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Native Sun News: $3.4B Cobell settlement still in question
(Washington D.C.) -- In an appeal filed by Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate member Kimberly Craven of Boulder, Colo., the Cobell trust fund settlement was questioned concerning...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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GOP Presidential Hopeful Santorum Stumps for Keystone XL Pipeline
(Michigan) -- GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum visited three cities in West Michigan on Presidents' Day. He finished his day's campaigning at the Kent GOP...
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Mining & Drilling
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Environmental, Native groups challenge Shell Arctic air permit
(Alaska) -- Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air quality permit that was granted by the...
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N.Y. Cigarettes
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In Tax Fight, Tribes Make, and Sell, Cigarettes
(New York) -- The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the...
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Residential Schools
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Lawyer disbarred, pleads guilty to taking nearly $1 million from residential school survivors
(Winnipeg) -- Howard Lorne Tennenhouse was disbarred by the Law Society of Manitoba Tuesday after pleading guilty to taking nearly $1 million from 55 residential school...
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Whiteclay
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Tribe seeks injunction on Whiteclay beer sales
(Nebraska) -- A Native American tribe in South Dakota has asked for a court order to sharply restrict beer sales in the Nebraska village of Whiteclay while larger legal...
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Tribe seeks order to limit beer sales in Neb. town
(Nebraska) -- Leaders of an American Indian tribe in South Dakota who are suing beer makers, distributors and retailers are now asking a judge to limit alcohol sales in...
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Tribe seeks to limit beer sales at Whiteclay
(Nebraska) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe is asking a federal court to limit alcohol sales in a small Nebraska town that sells nearly 5 million cans of beer a year.
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Tribe seeks to limit Whiteclay beer sales
(Nebraska) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe has amended its lawsuit against four beer stores in Whiteclay and the brewers and distributors that serve them to include an...
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BLOG: Gold Mine in Hell
(Nebraska) -- In Nebraska, some liquor stores sell booze to minors and manage to hang onto their licenses, according to Nebraska Liquor Control Commission data.
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Peter MacDonald elected to Lead Navajo Code Talkers
(Arizona) -- At the annual meeting of the Navajo Code Talkers held on Feb. 11, in Window Rock, Ariz., Peter MacDonald Sr., 83, was elected to lead the Navajo Code...
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Hopi Tribe gets over $6 million from HUD
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced $44.7 million in Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations to 14 tribes in...
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Southeast land deal threatens old-growth trees, Audubon says
(Alaska) -- More than 12,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest's oldest and largest trees are being targeted for logging under a bill that would place wide...
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Tribal Leaders Host Campaign Fundraiser for Grand Traverse Band Chairman Derek Bailey
(Michigan) -- Several tribal leaders from various Michigan American Indian tribes are hosting a campaign fundraiser for Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa...
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Kialegee Tribal Town Awarded Federal Indian Housing Block Grant
(Oklahoma) -- The Kialegee Tribal Town has been awarded a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing development and services.
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17 Navajo Nation early educators receive CDA credential
(Arizona) -- On Feb. 14, the First Things First Navajo Nation Regional Partnership Council recognized 17 individuals who have received their nationally recognized Child...
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Cherokee Nation contributes nearly $285K to Sequoyah County schools
(Oklahoma) -- Cherokee Nation distributed $284,720.90 to public schools in Sequoyah County on Monday at the tribe’s annual Public School Appreciation Day at the...
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Harper to unveil aboriginal-education funding on Arctic visit
(Ottawa) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is heading to the Arctic in the dead of winter to add some heft to his promise to boost aboriginal education. Mr. Harper is a...
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Native Broker-Dealer Helps Tribal Education
(New York) -- A Native-owned broker-dealer in New York’s financial district has scored another innovation—“a way,” one of its founders said,...
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He Arrived a Skeptic, But Left a Believer in the Power and Wisdom of Hopi Rain Dance
(Arizona) -- In mainstream culture, there are still many jokes, cartoons and conversations about Natives dancing to make it rain. Whenever there is a drought or even a...
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Nev. officials consider rewriting insensitive historical markers
(Nevada) -- The text on many of the blue and gray, Nevada-shaped roadside markers that note historically significant events and locations will be updated in the coming...
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Wings of America celebrates Hopi and Navajo cross country runners
(Missouri) -- On Feb. 11, two teams of Wings athletes ran in the Junior races at the USA Cross Country Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. The event offered some of...
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Caribou recovery plan swamped by public feedback
(Canada) -- Environment Canada had to be dragged into court before it came up with a recovery strategy for Canada's endangered woodland caribou.
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Garbage blamed as 145 bears shot in Alberta's north
(Alberta) -- Questions are being raised about garbage management after 145 black bears were shot by wildlife officers in northern Alberta's oilsands region last year.
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Pendleton Woolen Mills Continues Support with Nearly $80,000 to the American Indian College Fund
(Denver) -- Since 1995, Pendleton Woolen Mills has supported the American Indian College Fund (the Fund) to help Native college students pursue their dreams of obtaining...
2/21/2012
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MORON ALERT: Duluth fans again warned over 'offensive' chants
(Minnesota) -- Student season-ticket holders for University of Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey games were warned last week to clean up their acts after complaints to...
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Treaties may be trump card in tribe's fight to stop mine
(Wisconsin) -- Armed with its status as a sovereign nation and powerful treaties with the federal government, the Bad River Chippewa tribe has the legal muscle to do...
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State bill would allow tribes federal jurisdiction in civil, criminal matters
(Washington) -- In 1953, the federal government began the process of terminating its relationship with tribes and transferring jurisdiction on tribal matters to states...
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JODI RAVE: New online source for Native news unveiled
(Montana) -- Journalist Jodi Rave found a hole in the World Wide Web. "There are very few spaces or places on the Internet that you can get a good sense of what...
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First Nations, Métis less likely to trust police: survey
(Saskatchewan) -- A new survey has revealed that while the majority of people in Regina are satisfied with the city's police force, First Nations and Métis are far...
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MORON ALERT: Native school survivors' lawyer disbarred
(Manitoba) -- A Winnipeg lawyer has been stripped of his licence to practise law because he overcharged 55 former residential school students of almost $1 million.
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GAO report confirms big declination rate in Indian Country cases
(Washington D.C.) -- Federal prosecutors turn down 50 percent of cases in Indian Country, the Government Accountability Office reported.
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Supreme Court won't hear tribal court jurisdiction dispute
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition in Gustafson v. Poitra, a tribal jurisdiction case.
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Lumbee tribal chairman answers critics during meeting
(North Carolina) -- Lumbee Tribal Chairman Paul Brooks on Tuesday addressed allegations that he disregarded policies passed by the Lumbee Tribal Council.
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Missing Women inquiry to take new direction and hold public forums
(Vancouver) -- Missing Women inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal made a surprise announcement Tuesday that he’ll soon begin hearing from public panels to assist him...
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Shakopee tribe's recycling center churns out tons of compost
(Minnesota) -- The garbage that flows through its gates is measured in tons. It consists of immense quantities of food scraps, lawn clippings, paper and cardboard.
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The Battle Over Jim Thorpe’s Remains
(Oklahoma) -- Jim Thorpe, the incredible athlete from the Sac and Fox Tribe in Oklahoma who was named one of the top three greatest athletes of the 20th century, had...
2/20/2012
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Legislature considers wider authority for tribal courts
(Washington) -- Lawmakers in Washington are considering a proposal to start dismantling the state's civil jurisdiction over American Indians, a step many consider...
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Legislature weighs tribal rights
(Washington) -- Legislators are considering a proposal to start dismantling the state’s civil jurisdiction over American Indians, a step many consider long overdue...
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Higher Crime, Fewer Charges on Indian Land
(Washington D.C.) -- Indian reservations have for years grappled with chronic rates of crime higher than all but a handful of the most violent U.S. cities. But the...
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President Obama’s Million-Dollar Native Fund-Raiser
(Washington D.C.) -- In a sign of growing tribal political clout, 70 Indian officials attended a first-ever Native-specific campaign fund-raiser with President Barack...
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Legislature weighs tribal rights
(Washington) -- Legislators are considering a proposal to start dismantling the state’s civil jurisdiction over American Indians, a step many consider long overdue...
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Tribal immunity bars plaintiff’s lawsuit in tort case, appeals court says
(Wisconsin) -- The Stockbridge-Munsee Community Indian Tribe, which bought and runs and golf course in Gresham, is immune from liability for a slip-and-fall on the...
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Bi-Partisan Mining Bill Expected To Be Announced
(Wisconsin) -- Bad River Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins complained at a recent mining bill hearing about a wall separating Democrats and Republicans over the mining issue...
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Aboriginals worried about effects of Tory crime bill
(Ottawa) -- The government's omnibus crime bill could put more aboriginals behind bars rather than addressing the source of high crime and incarceration rates among...
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Pueblo sends unpaid speeding tickets to collection agency
(New Mexico) -- Headed west from Albuquerque on I-40 just past the Rio Puerco, there is a stretch of interstate where speeding laws get a little blurry.
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Women Vote In Pueblo Election For First Time
(New Mexico) -- Saturday was a historic day for the San Ildefonso Pueblo. For the first time, women were elected to the Tribal Council. Irene Tse-Pe will go down in...
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South Dakota programs look to keep Lakota language alive
(South Dakota) -- On a recent Tuesday, 5-year-old Jessie White Face hid her hands in the pockets of her pink jumper as she and 14 classmates recited "The Itsy Bitsy...
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Sweat lodge users upset over fee
(South Dakota) -- A $5 portable toilet fee that is charged to reserve a Native American sweat lodge on the grounds of the Sioux San Indian Health Service unit is a...
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Hoopa: ‘Our belief is in this water. It is everything’
(California) -- Much of Hoopa ancestral territory in Northern California is in remote areas few outsiders visit. Tribal elder Merv George, 68, believes this is part of...
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Over 1,000 people turn out in Prince Rupert to protest Enbridge pipeline
(British Columbia) -- First Nations and residents of a community on British Columbia's North Coast are protesting a proposed pipeline which would carry crude oil...
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Dam construction degraded river water quality, hurt food sources
(Washington) -- Native American cultures are traditionally subsistence-based, which means they eat what grows locally and is in season.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court sets April 19 water hearing
(Oklahoma) -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court has scheduled an April 19 hearing on a lawsuit concerning the water rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes in their...
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Dark history of Indian boarding schools told in church program
(Michigan) -- The long forced assimilation of Native Americans into America's white society played Sunday in still photographs and film interviews on a church screen.
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Ojibwe Writer Seeks Out The Beauty Of 'Rez Life'
(Minnesota) -- Stories about life on Native American reservations often focus on the hardships — alcoholism, drugs, violence and poverty. In Rez Life: An Indian...
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Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills talks life lessons to Native students
(Minnesota) -- Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills spoke on Jan. 13 to Native American youth in grades 6-12 during Native American Youth Day at Hoversten Chapel, Foss...
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Marlon Brando refuses Oscar via Sacheen Littlefeather - Great Oscar Moments
(Hollywood) -- Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history. At the 45th Academy Awards in March 1973,...
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