Religion & SpiritualityNative Voices
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Tim Giago: Rocky history of Natives and the Mormon Church (4/23/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Larry Echo Hawk is leaving his position as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs after he was named to the Church of Jesus Christ...
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GIAGO: Religion caused near destruction of Lakota families (3/5/2012)
(South Dakota) -- I was struck by an article by David Rooks in the Rapid City Journal on March 2. David Rooks is a nice guy. He was also a former employee of mine when I...
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Tobacco & Cigarettes
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Inmates fight against tobacco ban (3/29/2012)
(South Dakota) -- A traditional healer is arguing that tobacco is an integral part of Native American religious ceremonies and denying its use is akin to taking away the...
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Sacred Tobacco: Ho-Chunk Nation Wants Military Authorities to Stop Confiscating it (4/9/2011)
(Wisconsin) -- What is it that makes tobacco such a sacred object in the spiritual world of American Indians? “It’s not an item that we smoke at our leisure...
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Whiteclay
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ROOKS: God and man at Whiteclay (3/16/2012)
(South Dakota) -- When Bruce Bonfleur arrived on Pine Ridge Reservation, he traveled a well-worn path: that of the white Christian come to save the Indian.
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Mining & Drilling
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Hundreds of Mexico’s Huichol Indians trek to their sacred ground seeking to stop silver mine (2/26/2012)
(Mexico) -- Huichol Indians believe the sun was born in a spot high in the arid Sierra de Catorce mountain range of northern Mexico. For them, that spot — the...
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Tribal religion at center of NV gold mine fight (10/22/2011)
(Reno) -- Lawyers for an environmental group and Native American tribes trying to block another expansion at one of the biggest gold mines in North America say the U.S....
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Snowbowl
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BLOG: In the Shadow of the Sacred Mountain (1/19/2012)
(Arizona) -- Ya’at’eeh lastrealindian readers. My name is Jihan Gearon. I come from Old Sawmill, AZ. For those of you who don’t know where that is, it...
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Making Snow is Power Reserved for Creator (12/23/2011)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission has voiced its opposition to the use of groundwater use for artificial snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks on...
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Sweat-Lodge Deaths
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Verdict in self-help guru's sweat lodge trial stirs reaction among Native Americans (6/24/2011)
(Arizona) -- They didn’t serve on the jury, weren’t plaintiffs in the case, nor did they watch in the courtroom. But for Native Americans who cleave to...
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Sweat lodge ends a free spirit's quest (4/13/2011)
(Arizona) -- She was a free-spirited adventurer who lived in Mexico in an octagonal art-filled house on "Gringo Hill," overlooking the Sea of Cortez. Her high-...
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Sweat lodge trial fuels Native American frustrations (3/2/2011)
(Arizona) -- Growing up on a reservation in lower Saskatchewan, Alvin Manitopyes learned early to respect the sweat lodge. He was 10 when he attended his first sweat...
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New Age Tragedy in Sedona: Non-Indians in the Sweat Lodge (10/13/2009)
(Arizona) -- Last week in Sedona Arizona, during a “spiritual warrior” retreat led by New Age, self-help expert James Arthur Ray, two people died in a...
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Other News
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Living on a wing and a prayer (5/12/2012)
(Colorado) -- American Indians are caught between laws protecting eagles and the need for birds in their religious ceremonies, writes Dan Frosch.
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The Grammar of Happiness: How an Indigenous Tribe Changed a Missionaries Views Airs May 12 (5/12/2012)
(Brazil) -- When twenty-five year old missionary Dan Everett landed among the Pirahãs Tribe in 1977, with the intention of evangelizing the lost Amazonian community, he...
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A Repository for Eagles Finds Itself In Demand (5/5/2012)
(Colorado) -- Miles from downtown Denver, in a small warehouse on the city’s edge, Bernadette Atencio watched as two men methodically bundled piles of dead eagles...
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Eagles in demand by American Indians (5/5/2012)
(Colorado) -- Officials say the demand by American Indians for bald and golden eagle carcasses for ceremonial purposes is too great for the federal government to satisfy.
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Eastern Shoshone move to enter bald eagle case (5/5/2012)
(Wyoming) -- The Eastern Shoshone Tribe wants to argue against the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s plan to kill bald eagles for religious purposes on the reservation the...
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Church group sets out to help Lakota Tribe (4/26/2012)
(Connecticut) -- “It's hard to believe that such poverty and such a high suicide rate could exist in the United States,” said Nena Coulombe, a tenth...
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Santiam youths lend a hand to Hopi mission (4/26/2012)
(Oregon) -- At the end of summer St. Boniface Church’s pastor, Father Irudayaraj Amalanathan, and several parishioners visited their sister parish, St. Joseph...
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Struggling to meet demand for sacred frozen eagles (4/26/2012)
(New Mexico) -- A wildlife specialist splays the wings of a dead golden eagle shipped in from New Mexico and is pleased by what he sees. "This one is an awfully...
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Trail Dust: Friar thought to be first Christian martyred in U.S. (4/21/2012)
(New Mexico) -- In 1887, the Rev. James H. Defouri, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Santa Fe, published a small book titled Historical Sketch of the Catholic...
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Seneca man explores Lakota spirituality in new book (4/20/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Kevin Thomas of Seneca spent most of his life in La Salle and Grundy counties, far from the lands of the Lakota. But Thomas' friendship with a medicine...
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Tribe Seeks Protection from Racial Slurs during Ceremonies (4/19/2012)
(California) -- On Monday some 60 tribal citizens of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe went to the US Forest Service Regional office demanding that the Shasta-Trinity National...
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BLOG: Shasta-Trinity's Winnemem Wintu Tribe Pickets Forest Service Over Closure Request (4/16/2012)
(California) -- The Winnemem Wintu Tribe, a band of indigenous people located in Northern California, have appealed to the United States Forest Service’s Regional...
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Tribal leaders urge Forest Service to protect native women's rights (4/16/2012)
(California) -- Members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe on Monday challenged U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Randy Moore at his Vallejo office to protect Indigenous...
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Native American tribe adopts Canadian prelate (4/16/2012)
(Manitoba) -- Archbishop James Weisgerber of Winnipeg has been adopted by members of the Ojibway tribe in a ceremony intended to promote reconciliation between the...
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New healing in New Mexico (4/15/2012)
(New Mexico) -- The year 2012 should be celebrated not as an ending but as the beginning of a new cycle, a time of sharing and healing, organizers of a popular New...
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73rd Tekakwitha Conference Scheduled in Kateri’s Mohawk Homeland (4/13/2012)
(New York) -- The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne have each contributed $25,000 to support the 73rd Annual Tekakwitha Conference.
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Dalai Lama to Meet Privately With Kumeyaay Nation Members on San Diego Visit (4/13/2012)
(California) -- The Kumeyaay Nation has issued a proclamation to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama to its homeland when he makes a historic visit to San Diego during a...
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Carlson: Elder Larry EchoHawk (4/11/2012)
(Utah) -- Idahoans of all persuasions, political as well as religious, should congratulate their former attorney general on his call to serve as a general authority and...
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Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World (4/11/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The word wisdom is used frequently every day, whether it is spoken and heard or written and read. Yet it is debatable, in my opinion, if most of us...
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Marijuana as Religious Right? California Court Says It's Possible (4/10/2012)
(California) -- Do some folks have the religious right to use marijuana as part of a sacrament? It's a question we joked off when L.A. marijuana dispensary owner NJ...
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