrior Goes Home (10/27/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Yesterday my mom said the first thing she heard when she woke up was Russell died. Then I told her about the craigslist ad I wrote about at www....
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BLOG: Dr. Charlene Teters on Passing of Russell Means (10/27/2012)
(New Mexico) -- “I sure like you AIMs” Alan Houser would say to me. Those who knew understood how important this movement is. Having Russell Means pass is...
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CHANATE: The Russell Means I Knew (10/27/2012)
(Colorado) -- Russell Means was not only a visionary, he was also keeper of memories. Russell was both an orator and a man of action. Inspired by a legacy of strength,...
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Native American activist Russell Means had strong ties to Vallejo (10/27/2012)
(California) -- Long before Russell Means (in his own words) became a "full-time Indian," the famed Native American activist and Hollywood actor was just a...
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Russell Means: By No Means a Perfect Man, Yet He was Our Strong Voice (10/27/2012)
(Michigan) -- Whether Russell Means was in a confrontation with Senator Edward Kennedy, as he was as the Longest Walk ended in Washington in 1978, or up on the large...
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Missing Women Crisis
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Winnipeg hip-hop group buys headstones for slain women (11/15/2012)
(Manitoba) -- Winnipeg's Most, a local hip-hop group, has purchased headstones to honour two aboriginal women who were killed within the past decade.
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Other News
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Ex-chairman of Moapa Band of Paiutes Meyers dies (5/23/2013)
(Nevada) -- Calvin Meyers, the former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and outspoken opponent of building a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas...
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Lyle Eagle Tail: A True Warrior Who Died Trying to Save a Child (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On Saturday, March 23, after an all-night wake at the Mother Butler Center, 28-year-old Lyle Francis Eagle Tail was laid to rest in the Mountain View...
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The ‘humble and powerful’ Elijah Harper will be missed (5/21/2013)
(Winnipeg) -- For a man who stood for unity, inclusiveness and equality for all Canadians, it was fitting that this evening, RCMP officers in red serge and Winnipeg...
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Elijah Harper's daughter overwhelmed by condolences (5/20/2013)
(Manitoba) -- Elijah Harper's daughter, Holly, says she is touched by the outpouring of sympathy and condolences for her father, as hundreds of Manitobans lined up...
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Manitobans line up to pay respects to Elijah Harper (5/20/2013)
(Manitoba) -- Hundreds of Manitobans are lining up at the Manitoba legislature to pay their respects to Elijah Harper as his body lies in state Monday afternoon.
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Native leader Elijah Harper helped scuttle Meech Lake (5/20/2013)
(Manitoba) -- Not since Louis Riel in the late 19th century had a person of aboriginal descent had such an impact on Canadian history. Except in mid-June, 1990, Elijah...
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Elijah Harper Lies in State at Manitoba Legislature (5/19/2013)
(Manitoba) -- Elijah Harper will lie in state at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sunday May 20 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Assembly of...
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Upper Sioux Tribal Elder, Educator and Historian Tom Ross Walks On (5/19/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Upper Sioux tribal elder, educator and historian Tom Ross walked on May 10 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 64.
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Elijah Harper: The humble man who said no (5/18/2013)
(Ottawa) -- The man who said "no" and changed the course of Canadian history has died. Elijah Harper, former chief, MLA and MP, died in Ottawa early Friday...
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Elijah Harper, First Nations leader who brought down Meech Lake, dies at 64 (5/17/2013)
(Ottawa) -- Rarely can one person change the course of history for an entire country. Elijah Harper did. In the Manitoba legislature in 1990, Mr. Harper clutched an...
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Elijah Harper, key player in Meech Lake accord, dies at 64 (5/17/2013)
(Ottawa) -- Elijah Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who was a key player in defeating the Meech Lake accord, has died at the age of 64. Harper died early Friday in...
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Businessman who launched Indian-owned factory dies (5/11/2013)
(Michigan) -- Long-time businessman William “Bill” Russell, who launched the region’s first Indian-owned manufacturing plant in 1975 and initially...
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Lummi Nation mourns Fran James, elder and weaver (5/11/2013)
(Washington) -- Those who knew Fran James well used the same word to describe her: humble. James, a renowned weaver who shared her skills with her Lummi Nation community...
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Bobbie Banda, Juaneño Tribal Elder, Dies at 66 (5/8/2013)
(California) -- Barbara “Bobbie” Lucille Banda, a native daughter of San Juan Capistrano and a Juaneño tribal elder who helped incorporate Native American...
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Attica riot figure dies in apparent accident in Canada (5/8/2013)
(British Columbia) -- A controversial figure from the 1971 inmate uprising at the Attica State Correctional Facility has died in an apparent accident near an isolated...
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Only inmate convicted of murder after Attica prison riot dies in Canada; was pardoned in ‘76 (5/8/2013)
(British Columbia) -- The only inmate convicted of murder following the 1971 Attica prison uprising has died in Canada, where he had made a name as a civil rights and...
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Two Indian Country Police Officers Remembered at Memorial Service (5/4/2013)
(New Mexico) -- The names of two fallen Indian Country law enforcement officers are being added to the Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Artesia, New...
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George Horse Capture, 75, Native Ameican activist (5/4/2013)
(Montana) -- Native American activist, curator and professor George Horse Capture has died at age 75. Mr. Horse Capture’s family says he died April 16 in Great...
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George P. Horse Capture dies at 75; Native American curator (5/4/2013)
(Montana) -- When Native American activists from around the U.S. took over Alcatraz in 1969, George P. Horse Capture was a steel inspector for the state Department of...
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Obituary: Fran James, master weaver, beloved Lummi Nation elder (5/2/2013)
(Washington) -- Fran James is credited with the revival of Coast Salish weaving through her own work and teaching. Her pieces were coveted by collectors and museums all...
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