Reznews Briefs & Summaries
November 7, 2011
Legislative & Political News
Senate committee to discuss Native American jobs and investment opportunities
Rapid City Journal
The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing Thursday to discuss job creation and opportunities for private investment in Native American communities, according to a news release. The hearing, headed by Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), will be webcast live...
Thousands protest at White House over pipeline
CBS News
Canadian Native American tribes will wisely not let a pipeline be built over their lands. That's why the pipeline across the USA is desired by the oil interests. Why don't those smart Canadians refine the tar sands in Canada?? Because they know it's...
Governor: Let UND dump Fighting Sioux
ESPN
Should the Legislature go along, the university and the Board of Higher Education would be free to carry out earlier plans to retire the nickname and a related logo that features the profiles of an American Indian warrior...
Statement from HHS Secretary Sebelius on National Native American Heritage Month
eNews Park Forest
This month we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, to honor American Indians and Alaska Natives who have contributed a great deal to our country. I recently had the opportunity to visit Indian Country in Alaska and I can say first hand...
EPA, Navajo Nation convene fourth annual summit to ....
U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
Federal agencies in attendance include the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.. ..
For GOP, Arizona mine a job-creating model on US land
MiamiHerald. com
Archaeology groups and Indian tribes in Arizona oppose the plan, fearing that ... enough to develop American minerals, saying the "inaction is unacceptable. ...
Tribal Politics'
Newly-inaugurated Cherokee chief will inherit question of rights for slaves ...
The Republic
24 special election, the government demonstrated what could happen if the freedmen are excluded from the tribe: nearly $40 million in federal housing funds was frozen and the assistant secretary for Indian affairs warned that any election the Cherokees...
Spirit Lake claims UND ignores open records requests
Devil's Lake Daily Journal
This committee has been empowered by the Tribal Council to act on their behalf in matters pertaining to the Fighting Sioux name and logo. Records were requested of email communications between UND, the State Board of Higher Education...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker celebrated ...
Tulsa Native American Times
In 1828, we published the first newspaper in an American Indian language. One hundred years ago, our schools were so superior that our white neighbors paid tuition to send their children to us to educate. Both of my parents were teachers...
Indigenous News
Bolivia Says Will Mine Iron Project If Jindal Doesn't Fulfill Contract -Report
Fox Business
A 40-year contract signed between Jindal and the Bolivian government in 2007 gave the Indian company the right to mine El Mutun iron deposit near the border with Brazil. In exchange, Jindal pledged to invest a total of $2.1 billion over eight years to...
Peru ministry races clock on consultation law
ABS CBN News
LIMA - Peru's new vice minister of culture says he is hurrying to implement a new law giving indigenous groups more say over mining and oil projects, but is grappling with how to protect tribes living in voluntary isolation...
Reservation News
Control of Indian Agriculture Assets Is Essential
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
The problem is “our resource is being sold in the first transaction off our land. We can change that.” “Our product is grass. On Cheyenne River, we grow grass,” he said. Of the reservation' s three million acres, about half is tribal or individual trust...
Cultural News
Multiculturalism and the end of white America
WND.com
But America has never had the same success in assimilating peoples of color. The Indians we fought for centuries live on reservations. And if we did not succeed with a few million Native Americans... .
Health News
Teen drug use highest among Native Americans; Asians lowest
CNN (blog)
White, Hispanic, Native American and mixed-race teenagers have higher rates of substance use and abuse than African American and Asian teens according to a new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. They also are affected more by...
Educational News
Texas history standards get poor review from state higher ed board
The American Independent
Reviewers also question omissions like the exclusion of Native Americans until late in the standards. “Native Americans have not been mentioned in the standards until now. Where have they been all along?” Another question asks....
School-closings due to recession, lack of interest by students and parents
HULIQ
“Nationally, American Indian and Alaska Native public school students were more likely to drop out of grades 9-12 than were students in other racial and ethnic groups,” stated the National Center for Education Statistics.. ..
SE Live, Native American visitation day set for Wednesday, November 9
Bixby Bulletin
Native American Visitation Day and SE Live Open House will both be hosted on Wednesday, Nov. 9 on the Durant campus. Native American Visitation Day allows students the opportunity to learn about Native American benefits, attend a class on Native....
Seeking Applications for Colorado State University's Native American Legacy Award
Colorado State University News (press release)
... the original residents of Colorado and to reduce the financial burden for these students who are seeking a post-secondary education, especially in these tough economic times,” said Ty Smith, director of CSU's Native American Cultural Center...
History or Preservation News
Etowah Historical Society plans presentations
Gadsden Times
Denson teaches courses about the Cherokees, Native Americans and United States history. He received a Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is the author of “Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900,” as well as...
Can You Study a Tribe Without Contacting It?
Slate Magazine (blog)
“It may well be the last time ever outsiders enter this land—a one-time thing,” he said. But by documenting vestiges of tribal society—including thatched huts and ornate totems—the group was able to verify where the tribe was located and that they ....
Museum, Arts and Gallery News
Oak Ridge students design Native American cave painting
TribLocal
By jim hook Friday at 10:11 am Students in Mr. Rafferty's fifth-grade class draw symbols on a Native American 'cave' inside the classroom The colorful cave painting wasn't found on some Native American reservation in Arizona or New Mexico...
Gaming or Business News
Chan Lowe: Casino gambling in Florida
The Lowe Down (blog)
Native American tribes struck a deal for casinos on their reservations in exchange for giving the state a fat cut (every government has its price), and now we are finally in such dire financial straits that even the anti-sin crowd is getting....
Bingaman Announces Grants to Support Jobs in New Mexico
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Sacred Power is an American Indian owned company. Capacity Builders, Inc. in San Juan – $225000: Funding will be used to establish the National Center for Rural and Tribal Cooperative Development, which will work to improve economic conditions ....
Crime, Corruption & Legal News
Officials still mum on Browning death
Great Falls Tribune
... of a woman's body on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation on Friday. ... Employees there said her body came back from the Montana State Crime Lab on Monday....
Former Fort Peck official gets prison time for embezzlement
Great Falls Tribune
10:00 pm A former Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent for the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for her role in an almost 10 year embezzlement and conspiracy scheme that drained the reservation' s credit...
Digging Deeper: DNR on Artifact hunting laws
WALB-TV
Digging deeper we found it's illegal to buy, sell, trade, import, or export known American Indian burial object. You cannot dig in any burial sights, any of the wildlife management areas, state owned property, or parks. While many like to hunt along ....
Assorted News Stories
The rise of genetic testing has made genealogy more popular than ever -- and ...
Salon
By the same token, in the United States, a so-called Indian blood quantum formally indicating a person's degree of Indianness in terms of a fractional amount of Native American ancestry still constitutes the official basis for federal recognition as an...
Ritual blesses latest in Apache attack helicopter line
Arizona Republic
With a backdrop of mountain views, White Mountain Apache Tribal Chairman Ronnie Lupe stood in front of the helicopter and told the crowd of Army brass and Boeing employees that the setting and unexpected weather were a reminder that their creator and ....
Locally Filmed Native American Movie to Screen
SUNY Cortland News
Native American culture will be the topic of discussion when two men who produced a short documentary on the spiritual importance of cooking a traditional dish at the nearby Onondaga Nation visit SUNY Cortland on Wednesday... .
Events & Activity News
Native American Heritage Expo Underway
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
By ICTMN Staff November 7, 2011 The third annual Native American Heritage Expo started today at Western Carolina University and will continue throughout the week. According to MaconNews.com, the event is “designed to explore the rich and vast culture...
Nov. 8 Community Calendar
Rockdale Citizen
... reservations necessary for lunch and child care,
770-786-8352, Jean or
770-787-6457, Ann. Nov. 9 at 3 pm, 139 Cedar Lane, Covington, the Sergeant Newton Chapter DAR meeting, Marcie Fletcher speaking on "Native American Code Talkers of World War .....
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November 7, 2011
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