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Walkom: Northern Gateway pipeline faces ‘unbreakable’ wall
(British Columbia) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have the legislative muscle to ram his controversial oilsands pipeline through Parliament.
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Fighting Sioux
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Fighting Sioux timeline
(North Dakota) -- August 2005 — NCAA issues ban on American Indian logos and mascots in postseason tournaments and bars schools from hosting postseason tournaments...
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Some ND voters may face dress code in June
(North Dakota) -- Some North Dakota voters may face a dress code when they vote in the June election. WDAY-TV reports (http://bit.ly/J2WuhW) that a Cass County official...
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Labor & Unions
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U.S. Department of Labor releases proposed tribal consultation policy
(Oklahoma) -- The U.S. Department of Labor has published in the Federal Register a proposed tribal consultation policy, which encompasses the agency’s programs...
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Native Voices
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ROSS: Happy Mother’s Day: In Defense of ‘Mere’ Survival
(USA) -- My mom buried her oldest son, my oldest brother, when he was a teenager. My auntie buried her beautiful daughter, my cousin, not too long after that.
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LADUKE: A Great Chief, Randy Kapashesit, Passes On
(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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Other News
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Arizona Navajo, Hopi water deal revision stirs controversy
(Arizona) -- As a member of the Hopi tribal council, Marilyn Tewa supported a plan two years ago that would have delivered water from the Colorado and Little Colorado...
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Tribal water settlement key to region's future
(Arizona) -- If asked 10 years ago to name Flagstaff's biggest long-term problem, many residents would have said bringing the city's high cost of housing under...
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Bomb scare halts Shoshone General Council
(Wyoming) -- The FBI, along with other agencies on the Wind River Indian Reservation, on Saturday morning launched an investigation into a bomb threat that happened at...
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EST General Council interrupted by bomb threat; Federal Police investigating; meeting reset for Saturday, May 19
(Wyoming) -- The Eastern Shoshone Tribe’s General Council meeting Saturday at Rocky Mountain Hall was interrupted when an alleged bomb threat was apparently called...
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Oil boom impacting health center housing
(North Dakota) -- With the oil boom in the area, the lack of housing is a critical issue, including for staff at the new tribal health center in New Town.
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Ocotillo wind power project advances
(California) -- The energy pact should count toward aggressive state requirements for increasing the share of electricity generated from renewable energy sources such as...
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Tulsa American Indian Chamber of Commerce selects officers
(Oklahoma) -- The Tulsa chapter of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma has selected new chapter officers and three new officers are of Cherokee descent.
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Council overhauled in Tseshaht election
(British Columbia) -- Electoral change has swept through the Tseshaht First Nation. Nine council seats were up for grabs, and after the ballots were counted Tseshaht...
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Ancient Cultures Strive to Modernize ‘Medieval’ Western Notions at UNPFII
(New York) -- As the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) dissected the Doctrine of Discovery this week, peoples from ancient...
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CNB to present $1.5 million to Contract Health Services
(Oklahoma) -- Cherokee Nation Businesses officials will present Cherokee Nation Contract Health Services with a $1.51 million check at the May 14 Tribal Council meeting.
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Council Formed to Guide Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Native American Mentoring Work
(USA) -- In order to expand its services to help Native American children succeed in school, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has established a high-level Native...
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In Celebration of National Nursing Week: The First Women of Healing
(Florida) -- In 1982 President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation on March 25, proclaiming a “National Recognition Day for Nurses.” The ANA Board of...
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Pine Ridge Grocery Store Closed by Tribal Court
(South Dakota) -- On Thursday the Sioux Nation Shopping Center reopened its meat department after being shut down for almost a week by an Indian Health Service...
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Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing
(USA) -- Most of my favorite factoids about obesity are historical ones, and they don’t make it into the new, four-part HBO documentary on the subject, The Weight...
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Five Hoopa grads receive singular honor
(California) -- Five graduating seniors from Hoopa Valley High School are the only Native American recipients from the entire state of California who are Gates Millenium...
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Institute of American Indian Arts Celebrates 50 Years and Bestows Two Honorary Doctorates
(New Mexico) -- To help celebrate a milestone at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the institute will bestow two honorary doctorates and welcome Santee Sioux...
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Tribal College Eligible for Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
(New Mexico) -- Navajo Technical College in New Mexico has been chosen as one of the 120 community colleges eligible for this year’s Aspen Prize for Community College...
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A Mother’s Day nod to native women
(Washington) -- It’s a common misconception, according to Pat Courtney Gold. People today think of the Northwest’s American Indian tribes, and assume the...
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Choctaw Nation holds 20th annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Walk
(Oklahoma) -- This year marks the 20th annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Walk for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The tribe has honored its ancestors at several sites...
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CN announces Remember the Removal riders
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation has selected 10 citizens who will join eight riders from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians this summer for the 2012 Remember the...
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Commentary: In Praise of Native Mothers
(Michigan) -- We know within many tribes and communities, women are the driving forces behind change and progress. They are not simply Native women. They are our mothers...
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Cyclists to follow Trail of Tears
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation has selected 10 representatives who will be joined by eight riders from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians this summer on the 2012...
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From a Private Living Room to a Public Exhibit, 100-Year old Totem Pole from Ketchikan, Alaska and 125 Native Objects on Display in Ohio
(Ohio) -- From a private collection to a free public exhibit, Jim and Vanita Oelschlager are giving the University of Akron, and those in northeast Ohio a chance to see...
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Hundreds celebrate Standing Bear's message
(Nebraska) -- About 700 people attended the Chief Standing Bear Breakfast on Saturday at the Hilton Omaha. The event honors and celebrates Standing Bear's message of...
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Ja:goh! A Mother’s Day Reflection on When the Days Are Long and the Load Is Heavy
(New York) -- When my son was born he was a load, weighing in at 9 pounds, 2.5 ounces. His Seneca name, aptly, is Ohnigodagweh: “He was wished for.”
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JENNEWEIN: Mother passed down stories of Sitting Bull
(South Dakota) -- Ernie LaPointe was the man I wanted to meet. He was going to be speaking about his book Sitting Bull at the Festival of the Books last September in...
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Louisville collector helps preserve studies of ancient Navajo traditions
(Kentucky) -- A century ago, a young woman from rural Wisconsin traveled to the Southwest to teach children at a Navajo school and later built a legacy through her own...
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Mary Annette Pember Wears a Tribute to Her Mother, Tattooed on her Wrist
(Minnesota) -- Recently, while searching for something else, Mary Annette Pember stumbled upon her mother’s beadwork. Holding the intricate designs in her hands, she...
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OP/ED: Mother’s Day: Aunties Rock the House
(USA) -- Aunties are a special breed. They are our mothers’ sisters, but friends and cousins can also be aunties. Your aunt is the woman who steps in when your mom...
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Opinion: Denver's Native Lacrosse spotlights sport's history — and its future
(Colorado) -- If lacrosse is ever to escape its reputation as a sport for the white and well-off, it will very likely come as the result of efforts aimed at attracting...
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Turtle Lodge Wisdom Keepers Gathering: Preparing for the New Age
(New York) -- The discovery of a Mayan calendar that blows away all new-agey notions of an impending apocalypse on December 21, 2012, notwithstanding, we are not in the...
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Michael Mann looks back on 'The Last of the Mohicans' 20 years later
(California) -- Michael Mann's 1992 colonial epic "The Last of the Mohicans" will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, if you can believe it. The...
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Mixed Reaction to Work of Where the Wild Things Are Late Author Maurice Sendak
(USA) -- Children’s book author Maurice Sendak, creator of the iconic Where the Wild Things Are and chronicler of the adventures of Max, has died at age 83.
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Whitewashing, a history
(USA) -- The extraordinary box office success of "The Hunger Games" has launched a heated discussion of Hollywood's peculiar habit of casting white actors in nonwhite...
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‘You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,’ said King Lear. But the audience needs strength
(Ottawa) -- Peter Hinton’s Algonquin-themed production of King Lear is one of those heartbreaking almost-triumphs that have marked his tenure as artistic director...
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Cobra bites professional snake handler at Miccosukee Tribe in Hollywood
(Florida) -- A professional snake handler in Broward County was recovering on Sunday from a cobra bite suffered during a live show at a Miccosukee Indian Tribe facility...
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Woman Bitten By Cobra At Seminole Indian Pow-Wow
(Florida) -- A professional snake handler was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood after she was bitten by an Indian speckled cobra on Saturday.
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Pow-Wow celebrates Native cultures
(New Hampshire) -- Sounds of drums reverberated across the Green this weekend, attracting students, faculty members and Hanover residents to the 40th Annual Dartmouth...
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BLOG: Indians ‘cry with happiness’ at Brazilian Court ruling
(Brazil) -- The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe Indians of Brazil are celebrating a Supreme Court decision to allow them to live undisturbed on their land. The Pataxó, of Bahia state,...
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Bolivia’s Economy Grows, but Challenges Still Persist
(Bolivia) -- Evo Morales promised a new economic policy based on indigenous principles and an aggressive redistribution of natural resource wealth to benefit all...
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West Point United States Military Academy Hosts Pow Wow, Thanks Natives for Service
(New York) -- This May, West Point, The United States Military Academy, gathered its cadets once more along the banks of New York’s Hudson River to celebrate...
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A Portrait of Service, Sacrifice and Family Values
(USA) -- It has the makings of a compelling World War II mini-series with a theme that will be familiar throughout Indian country—heartbreaking sacrifices and...
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Rare White Buffalo Remembered
(Texas) -- His name is Lighting Medicine Cloud. On Saturday the sacred rare white buffalo calf would have turned one years old. But instead of celebrating his first...
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Tribal Member Sentenced Friday for Eagle Fire Arson
(California) -- One of two men who started a fire that scorched 22 square miles between Warner Springs and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park was sentenced Friday to six...
5/12/2012
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Cowichan Tribes in B.C. Declare State of Emergency Over Rash of Suicides
(British Columbia) -- The band council of the Cowichan Tribes in British Columbia has declared a state of emergency after a recent rash of suicides in their communities.
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Organization of American States Joins International Scrutiny of Canada’s Missing Aboriginal Women
(Canada) -- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is scrutinizing the disappearance of more than 600 aboriginal women in Canada, only months after the...
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Sexual Violence and Natural Resource Pillaging Top Hardships Facing Alaskan Natives
(New York) -- Hundreds of indigenous leaders and activists from all across the world are gathering in New York City this week for the 11th session of the United Nations...
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Elizabeth Warren Did Not Claim Minority Status, Records Show
(Massachusetts) -- Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record...
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Construction Begins on San Francisco Peaks; Controversy Far From Over
(Arizona) -- The Arizona Snowbowl ski area, near Flagstaff, began construction this week on the infrastructure to deliver treated wastewater for snowmaking on its slopes.
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First Nations ones to bear environmental costs
(Saskatchewan) -- Aboriginal people and the Harper government are on a collision course, and the Alberta tarsands and the Enbridge pipeline are ground zero.
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Coeur d'Alene Tribe wants to buy Land near historic N. Idaho mission
(Idaho) -- The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is negotiating with a private landowner to buy property surrounding a historic mission site in northern Idaho. Ed Short, the real...
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Bureau of Land Management blesses Ocotillo Express wind turbine project
(California) -- A 112-wind-turbine project set to be built east of Ocotillo received approval from the Department of Interior on Friday, the Bureau of Land Management...
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Native Students Trekking to Washington to Demand Preservation of Sacred Places
(Kansas) -- This Mother’s Day a group of Haskell Indian Nations University students and advocates will embark on the Trail of Broken Promises, a journey across the...
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New water tests show no problem near tailings site
(Wyoming) -- The federal agency in charge of site cleanup and management of an area affected by uranium contamination near St. Stephen's is reporting that tests...
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U.S. Attorney: Federal bootlegging charges 'unique'
(South Dakota) -- Federal bootlegging charges against several people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were filed in part because of concerns raised by community...
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Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics
(Washington D.C.) -- If you are traveling to Washington DC in late May or during the summer, you will not want to miss the "Best in the World: Native Athletes...
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Cultural items returned to Montana tribes
(Montana) -- Cultural items seized at a Montana and Canadian border crossing by U.S. officials who uncovered an illegal smuggling operation have been returned to the...
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Tribe Donates $1 Million to Preserve Chukchansi Language
(California) -- To keep its language alive the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians pledged $1 million to Fresno State’s College of Arts and Humanities for...
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Living on a wing and a prayer
(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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Threatened Pataxo Indian Tribe of Brazil Celebrates Supreme Court Decision
(Brazil) -- The Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae Indian tribe, residing in Brazil, has been allowed by a Supreme Court verdict to live undisturbed in their area. The court has asked the...
5/11/2012
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Oklahoma tribes' accounts to remain frozen, federal judge rules
(Oklahoma) -- A federal judge has ruled that bank accounts belonging to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are to remain frozen until a leadership dispute within the tribes...
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Vancouver Island native tribe declares state of emergency over suicides
(British Columbia) -- Cowichan Tribes Chief Harvey Alphonse has declared a state of emergency in response to a recent increase in suicides and suicide attempts on the...
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Cowichan Tribes declares suicide-related state of emergency
(Washington) -- A recent spike in suicides and suicide attempts on reserve has prompted Cowichan Tribes to declare a state of emergency.
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Another ruling says Riverton not reservation
(Wyoming) -- A federal judge in Wyoming has ruled in support of previous determinations by courts that Riverton is not within the exterior boundaries of the Wind River...
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Blackfeet reform effort stirs debate
(Montana) -- Montana's News Station recently shared the story of a group of Blackfeet who are trying to change the tribe's enrollment requirements so that...
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Evictees, attorneys provide statements
(California) -- Evicted former members of Robinson Rancheria met with Lake County Publishing Thursday to share their experiences of a Tuesday eviction from the...
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Two kicked off Chukchansi tribal council
(California) -- Two tribal council members elected in December have been removed by a rival Chukchansi Tribal Council. Incumbents Morris Reid and Dora Jones, both...
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B.C. judge at wits’ end, compares Gitxsan protests to Caledonia
(British Columbia) -- Rarely has a judge been as blunt and outspoken in his condemnation of police and government and their reluctance to enforce the rule of law in this...
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Cedric Sunray: Racist tendencies common in too many tribes
(Oklahoma) -- Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North...
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PEMBER: The Woman with the Beadwork Tattoo
(USA) -- A few months ago, while looking for something else, I found my mother’s beadwork. They are just bits, really, of much longer strips of loom work that is...
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Warrenton School Leaders Count Potential Cost Of Mascot Controversy
(Oregon) -- The Oregon Board of Education will likely hold a vote Thursday on whether to ban the use of Native American mascots in schools. Warrenton-Hammond School...
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Court rules for Kevin Costner in sculpture appeal
(South Dakota) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that actor Kevin Costner did not breach a contract with an artist when he placed commissioned sculptures...
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Native Sun News: DOI seeks to regulate fracking with new rule
(Washington D.C.) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a proposed rule on May 4 mandating businesses to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing...
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Tribal members meet at mining forum
(Michigan) -- Friday started the two day tribal mining forum at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College in Baraga. This is the first ever tribal mining forum hosted by...
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Abenaki may restore tribal elections this fall
(Vermont) -- The leader of Vermont's largest Abenaki Indian band says members this fall will consider constitutional changes to the tribe's governance structure...
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New iPhone/iPad apps highlight Alaska Native languages
(Alaska) -- First there were Alutiiq and Dena'ina apps. Now come Inupiat and Gwich'in apps, reports the UAF Talking Alaska blog. The new Inupiat app, reviewed on...
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VP of Navajo Code Talkers Association dies
(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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