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Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.
(Washington D.C.) -- After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United...
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Enbridge Pipeline
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Enbridge plans reversal of oil pipeline to supply central Canada
(Canada) -- Enbridge is planning to reverse the flow of a key oil pipeline to boost the supply of Western Canadian oil to markets in Ontario and Quebec. Line 9 currently...
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Fighting Sioux
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Majority in poll: Retire Fighting Sioux nickname
(North Dakota) -- A month before the electoral showdown over the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname, a new statewide poll shows likely voters...
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No surrender: Fighting Sioux nickname supporters vow to fight on to June vote
(North Dakota) -- People working to persuade North Dakota voters to allow retirement of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname next month say they’re encouraged by...
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First Nations Politics
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North Shore Tribal Council halts traffic to protest cuts
(Ontario) -- The North Shore Tribal Council held a march down Great Northern Road in protest over provincial cuts to social services that the council says will affect...
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Mining & Drilling
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Major Player in Fight Against Coal Company Bows Out
(Texas) -- In what the leader of an environmental group said was a surprising and stunning blow to an effort to stop a Mexican company from mining coal on the border, an...
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Environmental groups file suit against Navajo Mine
(New Mexico) -- A coalition of environmental groups has filed suit against BHP Billiton's plans to expand mining activities at Navajo Mine, saying an environmental...
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Groups appeal air quality permit for Shell Arctic drilling
(Alaska) -- Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to a Shell Oil drilling ship that...
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Tribes recognize oil companies for environmental practices, safety
(North Dakota) -- Their safety and environmental practices earned two oil companies working on the Fort Berthold Reservation recognition from the Three Affiliated Tribes.
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Native Voices
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PEMBER: Native Girls Are Being Exploited and Destroyed at an Alarming Rate
(Minnesota) -- Mary G. was born from the boats. Her children were born from the boats too, all fathered through her liaisons with male customers. She has never known...
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Pine Ridge
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Oglala Sioux tribe looks to extend bus program
(South Dakota) -- For the people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, traveling to Rapid City may soon be as simple as hopping on a bus.
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Pine Ridge grocery store waits to reopen after closure lifted
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for Sioux Nation Shopping Center said the Pine Ridge grocery store might reopen as early as Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe dismissed...
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SD reservation grocery store might reopen Thursday
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for the sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota says it might reopen Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe...
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Sioux Nation Superstore Claims Spoiled-Meat Problems Fixed
(South Dakota) -- Richard Whitmarsh, director of Sioux Nation Superstore, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has responded publicly to charges of spoiled-meat sales that...
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South Dakota Reservation Grocery Store Remains Closed
(South Dakota) -- The sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remained closed Wednesday despite the attorney general of the Oglala Sioux saying a...
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Pu’eska Mountain
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'Shocking' twist in quarry hearing
(California) -- The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to affirm its denial of Granite Construction's Liberty Quarry project, a rock mine that...
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Pechanga statement on quarry vote 'flip-flop', Tavaglione's rationale
(California) -- Shortly after the newspaper's article on the county Board of Supervisor's vote to certify the environmental impact report for Granite...
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Quarry opponents angry over report certification
(California) -- Liberty Quarry opponents said Wednesday, May 16, that their dismay over county supervisors’ Tuesday decision to accept a report on the...
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Residential Schools
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Aboriginal Peoples' Stories Remain Unheard
(Vancouver) -- The national Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, which started over two years ago, has been largely ignored by the Canadian...
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Tribal Taxation
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US Senate Mulls Tax Reform For Tribes And Territories
(Washington D.C.) -- At a recent Senate hearing on the effect of possible tax reforms on Native Americans and the United States territories - Puerto Rico, the US Virgin...
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Whiteclay
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How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations
(New York) -- In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are...
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LaMERE: Blood on Their Hands
(Nebraska) -- Any action short of shutting down Whiteclay and crippling the enterprise that peddles alcohol among the Lakota people is unacceptable. The death toll...
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Other News
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes sue Oklahoma district judge over frozen funds
(Oklahoma) -- The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are now suing a Custer County district judge as they try to free up millions of dollars frozen by a Clinton bank at the end...
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Bill would give tribal courts more jurisdiction
(Washington D.C.) -- Key legislation in the battle against domestic violence might be facing a rougher than anticipated road to reauthorization, in part because a new...
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House Vote Sets Up Battle on Domestic Violence Bill
(Washington D.C.) -- After a fierce fight, full of gender politics, the House passed a Republican bill on Wednesday to combat violence against women, over objections...
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House voting on violence bill, draws veto threat
(Washington D.C.) -- The House is voting on a Republican-written bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but the White House has threatened to veto it.
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Obama Administration Threatens to Veto House Version of VAWA
(Washington D.C.) -- The Obama Administration released a Statement of Administration Policy (PDF) yesterday in which the administration threatened to veto the House...
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VAWA Passes House Sans Tribal Court Provisions
(Washington D.C.) -- A reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on May 16 sans tribal court...
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Split Lake protest decries First Nation living conditions
(Manitoba) -- Protesters on the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Split Lake, Man., are demanding the resignation of their chief and council over what they say are poor living...
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Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color?
(Massachusetts) -- Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren isn't backing down from her claim of Native American ancestry, despite the apparent...
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Colo. man charged with taking Navajo Nation funds
(New Mexico) -- Federal authorities say a man who allegedly spent millions of Navajo Nation funds for personal use has been indicted on federal tax evasion charges.
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux Tribe plans veterans cemetery
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe soon will have its own place to memorialize war heroes and bring military family members home to rest with a new $6 million...
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Tribe Seeks Injunction To Stop Desert Wind Energy Project
(California) -- The Quechan Indian Tribe filed a complaint in federal court on Monday asking a judge to halt the Ocotillo Express Wind Project slated for western...
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Aglukkaq says activists hurt Inuit ability to feed families
(Canada) -- A federal cabinet minister slammed activist groups who she says interfere in Inuit traditions, blaming them for food security problems in the North.
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Residents Satisfied With Grocery Store
(South Dakota) -- On Tuesday, we told you about the health violations at the only grocery store in Pine Ridge. Now, we visited the Rosebud Indian Reservation to see what...
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Palm Springs bridge to be named after Richard Milanovich
(California) -- Richard M. Milanovich, the late chairman of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians who is remembered as a leader who connected the city and tribe...
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Navajo Prep on lockdown after suspicious package found
(New Mexico) -- A suspicious package reading "bomb" was found at Navajo Preparatory School this morning before the school was put on full lockdown.
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Group asks judge to halt sea lion killings
(Oregon) -- A federal judge will decide by the end of May whether to stop the government from killing sea lions that eat endangered wild salmon bottled up at Bonneville...
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Studies point to trouble when hatchery and wild salmon mix
(Alaska) -- New studies published this week in a special issue of the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes present more evidence of potential trouble when hatchery...
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Treaty tribes dedicate final replacement fishing site
(Washington) -- On April 25, 2012, representatives from four tribes, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Army Corps of Engineers all stood by the Columbia River to...
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Quechan Tribe Challenges SoCal Wind Farm
(California) -- A Native American tribe wants to block a proposed wind power plant on protected California land that it says is home to hundreds of archaeological sites.
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Native Sun News: State seeks tribe's help with energy impacts
(North Dakota) -- Government leaders in North Dakota want the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation to help them tackle the impacts of the Bakken oil...
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EPA, natural gas company settle clean-air case in Uinta Basin
(Utah) -- Federal regulators have reached a settlement with QEP Field Services Co. over alleged air-pollution violations on tribal lands in eastern Utah.
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Salish, Kootenai tribes win national conservation award
(Montana) -- Entertainment has its Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Grammys. The conservation movement has Connies, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will receive...
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CN Supreme Court justice resigns
(Oklahoma) -- Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice Kyle B. Haskins has resigned his post with the tribe, effective June 1. According to CN officials, Haskins did not...
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DC Circuit dismisses challenge to Western Shoshone trust bill
(Washington D.C.) -- The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenges the distribution of a $185 million trust fund.
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New Yakama Nation jail open in Toppenish
(Washington) -- A new jail with a $15 million price tag opened today in Toppenish. It's a tribal facility that doubles as a rehabilitation center. Tribal council and...
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Yakama Nation opens new jail in Toppenish
(Washington) -- A ceremony was held Wednesday morning to celebrate the opening of a new Yakama Nation Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Toppenish.
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Yakama Nation Opens New Tribal Jail
(Washington) -- The Yakama Nation Indian Tribe hopes to turn around the lives of inmates with its new jail. Tribal members held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new $14...
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Choctaw Nation officers take part in ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign
(Oklahoma) -- The Choctaw Nation Public Safety Department is once again joining up with its Southeastern Oklahoma Traffic Safety Coalition (SOTSC) partners for this year...
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CNB gives $1.5M check to Contract Health Services
(Oklahoma) -- Cherokee Nation’s Contract Health Services received a dividend check for $1.51 million during the May 14 Tribal Council meeting thanks to the sale of...
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Mobile Vet Center services entire Four Corners region
(Arizona) -- The Hopi-Navajo Veterans Mobile Vet Center (MVC) was unveiled recently at the Hopi Veteran's Outreach office located in Hotevilla Village. The unveiling...
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Ready to help: White Earth opens women’s shelter
(Minnesota) -- Monday marked the grand opening of White Earth’s women’s shelter in White Earth village. The opening ceremony started with a traditional...
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Yukon addictions program lauded but not funded
(North Canada) -- A new national mental health strategy plays up Yukon's land-based treatment facility as an example of new ways of dealing with addictions but...
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Bond Approved To Fund New School On Reservation
(Oregon) -- Jefferson County voters gave their approval Tuesday for a school bond designed to help pay for a new K-8 school on the Warm Springs Reservation.
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Haskell, KU students walking to underscore environmental, Native American spiritual issues of trafficway
(Kansas) -- A group of Kansas University and Haskell Indian Nations University students had made it to Brunswick, Mo., on Wednesday evening in their effort to walk from...
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TC honor society inducts 15 new members
(Arizona) -- Fifteen students were inducted into the Tuba City High School chapter of the National Honor Society during a ceremony and potluck held at the Warrior...
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University of Wyoming guard to speak at 2 Wind River schools
(Wyoming) -- Wyoming men's basketball student-athlete Luke Martinez will speak at two schools on the Wind River Reservation about how American Indians can succeed in...
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American Indian collection fresh to Caddingan auction May 19
(Massachusetts) -- Caddigan Auctioneers Inc. will conduct an important estates auction on Saturday, May 19, beginning at 10 a.m. EST. Leading this sale will be an...
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Astro-Tourism Hits Pyramid Lake
(Nevada) -- The planets are literally aligning this weekend over a crowd of 8,000 people who will be on Native American lands that have been closed to crowds like this...
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Building on history
(Oklahoma) -- The city of Tahlequah was born out of adversity, when the Cherokees arrived at the end of their forced removal, known as the Trail of Tears in 1838.
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Life's a peach at pueblo orchard
(New Mexico) -- San Ildefonso Pueblo elders, young people and teachers on Tuesday began planting 150 fruit trees in hand-dug holes.
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MORON ALERT: Franklin balks at apology for killing mound grass
(North Carolina) -- Franklin leaders declined last week to offer a formal apology to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for using weed killer on an ancient Indian...
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The ancient American bones at centre of two lawsuits
(California) -- They may have been dead for more than 9000 years, but the future looks uncertain for two early Americans unearthed in 1976 below the University of...
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CBC Goes Big And Hits Home
(Canada) -- The demise of the CBC has always been a source of amusement. Hardy har har. This year, however, the Canadian broadcaster is in on the joke. Sure, it may have...
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Native Voices at the Autry Presents 14th Annual Playwrights Retreat & Festival of New Plays, 6/1-2
(California) -- Native Voices at the Autry, America’s leading Native American theatre company, continues its tradition of excellence, developing works by new and...
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WATCH: Sagkeeng's Finest captures first place on Canada's Got Talent
(Canada) -- Sagkeeng's Finest claimed first place tonight, May 14, on Canada's Got Talent. For the final performance round on Sunday night, the three teenagers...
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Doug George-Kanentiio: 'Crooked Arrows' scores on the screen
(New York) -- Crooked Arrows marks a new venture in filmmaking, one in which Native people break free from being mere subjects of a movie into a new reality where they...
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“Crooked Arrows” premieres Friday at these selected theaters in the tristate
(New York) -- America’s first lacrosse movie, “Crooked Arrows,” will be premiering this week. The movie, which is being released in association with...
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Native American rights activists bring nationwide walk to Asheville
(North Carolina) -- The Leonard Peltier Walk for Human Rights was going to walk right through Asheville until a last-minute change of plans landed them in Pritchard Park.
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Study links biodiversity and language loss
(UK) -- The decline of linguistic and cultural diversity is linked to the loss of biodiversity, a study has suggested.
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Navajo Police Sgt. Darrell Curley remembered at National Police Week memorial events
(Washington D.C.) -- Navajo Police Sgt. Darrell Curley, who was shot and killed after responding to a domestic dispute between two brothers in Kaibito, Ariz., June 26,...
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Crash on Ochapowace First Nation kills one
(Saskatchewan) -- One person is dead and others are in hospital following a crash Tuesday night at the Ochapowace First Nation near Broadview, Sask., RCMP say.
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Woman Killed in Monday Afternoon Accident on the Umatilla Indian Reservation
(Oregon) -- A 36-year-old woman died Monday afternoon in a single vehicle accident on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
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Wolf found dead in SD came from Yellowstone
(South Dakota) -- A federal wolf specialist says a gray wolf found dead on South Dakota's Ridge Reservation came from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
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Red Lake man sentenced for involuntary manslaughter
(Minnesota) -- A Red Lake, Minn., man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court for causing a drunk driving accident that threw a woman from the open bed of his pickup...
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Former Marine sniper sentenced for shooting on Hopi Indian Reservation
(Arizona) -- A former Marine sniper has been sentenced to several years in prison for a shooting spree last fall. Mitchell James Karty, 39, was sentenced to 177 months...
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Project denied, but opponents say door open
(California) -- What was expected to be the final chapter in the seven-year battle over a proposed Temecula-area rock mine could be the jumping-off point for a court...
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Senate Considers Tax Reform for Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories
(Washington D.C.) -- The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday to examine the impact of tax reform on Native American tribes and U.S. territories such as...
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Wind River Reservation Taxation Case Raises Other Issues
(Wyoming) -- A protest against state and local taxation on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, home to the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes, has...
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Poll shows support for retiring Fighting Sioux nickname
(North Dakota) -- A month before the electoral showdown over UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname, a new statewide poll shows likely voters inclined toward allowing the...
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Great Wolf Lodge tax exemption stands despite internal doubts, court ruling
(Washington) -- Since the 1970s, U.S. policy toward American Indian tribes has been to encourage economic independence. Tribal casinos are probably the most visible...
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White House threatens veto of GOP anti-abuse bill
(Washington D.C.) -- The White House is threatening to veto a Republican-written bill to reauthorize the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
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Ottawa offers help to suicide-pained Cowichan Tribes
(British Columbia) -- Two federal ministers have written to Vancouver Island's Cowichan Tribes First Nation pledging social and emotional help throughout a local...
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CN’s Baker: Ballot initiative unfair to many tribal citizens
(Oklahoma) -- Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker told tribal councilors that a citizen petition initiative to eliminate mail-in absentee voting is unfair,...
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Thousands Still Displaced by Last Year’s Flooding in Manitoba; Permanent Solution Needed Soon, Chiefs Say
(Manitoba) -- More than 2,200 people from seven First Nations in Manitoba are still displaced a year after flooding forced them from their reserve homes, stuck in an...
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Researchers: No proof of Warren’s Indian heritage
(Massachusetts) -- The New England Historical Genealogical Society, which originally announced they found evidence of Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage,...
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Pine Ridge Grocery Store Closes After Health Violations
(South Dakota) -- The only grocery store in Pine Ridge remained closed Tuesday night after nearly a dozen major health violations involving raw meat. "They'd...
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RCMP allows Gitxsan to continue illegal blockade
(British Columbia) -- A blockade by members of the Gitxsan First Nation in Old Hazleton, B.C., has entered its sixth month and band members have no intention of backing...
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Native Sun News: TransCanada still pushing for Keystone XL
(Washington D.C.) -- TransCanada Corp. made its latest move to overturn the U.S. government’s decision rejecting the proposed binational Keystone XL Pipeline.
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Tribe files restraining order to stop wind power project
(California) -- The Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation sued the federal government Monday and demanded construction of a large wind turbine facility near...
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Ex-tribal officer accused of harboring fugitives
(North Dakota) -- A former Three Affiliated Tribes law enforcement officer is accused of harboring two men who escaped from a jail in New Town over the weekend.
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Teachers failing aboriginal students, Lakehead prof says
(Ontario) -- Teachers need to change if aboriginal students are going to succeed in school, according to John Hodson, chair of Lakehead University’s aboriginal...
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Documents Show Agency Insiders Questioned Great Wolf Lodge Tax Exemption
(Washington) -- Great Wolf Resorts is a Wisconsin-based chain of indoor water parks and hotels. Four years ago, the company expanded what it calls its “paw print...
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Possible Dress Code for Voters in June
(North Dakota) -- Voters could be dealing with a dress code when showing up to vote this June. The Cass County auditor says anyone wearing Fighting Sioux gear that day...
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IRS Consults with Tribal Leaders on Welfare Exclusion
(Washington D.C.) -- The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service said Monday they plan to hold a listening session with Native American tribal leaders to...
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Native American women seek protections from abuse
(Washington D.C.) -- Diane Millich says her ex-husband was never arrested for any of the more than 100 times he slapped, kicked or punched her, not until he tried to...
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WHITE HOUSE: Addressing Violence Against Native Women in the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization
(Washington D.C.) -- Last week, the House Judiciary Committee considered legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). However, the bill that came...
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Suicide spike linked to Cowichan Tribes' 85 per cent unemployment rate: Tribe officials
(British Columbia) -- The largest Aboriginal community in B.C., with a population of 4,500, Cowichan Tribes suffers from an unemployment rate around 85 per cent, and...
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Scott Brown renews call for Elizabeth Warren to release her personnel records
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) renewed his call for his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, to release personnel records Monday, arguing that new...
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Gila River tribe may hold vote on Loop 202 freeway
(Arizona) -- A dozen landowners on the Gila River Reservation have gathered more than 1,200 signatures from residents who support a new effort to put the South Mountain...
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Navajos concerned over water deal with feds
(Arizona) -- The house where Dixie Ellis lives with her mother is perched on a mesa above town. It is a steep hike up the hill from Lake Powell, the second-largest man-...
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GIAGO: 'Beer sniffing' reporters descend upon Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The “beer sniffing” reporters from across the country, particularly those of the New York Times, descended upon the Pine Ridge Reservation...
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JENNINGS: In Celebration of National Nursing Week: The First Women of Healing
(Washington D.C.) -- 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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Bomb threat cancels Eastern Shoshone meeting
(Wyoming) -- Authorities are investigating a bomb threat which canceled a meeting to discuss alleged problems at the Eastern Shoshone Housing Authority.
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Court of Appeals Panel Votes in Favor of the Tribes
(Idaho) -- The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes claimed that FMC owed them millions of dollars and a unanimous court panel agreed and soon that money could be pouring into the...
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Stalemate continues at Gitxsan treaty office
(British Columbia) -- They claim the Gitxsan Treaty Society is illegal and have not let anybody inside the building since last December. This is despite an injunction...
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Calgary law firm accused of fleecing residential school survivors faces demand over records
(Canada) -- A hearing into alleged abuses in the residential schools compensation process ended Friday. The judge heard six days of information into the practices of...
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Suicide awareness campaign focuses on hope
(South Dakota) -- Suicide is a chronic problem on the Pine Ridge reservation, and students of a business class on the reservation teamed up with Rapid City advertisers...
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BOOK: The least -- and most -- American of places: A review of Rez Life
(Wyoming) -- Accomplished novelist David Treuer turns to nonfiction in his latest book, which combines elements of his own life on "the rez" with a historical...
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Resurgence of the Ancient Game of Cherokee Marbles
(USA) -- Cherokee marbles are an ancient game, dating back to at least 800 A.D. The marbles used in the traditional Native American game are much bigger than modern...
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