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Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:19 am (PDT) . Posted by:
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Sunday Morning Headlines
August 12, 2012
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Legislative & Political News
Government won't put liens on divided tribal lands
CBS News
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says Native American tribes don't have to reimburse the government for buying divided-up tribal land so it can be returned to them. The Department of the Interior is helping tribes reunite land that has been...
DANA withdraws environmental declaration for center
Santa Maria Times
He said a memorandum that bound only DANA and the Northern Chumash Tribal Council would exclude other Native American people's contributions to the area's history. He also noted some provisions of the memorandum — specifically construction. ...
General News
Trapped in a meth triangle
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
White and Native American populations mingle on a checkerboard of tribal and state land, forming lines that law enforcement can't easily cross. The youthful tribe has ... Housing officials want to include questions about criminal activity on housing....
I.H.S. & Health News
General Dynamics receives contract for electronic health information system
Virginia Business Magazine
The task order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is worth $20.6 million if all options are exercised. Health-care providers in the Indian Health Service use its electronic health record system in treating American Indian and Alaska...
Educational, Historical & History News
'Footsteps' part of annual Indian school reunion
Columbus Telegram
The school was meant to educate and assimilate Native American children into American culture. Parker developed an interest in learning about her roots when in college, but said she grew up always watching and enjoying films. It seemed only natural....
Education choices Some parents seek alternatives to public schools
The News Herald
“Last year we studied early American history, so we talked about the pilgrims coming to America. We read books from the pilgrims' perspective, and then we read books that talked about it from the Native American perspective. ..
Culture,Traditional & Ceremonial News
Religious group, Natrona County officials find solution to keep sweat lodge ...
Billings Gazette
Firefighters responded to a report of smoke at Weber's property recently and found a group participating in the American Indian spiritual ceremony. Weber presented a case of religious rights before Natrona County officials last week, explaining ....
Archaeology, Preservation & Sacred Land News
Carroll's Yesteryears: Native American tools found all over Carroll
Carroll County Times
Samples of stone tools found in northeastern Carroll County at a Native American site dating from 5000 to 3000 years ago are shown. The tools are made of metarhyolite and include small projectile points, larger points or knives....
Museum & Art News
George Nuku: A Maori Sculptor in Paris
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
He has shown his sculptural work in the Netherlands (2000), Tahiti (2002), Telluride (2003), the Native American Community House in New York, and at the Third Permanent Forum of Indigenous People. Currently, his work is on display....
Gaming & Casino News
Study shows Indian gaming pumps $7.5 billion into state economy
Record-Searchlight
Because the casinos are located on sovereign, federally recognized Indian reservations, the tribes do not have to pay income taxes on revenues derived from casino operations. Still, the Beacon Economics report says that Indian gaming...
Business News
No celebration: Not all Alaska Natives cheered ANCSA at 40
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
In 1986, the tiny, dusty, remote village of Venetie quietly challenged Neeser Construction Inc., in tribal court to collect $161000 in taxes for conducting business on tribal lands. Venetie claimed the lands were “Indian country” and wanted to tax ....
Crime & Court News
Tribes want new powers to prosecute non-Indians
Sacramento Bee
They want to add new authority for tribes to prosecute perpetrators of domestic violence as part of a plan to extend the Violence Against Women Act, first approved in 1994 as a way to help police and courts respond to abuse....
People in the News
For Olympian, recognition is long overdue
Morning Sentinel
Louis Sockalexis was the first Native American to play in Major League Baseball and is often credited with prompting his team, the Cleveland Spiders, to change its name to the Cleveland Indians. A temporary exhibit at the National Museum...
Native runners expected at El Pueblo Museum on Wednesday
Pueblo Chieftain
A delegation of Native Americans who are running the length of the North and South American continents will pass through Pueblo this week. According to local organizers, the Peace and Dignity runners will leave the Colorado Springs Indian Center....
Events, Festivals & Pow-wow News
Native American culture honored at Mounds Gathering
Rockford Register Star
Rudy Vallejo of East Moline dances to drummers Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, during the Mounds Gathering, an event to honor the Native American mounds and culture at Beattie Park...
Columns, Viewpoints & Opinion Articles
Mary Bergin travel column: New park helps preserve Red Cliff Band's heritage
Wausau Daily Herald
You might not realize the land's significance because no signage spells it out. ... Frog Bay park, on a quarter-mile stretch of Lake Superior shoreline, overlooks the Apostle Islands national wilderness area and is on an American Indian reservation. ..
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Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:23 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Sunday Evening Headlines
August 12, 2012
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Legislative & Political News
Congress debates expanding power of tribes to prosecute domestic violence ...
TheNewsTribune. com
... “a Native American statistic,” and they're grim statistics: Indian women are murdered at more than 10 times the national average, and more than 1 in 3 will be raped in their lifetimes, according to the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic...
Tribal Government & Reservation News
New document details well project on reservation 50 years ago
Pine Journal
In the fall of 1960, she said the church's social action committee devised a plan to talk with tribal elders and study various aspects of the reservation to find out what could be done to upgrade the quality of life for its people. “One basic need...
I.H.S. & Health News
Announcement Modified for $600000 Funding for Tribal Self-Governance Program
Targeted News Service (subscription)
13 -- The U.S. Indian Health Service has modified its announcement that it expects to award a maximum of eight discretionary cooperative agreement grants to provide resources to tribes interested in participating in the Tribal Self-Governance Program ....
Educational, Historical & History News
Community briefs
Arizona Daily Sun
The academic enrichment program offered instruction in math, physics, biology, chemistry, health and communication/ study skills to help American Indian students develop solid academic foundations in subjects vital to success in the health sciences...
Chicago's War of 1812 battle was pivotal in war, history
Chicago Sun-Times
There weren't any other Americans in the neighborhood,” says Haas, whose ancestor, John Swift, fought in that war. “Today, Native Americans are not about to have it called a massacre, even though there were 500 Indians and not even 100 settlers...
Archaeology, Preservation & Sacred Land News
Dam removal uncovers tribe's sacred site
The Spokesman Review
A site sacred to a Washington state tribe has been found among the 1100 acres of land that emerged after the Elwha Dam was removed and waters receded. Now, the .... Ignorant idiots posting behind a computer with such nasty comments about....
Museum & Art News
Maine Native American runner profiled in museum
WGME
The Portland Press Herald reports that he is one of five athletes profiled in an exhibit about native American athletes at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. Maine author Ed Rice, who has written a biography of Sockalexis.. ...
Gaming & Casino News
Shakopee Mdewakanton Tribe: Casino revenue pays each member $1million a ...
Daily Mail
The payouts are the windfall from lucrative casinos and resorts that the tribe runs on its reservation in Scott County -- about 45 minutes southwest of Minneapolis- St Paul. Shakopee Mdewakanton. Wealthy: Members of the Shakopee...
People in the News
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs: Who Is Kevin Washburn?
AllGov
On August 2, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated a law professor with experience in American Indian law and gambling law to succeed Larry EchoHawk as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. A member of the Chickasaw... .
Events, Festivals & Pow-wow News
32nd Annual Paumanauke Pow-Wow
Newsday
32nd Annual Paumanauke Pow Wow celebrates Native American culture. 8:06 PM By Brittany Wait. Horace Lucas, of the Cherokee Nation, participates in. Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin. Wearing colorful Native American regalia...
Columns, Viewpoints & Opinion Articles
The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
The first article covered the overarching issue that the Cobell lawyers are raising with regards to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), as the lawyers for the Indian plaintiffs filed a notice in federal court stating that they do not want ....
Native Nations Should Define Themselves
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
At some time in the future, as we did in the past and some still do, Native American Nations can come together in a confederacy (like the Iroquois Confederacy) or we can come together in a United Native Nation, the commonality being our status ....
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Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:32 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Weekend Poetry Reading
Volume 10
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Original Works by: Larry Kibby
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A Human Creation
Oh my child please do not cry,
Wipe the tear from your eye,
And put a loving smile upon your face,
For you do belong to a genuine race.
You are a human creation
Of the Sovereign Nation.
Yes, they may put you down,
Or kick you to the ground,
They judge you to be uncultivated.
Thinking you severely uneducated
But you are a human creation,
Of the Sovereign nation.
If they knew you from the start,
They’d know your red heart,
Was full of pride and integrity,
A child genuine of dignity.
For you are a human creation,
Of the Sovereign Nation.
So child do not cringe and fear,
For your ancestor’s are always near,
With you they will always stand,
Walk with you hand in hand.
Guide you through all of your education,
For you are indeed an American Indian creation,
Of the unique Sovereign Nations!
Indian now! Indian forever!!
By: Larry Kibby
Tuesday, March 15, 2003
Elko, Nevada 89801-2577
The False Faces of Time
Look at the smile on their face,
A smirk that is never out of place.
They are young and they are old,
Their attitude ever so bold,
They are the politicians of mankind,
The false faces of time.
So many people would wonder why,
These politicians could tell their lie.
How they laughed as they walked,
Using the double-tongue as they talked,
These the politicians of mankind,
The false faces of time.
Their hearts overwhelmed with greed,
Your vote they proclaimed they did need,
While their trust you would confide in,
But their means were dark as sin.
These are the politicians of mankind,
The false faces of time.
For years they’ve lied to the Sovereign Nations.
These politicians, our own Indian relations.
Written by: Larry Kibby, Elko, Nevada
Date: May 10, Friday, 2002
Torch of Salvation
Darkness within the mind,
Evil stealing time.
Irrational emotions,
Breeding confused notions.
And there is a wisdom light,
That glows day and night.
A torch of salvation,
For all the Sovereign Nations.
Ceremonial crying,
Sacred spirits flying.
And upon the four winds,
Are transgressions of sins.
And there is a wisdom light,
That glows day and night.
A torch of salvation,
For all the Sovereign Nations.
You can march against the oppression,
And speak with sincere aggression,
But when you begin that walk,
Reminisce with your heart,
For there is a wisdom light,
That glows day and night.
A torch of genuine salvation,
For all the Sovereign Nations,
It is a path to the future,
For all Indian people!!!!
Written by: Larry Kibby
Monday, August 4, 2003
Lost Dignity
You claim to walk within the right,
Declaring a reverent might,
But you deliver inhuman sins,
And your soul is darken within.
You wear a smile upon your face,
While proclaiming a spiritual faith,
Yet you spread an evil kind,
And your dignity is lost in time.
You affirm an honest sacred relation,
But your abomination is an obvious revelation,
For you wallow in perversion,
As you temper subversion,
There is treachery in your eye,
As you steal, cheat and lie,
You spread an evil kind,
For your dignity is lost in time.
You walk through a holy door,
But the sermon you deplore.
You hide within the ranks of racial hate,
Administering ungodly acts of fate,
Your diabolic values dispense adulteration,
A heathen voice of gentle moderation.
While you spread an evil kind,
And your dignity is lost in time.
You portray an virtuous picture
A champion of the scripture,
But your heart is full of transgressions,
And you orchestrate oppressions,
And the cross of holy respect,
You cast out with disrespect,
While you spread an evil kind,
And your dignity is lost in time.
So thee of little faith within the government,
Ascend from your seat in hell,
For the Indian has a story to tell,
And you shall no longer proclaim a righteous race,
For the Indian is coming to set you in your place,
For now cometh the sanctified truth of time,
For in the oral traditions of the Indian World you will find,
That we have been to the top of the mountain,
We have looked over Jordan,
And what we saw...
Is the Indian World living forever!!
Written by: Larry Kibby
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
The Elegant Face of Affection
I hold a memory of tenderness,
A thought of loving fondness.
Your exquisite compassion,
A marvel of tranquil obsession.
Indeed,
A golden brown perfection,
With an elegant face of affection.
So long ago in time,
Your appeal embedded in my mind,
I reminisced an essence of desire,
That warmed a delightful fire.
Indeed,
You were a golden brown perfection,
With an elegant face of affection.
The long to hold you in my arm,
To elicit your cultured charm.
I would find a sensitive notion,
Awaking a sensual commotion.
Indeed,
You wear a golden brown perfection,
Displaying an elegant face of affection.
Your impression is a might,
An empress of a majestic sight.
Your appeal is strong to the Nations,
As a woman you are a sensation.
Indeed,
You will always be an Indian perfection,
A humanly creation of the generation,
Displaying forever an elegant face of affection.
By: Larry Kibby, Wiyot Indian of California,
Elko Indian Colony
Monday, November 26, 2001
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Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:32 am (PDT) . Posted by:
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Religious group, Natrona County officials find solution to keep sweat lodge burning
August 12, 2012 12:00 am • By ELYSIA CONNER Casper Star-Tribune
CASPER, Wyo. — Fire bans threatened to halt a weekly spiritual ceremony in Natrona County, but participants and county officials worked out a solution to continue services at a local sweat lodge.
The Sunday sweats will continue, thanks to a county-owned military fire truck placed beside the sweat lodge at Steve Weber's home near Edness K. Wilkins State Park east of Casper.
Firefighters responded to a report of smoke at Weber's property recently and found a group participating in the American Indian spiritual ceremony.
Weber presented a case of religious rights before Natrona County officials last week, explaining the importance of the ceremony that connects people with a higher power.
"My biggest fear — if we miss even one ceremony, we're going to have problems," Weber said at a Natrona County Commission meeting Tuesday. "It's going to create problems in people's lives, with their families. It's going create problems in the community."
Wesley Erickson told commissioners he was raised with American Indian traditions and later returned to his spiritual ways. He relies on practicing his faith to stay sober.
"For me, this is very important," he said.
Natrona County Fire Warden Mike Haigler toured Weber's property the next day, and officials came up with the idea to put the fire truck on the property. Weber will use the military-style fire truck hose attached to a 1,000-gallon water tank to dampen the area around the fire ring before each ceremony. Someone must watch the fire at all times. If a wildfire does break out, Weber will be liable, according to Haigler.
"Overall, this is a unique situation," Haigler said, adding that fires aren't allowed in other circumstances during the fire ban. "It's a religious ceremony."
On the Wind River Indian Reservation about two hours west of Casper, religious ceremonies are exempt from current Fremont County fire bans, according to Dave Bell, fire prevention officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The reservation has experienced no uncontrolled fires caused by ceremonies, he added. Fremont County Attorney Brian Varn said reservation and county officials work together in placing fire bans. Sweat lodge operators on the reservation are known for being "extremely responsible, " he said.
Weber has hosted 1,700 ceremonies year-round on his property for 18 years without incident. He uses low-sparking types of wood and large logs for a calmer fire. About 15 people of all ages and walks of life attend each week.
Weber had considered continuing the ceremony without permission out of concern for those who rely on it for their spiritual needs. But the solution came fast enough that participants won't need to miss one session.
"We appreciate everyone taking that time and realizing the importance of the work that this ceremony ... does in the community," Weber said.
Casper Re-Entry Center Director Rick Catron said the center encourages people exiting the criminal justice system to establish spiritual ties in the community. The center provides services and encourages participation for people of a variety of religions, including American Indian faiths. A few people at the center attend Weber's services as they prepare to re-enter the community.
"It is as important to their recovery as going to church is for Christians," he said.
Joanne Brown-Vossler is the center's clinical supervisor of the residential treatment program for American Indian men.
"Research shows that Native Americans that reconnect to their traditional practices and ceremonies stay clean and sober," she said.
The more the ceremonies follow the traditional methods dating back thousands of years, the more people connect through the historical and spiritual alignment, according to Weber. Weber said he's spent years learning the Menominee heritage and earning the recognition and rights to conduct ceremonies. He said he works in cooperation with and under the advisement of various tribal elders.
Each element of the sweat lodge ceremony carries significance.
"Those trees spend their whole lives capturing that sun, and that's what they're releasing -- is the spirit of the sun when they burn," Weber said. "That's why they burn. They are a physical representation in our ceremony of the sun. That's why it's so important that you use that wood."
A 5-foot wall of rocks surrounding a fire pit started with a single row 18 years ago. Each rock came from an important area; different minerals are used for different kinds of sweat ceremonies. Once heated in the fire, a person brings the rocks into the middle of the lodge. Cedar is placed on top of the rocks and participants wave the smoke over themselves in a process called smudging. Water is poured over the rocks to create steam. Afterward, the rocks become part of the wall.
Through four parts of the ceremony, participants sing, pray for one another, heal and give thanks, according to Weber. A potluck meal follows with conversation and laughter. Ceremonies begin at 1 p.m. each Sunday, and everyone is welcome, Weber said. He's relieved and thankful that the county commissioners and fire officials helped work out a way for the ceremony to legally continue.
"It's phenomenal that all that took place so quickly," Weber said. "We'll say there was surely a higher power that got involved or we'd be waiting weeks."
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Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:41 am (PDT) . Posted by:
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Monday Morning Headlines
August 13, 2012
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Legislative & Political News
War of willpower waged between Senecas, Cuomo
Buffalo News
A road dispute threatened to scuttle crucial work on the tattered Southern Tier Expressway after state officials, at first, declined to pay a tribe-imposed administrative fee for highway work done on Indian lands...
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Blackfeet Tribal Council Faces Whether to Sacrifice the Beauty & Health of ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
The Blackfeet Tribal Council can stop poisonous fracking to their lands. Pauline Matt is conducting a peaceful protest of Blackfeet Reservation Lands being destroyed by Hydraulic Fracturing this August 5-12. Lands could easily be saved and kept...
Bison Decision Looming: Wind River Reservation Wants Them
Public News Service
Shoshone tribal member and wildlife scientist Jason Baldes says the reservation welcomes the bison for cultural and spiritual connections, as well for what they represent for better health on the reservation. "They were our original food source....
General News
Foster care, adoption inquiries up from 2011
Cherokee Phoenix
Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare's recent inquiries from individuals interested in foster care or adoption has increased in the last year, but there continues to be a great need for additional families. “From July 2011 to June 2012....
Navajo youths from Arizona experience the outdoors — good and bad — with ...
Grand Forks Herald
RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION, Minn. — They came as strangers, young people from the Navajo Nation in Arizona who had never seen anything quite like the massive body of water the Aniishiinabe call Miskwagami-wizaga- igoniyg.. .
Bison herd moves to pasture north of Poplar
Great Falls Tribune
Sixty-one bison transplanted from Yellowstone Park to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in March moved to their permanent pasture north of Poplar on July 28. Also making the move were 21 baby bison born to the herd since March....
Business News
Lending company owned by Oklahoma tribe generates complaints
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“The Otoe-Missouria Tribe is a member of both the Online Lenders Alliance and the Native American Financial Services Association and strictly follows the Best Practices established by both organizations with regard to collection procedures.. .
Crime & Court News
Unique court lets tribal and state judges fight addiction together
Minnesota Public Radio
Fred Isham sits near a blazing fire just outside Cass Lake on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. The 37-year-old tribal member helped build the fire to heat carefully selected stones that will be used in a nearby sweat lodge. Inside the sweat lodge....
Colville Tribe, Teck go to court over Columbia River pollution
The Seattle Times
"Since the smelter is in Canada, and everything they did was in Canada, they argued that U.S. law didn't apply to them." When EPA officials didn't enforce their order against Teck, two members of the Colville Tribe brought a citizens' suit under ....
Columns, Viewpoints & Opinion Articles
POLITICAL REFLECTIONS: EARTH TO JERRY BROWN: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
East County Magazine
Nor are the Native Americans whose spiritual traditions tie them to the land and bid them to replenish the earth, but not, as Genesis instructs, to subdue it. What was most strange about Jerry Brown turning up at the Suncrest Powerstation. ..
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