Assistant Professor Launches Radio Program on Indigenous Politics March 2, 2007
Wesleyan Connection - Middletown,CT,USA
Based Schaghticoke Tribal Nation since 1987, who discussed his tribe’s legal battle in response to the Bureau of Indian Affairs reversal of their federal

Harvard forum educates on US/Native nations relations March 2, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
''The Bureau of Indian Affairs used to run all our programs - education, police, health care. But we are moving away from that and running those programs

Michigan tribe member helps create database on Indian crimes March 2, 2007
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
"Nationally, crime statistics from Indian Country are not collected well," said Tom Heffelfinger, a former US attorney in Minnesota.

WBGH series to provide video phones to Native Americans March 1, 2007
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
The first workshop is being scheduled for late April or early May in Phoenix, where the program will work with primarily four Native American tribes,

American Indian activist to give speech March 1, 2007
The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA
Humboldt State University Associated Students presents American Indian activist and former vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke today at 7 PM in HSU’s

Mohawks move forward; racist rhetoric sets us all back March 1, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
And, like Indian Country Today, the Post participates in Newspapers in Education, which is an international program to advance the use of newspapers in

Lawmakers want committee for American Indian issues  February 28, 2007
Fremont Tribune - Fremont,NE,USA
Lawmakers think state government needs to be more knowledgeable of issues facing American Indian tribes in the state. The Legislature gave first-round

HUD Secretary Highlights More Assistance For Native American Housing February 28, 2007
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
"At HUD, we are committed to partnering with you to create and sustain strong Native American communities through creative and effective housing and

Ned Blackhawk: US must return Lakota land  February 28, 2007
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
This seizure in 1877 violated the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and deepened one of the most enduring tragedies in American Indian history.

Indian artist creates design for Pendleton  February 28, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
Once a popular trade item, the blankets remain integral to American Indian traditions, often used as "giveaway" items and to honor others

Alaska Native civil rights history shaped state  February 28, 2007
UAA Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA
In some communities, Natives who went to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools locally, and were caught speaking their indigenous tongue, were sometimes forcibly

Tribes get funds to help in meth February 27, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
"The kids see the use out there," Bureau of Indian Affairs Chief of Police John Grinsell Grinsell said. "They need to know that it isn't right,

Cherokees to Vote on Who is an Indian February 27, 2007
Voice of America - USA
American Indian tribes are considered sovereign nations within the United States, and their citizens are entitled to tribal benefits, including subsidized

Alaska Native civil rights history shaped state February 27, 2007
UAA Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA
In some communities, Natives who went to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools locally, and were caught speaking their indigenous tongue, were sometimes forcibly

HRI seeks reversal of EPA ruling February 27, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
... Because most of its households speak Navajo, and because the chapter, tribe or Bureau of Indian Affairs provide most of its infrastructure

What's in a Home-Language Survey? February 27, 2007
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
In Indian Country, parents are likely to say on the survey that an indigenous language is spoken at home, even though it may be spoken only by a grandmother

Archaeological find spurs New Paltz dust-up February 27, 2007
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
Recent archaeological discoveries — including the remnants of an American Indian longhouse — on Huguenot Street have prompted a local amateur historian with

Protein linked to elevated BMI in people of American Indian ...February 26, 2007
EMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a variant of a common blood protein, apolipoprotein C1, in people of American Indian and Mexican

Housing opens for American Indian elders February 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
NORTH-CENTRAL PHOENIX - A grand opening for a facility that will house Valley American Indian elders is scheduled for Tuesday in north central Phoenix.

Nellie Two Bulls passes to the spirit world February 26, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Grandma Nellie was a member of the advisory committee for the Journey Museum in Rapid City, a board member of KILI radio on the Pine Ridge Reservation and

Secretary touts funding for Indian meth fight February 26, 2007
Mohave Valley News - Laughlin,NV,USA
In its proposed 2008 budget, the Interior Department plans to add $11 million for 51 new law enforcement officers in American Indian communities throughout

Murder on Indian reservation offers glimpse at broader violence February 26, 2007
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Marcos Escareno's neighbors say he was raised amid a culture of violence on this tiny American Indian reservation. And residents say the disproportionate

Commentary: Mementos Of People No Longer Here February 26, 2007
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
And therein lies one of the hottest controversies in Native American studies: How many Indians were here in 1492? The map in the Inquirer last week showing

COMMENTARY: Wampanoags helped the Pilgrims survive February 26, 2007
Cohasset Mariner - Hingham,MA,USA
... the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on their recognition as a sovereign Native American nation by the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs

Senate Bill 887 Looks to Increase Native American Teachers in New ...February 26, 2007
UNM Today - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Senator Pinto’s Senate Bill 887 will continue the Institute for American Indian Education (IAIE). Scholarship Program, which began in 2004.

Sitting Bull's survivors want remains moved February 26, 2007
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
Then the Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota arranged to have the family enrolled there.

Great leader cast his legend in Eastern Montana February 26, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
As they ranged westward, the Lakota increasingly clashed with other tribes in ever-shrinking Indian Country. As a teenager, Sitting Bull counted his first

Sandoz seminar focuses on Crazy Horse February 26, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
It also is an in-depth look at the culture and spirituality of the Oglala Sioux. An added feature at this year’s conference will be a limited enrollment

Memoir of an interesting life also illuminates a key time for ... February 26, 2007
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... with the Lakota nation after violence erupted during the American Indian Movement's protests at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973