Friday Afternoon Headlines
August 10, 2012
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Legislative & Political News
Gov. Matt Mead says annual Wind River Native American Conference results in ...
The Republic
Topics included trauma and the effects of crime and victimization on the reservation, drunken driving deaths, prescription pill deaths, bullying, cyber bullying, sexual safety in foster care, perpetrator profiles, violation against American Indian....
Why is there a PAC against the first possible Native American Congresswoman?
Tucson Citizen
I just received some information from the Lou Show with regard to a PAC that is being set up in favor of Ann Kirkpatrick and against the first possible Native American Congresswoman via Wenona Benally Baldenegro.. ..
With settlement, no liens placed by government on divided tribal lands bought ...
Washington Post
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....
Gas Debate Heats Up in Utah's National Parks
PBS NewsHour (blog)
Watch Utah Makes Deal For Private Gas Drilling on Public Land on PBS. See more ... Home to five national parks, several holistic American Indian preservations and a wealth of natural gas resources, Utah has been changed dramatically by the gas industry...
Problems of liberty and justice on the Plains
CNN
In Montana, a 2011 report from the Department of Corrections noted, "Although American Indians represent about 7 percent of Montana's total population, they account for about 19 percent of all men in prison and 33 percent of all women....
Administrative Conference Amends US Regulations
Cryptome.org
In contrast, EOs 13132 and 13175 are triggered when a regulation has ``substantial direct effects'' on State or Native American tribal governments, respectively, but neither executive order defines the phrase, thereby allowing agencies to determine...
Tribal Government & Reservation News
Tribal Chairman Speaks About Statements Regarding Vern Traversie
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
In contrast, the United States, with which the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has a government-to- government relationship and from which our elder is owed a trust and fiduciary responsibility under our tribe's treaty, has two investigations actively...
Tribe denies accusations on social service programs
Jamestown Sun
Michael Tilus, a clinical psychologist who had served as behavioral health director of the Indian Health Service clinic on the reservation, had written a letter to superiors in April expressing “grave concern” for children there...
I.H.S. & Health News
General Dynamics Awarded $20 Million To Support Indian Health Service's ...
Daily Markets
“We are committed to helping IHS advance personal and public health services for American Indian and Alaska Native people,” said Marcus Collier, senior vice president of the Health and Civilian Solutions Division for General Dynamics Information. ..
Culture,Traditional & Ceremonial News
''Moment'' Organizers Choose Native Sacred Site in Hot Springs
MMD Newswire
The event will take place on and around Hot Springs Mountain, long known as a Native American sacred site called Manataka or Place of Peace...
Archaeology, Preservation & Sacred Land News
Unknown bones: Road crews unearth potentially prehistoric skeleton in Rochester
MLive.com
"We can't say whether they're prehistorical… or if this was burial ground from a Native American type of burial ground" from a few hundred years ago, said Rob Morosi, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation Metro Detroit...
Gaming & Casino News
Jerry Brown faces major decision on tribal casino expansion
Los Angeles Times
31 to decide whether to let two state Indian tribes to open casinos miles from their current tribal land. If he approves the two projects, critics say, it could open the floodgates to additional casinos in more populated parts of the state...
Crime & Court News
Cobell Lawyers Slam NARF for Something They Did, Too
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
WASHINGTON – In a July 30 notice filed by the lawyers for the plaintiffs of the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement, they chastised lawyers with the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) for working on behalf of tribes in trust cases beginning in 2006....
Tobacco Tax Case Against Tribes Running on Fumes
Courthouse News Service
SEATTLE (CN) - Native American tribes in Washington have monopolistic control over cigarette taxes, smoke shop owners and customers argued in a 9th Circuit hearing. The Puyallup and Colville Tribes have an agreement with the state allowing the tribes...
SD judge orders meeting in surgery scars case
San Francisco Chronicle
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge in a civil lawsuit filed by a Native American man who claims the letters KKK were carved into him following surgery at a South Dakota hospital has ordered the two sides to come together to try to come to a resolution .....
People in the News
Wanda Batchelor: The First Tribal Chairwoman of the Washoe Talks About ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
She became the first Native American cadet graduate of the Auburn Police Department. She was the ... “I come from strong leaders, and as a traditional practitioner, I am wise in what I need to be doing for my people...
Variety News
A Book Review: Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
I see it as one of the most important works ever published on the history of American Indians in California in the mid-nineteenth century. It ranks up there with David Stannard's 1992 masterpiece American Holocaust, in the context of overall Indian....
Press Play: Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke reflects on career, new CD
Fayetteville Observer
We caught up with guitarist Rickey Medlocke before the show to talk about Lynyrd Skynyrd's new album, "Last of a Dyin' Breed," his four-plus decades in rock and his American Indian roots. When it came time for the legendary rock band to record...
Events, Festivals & Pow-wow News
Lewiston Art Fest goes green
Buffalo News
This summer's event will give an artist-in-residency spotlight to Native American artists Simon Brascoupe, Rosemary Hill and Karen Hodge-Russell. Their combined exhibit, held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday during the festival....
Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow America -- Healing Her Spirit! celebrates Native ...
MassLive.com
The event will feature authentic American Indian dancing, drumming and tribal regalia. Native Americans, ranging in age from toddlers to elders, will dance in several different styles wearing traditional and contemporary regalia....
The Weekend Plan-It: Saturday-Sunday
Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog)
Start Saturday out by indulging in some culture. The Spirit of Nations Powwow will take place at Chilhowee Park starting at 10 a.m. and going till 8 p.m. American Indian dancing, food, crafts, games, music, storytelling, stone carving lessons and more...
More Than 100 Motorcyclists Participate in Redhawk Native American ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
More than 100 motorcycles assembled on an early Sunday morning, August 5, in front of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. The bikers came from all across the New York and New Jersey area to raise money for the Redhawk ...
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