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Friday, April 06, 2007

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Minn. Boys missing since Nov. Found dead April 1, 2007
USA Today 
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A volunteer search team found the bodies of two young brothers encased in ice on the Red Lake Indian Reservation Sunday, more than four ...

Red Lake boys may have wandered onto thin ice April 2, 2007
Minnesota Public Radio, MN - 8 hours ago

Authorities are still trying to determine how two young boys on the Red Lake Indian Reservation ended up in an icy lake. They may have wandered onto thin ice

Autopsy results find no physical abuse of Red Lake brothers April 3, 2007
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The FBI office in Minneapolis says provisional autopsy results of the two little brothers found dead in a lake on the Red Lake Reservation found no evidence

Event looks at Indian lands April 6, 2007
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
"Inheriting Indian Land: Indian Land Tenure in the Wake of the American Indian Probate Reform Act" is held in conjunction with the 32nd annual Montana State ...

Progress and distress share the stage at Cobell hearing April 6, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Without a legislative settlement, according to Bickerman and Renfrew, ''The Department of Interior's ability to serve Indian country has been and will

Councilman apologizes for American Indian criticism April 6, 2007
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
AP. HOUSTON - A Houston city councilman and conservative talk radio host has apologized for saying taxpayers were paying large amounts of welfare to ...

Subprime mortgages: a double-edged sword for borrowers April 6, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
That was a jump of 10 percent for American Indian mortgages and an increase of more than 70 percent to Native Hawaiians.

Blackfeet move closer to water-rights deal April 6, 2007
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
"We still are having considerable issues with this number," said Doug Oellermann, of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and part of the federal negotiating

Pine Ridge woman once honored by Clinton gets 34 years in prison April 5, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Seated with the president is Harold Salway, then-president of the Oglala Sioux nation. On Wednesday, US District Judge Karen Schreier in Rapid City ...

Ohio Residents Sentenced For Looting Native American ...April 5, 2007
WCPO - Cincinnati,OH,USA
(AP) -- Six Ohio residents have been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to looting a Native American archaeological site in western Kentucky,

Between Heaven & Earth April 5, 2007
LA City Beat - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Playa Vista development has unearthed one of the largest Native American burial grounds in California. Tribal leaders want their ancestorsre-buried,

Pine Ridge woman once honored by Clinton gets 34 years in prison April 5, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Seated with the president is Harold Salway, then-president of the Oglala Sioux nation. On Wednesday, US District Judge Karen Schreier in Rapid City

Houston councilman's radio remarks offend American Indians April 5, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
They're the co-founders of the American Indian Genocide Museum in Houston. “My only question was, was Sand Creek and Wounded Knee a war? ...

Blackfeet plan to return management of detention to BIA April 5, 2007
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
(AP) - The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council is proposing to return management of its juvenile detention center to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ...
 

Years in the making, health center has grand opening: Lack of ...April 4, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
"The services this new facility will provide ... Will help address some of the enormous unmet health needs in Indian Country," Grim said in the release.

Endowment makes more scholarships available April 4, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
The success of gaming in Indian country is also important to the growth of the new fund, Stott said. The initial funds were given by the SMSC, a successful ...

Feds claim false billing by Menominee tribe April 4, 2007
Chippewa Herald - Chippewa Falls,WI,USA
MILWAUKEE - The federal government sued the Menominee tribe's business arm Tuesday, alleging it falsely billed the Bureau of Indian Affairs for fire ...

Tribe plays its hand: Wampanoags seek Southcoast site, say Bay ...April 4, 2007
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
After selecting a site, the tribe will have to win approval from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to put any land in “trust,” making it official tribal

Appeals court rules probable cause standards apply on Indian land April 4, 2007
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Police must have probable cause to search people and their property, even if they are on sovereign American Indian lands, a California appeals court ruled.

Critics Blast Cherokee Nation For Ousting Freedmen From Tribal Rolls April 3, 2007
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have asked the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs to investigate the “validity, legality,

Bill Would Stop State From Banning Indian Mascots April 3, 2007
Eyewitness News Memphis - Memphis,TN,USA
Bell said he proposed the bill after American Indian activists went before the state's Human Rights Commission earlier this year and asked its members to ...

Indigenous Peoples Consultation forum works towards decolonization April 2, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
High-priority subjects included self-determination, decolonization and sacred sites, as well as border crossing issues.

The Sacred Shellmound Walkers April 2, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Kudos to Wounded Knee, Corina Gould, Morning Star, Perry Matlock, many others who have continued to visit these Sacred Sites in pilgrimage over which the

Symposium targets Indian land inheritance April 2, 2007
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... not hard to figure who owns land and how to pass it on to the next generation -- except when it comes to individual land ownership in Indian Country

The Dark Legacy of the Indian Boarding Schools April 2, 2007
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
It is not in the least bit uncommon for the thousands of Native Americans pushed through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Church operated boarding schools ...

California's Darker Side April 2, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
In my mind there were a lot of parallels between the Native American and Jewish experience, and it was these similarities that I saw over and over again in

Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2007 Promotes Home ...April 2, 2007
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
2�to legislate regarding Native American affairs, and Congress has used that power to restore the relationship with tribal governments terminated by the

Symposium targets Indian land inheritance April 2, 2007
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... not hard to figure who owns land and how to pass it on to the next generation -- except when it comes to individual land ownership in Indian Country.

 

Thunder Fox 2:58 PM

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