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Echo Hawk’s Final Determination Denies Central Band of Cherokee Federal Status
(Washington D.C.) -- On March 26, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk released his final determination in regards to a petition by the Central Band of...
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Final Determination, So-Called Central Band Of Cherokee Are Not Indians
(Washington D.C.) -- On March 26, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk released his final determination in regards to a petition by the Central Band of...
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First Nations Politics
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K'ómoks First Nation completes important step toward treaty
(British Columbia) -- Chief Ernie Hardy of the K'ómoks First Nation, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development John Duncan and Minister of Aboriginal...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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American Indian Histories and Cultures Conference looks at Keystone Pipeline
(South Dakota) -- Tribal people from North and South Dakota will share their views on the proposed Keystone Pipeline project at the annual American Indian Histories and...
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Mining & Drilling
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Blackfeet Tribe signs with company to treat, recycle 'fracking' water
(Montana) -- A company specializing in eco-friendly wastewater treatment announced Tuesday that it will bring its remediation technology to the Blackfeet Indian...
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Native Voices
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CHAMPAGNE: In Praise of Vine Deloria
(California) -- In his groundbreaking 1969 volume Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, Vine Deloria Jr. wrote a now famous critique of anthropologists. He...
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Debra White Plume: 'Wasichu' fat takers are the 1 percent
(Arizona) -- Speaking at the Native Nations Water Rights Symposium, Debra White Plume, Lakota, said the Wasichu, the white men fat takers, depend on a way of life of...
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Duran: A personal connection to Tigua membership bill
(Texas) -- "In 2007, I departed big firm life to start my own law firm, and the journey and my experiences with my tribal clients now run deeper and are much more...
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LaMERE: A Response to Gyasi Ross’s Column on Trayvon Martin
(New Mexico) -- It seems that we all can be lost on what a “call to action” really entails. As a society, we are pulled in various directions, the amount of...
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Picayune Rancheria
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Tribe cancels ceremony, claims threat from rivals
(California) -- A dispute between competing factions of a Central California Indian tribe continues to rage, with one side calling off the swearing-in ceremony of a new...
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San Manuel Tribe
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Judge rules against Derry in ballot issue
(California) -- Judge Brian McCarville ordered the county Registrar of Voters to change Derry’s ballot designation from “Supervisor/Businessman” to...
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New San Manuel tribal leader elected
(California) -- The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has elected a new tribal leader. Carla Rodriguez, the aunt of current tribal Chairman James Ramos, has been...
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San Manuels to present philanthropic awards
(California) -- The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians hosts the fourth annual Forging Hope Luncheon at the National Orange Show today.
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Other News
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Discrimination suit filed against Sauk Suiattle tribe
(Washington) -- One hundred and fifty years ago, the Sauk Suiattle tribe lost their land, their livelihood. But today they stand to lose much more, their legacy, because...
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Winyan Ituwan: Women of Vision Gathering focuses on empowering Native women through tradition
(South Dakota) -- The Winyan Ituwan: Women of Vision Gathering, a first-time and culturally-significant women’s summit, was held on March 11 at the Sinte Gleska...
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Buffalo Grove school drops ‘Indian’ mascot
(Illinois) -- A junior high school named for a Potawatomi chief is dropping its “Indians” mascot in favor of “Eagles.” Aptakisic Junior High...
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Accused Standing Rock tribal chairman gets council hearing
(North Dakota) -- Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Charles Murphy is getting an opportunity before the Tribal Council to respond to allegations that he acted improperly in...
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Oklahoma City commits $9M to American Indian Cultural Center and Museum
(Oklahoma) -- The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to commit $9 million of the $80 million needed to finish the American Indian Cultural Center. The...
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State may pay millions to finish American Indian Museum
(Oklahoma) -- Leaders in Oklahoma City promise to pay $9 million to help complete the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. The $171 million project near I-35 and...
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Native American inmates challenging South Dakota prison tobacco ban in federal lawsuit
(South Dakota) -- A Lakota traditional healer said Tuesday that tobacco is an integral part of Native American religious ceremonies and denying its use is akin to taking...
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Klamath Tribes Celebrate, But Cannot Catch, Suckerfish
(Oregon) -- You won’t find Lost River suckerfish on any menus in the Northwest. But for years, this fish was a staple for the tribes living in Southern Oregon. Now...
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Man giving nature a helping hand in laying a new Elwha carpet
(Washington) -- They may not look like much, but these are brave pioneers. Recently planted in the shifting sands, tight silts and mixed jumble of sediments, these...
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Former Reagan appointee hopes to boost Penobscot Nation corporation
(Maine) -- The Penobscot Indian Nation has hired a former Reagan administration appointee to help bring further economic growth to the tribe.
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Human rights group cites violations on U.S.-Mexico border
(Arizona) -- Latinos, immigrants and Native Americans experience "a pattern of human right violations" in the American Southwest under U.S. immigration...
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Lohse named Woman of the Year
(California) -- Tehama County businesswoman and Glenn County resident Leslie A. Lohse has been named 2012 Woman of the Year for the 2nd District by Assemblyman Jim...
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Lumbee tribal chairman says he won't fill administrator job for now
(North Carolina) -- Lumbee Chairman Paul Brooks said Monday he doesn't plan to submit another candidate for administrator to the Tribal Council during the remainder...
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Vice Chief elected to serve as president of Inter-tribal Timber Council
(North Carolina) -- Vice Chief Larry Blythe has been elected to serve as president of the Board of Directors of the Inter-Tribal Timber Council (ITC). Established in...
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Baker honors Department of Interior official
(Washington D.C.) -- As part of his first official state visit, Principal Chief Bill John Baker participated in the National Congress of American Indians’ annual...
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Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes Request President Obama’s Recognition
(Oklahoma) -- While President Barack Obama visited Oklahoma the week of March 21, the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes made sure he heard its concerns in wanting the president to...
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Does Supreme Court ruling create two tier justice system?
(Canada) -- The Supreme Court of Canada has sent a loud and clear message and that is – if judges don’t take into account an aboriginal person’s...
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A treatment centre in Kanesatake celebrates it’s 25th anniversary
(Quebec) -- A treatment centre in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake just celebrated a big anniversary. For 25 years it’s been helping people kick their chemical...
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New Muscogee Creek Tribal Health Center opens in Bruce
(Florida) -- A new, non-profit and Federally Qualified Health Center will be dedicated March 31 in Bruce on the grounds of the Muscogee Nation of Florida. Congressman...
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Conference highlights tribal college successes
(South Dakota) -- In her first college science class at a non-tribal school, Linda Different Cloud-Jones got frustrated when she had to identify fungal spores with a...
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Q&A with co-chair of Natives at Penn
(Pennsylvania) -- College freshman Sean Massa is a co-chair of Natives at Penn, a group founded in 1994 to increase visibility and awareness of American Indians on...
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How the Cherokee Fought the Civil War
(Arkansas) -- March 7 and 8 marked the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, fought in northwest Arkansas near the Oklahoma border.
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Indian Heights Park is intriguing to archaeologists
(Minnesota) -- Theoretically, Rochester could be one big archaeological dig. However, there is a particular piece of higher ground — Indian Heights Park —...
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Lac du Flambeau Spearfishers Carry the Torch of Tradition Another Year
(Wisconsin) -- Lac du Flambeau - Spearfishing has been such an integral part of Lac du Flambeau's tribal culture, they take their name from it. For hundreds of years...
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Repatriation of Remains a Lengthy Affair in West Virginia
(West Virginia) -- On January 31, 2011, construction workers discovered American Indian skeletal remains on what would be the future site of a state office building in...
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A new art exhibit is on display in Nunavut
(Nunavut) -- In a region that is filled with talented artists – it is sometimes hard to make a name for yourself. But there is an exhibit underway in Iqaluit that...
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A Point of View: Hi-yo, silver screen
(UK) -- Can box-office bait Johnny Depp save the Western now he's signed up for a remake of The Lone Ranger? Or are the golden days of this genre long gone, asks...
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Scalping not possible in 'Assassin's Creed 3' after all
(USA) -- When the Colonial American setting of "Assassin's Creed 3" was revealed, along with the protagonist's Native American lineage, players began...
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American Indian actor to be keynote speaker at Red Lake conference
(Minnesota) -- Adam Beach, an American Indian actor who appeared in last year’s “Cowboys & Aliens” movie, will be the keynote speaker Thursday at...
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Author Sherman Alexie keeps crowd laughing during talk in Syracuse
(New York) -- Sherman Alexie uses humor and satire to share his personal journey of overcoming a serious illness as a child growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation...
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Choctaws bow out of hoops tourney in semifinals
(Oklahoma) -- The Madness in March basketball tournament lasted well into the night on Saturday at Bloomer Sullivan Arena, where the boys and girls champions were...
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Los Angeles American Indians Participate at LA Clippers Game
(California) -- The Los Angeles Clippers may have danced after their 101- 85 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies this past Saturday night, but there were others dancing...
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Notah Begay & Inter-Tribal Sports Join Forces for American Indian Youth
(New Mexico) -- The Notah Begay III Foundation has joined forces with the Inter-Tribal Sports of Temecula, California. The organizations have come together to use the...
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Wind-blasted Northwest village asks for disaster assistance
(Alaska) -- The Northwest Alaska village of Kivalina has declared a disaster after a windstorm swept snow into huge piles. City administrator Janet Mitchell says the...
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Two Ontario First Nations declare State of Emergency
(Ontario) -- Rising water is threatening two Ontario First Nations. The communities of Kashechewan and Fort Albany both declared a state of emergency over the weekend.
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Minnesota moose will be hunted this fall
(Minnesota) -- Minnesota hunters will still have the chance to shoot moose this fall, state officials announced this morning.
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OP/ED: Bison transfer should be allowed, with conditions
(Montana) -- The story of Yellowstone National Park's bison has taken so many twists and turns, followed by more twists and turns, again and again, that everyone...
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Major Yellowstone elk herd keeps declining
(Wyoming) -- A major elk herd that migrates between Yellowstone National Park and Montana suffered another steep decline last year due to a hard winter, predator attacks...
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Crow Agency man charged with murder in fatal crash
(Montana) -- A Crow Agency man has pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges after the car he was driv-ing was in a head-on crash that killed four people.
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WorthGroup Architects Adds W.C. Gernandt III To its Team
(Colorado) -- Stepping into new markets requires a new perspective. The WorthGroup Architects aims to acquire that added vision from its latest hire, W.C. Gernandt, III...
3/26/2012
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BIA issues final decision against Central Band of Cherokees
(Washington D.C.) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs has issued a final determination against federal recognition for the Central Band of Cherokee, a group in Tennessee.
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American Indians launch protest over TN state recognition
(Tennessee) -- Some Tennessee residents that are members of various American Indian tribes across the nation said they’d be protesting in front of Rep. Mark Pody...
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Self-identified American Indian tribes renew fight for recognition
(Tennessee) -- The battle has raged for 12 years, with another skirmish set for House and Senate committee hearings Tuesday that could move three groups closer to state...
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'Credible threat' causes cancellation of Chukchansi tribal swearing-in
(California) -- A meeting to swear in Chukchansi tribal council members was canceled Monday night after leaders said there was a "credible threat" made against...
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Tribe drills to test underground water in private property
(California) -- A couple living behind a barricade imposed by the Rincon Band of Mission Indians got a visit Monday morning from workers hired by the tribe to drill...
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Federal budget potential turning point for native schools
(Canada) -- When it comes to funding First Nations education in the federal budget, there's far more at stake than just improving schools for native children.
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New York Mohawk: Move toxic General Motors dump from tribal lands
(New York) -- Larry Thompson sits high in his tractor cab and drives to a chain-link fence along his family property on the Mohawk Indians' Akwesasne Reservation,...
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Ramos leads fundraising, spending for 3rd District supervisorial race
(California) -- In collecting and spending campaign money for the San Bernardino County 3rd District supervisor race, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians tribal Chairman...
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Oglalas Win Full Early Voting—for 2012
(South Dakota) -- Past and future national elections cast shadows over a Native American voting-rights lawsuit argued in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 8. At the end...
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Reservation counties have highest income inequality
(South Dakota) -- Counties with Native American reservations have some of the highest income inequality in the state, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.
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NPR: The Twisted Path To Lay A Legend To Rest
(Pennsylvania) -- Nearly sixty years ago, a Pennsylvania town renamed itself after legendary Olympian Jim Thorpe. How he came to be buried there is a tale of messy...
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Saskatchewan aboriginal education and employment task force to begin work
(Saskatchewan) -- Now is the time for First Nations and Metis students “to take their rightful place in this province,” says the chair of a new aboriginal...
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Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline targeted by over 2,000 protesters
(Vancouver) -- Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline protesters gathered for speeches from First Nations and environmentalists like 350.org's Bill McKibben, before...
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Indian Tribe Worries Pipeline Will Disturb Graves
(Oklahoma) -- As President Barack Obama pushes to fast-track an oil pipeline from Oklahoma south to the Gulf Coast, an American Indian tribe that calls the oil hub home...
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EPA, three oil companies reach deal over Fort Peck water pollution
(Montana) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with three oil production companies operating on the Fort Peck Reservation requiring them...
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High Speed Internet Project in Indian Country Needs Petitions to FCC
(Washington D.C.) -- A Native-owned broadband network company that plans to bring high speed Internet access to millions of people and businesses in Indian country and...
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Navajo Nation trading posts: Federal, tribal regulations take toll on trading
(Colorado) -- The days of the traditional Indian trading post are gone. At one time, nearly 150 people were licensed Indian traders on or near the Navajo Nation, said...
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No permit from Karuk Tribe
(California) -- The Karuk Tribe on Friday issued a press release stating that it “has not issued a use permit to Eagle Peak Rock and Paving for the operation of...
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CRIT recalls continue
(Arizona) -- Tribal members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes are deciding the political jobs of four council members. Vice Chairwoman Sylvia “Cindy” Homer...
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Indian Country Writer Wins Human Rights Award
(Virginia) -- Indian Country Today Media Network’s own Vincent Schilling spent some time in the spotlight recently. He was honored with a Human Rights Award,...
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Choctaw Chief Anderson's first 126 days
(Mississippi) -- She has been in office only 126 days now, but the first democratically elected female tribal chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is already...
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Native American inmates challenging tobacco ban
(South Dakota) -- Opening arguments are scheduled Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Native American inmates saying a state prison policy that bans the use...
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Oklahoma City may help pay for Indian cultural center
(Oklahoma) -- The city will pay for $9 million of the estimated $80 million it will take to finish the funding-plagued American Indian Cultural Center and Museum if a...
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Flood risk in 2 Ontario First Nations subsides
(Ontario) -- The evacuation of two First Nations communities in northern Ontario because of weekend flooding was suspended after the risk to residents began to subside,...
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BIA meets with Oklahoma tribal leaders
(Oklahoma) -- Twenty-three tribal leaders from eastern Oklahoma met with Larry Echo Hawk, assistant secretary of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs head, March 14...
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Tribal member, former UND athlete decries NCAA policy
(North Dakota) -- Colleen Chaske, a star basketball player at the University of North Dakota in the late 1980s, says in a federal court document that the fight over UND...
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‘Sioux’ debate working its way through the courts
(North Dakota) -- The University of North Dakota’s hockey team will skate this weekend in uniforms without the Fighting Sioux nickname, but the name, its use and...
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Navajo Nation eyes Grand Canyon for development
(Arizona) -- Generations of Navajo families have grazed livestock on a remote but spectacular mesa that overlooks the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado...
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Redskins? How About Whiteskins?
(New York) -- In the image above, you are seeing the helmet and attendant logo of the Whiteskins, a fictional team based on the Washington Redskins.
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NEWCOMB: On Indian Nationhood: Steven Newcomb Responds to Steve Russell’s March 20 Column
(California) -- After reading Steve Russell’s March 20the column “Citizenship and Nations,” I have to wonder why he would publicly challenge one of the...
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Clash of cultures / Indians gain OK to kill bald eagles for religious rite
(Ohio) -- Amidst all of the celebration over the continuing strong comeback the bald eagle is making throughout the country, there was a tremor recently that froze the...
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Tribe: Bald eagle permit a victory for tradition
(Wyoming) -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well...
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Joe Oliver says 'dysfunctional' aboriginals could benefit from development
(British Columbia) -- Many aboriginal communities are "socially dysfunctional" and could benefit from developments that bring jobs and revenue to them, Canada...
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Missing Women Commission Gets Two New Lawyers for Aboriginal Interests
(British Columbia) -- Wally Oppal, head of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in British Columbia, has appointed two new attorneys to address aboriginal issues in...
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“Death was a constant companion”: residential school and Holocaust survivors share their stories
(Manitoba) -- Dean Linklater is a residential school survivor, one of many at a recent event in Winnipeg where survivors of the Holocaust and of the residential school...
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Sovereignty key issue as tribes go into landfill business
(California) -- The tribal sovereignty dilemma affecting Mecca, the Cabazon tribe and Western Environmental did not happen in a void. Similar dustups regarding waste...
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Keystone XL: Native Americans outraged
(Oklahoma) -- After President Obama endorsed a southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline on Mar. 22 (which would carry oil from Cushing to Port Arthur, Texas), Native...
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CSKT seeks to halt mine in Cabinet Mountains Wilderness through designation
(Montana) -- As plans march forward for a controversial copper and silver mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai...
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Tribes aim to stop mine beneath Montana wilderness
(Montana) -- Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are trying to prevent an underground copper and silver mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness...
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Delvin Cree: Explore energy development in Indian Country
(North Dakota) -- On a recent warm sunny day I watched as quite a few 18 wheelers, large tandem service trucks and 4x4 pick-up trucks (with big tires) drive by my...
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Coastal Tribes and Communities Prepare For Arrival of Japanese Tsunami Debris
(Washington) -- An empty plastic kerosene can with Japanese writing on it washed onto Point Grenville in March, possibly some of the first debris to reach the Olympic...
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Four Bands Community Fund to Lend $2 Million to Grow B2B Commerce
(South Dakota) -- After lending nearly $1 million to fund business-to-consumer development on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) reservation in South Dakota last year...
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Oglalas Win Full Early Voting—for 2012
(South Dakota) -- Past and future national elections cast shadows over a Native American voting-rights lawsuit argued in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 8.
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Chickasaw Nation leader to speak at Press Club luncheon
(Oklahoma) -- The head of the Chickasaw Nation will speak about the future of water resources and water recreation in Oklahoma as the keynote speaker at the Tulsa Press...
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Tribe to take active role in managing park
(South Dakota) -- By early this summer, the Oglala Sioux Tribe should have an active role in managing the South Unit of Badlands National Park, and the unit will be one...
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Tim Giago: Turtle Mountain Times marks its 20th anniversary
(South Dakota) -- The man on the phone said simply, “We want you to help our tribe start a weekly newspaper.” The man on the line was Richard J. “...
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Law could lead to federal prosecutions of reservation crime on White Earth
(Minnesota) -- Some Indian tribes in Minnesota are hoping a relatively new federal law will help reduce high reservation crime rates. The Tribal Law and Order Act would...
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American Indian children too often in foster care
(Utah) -- More than 33 years after Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, American Indian children in Utah are still being removed from their homes and placed in...
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Fitness Takes Hold in Aboriginal Country With Just Move It—Canada
(Canada) -- Aboriginals in Canada have joined their American Indian and Alaska Native cousins and are learning to shake their booty, traditionally speaking.
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FORUM: Ateyapi tries to regrow Lakota family
(South Dakota) -- What is the Ateyapi program? Recently, a Rapid City Journal reporter asked me this question. I’m sure it is on the minds of many citizens after...
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Health care reform law helps minorities obtain insurance
(Oklahoma) -- On March 7, the Health and Human Services released data showing that the Affordable Care Act, which allows young adults to stay on their parents insurance...
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American Indian College Fund receives $50K
(Colorado) -- The American Indian College Fund was recently awarded $50,000 from The Allstate Foundation to provide nine scholarships at $5,000 each for American Indian...
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Sold-Out Conference Draws 1,400-Plus Aboriginal Youth
(British Columbia) -- More than 1,400 young aboriginals from across Canada flocked to Nanaimo, British Columbia, last week for the 10th annual Gathering Our Voices youth...
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Native Sun News: Cheyenne River elder recalls dam flooding
(South Dakota) -- A direct descendant of Chief Low Dog and Chief Gall, Raymond Handboy was born in 1945 at the Old Cheyenne River Agency.
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Reading History in Regalia: Three Stories of History and Culture Through Pow Wows
(Massachusetts) -- You can see many different types of regalia when you go to New England pow wows. Indian Country Today Media Network recently interviewed three...
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More Than Frybread Mockumentary Going Rez to Rez
(Idaho) -- American Indians take their frybread seriously — could it also be a laughing matter? The question is addressed in the film More Than Frybread, a...
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Earthquake Started in Indigenous Regions of Mexico
(Mexico) -- The epicenter of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that rumbled through Mexico on March 20 was in the heavily indigenous regions of Oaxaca and Guerrero.
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Marchers Reached Ecuador Capitol on World Water Day
(Ecuador) -- Demonstrators who marched for two weeks from the province of Zamora Chinchipe in southern Ecuador reached Quito, the country’s capital, on March 22,...
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Climate Scientists to Attend Native Knowledge ‘Boot Camp’ in Australia
(Australia) -- In what may be a ‘clash of worldviews,’ representatives from indigenous and local communities are holding a climate workshop with physicists,...
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State unveils bison memorandum of understanding
(Montana) -- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reserves the right to take back bison it transferred to the Fort Peck Reservation this week if the bison escape three times...
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