Today's News in Indian Country 5/14/06 

Native Indian reserves brace for opportunists May 13, 2006
Reuters Canada, Canada -
... Many native reserves are rural and offer few employment opportunities, leaving many residents to live in poverty. Mason said many

Navajo power plant lease approved, opponents vow to fight May 13, 2006
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
A $2.5 billion coal-fired power plant that Navajo Nation officials are touting as one of the largest economic development projects in Indian Country is one ...

Navajo council approves lease for power plant May 13, 2006
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... billion dollar coal-fired power plant that Navajo Nation officials are touting as one of the largest economic development projects in Indian Country came one ...

Indian Center Needs Funding May 13, 2006
Yankton Daily Press - Yankton,SD,USA
FORT PIERRE (AP) -- The state's congressional delegation is trying to secure more federal money for an American Indian reconciliation center being built near ...

Hundreds rally in opposition to reservation meth use May 13, 2006
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... Tribal Council next week to join a Cooperative Agency Task Force that is being created and includes law enforcement from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the FBI...

Man convicted of drug deals on reservations appeals life sentence May 13, 2006
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
DENVER - An attorney for a man serving life in prison for selling nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine on a Wyoming Indian reservation told a federal appeals ...

Geronimo Descendant Will Ask Bushes to Help Return Warrior's ...May 13, 2006
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
... An active member of the Mescalero Apache Tribal Council until he retired five ... from the presidential family, he has called on Native American medicine people ...

Fire Thunder confirms plans for clinic May 13, 2006
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
... Fire Thunder is one of the leaders advocating for the creation of a South Dakota Indian Gaming Association to better negotiate compacts and promote gaming.

Pine Ridge radio station tries to get back on air after lightning May 13, 2006
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
... that serves the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation off ... basketball and baseball tournaments and tribal council meetings ... Oglala Lakota College has committed some money ...

Tribal leaders meet to discuss Haskell funding May 13, 2006
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Vigil said Haskell will begin asking more American Indian associations and tribes to add the school to its lobbying priorities, selling the school rather than ...
 

 
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