Cherokees add amendment to cut Fed oversight to June 23 election June 7, 2007
Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee,OK,USA
... That will remove the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs' oversight of the tribe's constitution, said Todd Hembree, attorney for the Council. ...

Dingell wants to revive Indian health bill June 7, 2007
United Press International - USA
... US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., Thursday called for reauthorization of a key American Indian health bill.

Tribal youths invited to police academy June 7, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Sixty students from Indian Country will be selected to attend the 2007 academy. Participants, or cadets, will hear tribal speakers and learn about subjects

Lumbees to recruit Indian foster parents June 6, 2007
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
There are 37 American Indian children in foster care in Robeson County, but there are only 15 American Indian foster homes. In Hoke County, there are no

Broken Spoke owner leaves unpaid bills June 6, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
STURGIS - Broken Spoke Saloon owner Jay Allen, who built the controversial Sturgis County Line rally venue north of Bear Butte last year, ...

Most Bear Butte Alcohol Licenses Renewed June 6, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Alcohol licenses for several businesses that operate between Sturgis and Bear Butte have been renewed by the Meade County Commission. ...

House vote on Lumbee bill expected Thursday June 6, 2007
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
Language in the act barred the tribe from going through the Bureau of Indian Affairs' administrative process to gain recognition. ...

Lakota language program will teach educators about American Indian ...June 5, 2007
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
A Lakota language immersion program June 24-29 at St. Joseph Indian School in Chamberlain aims to help educators understand American Indian culture in South ...

Judge dismisses lawsuits over elimination of Chief Illiniwek June 5, 2007
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier - Charleston,IL,USA
One of the lawsuits, filed by the two students who last portrayed the American Indian mascot, also accused the NCAA of breaking Illinois law by imposing

American Indian teens at high drug risk June 5, 2007
United Press International - USA
DENVER, June 5 (UPI) -- A US study suggests that American Indian adolescents are at a higher risk for trying marijuana than other first-time drug users. ...

American Indians to benefit from veterinary technician scholarship June 5, 2007
American Veterinary Medical Association - Schaumburg,IL,USA
Through a two-year veterinary technician apprenticeship program, 7thGen hopes to provide someone of American Indian heritage with an opportunity to become ...

Time has come to shake hands on land dispute June 5, 2007
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
In April 2005, the Cayuga Indian Nation (CIN) applied to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to have property it owned in Seneca ..

Tribal Burial Mounds Returned To Ho Chunk Nation June 5, 2007
WISC - Madison,WI,USA
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. -- Some very special and historic land was returned to its rightful owners on Monday. In a special ceremony, the Wisconsin Department

The search for Miss Indian Farmington June 5, 2007
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
"The big idea is primarily to have ... Somebody to represent the urban Native American community," Farmington Indian Center Community Coordinator Myra ...

Hanging Out With Billy Mills June 4, 2007
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
Not just the stress of growing up Indian on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where we still have 85 percent unemployment, but also in college, where they didn't ...'

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' brings controversy June 3, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
RAPID CITY, SD - Sifting through fact and fiction in the latest Hollywood version of American Indian history can be quite a chore, but if the viewer looks

Smithsonian to turn over Native American remains June 3, 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau - USA
By Les Blumenthal. WASHINGTON - The skeletal remains of six members of the Nisqually tribe are stored in wooden boxes in the Smithsonian Institution's

Tribal leaders tell BIA director of crime problems June 3, 2007
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
LOWER BRULE -- Chairmen from five tribes pressed the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for more funding and less red tape for jails and officers. ...

Oklahoma: Cherokee chief seeks new vote on constitutional amendment June 3, 2007
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA
Carl Artman, the assistant secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said a second vote would not mean that the government would approve it, ...

Even now, Chief Joseph's memory besmirched June 3, 2007
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
JOSEPH, Idaho Some of Indian Country's all-time heroes earned their reputations after fighting to remain on the sacred land of their fathers, relatives and

$316000 Federal Grant To Aid Tribe With New Government June 3, 2007
Enterprise Newspapers - Falmouth,MA,USA
... of federal recognition for the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council is in the pipeline, according to a spokesman for the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Cherokees ask court to toss motion by Freedmen descendants June 3, 2007
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise - Bartlesville,OK,USA
... inviting them to participate in the process. "We know, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs has agreed, the way our election is set up is fair," Miller said.