Cobell balks at feds' offer March 30, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
We need to move beyond a century of well-meaning paternalism to recognize an Indian Country capable of managing its own affairs."

Morongo tribe to host debate for Dem hopefuls March 30, 2007
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
"We couldn't be more proud to make history for Indian Country by hosting this extraordinary event." Joely De La Torre, an associate professor of public

Housing needs are still dire, but hope is growing March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Their situation isn't unusual on the tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation, where hundreds of families dwell in overcrowded circumstances, Steele related. ...

Education must prepare Indian students for leadership, citizenship March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Over the past several decades, American Indian and First Nation communities have increasingly gained control over the education of their children.

Budget restorations leave work to be done March 30, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
HIP helps impoverished tribal members keep their houses habitable; the administration considers it duplicative funding, a notion disputed by Oglala Sioux

Navajo Nation officials push for larger BIA budget March 30, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
Navajo Nation speaker Lawrence Morgan called on the federal government to increase funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' 2009 budget last week.

Poway breaks ground on Kumeyaay education center March 30, 2007
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
San Pasqual Nation member Dorothy Tavui, who has spent hundreds of hours sharing her knowledge of American Indian history with schoolchildren who visit the

Indian plaintiffs voice objections to Interior trust settlement March 29, 2007
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne defended the proposal at the hearing, saying money spent on the lawsuit could be better used elsewhere in Indian Country. ...

Tribe asserts its senior water rights, negotiations continue March 29, 2007
Glacier Reporter - USA
... Of observers who came to witness the Tribe's water rights negotiating team meet with teams from the State of Montana and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ...

Lawmakers protest Cherokee ouster of freedmen March 28, 2007
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise - Bartlesville,OK,USA
Earlier, the lawmakers vowed to work with black leaders of Congress and bring pressure on the Bureau of Indian Affairs to try to restore the rights of ...

Congressional Black Caucus statements inflame racial hate toward ...March 28, 2007
WEBCommentary - USA
It seems the American Indian community has been hit with another disease brought to our home land -Racism! Blacks are lining up to tell news groups that

Group questions Department of Interior's role in Nation decision March 28, 2007
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said the federal government approves the compacts and applications for Indian gaming.

Feds dispute dismissal of eagle case March 28, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... Notice of an eagle permit the Fish and Wildlife Service issued last October to the Jemez Eagle Watching Society, an American Indian group in New Mexico.

Statewide smoking ban approved by Minnesota Senate March 28, 2007
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
Smoking wouldn't be illegal in scientific studies, American Indian ceremonies or tobacco shops. Another foe argued that eliminating public places where

Challenges Face Native American Prospects March 28, 2007
Sports Central - Vienna,VA,USA
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender is the sole Native American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, although Jim Thorpe was perhaps the best-known Native

Preview of 'Living on a Dime' documentary to be shown March 28, 2007
Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands,CA,USA
The second segment, "Ancient Footprints of the Colorado River" is set at the Blythe Giant Intaglios, part of a network of sacred sites along the lower

Search continues at airport for native artifacts March 28, 2007
Shoreline Times - Guilford,CT,USA
Friends of Hammonasset member Dr. Don Rankin, who has studied the Native American culture of the area for over 20 years, said the Griswold Airport site has

Group to protest against project March 28, 2007
San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
"We're very interested in preserving sacred sites," said Julie Hernandez of Concord, a member of Indian People Organizing for Change.

Educators Push For Native American Inclusion March 27, 2007
WLUC-TV - Negaunee,MI,USA
One of the main topics on the table was Native American inclusion, a movement to get native culture incorporated into schools curriculums.

IHS Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention sounds the alert ...March 27, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
For more information about the American Diabetes Association's ''Awakening the Spirit Program'' in Native American communities, visit the web site at

Leaders express concern over BIA budget reductions March 27, 2007
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
"Bureau of Indian Affairs funding has not increased the same rate as National Park Service and Forestry," said Morgan. "The BIA budgets for the past few

Protest to Protect Sacred Site Medicine Lake-SF April 6. Invite ...March 26, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Invite & Challenge to Bay Area Environmental & Social Justice Organizers to Support Native-Led Efforts to Protect Sacred Sites: Medicine Lake Highlands in

Peltier prison monologue rallying cry for supporters March 26, 2007
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Two years earlier, the Oglala Sioux had briefly reclaimed Wounded Knee after an armed standoff. The next three years were marked by police brutality,

SNC to offer six Native American scholarships March 26, 2007
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
Sierra Nevada College has established six full-tuition scholarships to be awarded to qualified Native American high school students, beginning in the 2007

Owner of illegal dump fined $46.9 million March 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"There are several illegal dumps operating on the reservation, and this judgment gives the EPA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs another way to convince

Author says code talkers a `great irony' of American history March 26, 2007
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Caught in a nonfictional crossfire of words, during a time when thousands of Native American children were stripped of their language and forced to speak

A mother, a daughter, a warrior March 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Piestewa, 23, a Hopi from Tuba City, was the first American woman to die in the war in Iraq and probably the first Native American woman to die in combat

Despite past injustices, tribe regrouping March 26, 2007
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Their plight began to change a few years later when the US Bureau of Indian Affairs funded a study of the Indians in Mississippi. In 1945, the US Department

Protesters demand new Pine Ridge election March 26, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
PINE RIDGE, SD - Claims that the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general and primary elections last fall were tainted with corruption, illegally held and in violation

The 9th US Circuit protects the sanctity of a Native American ...March 26, 2007
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
After a disappointing ruling on the upgrade proposal for Arizona Snowbowl, overturning a previous US District Court decision allowing snowmaking and other

Senate Finance Committee Hears Testimony on Indian Health Care ....March 26, 2007
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
The American Indian health care system "desperately needs more funding," advocates and lawmakers said Thursday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing

Utes, legislators oppose health-care cuts March 26, 2007
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
The Senate's resolution urges the US Congress to support the Urban Indian Health Program and Bureau of Indian Affairs police programs.

Former Interior deputy guilty in Abramoff case March 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The department oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which made it crucial to his lobbying schemes. Boasting of his contacts, he referred to Griles as "our