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BLOG: Letter from A Reader
(Georgia) -- As a proudly enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 1981 alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; veteran scholastic administrator; and...
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BLOG: The Myth of Native American Blood
(Massachusetts) -- The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. "If you ever want to...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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EPA has concerns for Keystone XL pipeline near coast
(Texas) -- A Canadian company seeking to build a pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries has submitted a new application for the southern...
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Mining & Drilling
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Ruling poses impediment to small-scale gold mining
(California) -- A federal appeals court ruling Friday makes it tougher for small-scale gold miners to work their claims on federal lands in the West.
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Native Voices
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GIAGO: Divide and Rule Was the Unwritten Rule of the Indian Agents
(South Dakota) -- The old saying goes, "If you think you can trust the government, ask an Indian." Last week marked the 88th anniversary when the United States...
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Winnemem Wintu
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Cathy Joplin: We close for eagles — why not the tribe?
(California) -- I am writing this letter out of concern for the Winnemem Indians, who are requesting a designated area to be blocked off on the McCloud Arm of Lake...
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Charles J. Lees: Winnemem don't deserve special rights
(California) -- I don't think it's right that your newspaper is printing stories defending the Winnemem Tribe's right to use public Land for their own...
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Protect the Winnemem Wintu Tribe's Cultural Survival
(California) -- The survival of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe is at stake. Read my Freedom of Information Act request below to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for all...
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Other News
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MOYA-SMITH: First Nations Continue to Be Savaged and Ravaged by Mascots
(Colorado) -- No right-wing GOP chubby-belly apologist would dare attempt to persuade civil rights activist Al Sharpton into believing that black-faced caricatures of...
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VAWA Tribal Provisions and Race Discrimination Arguments
(Washington D.C.) -- Amid the current election excitement and heightened national focus on the politics of women’s issues, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the...
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UNICEF Singles Out Canada on Child Poverty
(Canada) -- Just when one might have thought that Canada had had all the censure available on the international stage, along comes UNICEF.
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The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country
(New York) -- Looking back at the week that was, we bring you our Sunday round-up, connecting you to the big stories in Indian Country. We start with our photo gallery...
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Open Letter Asks Obama to Meet Tribal Leaders on Ocotillo Wind Project
(California) -- An anonymous blogger has posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on Indigenous Reflections, asking him to meet with tribal leaders in southern...
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OUR OPINION: Spurred by Ho-Chunk, Winnebago enjoys transformation
(Nebraska) -- Something is happening in Northeast Nebraska that’s long overdue for our attention. Wednesday’s groundbreaking for the $10 million Educare...
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Southwind Energy Helps Install Wind and Solar Lighting Unit in Ponca City
(Oklahoma) -- The Kaw Nation enterprise Southwind Energy has joined forces with Pioneer Technology Center and Ponca City Energy to create and install a wind and solar...
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18 on ballots for Tribal seats
(Alabama) -- Two at large Tribal Council seats and the office of vice chairman are what hang in the balance in the 2012 Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal elections...
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Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians Elects Gord Peters as Grand Chief
(New York) -- The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) elected a new leader on Wednesday to finish out the term of Grand Chief Randall Phillips, who...
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Lower Elwha tribal chair re-elected by 70 percent
(Washington) -- Frances Charles has been re-elected as chair of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, a position she has held since 2005. Charles, 52, received nearly 70...
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Saint Regis holds tribal elections
(New York) -- Paul Thompson won the position of tribal chief of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in Saturday’s election. Thompson earned 265 votes, beating Mark Garrow...
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Document takes Badlands' South Unit one step closer to tribal nat'l park status
(South Dakota) -- The South Unit of the Badlands came one step closer to becoming the nation’s first tribal national park after Oglala Sioux Tribe President John...
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Fulfilling the Legacy of Abenaki Chiefs, a Q&A with Brian Chenevert
(Massachusetts) -- Brian Chenevert, 37, is a former Abenaki Chief from Webster, Massachusetts who moves seamlessly between his band’s efforts to achieve state...
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Minnesota's Northwest Angle seeks access through tribal lands
(Minnesota) -- There’s a deal in the works to trade 9,300 acres of Minnesota state-owned land in the Northwest Angle to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa to guarantee...
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Quapaw Tribe seeks help from Congress in settling trust lawsuit
(Oklahoma) -- The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma is asking Congress for help in settling its trust lawsuit. The tribe is accusing the federal government is breach of trust and...
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Easton lawyer involved in case with Native American tribes
(Arizona) -- Easton resident David Smith, an attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend, and several law partners recently resolved lawsuits brought by three Native American...
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New Parenting Curriculum Supports Native Families with FASD
(Minnesota) -- The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) has released a new parenting curriculum focused on supporting American Indian families where...
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A historic promise
(Colorado) -- On a morning this April that threatened rain, Davonne Teri John lined up with more than 400 other Fort Lewis College seniors to accept her baccalaureate...
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Arlinda Locklear Delivers Commencement Address at College of Charleston, Encourages Public Service
(South Carolina) -- Arlinda Locklear, Lumbee, the first female Native American attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, served as commencement speaker for the May 12...
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Montana State University Throws Transit of Venus Viewing Party While Boosting Native Recruitment
(Montana) -- Montana State University (MSU) is making the most of the Transit of Venus by throwing a free and open to the public party on June 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the...
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$20M California Trail center opens in Nevada
(Nevada) -- A $20 million federal facility devoted to telling the story of the covered-wagon pioneers' overland journey during the California Gold Rush has opened in...
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Diamond Jubilee on Top of the World: Nunavut’s Queen Elizabeth Islands to Host Climbing Tea Party
(Nunavut) -- The Queen Elizabeth Islands boast the highest point in what used to be the British Empire, Mount Barbeau. And, accompanied by Inuit mentor and Diamond...
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Kids Can Learn Dakotah With Computer Games
(USA) -- Earlier this year the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) announced two milestones, the completion of its Native Language Program website and the...
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The Importance of Ojibwe Language Revitalization
(Minnesota) -- Loss of language and culture is a main concern of Ojibwe people today. According to Dr. Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, in...
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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was Signed Today by President Coolidge
(Washington D.C.) -- The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924. The Act granted full US citizenship to America...
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Yuma experts share secrets to making Indian fry bread
(Arizona) -- “I really like your frybread, but don't tell my mom.” How many times will the contestants hear that during the Indian Frybread competition being held June...
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Hip-Hopping, Foot-Stomping Lineup for National Aboriginal Day as History Month Starts
(Canada) -- Hip-hop artist Samian, legendary singer Buffy Sainte-Marie and a reunion of the hot folk-rock group Kashtin will highlight this year’s National Aboriginal...
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Making More Than Mud
(Arizona) -- To most people, the basic act of adding water to soil makes mud. But in the hands of gifted artisans, these simple elements can be transformed into stunning...
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Even today, American Indian powwows bring tribes together
(California) -- The 27th annual UCLA powwow kicked off this spring as many powwows do: with a Gourd Dance. Half-a-dozen men circle a large drum, singing as they pound it...
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Mexico’s HñaHñu Community Battles Illegal Immigration With Simulated Border-Crossing, Complete With Gun Shots
(Mexico) -- Forty students from a private university in Mexico City huddled together under an opaque sky waiting for orders from their coyote or guide. The evening was...
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Brazil Indigenous Still Waiting for Compensation
(Brazil) -- Residents of Raposa Serra do Sul in northern Brazil struggled for three decades to win the demarcation of what is now the country’s largest indigenous...
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Jim Thorpe games open June 10
(Oklahoma) -- Athletes from across the country will gather in Oklahoma City for the first Jim Thorpe Native American Games, June 10-17. Among them are two Tulsa football...
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Winnebago man who served in Vietnam shares experience in war
(Nebraska) -- US Marine veteran Alan B. Walker will talk about his combat experiences as a "grunt" in the Vietnam War to the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group...
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Wildfire Season 2012: Woes out West
(Arizona) -- Last year’s summer wildfire season for many forests in the Western United States—including many acres of Native American land—was historic...
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RCMP and Aboriginal Authorities Conduct Drug Raid on Odanak First Nation
(Quebec) -- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) participated in a raid to dismantle what authorities said was a drug trafficking ring in the Abenaki community of Odanak...
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Attorney says shooter at Santa Fe Allsup's acted in self-defense
(New Mexico) -- Santa Fe police didn't charge local artist Mateo Romero in connection with last week's shooting outside a north-side convenience store, his attorney said...
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More details emerge in Wadda death; services are Wednesday
(Wyoming) -- The Wyoming Highway Patrol is reporting that Edward L. Wadda of Fort Washakie died in a rollover crash on Interstate 25 between Buffalo and Casper when he...
6/2/2012
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Court Orders Forest Service To Regulate Gold Mining in Salmon Streams
(California) -- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Forest Service must strengthen its regulation of suction dredge gold mining and other small-scale...
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Cherokees hammer Elizabeth Warren on ancestry claim ahead of Mass. party convention
(Massachusetts) -- As Massachusetts Democrats meet at their nominating convention today, some members of the Cherokee Nation are stepping up a campaign to get answers...
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Officials break ground on Navajo water project
(New Mexico) -- Federal, state and tribal officials gathered Saturday in western New Mexico to break ground on the massive Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
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Fighting Sioux debate may enter 2014
(North Dakota) -- You’re thinking — hoping maybe — that the Fighting Sioux nickname debate will finally be resolved with the June 12 vote on Measure 4...
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Markey, Boren Call for Hearing on High Levels of Rape in Indian Country
(Washington D.C.) -- Responding to a New York Times investigative report that found the rate of sexual assault of Native women is more than twice the national average,...
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UNPFII Recommends Redress of Doctrine of Discovery Harm
(New York) -- The 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ended with the acknowledgment that the racist Doctrine of Discovery continues...
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Cree man planning Canada Day flag burning to symbolize “cleansing” of land
(Saskatchewan) -- A 22-year-old Cree man says he is planning to burn the Canadian flag on Canada Day to symbolize a “cleansing” of Indigenous lands.
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Minister Duncan dismisses Dakota claim they’re governed by “law of the land”
(Manitoba) -- As the Dakota in Manitoba continue their fight against the provincial government to sell cheap cigarettes, they also continue to claim their tribe is a...
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OTHER VOICES: Diverse Ho-Chunk: One of Siouxland's best-kept secrets
(Iowa) -- Ho-Chunk, Inc. and the Winnebago Tribe are probably one of the best-kept secrets in Siouxland. We have been quietly building a robust economy in Winnebago and...
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MORON ALERT: GOP activist targeting tribal sovereignty again
(Washington) -- Is the Washington state Republican Party taking another misguided run at tribal sovereignty? They are, if Bob Eberle and his fellow Skagit County...
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Pine Ridge Residents to Buy Houses They Rent
(South Dakota) -- As part of a plan to provide home ownership opportunities on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Lakota Funds has given all tenants of the 30-unit Eagle Nest...
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Colvilles dicker over settlement
(Washington) -- Plans to disburse only 20 percent of a $193 million federal settlement directly to members of the Colville Tribes isn’t sitting well with some...
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Legislative Immunity: An Official's Motive Is Not At Issue in a Conflict Situation
(Kansas) -- A poor and disconcerting judicial decision on local legislative immunity came down on May 24 from the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas,...
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Tribes see lawsuit's end as path to farming
(South Dakota) -- The resolution of a class-action lawsuit might be the impetus for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state of South Dakota to increase efforts...
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GAO report shows funding remains challenge to tribes considering more jail time for criminals
(Arizona) -- American Indian tribes authorized to triple the amount of time tribal members can spend in jail say they’re challenged by a lack of funding.
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Journey Through Indian Country / Part 1: Fighting Crime on Tribal Lands
(New Mexico) -- Driving along a remote dirt road on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico recently, a rancher crested a ridge and noticed two animals intent on something...
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Once again, Haskell delays meeting with newspaper to discuss manipulating test scores
(Kansas) -- Haskell Indian Nations University officials have again cancelled a Journal-World interview with president Chris Redman to discuss academic violations within...
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Bike ride brings many Muscogee Creeks to Macon
(Georgia) -- As he stood for the first time on ancestral lands of his tribe Saturday, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Principal Chief George Tiger began softly singing a hymn in...
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Y'át'ééh President Obama, Ahéhee' Girl Scouts
(Arizona) -- Tomorrow, I'll be visiting the White House. I've never been to Washington, D.C., so it's very exciting. I'm going to the White House because...
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Ask an Expert: How Real Is the Game Play in Lacrosse’s First Mainstream Movie, Crooked Arrows (Starring Superman!)?
(USA) -- After ceding the Hollywood spotlight to more popular sports over the years, lacrosse finally gets its shining moment in Crooked Arrows, an underdog drama in...
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Discovery's 'American Chopper' at Native American museum in Indianapolis
(Indiana) -- I went to a fabulous museum show recently. This exhibition featured the work of master artists, highlighted aspects of American culture, traced the history...
6/1/2012
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Does the Shadow of Big Tobacco Loom Behind the Recent Seizure of Mohawk Cigarettes?
(New York) -- In the summer of 2011, the Altria Group, the biggest of the Big Tobacco companies and the parent company of Philip Morris USA, released a “white...
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Spirit Lake to appeal U.S. court’s dismissal of its suit against NCAA
(North Dakota) -- Fighting Sioux nickname supporters at the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe have signaled they intend to appeal U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson’s...
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Tribe Wins Ruling Against Gold Mining
(California) -- A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Forest Service’s policies permitting gold mining in rivers in national forests violated the...
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Wyoming tribes spar over plan to kill bald eagles
(Wyoming) -- The Northern Arapaho Tribe maintains neither the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nor the Eastern Shoshone Tribe has the right to prevent its members from...
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Indian residential school deaths found by Ontario coroner
(Ontario) -- An intensive review of Ontario records has so far turned up more than 100 possible cases of previously unidentified child and youth deaths linked to Indian...
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For Elizabeth Warren, a bump becomes a hurdle
(Massachusetts) -- It started as a one-day story, a chuckle on conservative talk radio in Boston. In late April, the Boston Herald reported that Democratic Senate...
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Scott Brown Campaign: Elizabeth Warren Should Reach Out to Natives
(Massachusetts) -- The campaign of U.S. Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, has done something that Elizabeth Warren, his main Democratic challenger for...
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THE HILL: Warren admits she's 'concerned' about her campaign in wake of heritage controversy
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren admitted Thursday that she was "concerned" about her U.S. Senate campaign after repeated stumbles in addressing the...
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Conference: Renewable Energy Presents Economic Opportunities for Tribes
(Arizona) -- More than 250 attendees representing over 100 tribes attended the 5th Annual Renewable Energy Projects in Indian Country Conference, hosted by Native Nation...
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Feds, tribal officials to break ground on massive Navajo-Gallup pipeline
(Washington D.C.) -- Federal and tribal representatives will break ground Saturday morning on the first phase of the $1 billion Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, which...
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Dakotas Tribes Get Federal Environmental Grants
(North Dakota) -- Two American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are getting grants through a federal environmental program. The Environment Protection Agency is giving $200,...
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Native Sun News: Indians be dammed -- Missouri River revisited
(South Dakota) -- Lost land and possessions were far from the only issues raised by the relocation of Native American communities under the 1944 Flood Control Act,...
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Tribal Council Planning Another Rally Protest
(Toronto) -- The Mamaweswen, North Shore Tribal Council is organizing an upcoming rally in Toronto on Monday, June 4, 2012. The rally is being organized in response to...
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Newton wins restraining order in rift over celebrity museum plans
(Las Vegas) -- A judge granted Wayne Newton a temporary restraining order against his landlord Thursday amid stalled plans to turn his lavish Las Vegas estate into a...
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Muscogee (Creek) Nation bike tour to retrace Trail of Tears
(Oklahoma) -- The journey from the Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia to the city of Okmulgee is marked by stories of tragedy and loss but also pride and triumph for the...
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Class of 2012: Miss Blackfeet, bound for Stanford, hopes to inspire other Indian girls
(Montana) -- As a seventh-grader, Sharen Kicking Woman remembers watching the crowning of Miss Blackfeet during Browning’s North American Indian Days in awe and...
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Feds: 19 indicted in Fort Apache gang, drug probe
(Arizona) -- A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people after a gang and drug enforcement operation on the Fort Apache reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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