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Chumash Tribe

article Supervisor Farr's letter opposes Chumash fee-to-trust proposal
(California) -- In a letter to an Alaskan congressman, 3rd District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Doreen Farr again laid out her objections to a request by the Santa...
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Enrollment

article Robinson officials evict delinquent tenants from tribal housing
(California) -- On Tuesday law enforcement officers of the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California evicted people who were illegally occupying five tribal homes...
article Robinson Rancheria begins tribal evictions
(California) -- Robinson Rancheria tribal police on Tuesday physically evicted residents of five homes for failing to pay tribal housing fees. Others evictions are...
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Keystone XL Pipeline

article An Old Texas Tale Retold: the Farmer vs. the Oil Company
(Texas) -- When the TransCanada men first came, Julia Trigg Crawford said, they were polite. They offered money. Seven thousand dollars to let the Keystone XL pipeline...
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Mining & Drilling

article Federal rules would slow Fort Berthold oil development
(North Dakota) -- Federal red tape and redundant regulations threaten to slow oil development on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, tribal officials and industry...
article Aboriginal group upset with efforts to restrict their input
(British Columbia) -- A First Nations group is extremely upset about attempts by Taseko Mines Ltd (TML) to pressure the federal government into placing greater...
article Lac du Flambeau Tribe and Oneida Co. Board Meet on Mining
(Wisconsin) -- Weighty concerns over mining in the town of Lynne were aired in a special meeting between the Oneida County Board and the Lac du Flambeau tribe tonight....
article Tribal leader tells Congress of fracking worry
(Wyoming) -- Eastern Shoshone Business Council co-chairman Wes Martel told a congressional group that tribes need a stronger role in regulating energy development, which...
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Native Voices

article CHARLES: Starting the conversation for US reconciliation
(USA) -- During his official visit to the United States, I had the privilege of personally, and publically, addressing James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur...
article BARREIRO: Making Fire
(New York) -- About a month ago, a client of Sky Woman Media pointed at me during a meeting and said, "I like the way she thinks." I overheard someone gush to...
article CHAMPAGNE: Consensus Among Government and Tribal Justice Systems
(California) -- In this country, all citizens are equal under the law—in theory. In Indian country, however, the courts, police and incarceration facilities are...
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Oneida Nation

article Oneida Indian Nation backs multi-million dollar deal to make Hofmann Hot Dogs national brand (video)
(New York) -- Together with former Hofmann Sausage Company President Rusty Flook and Oneida Nation Enterprises CEO Ray Halbritter, Dallas-based Zaccanelli Food Group...
article Oneidas become investors in Hofmann Sausage Co.
(New York) -- The Oneida Indian Nation now is in the sausage business, a sign of its influence stretching beyond the region. On Monday, the Nation and Dallas-based...
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Seminole Tribe

article LETTER: Ramos has vision
(California) -- I am responding to Michele Derry's Point of View published April 23. I have stood by long enough as a resident born and raised in the city of San...
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Seneca Nation

article Seneca Nation firm wins $18.5M NY Army project
(New York) -- A Seneca Indian Nation business has been awarded an $18.5 million contract to design and build a U.S. Army Reserve Center in upstate New York.
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State Recognition

article The Interview: Chief Wilford "Longhair" Taylor
(Alabama) -- The Mobile-Washington band of Choctaws are the descendants of Native Americans who avoided being sent west on the Trail of Tears in the 1830's. Since...
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Tribal Taxation

article Tribal tax appeal heard in Denver; has implications on border issue
(Denver) -- Northern Arapaho litigation against Fremont County and the State of Wyoming is using a taxation issue to determine the Wind River Indian Reservation's...
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Whiteclay

article BLOG: Can a Bud boycott help the Pine Ridge Reservation?
(Philadelphia) -- In Sunday’s New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch (maker of beers like Budweiser, Rolling Rock, and,...
article LETTER: Alcohol and the Reservation: Anheuser-Busch’s View
(New York) -- Re “A Battle With the Brewers,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, May 6): We care about the tragic problems of tribal members on the Pine Ridge...
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Other News

article American Indian tribe asks judge to release accounts frozen by Okla. bank over governor flap
(Oklahoma) -- A Native American tribe wants a federal judge to force the release of $6.4 million in cash assets that were frozen at the request of a Clinton bank.
article House VAWA Bill to Strip Native American Protections
(Washington D.C.) -- The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to mark up a Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill on May 8 that will...
article Senator Kyl and the Violence Against Women Act
(Washington D.C.) -- Last month, the United States Senate moved to close a jurisdictional loophole that for decades has allowed non-Indian perpetrators of domestic...
article Mixed Reviews on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Progress
(Maine) -- Ask Donna Loring if the Maine legislature’s endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has helped the Wabanaki...
article Onondaga Nation leaders attend UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
(New York) -- Onondaga Nation leaders opened up the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this week at the UN headquarters in New York...
article OP/ED: In Oklahoma, much has changed for the better for American Indians
(Oklahoma) -- JAMES Anaya, who investigates the rights of indigenous people on behalf of the United Nations, recently visited Oklahoma to take testimony from American...
article BLOG: Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Question
(Massachusetts) -- There used to be a building on Harvard Yard called Indian College; that was three and a half centuries ago, when Harvard was new. In 1650, in the...
article Brown blasts Warren over Native American issue
(Massachusetts) -- My colleague Manu Raju had Sen. Scott Brown taking about "questions" that have been raised over his Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren and...
article Elizabeth Warren brushes off ‘Trail of Tears’ report
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren waved off reports yesterday that an ancestor helped round up Cherokees in the infamous “Trail of Tears,” as well as...
article Scott Brown pushes Elizabeth Warren on Native American issue
(Massachusetts) -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is calling on Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, his Democratic challenger, to release all her past job applications...
article Native Sun News: Clean water is on horizon for Navajo Nation
(Arizona) -- Reliable, clean water will soon be available to the Navajo Nation where 40 percent of families haul their water in barrels from pumping stations.
article Group protests at Sioux San
(South Dakota) -- A group of concerned citizens voice their opposition to leadership and the level of care at Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City. About 20 members of the...
article Sanford Votes to Change High School Nickname
(Maine) -- The school committee agreed Monday to drop the nickname Redskins that was used for Sanford's sports teams after several Maine tribes complained that the...
article Sanford votes to drop ‘Redskins’ as high school team nickname
(Maine) -- The Sanford School Committee has voted to drop the nickname Redskins for the local high school’s sports teams.
article Sacred White Buffalo Slaughtered; Reward For Catching Killer Grows
(Texas) -- There's now a $45,000 reward for information leading to those responsible for the death of a white buffalo, "considered sacred by its Lakota Sioux...
article Native Sun News: Newspaper takes home nine media awards
(South Dakota) -- Native Sun News won big in this year’s Better Newspapers Contest sponsored by the South Dakota Newspaper Association for excellence in journalism.
article Hamm named to task force to negotiate water dispute
(Oklahoma) -- Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO of Continental Resources, has been appointed to a task force to discuss solutions to avoid ongoing litigation over water...
article Okla. governor, tribal leaders to meet on water
(Oklahoma) -- Gov. Mary Fallin and the leaders of two Oklahoma American Indian tribes will meet on a task force to try and resolve a dispute over water rights in...
article OP/ED: EPA should protect Paiutes from plant
(Nevada) -- The stated mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is “to protect human health and the environment.” Unfortunately, it’s...
article American Indian Business Association honors Keres Consulting
(New Mexico) -- The American Indian Business Association has given Keres Consulting Inc. its 2012 American Indian Entrepreneurial Leadership Award.
article Los Angeles museum head appointed to Smithsonian director
(California) -- Los Angeles museum head John Gray has been appointed to run Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.
article Native American Voters No Longer Easily Suppressed in New Mexico
(New Mexico) -- While New Mexico’s minority populations are no strangers to attempts to limit their voting rights, its Native American residents continue to add...
article River Ridge hosts Ho-Chunk speaker
(Illinois) -- Chloris Lowe, Jr. grew up in New Lisbon, Wis., and still calls it home. As a Ho-Chunk from the Sky Clan, he comes from generations of people who lived in...
article Oklahoma Democrats oppose proposed bond issues
(Oklahoma) -- Senate Democrats on Monday said they would not support any proposed bond issues this session as long as there is a push to cut the state income tax.
article Ex-Pojoaque Pueblo leader's hit-and-run conviction affirmed
(New Mexico) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Pojoaque Pueblo Lt. Gov. Linda Diaz for leaving the scene of a fatal accident in 2009.
article Native housing project wins GG for architecture
(Manitoba) -- A housing initiative designed with a Quebec native community and an entry-level condominium in post-war Winnipeg are among the winners of the Governor...
article Red Lake skateboarders ready to roll
(Minnesota) -- Young people on the Red Lake Indian Reservation will soon have new places to exercise and hangout with friends. The Red Lake Nation this week received a $...
article Alaska students take once in a lifetime trip to Hawaii
(Alaska) -- They’re calling it a trip of a lifetime. A group of high school seniors from the only Indian reservation in the state of Alaska are in Hawaii for a...
article Student relives Trail of Tears as her Choctaw great-great-grandmother
(Texas) -- "I feel so powerless. We were the first people here in Mississippi. Then the white men came in and acted as if it was their land," the journal entry...
article Ancient Traders, at the heart of the Native American community in South Minneapolis
(Minnesota) -- A destination corridor that stands in homage to civil discourse and Native American pride is an easy outing for those of us living in the Twin Cities.
article Crowd gathers for Alaska Native languages workshop
(Alaska) -- Two decades ago, Hishinlai' Kathy Sikorski could not speak her ancestral language, Gwich'in Athabascan. Now she teaches it at the University of...
article World's largest Navajo rug returns home
(Arizona) -- May 1, 2012 is an auspicious day for Native Americans and Winslow, Ariz. The Winslow Arts Trust at La Posada Hotel has acquired the rug Lorenzo Hubbell Jr....
article Land fights up, but fewer activists dead
(Brazil) -- Conflicts over land issues in Brazil increased last year, although the number of rural activists killed nationally went down slightly, according to a report...
article Ultra-marathoner died from heart disease
(New Mexico) -- A 12-mile run for Micah True was like an easy cruise. The ultra-marathon runner was used to tackling more than four times that distance over much more...
article Searchers never recruited to look for Labrador teen on ice
(Newfoundland) -- An organization of trained search volunteers says its members would have joined the effort to find a teenager later found frozen to death off coastal...
article 3 Yellowstone bison captured; hazing next
(Montana) -- Government workers are set to begin hazing hundreds of wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park after capturing a small group of the animals for use...
article State representative says Schweitzer broke law with bison transfer
(Montana) -- A Republican state lawmaker thinks Gov. Brian Schweitzer broke the law earlier this year when he authorized the transport of more than 60 bison from a...
article Yellowstone bison to be pushed back into park
(Montana) -- Government officials plan to haze a large herd of migrating bison back into Yellowstone National Park this week — an annual event that is again...
article Bald eagles recover from eating euthanized cats
(Wisconsin) -- Seven bald eagles arrived at the northern Wisconsin wildlife rescue center in the back of a truck, under blankets and assumed dead - or soon to be.
article Former priest, boy scout leader faces more sex charges
(Ontario) -- The Ontario Provincial Police in northwestern Ontario have laid more charges against a former Anglican priest and boy scout leader for alleged sexual...
article Mescalero man pleads to sexual abuse charge
(New Mexico) -- An enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache tribe pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Las Cruces to an indictment charging him with aggravated...
press release Native American Contractors Association Publishes Economic Impact Study
(Washington D.C.) -- The Native American Contractors Association ("NACA") released its 2011 Economic Impact Study, which will serve as a valuable guide for...

5/7/2012

article Oklahoma's Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes claim $6.4 million was frozen illegally by bank
(Oklahoma) -- The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are asking a federal judge to order the release of roughly $6.4 million in cash assets they claim were illegally frozen at...
article Vt. formally recognizes 2 bands of Abenaki
(Vermont) -- The state of Vermont now formally recognizes two more bands of the Abenaki Indian tribe. On the lawn of the Statehouse in Montpelier on Monday, Gov. Peter...
article State-recognized Indian groups a growing problem for Oklahoma tribes
(Oklahoma) -- State-recognized tribes are starting to get more and more of the funding “pie” available to their federally recognized counterparts, the...
article Utah and Arizona Pass Bills to Seize Federal Land; Sioux Indians Demand the Same
(Washington D.C.) -- Conservative legislators in Utah and Arizona have recently passed new laws demanding that the federal government turn over control of federally-...
article Kugluktuk, N.W.T., re-starting traditional seal hunt
(North Canada) -- The community of Kugluktuk, N.W.T., is trying to re-start its traditional seal hunt. The local hunters and trappers association there is offering...
article Tribe collects past due fees from oil companies
(North Dakota) -- The Three Affiliated Tribes has collected more than $3 million in outstanding or past due drilling fees from oil companies since the beginning of the...
article Elizabeth Warren Finally Teaches a Lesson on Native Identity
(Massachusetts) -- When Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) suggested in late April that Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent this November, had forged a Native...
article TREUER: An Ojibwe view of the Elizabeth Warren flap
(Minnesota) -- Suddenly many Americans wonders what it means that Elizabeth Warren, who is vying for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown's U.S. Senate seat, has...
article Apache Co. treasurer faces suspension
(Arizona) -- A recent audit of the Apache County treasurer's office has found $6.5 million in mistakes, according to county manager Delwin Wengert.
article GIAGO: "Drill, baby, drill" Is Coming to Indian Country
(South Dakota) -- The oil boom is coming to South Dakota, "Not if, but when," according to those in the know, including Governor Dennis Daugaard.
article Nasty mailers provoke response
(California) -- Usually in an election contest, it’s the challenger who attacks the incumbent to gain the upper hand with voters.
article Tribe from Michigan's Upper Peninsula say mines violate rights
(Michigan) -- A Central Upper Peninsula Indian tribe is asking the United Nations to help curb sulfide mining in the Upper Great Lakes. The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community...
article Tribe, Oneida County to Meet on Lynne Mining Proposal
(Wisconsin) -- The Lac du Flambeau tribe wants to have their voices heard in the much-discussed proposal to mine in the Oneida County town of Lynne. They will get that...
article IRONMEN! Mohawk cousins helped lift 1 WTC above Empire State Building
(New York) -- AN IRONWORKER who secured the column that made 1 World Trade Center the tallest building in the city is now part of history. But Steven Cross, from a...
article Records: BIA taking sides in Apache dispute
(Arizona) -- The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is quietly taking sides in a power struggle that has torn apart tribal government on the Fort Apache Reservation despite...
article Colorado fossils have experts pondering man's presence 26,000 years earlier
(Colorado) -- As more than 40 scientists study the myriad ice-age findings from Ziegler Reservoir, one mystery continues to vex experts: Was early man at the site?
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5/6/2012

article Warren's claim as Native American opens debate over ethnic ties
(Massachusetts) -- Questions about her Native American heritage continued to dog the campaign of Democratic Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren late...
article Little Soldier speaks on aftermath of white buffalo's death
(Texas) -- Arby Little Soldier gave an update on the progress of the investigation surrounding the death of Lightning Medicine Cloud, a white buffalo considered sacred...
article James Anaya Hears Testimony on Domestic Violence in Seattle
(Washington) -- The following is testimony given by Pamela Stearns, City of Seattle Native American Employees Association (CANOES) president before James Anaya, UN...
article Men don heels for abuse awareness
(Washington) -- Some feeling sore, a dozen men staggered to the Suquamish House of Awakened Culture with heads held high, having just walked more than half a mile in...
article USDA Invites Applications for Grants to Provide Broadband Service to Remote Rural Communities
(Washington D.C.) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is accepting applications through the Community Connect Broadband program for grants to...
article Nevada tribe fights coal plant in pollution battle
(Las Vegas) -- A tiny Native American reservation outside Las Vegas is trying to persuade the federal government that its community faces serious health risks from a...
article Election Focus On Uranium Mining
(New Mexico) -- The issue of uranium mining – past and future – looms like Mount Taylor over State Senate District 30, where an industry-friendly lawmaker...
article Seven myths about the Klamath Tribes
(California) -- They’ve been here since time immemorial, and yet many Klamath Indians feel like they’re defined by the federal government’s termination...
article Is Co-op Trustee Conflicted?
(New Mexico) -- A complaint filed last month against the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative, and signed by more than 100 members, alleges that Ron Lovato exploited his...
article For Ute Mountain Utes, $2,000 check to be in mail
(Colorado) -- Ute Mountain Ute tribal members won’t have to wait for a federal judge’s approval to receive the first benefits from a $42.6 million settlement...
article $12.5 million Chippewa Cree Tribe Tribal Justice Center adds jobs, jail cells
(Montana) -- The Chippewa Cree Tribe celebrated the opening of a new $12.5 million tribal justice center Tuesday that will double as a new jail and police headquarters.
article American Indian Foster Children Tougher To Place
(New Mexico) -- Years ago, Carol Ricotta’s father made a cradleboard for her first son. She said her son loved it, wrapped in a blanket and strapped with leather...
article Combating Racism, Youth Suicide and Crime With Awareness and Education in Thunder Bay
(Ontario) -- With First Nations families and young people continuing to move into urban areas, the demographics are changing in cities like Thunder Bay, Ontario.
article Navajo educators concerned over proposed Federal cuts
(Arizona) -- On April 19-20, several Navajo Nation Board of Education (NNBOE) members met with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)....
article Vancouver Creates Aboriginal-Focused School
(Vancouver) -- Hoping to reduce the dropout rate in later years, Vancouver will create an aboriginal-focused school that will be up and running in September, giving...
article Video Spotlight: Powerful Student Film Asks For Apology and Understanding in Minnesota
(Minnesota) -- The first word that came to mind to describe the 60-minute documentary by professor Carter Meland’s introductory American Indians in Minnesota class...
article Filmmaker injects humor into Native American movie
(Arizona) -- Native American culture has been well represented in Hollywood over the years, but there usually aren't a lot of laughs in those movies. One local...
article Greenwich singer Jana Mashonee charts hard-fought, independent journey in rise to success
(Connecticut) -- Hunkered down in her Greenwich studio with producer Stephan Galfas last week, Jana Mashonee grooved to a rough cut of her upcoming single -- a sprawling...
article Pixar to Make Day of the Dead Movie
(California) -- The Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, laden with indigenous tradition, will star in a movie made by Pixar, the animation studio has announced.
article A Life Afloat: The Uros who Live on the Surface of Lake Titicaca
(Peru) -- The islands’ golden-brown surface gives way ever so slightly under each step, giving the disconcerting sensation that one is somehow treading on dry land.
article Achuar Win Green Party Support, Attend Talisman Annual Meeting
(Peru) -- Achuar leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are protesting oil exploration in their territory have won the support of Canadian non-governmental organizations...
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