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Elizabeth Warren

article A little bit Cherokee? Elizabeth Warren not alone in ancestry claim
(California) -- Kevin Costner, James Garner, Johnny Depp, James Earl Jones, Chuck Norris, Cameron Diaz. You guessed it (no, you probably did not). This is a partial...
article BLOG: Boston Globe plays catch-up on Fauxcahontas Warren the wrong way
(USA) -- The Boston Globe, a New York Times subsidiary, has been caught flat-footed on the story of Senate candidate/Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren's phony...
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Keystone XL Pipeline

article NRDC Report: Keystone XL Pipeline Will Lower US Gas Prices a Myth
(Canada) -- At a telephone press conference held on Tuesday morning, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) made public comments and released a supporting report...
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Oregon Mascots

article Tribe Disapproves of Oregon Banning Native Mascots
(Oregon) -- One of the 15 schools affected by the Oregon Board of Education’s decision to ban Native American mascots is Siletz Valley School, an Indian charter...
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Residential Schools

article Truth and Reconciliation Walk Brings Attention to Residential School Survivors
(Ontario) -- A father and son are once again taking part in a lengthy walk to raise awareness of the impacts that residential schools continue to have on survivors and...
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Whiteclay

article Oglala Sioux tribal members are proud of Pine Ridge Reservation
(Colorado) -- Dana Lone Hill is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. While poverty and alcoholism are...
article OP/ED: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is drowning in beer
(Colorado) -- Just six hours from Denver is the town of Whiteclay, Neb. Its population: about 12. Yet in 2010, this tiny town sold 465,000 gallons of beer, enough for...
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Winnemem Wintu

article Timeline of tribe: Short history of the Winnemem Wintu
(California) -- May 24-27: Winnemem Wintu hold war dance on McCloud River arm of Lake Shasta, where they want to close lake for coming-of-age ceremony.
article Winnemem Wintu Tribe gasps for air; members confront feds on ceremony, recognition
(California) -- David Martinez sits next to his trailer, looking through the evergreen pines at the placid emerald waters of the ­McCloud River Arm of Lake Shasta.
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Other News

article All together: Alaska exempted from proposed tribal powers
(Alaska) -- Congress soon could pass a law that allows Native American tribes to start arresting and prosecuting non-Indians accused of domestic violence on tribal lands...
article BLOG: Federal restraining orders on the Rez?
(South Dakota) -- It seems to me that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was used as some kind of political football in Washington, DC.
article Black Mesa Shouldering the Burden of Navajo-Hopi Water Project
(Arizona) -- Black Mesa is among the most remote and traditional communities on the vast Navajo Nation. Located near the Navajo border with the Hopi reservation in...
article Letter: Proposed water settlement contradicts the language of 'unlimited' water rights
(Arizona) -- To the editor: This April hundreds of Navajo citizens gathered at chapter houses across the reservation to express their concern and opposition to the...
article Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Inks $4 Million Deal to Power Wireless Transmissions, Expand Internet Access
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) has ordered $4 million worth of network services from Ceragon Networks Ltd., a wireless backhaul specialist,...
article Oglala Sioux Tribe Poised To Take Control Of First Tribal National Park
(South Dakota) -- Earlier this month we brought you the depressing story of how Anheuser-Busch is helping to destroy the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern...
article Lack of Attention to Indigenous Rights Tops Amnesty’s Report on Canada
(Canada) -- The Canada bashing continues. This time it comes from Amnesty International, as the country’s treatment of its indigenous population tops the list of...
article Bringing UNDRIP to the People Is Next Step for Indigenous Rights: Chief
(United Nations) -- This year marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and First Nations chiefs...
article Twenty Countries Join Forces to Strengthen Children’s Rights
(United Nations) -- Twenty countries have signed a new measure designed as a last resort for children when legal systems fail to protect their rights.
article Clean Air Program improving tribe’s air
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation’s Environmental Programs has been a leader in tribal air monitoring since it started one of the first tribally operated Clean Air...
article CNI receives Supplier Gold certification
(Oklahoma) -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has certified Cherokee Nation Industries’ Stilwell facility as a UTC Supplier Gold...
article Ho-Chunk CEO named to a USDA council
(Nebraska) -- The man who oversees the Winnebago Tribe’s economic development corporation has been appointed to a committee that advises the U.S. agriculture...
article New Mexico Native American Economic Summit Draws Hundreds
(New Mexico) -- The sixth annual New Mexico Native American Economic Summit drew upwards of 600 participants on May 22-24, 2012 to the Pueblo of Isleta near Albuquerque.
article SBA Honors Chloeta Fire CEO as National Young Entrepreneur of the Year
(Oklahoma) -- Today the U. S. Small Business Administration named Mark Masters, the chief executive officer of Chloeta Fire, LLC, as its National Young Entrepreneur of...
article Council to mull Supreme Court, registrar nominations
(Oklahoma) -- The council’s Rules Committee on May 31 is expected to vote on Principal Chief Bill John Baker’s nominations of John Garrett as a Supreme Court justice and...
article Seneca Asks Feds for $28M+ for Highway Repairs After NY Reneges on TERO Compliance
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation has asked the federal government to re-allocate $28.5 million from New York State to the Nation to repair more than eleven miles of an...
article OP/ED: Coming From Akwesasne? Get Out of the Car
(New York) -- I work for the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe as public information director. My reservation is in Canada and my legal residence is within the jurisdiction of the...
article The power of language and the words we choose | Editor's Notebook
(Washington) -- It’s been a busy month, what with Viking Fest and all. Here are some newsworthy items from my notebook, all reminders of the power of language and...
article Black Hills National Cemetery to host Memorial Day Program
(South Dakota) -- Black Hills National Cemetery will play host to two Memorial Day ceremonies Monday. The ceremonies will be held at the Cemetery’s Committal...
article Tribe to honor vets
(Oregon) -- The annual Grand Ronde Memorial Day Observance that will be celebrated at 1 p.m. Monday at the West Valley Veterans' Memorial has special significance...
article Veterans to be remembered at Warriors Memorial
(Oklahoma) -- On May 28, the Cherokee Nation Office of Veterans Affairs will have a brief flag raising ceremony at 11 a.m. at the Warriors Memorial, east of the Tribal...
article Coushatta Tribe Police adds certified officer
(Louisiana) -- The Coushatta Tribe is well-known across southwest Louisiana, but what do you know about them or their police department? Did you know almost a third of...
article Amazon Tribe Gives Clues to Heart-Healthy Lifestyles
(Belgium) -- Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how...
article Center for Native American Youth receives $600K grant
(Washington D.C.) -- The Center for Native American Youth announced it has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
article New residential homeless facility for inebriates opens on South Cushman
(Alaska) -- A new residential facility for the homeless has quietly opened on South Cushman Street, offering living space to residents who may have gone a decade or more...
article EDITORIAL: Put up or shut up: Matthew Tso should go
(New Mexico) -- Apparently the only thing Matthew Tso is ashamed of these days is his college degree. It seems to be the only thing he is hiding when it comes to his...
article Proposal splits Navajo-dominated school district
(Arizona) -- A proposal to split a school district dominated by American Indian students has raised tensions in northwestern New Mexico communities.
article Tribal college graduates get cultural degrees
(Wyoming) -- Karen Smith decided to enrolled at the Wind River Tribal College in Ethete to learn about the Northern Arapaho's rich culture. "I started taking Arapaho...
article An Oral History of the Ancient Game of Sla-Hal: Man Versus Animals
(Washington) -- Sla-hal, to Native people of today, is a game. Sometimes called stick game or bone game, a gambling game that once determined territory and settled...
article Historic Horseback Ride Commemorating Cheyenne Exodus of 1878 Departs on June 1
(Oklahoma) -- On June 1, a 1,391-mile journey across seven states begins for eight riders who will set out from Fort Reno, Oklahoma to remember the Northern Cheyenne...
article Locust Grove dedicates future museum during centennial
(Oklahoma) -- During the 100th Founder’s Day celebration on May 12, Locust Grove residents, Cherokee Nation citizens and city and state officials dedicated a landmark...
article Native American Olympians celebrated at Smithsonian
(Washington D.C.) -- A new exhibit at the Smithsonian celebrates the contributions of Native American athletes to the Olympics. Olympic medals from three Native American...
article Okla. Native Caucus supports Indian center
(Oklahoma) -- The 18-member House Native American Caucus has announced support of a planned American Indian Cultural Center along the banks of the Oklahoma River near...
article Opinion: This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
(New Mexico) -- Nayeli Guzman is a young Mexican woman who went to New Mexico to be part of the effort to restore traditional agriculture. Throughout the US, Native,...
article Tribal identity tied to town membership
(Oklahoma) -- The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is a confederation of many clans (or towns) descended from an ancient people known as the Mississippian Mound Builders.
article Archbishop Adopted by Anishinaabe in Reconciliation Gesture
(Manitoba) -- Over the past year, various Christian church denominations have reached out to aboriginals to make redress for the residential schools era. Now the...
article Aglow in Accolades: Ojibwe Author Jim Northrup Honored and Awarded
(Minnesota) -- For Jim Northrup, Ojibwe, it was an exciting couple of days. On May 17, the award-winning poet/author/playwright/journalist received an honorary doctorate...
article Exclusive: Andrea Grant’s Graphic Novel Minx: Dream War—Part III
(USA) -- Here we are at part three of our exclusive sneak peek of Andrea Grant’s graphic nove, Minx: Dream War. We debuted a snippet of Grant’s work on March 14, and now...
article Must See: NMAI in New York’s ‘We Are Here! The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship’ Exhibit
(New York) -- Contemporary works of five outstanding Native artists will be on the spotlight at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York,...
article Native filmmaker draws on Flathead upbringing
(Montana) -- It’s a big leap, going from producing a 15-minute short film to making a feature-length one. But a woman who spent her childhood on the Flathead...
article Will Depp’s portrayal of Tonto add to struggle Natives face in filmmaking?
(Kansas) -- I have always appreciated Johnny Depp. Even despite his recent slam against Wichita in an article that ran in the U.K. paper, the Guardian, where he implied...
article South Africa’s Khoisan See Repatriation Happen of Ancestors Remains More Than 100 Years Later
(South Africa) -- When the stolen bodies of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar left their country of birth, South Africa in 1909, it was under the cover of darkness.
article Rochester Knighthawks win National Lacrosse League Championship on Strength of Aboriginal Stars
(New York) -- Cody Jamieson certainly did his best to ensure a professional squad with numerous Aboriginal connections captured the National Lacrosse League (NLL)...
article Kelly: Runner gets second wind from another boy's selfless act
(Nebraska) -- Don't judge others, an American Indian proverb says, until you've walked a mile in their moccasins. A Boys Town student who belongs to the Sioux...
article Tribe’s golf clinic will be July 12
(Washington) -- The Coquille Indian Tribe’s annual junior golf clinic will be held on Thursday, July 12, at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort’s practice center.
article Mohawk World to Honor John Houston Talley, Radio Host, Veteran and Mentor to Many
(Oregon) -- Fellow veterans, radio personalities and other assorted friends and family will gather on May 25 to honor the late John Houston Talley, a Mohawk and the...
article President Shelly commemorates Navajo television reporter Andy Harvey
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly offered a statement mourning the loss of television reporter and Navajo Nation employee Andy Harvey. Harvey, 35, passed...
article Whitewater-Baldy Fire Passes 100,000 Acres
(Arizona) -- On Saturday, the massive Whitewater-Baldy fire burning in Gila National Forest in New Mexico had torched 100,000 acres, or more than 150 square miles,...
article Field reports: Field reports: Pike netting continues on Pend Oreille River
(Washington) -- More than 5,200 northern pike have been gillnetted out of the Pend Oreille River downstream from Newport this spring. But anglers may still hook fish...

5/26/2012

article Rapes on Indian Reservations Reach Epidemic Proportions
(USA) -- It's not hard to come up with a pretty long list of the ways in which Native Americans have been mistreated and abused by this country's government, but...
article Violence Against Women Act becomes political battle
(North Dakota) -- The Violence Against Women Act, a piece of legislation authorized in the past with little or no problem, is now caught up in political wrangling in...
article Permit would allow ceremony, but wouldn't close arm of lake, Winnemem learn
(California) -- Winnemem Wintu officials found out Friday from the U.S. Forest Service that a permit they sought to hold a tribal ceremony would still not let them close...
article Winnemem Wintu tribe stages war dance as protest
(California) -- The shadows of the Winnemem Wintu warriors darted and danced through the trees amid the glow of a ceremonial fire as rhythmic chants echoed across the...
article ‘Early Warning/Urgent Action’ Sought Against US Human Rights Violations at Border Wall
(USA) -- A group representing human, indigenous and women’s rights accuses the United States of violating international human rights laws and private property...
article Human rights violations still afflict Indigenous people in Canada: AI report
(Canada) -- Amnesty International has released its 50th annual report on human rights in Canada. It shows that 50 years later, this country still needs major work to...
article Ignoring Protest and Warnings, Obama Ushers in Era of Unprecedented Arctic Drilling
(USA) -- President Barack Obama, who once elevated the hopes of many US environmentalists by promising to be a 'transformative' president -- one whose term, as...
article Native Sun News: Indians be dammed -- Missouri River revisited
(South Dakota) -- The relocation of the White Swan community on the Yankton Sioux Reservation is a poignant case in the book Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing...
article DOE-Supported Education and Training Programs Help Crow Tribe Promote Energy Independence and Education
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news release: Two Department of Energy (DOE)-...
article Secretary Vilsack Names Members to the Council for Native American Farming and Ranching
(Washington D.C.) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of members to the Council for Native American Farming and Ranching, a committee...
article Seneca Nation wants to take over NY road project
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation wants to take over a $28.5 million road construction project on tribal territory because of a dispute with New York state.
article Indian Affairs Committee examines programs for Native veterans
(Washington D.C.) -- U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, held an oversight hearing on Programs and Services for...
article Shoshone tribe can challenge eagle permit
(Wyoming) -- A federal judge is allowing the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to challenge the Northern Arapaho’s plan to kill bald eagles on the reservation they share in...
article A Mathematical Model Determines the Root Cause of the Obesity Epidemic
(Massachusetts) -- Dr. Carson Chow, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained mathematician, physicist and investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and...
article Portland-area Native Americans wage war against diabetes epidemic
(Oregon) -- In a North Portland health clinic on a dreary Saturday, Michael Teeple does his part in the war against the diabetes epidemic rocking Indian Country.
article Imposing White "Eurocentric" Education on Mexican-American Students in Tucson: The Suppression of History
(Arizona) -- "Tucson, Arizona was a part of Mexico not so long ago. All this hateful rhetoric to 'go back to where you come from!' does not work so well in...
article American History Myths Debunked: White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness
(New York) -- We’ve spent the last six days going through Cracked.com’s popular post “6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America,...
article ‘Beat Nation’ Brings Skateboard and Hip Hop Culture to the Vancouver Art Gallery
(British Columbia) -- Someday, perhaps, archaeologists will discover a bizarre petroglyph repeated across Turtle Island: the word “Indians,” carved deep into...
article Indigenous Protests of Oil Company Yield Accord in Peru’s Amazon
(Peru) -- After threatening to seize several of the company’s Amazon oil wells unless officials sat down to talks, Achuar indigenous communities on the Corrientes...
article Native Burial Mounds Vandalized in Southern Illinois in Possible Attempt to Steal ‘Grave Goods’
(Illinois) -- The Evansville Courier & Press is reporting that the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the Massac County Sheriff’s Department are...
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5/25/2012

article Senecas threaten to remove workers
(New York) -- Seneca Nation of Indians’ top officials said they will remove crews repairing an 11.5-mile stretch of Interstate 86 on tribal lands if work begins...
article Winnemem Wintu Tribe begins protest at McCloud River arm of Lake Shasta
(California) -- About 75 people came to Lake Shasta on Thursday to participate in the Winnemem Wintu’s war dance being held to protest the U.S. Forest Service...
article Florida Bar won’t charge Miami lawyers in litigation dispute involving Miccosukee Tribe clients
(Florida) -- The Florida Bar has decided not to file ethics charges against Miami lawyers Michael Tein and Guy Lewis stemming from a dispute over the personal financial...
article Restart of whaling study disappoints Makah chairman
(Washington) -- The federal government’s announcement this week that it is scrapping a 7-year-old draft environmental study on the impact of Makah tribal whaling...
article Police chief apologizes to former employee over racism
(Edmonton) -- Edmonton's chief of police has apologized to one of the department's former employees who says the racist behaviour of her boss and colleagues...
article Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query
(Massachusetts) -- What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren,...
article S.D. Tribe Poised To Take Back Part Of Badlands
(South Dakota) -- Federal officials are about to join hands with a tribe in South Dakota in a proposal to make part of the Badlands National Park the first ever tribally...
article L.A. Councilmen want Southwest, Autry backers to form working group
(California) -- City officials want to mend frayed relations between the Autry museum in Griffith Park and backers of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in...
article Morongo Tribe Donates Baseball Gear to Little League
(California) -- Young baseball and softball players in the Pass will have an advantage this season with new equipment donated by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians...
article An Oneida Woman’s Adventures Starting and Running a Cupcake Business
(California) -- At the height of the recession, when people were losing jobs left and right, I did something very courageous: I jumped into the fire (Stuck my head in...
article Potawatomi to sell insurance to other tribes
(Wisconsin) -- The Forest County Potawatomi has entered into an agreement with UnitedHealthcare that will allow it to sell the insurance product as a third-part...
article Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court celebrates 20 Years
(Connecticut) -- On Thursday, May 3 the Mashantucket Pequot Bar Association celebrated twenty years in the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.
article Smithsonian’s American Indian museum showcases Olympic medals from Native American athletes
(Washington D.C.) -- Olympic medals from three Native American athletes who competed in the 1912 games in Stockholm, Sweden are in a new exhibit opening at the...
article Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grants Potlatch Fund $400K
(Washington) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $5 million to nine community organizations benefiting people in rural and poverty-stricken areas...
article Senators seek to name bison 'national mammal'
(Montana) -- Western lawmakers want to elevate the Plains bison to a status similar to that of the iconic bald eagle with legislation to declare the burly beasts America...
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