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Editorial: Preserve Hiawatha Indian Insane Asylum history (May 8, 2013)

Newspaper supports preservation efforts at the Hiawatha Indian Insane Asylum in South Dakota: History has the important job of making us feel the injustices that others endured. In Canton, the Hiawatha Golf Course is next to a cemetery where 120...

Audio from Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on bills (May 8, 2013)

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held its first legislative hearing of the 113th Congress this afternoon. The committee considered S.434, the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act. The bill ratifies a water rights compact between the Blackfeet Nation and the state...

Jodi Gillette: Another year of Let's Move! in Indian Country (May 8, 2013)

Jodi Gillette, the Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs at the White House, on the two-year anniversary of Let's Move! in Indian Country: I recently had the honor of attending an event to mark the 2nd Anniversary of Let’s...

Lease ends for pro-gun rights billboards with Native image (May 8, 2013)

Two pro-gun rights billboards that drew controversy in Colorado because they utilized an image of three Native men with guns have come down. The billboards were purchased by a group of people who wanted to remain anonymous, a local...

Statcan reports increase in Aboriginal population in Canada (May 8, 2013)

The Aboriginal population in Canada is growing, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. Data from the National Household Survey shows 1.4 million people claimed Aboriginal ancestry in 2011. That represented 4.8 percent of the population in Canada. up...

Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation questions tax deal law (May 8, 2013)

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is questioning a new law that requires the state of North Dakota to negotiate a new oil tax agreement with the tribe. The law calls on the tribe to receive an equal share of...

Sen. Murkowski challenges DOI on contract support costs (May 8, 2013)

YouTube: Senator Murkowski to Secretary Jewell on Contract Support Costs Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) pushed the Obama administration on Tuesday to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, a contract support cost case....

BIA and tribes participate in ICWA summit in South Dakota (May 8, 2013)

The Great Plains Indian Child Welfare Act Summit takes place next week in Rapid City, South Dakota. Tribal leaders have pressured the Bureau of Indian Affairs to host the conference. They say the federal government needs to do more to...

Chumash Tribe funds $5K solar installation for local home (May 8, 2013)

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in California donated $5,000 for a solar installation at a local home. The tribe worked with GRID Alternatives, a non-profit, to install the 1.6kw photovoltaic solar system for a single-family, low-income home. The...

Eastern Cherokees approve $26M for jail and justice center (May 8, 2013)

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will be spending $26 million on a jail and justice center. The original cost of the jail was $20 million. But the tribe added a courthouse and police station to the project, raising the...

Duane Champagne: Protecting sacred sites, sacred places (May 8, 2013)

Duane Champagne on protecting sacred sites and sacred places: Many tribal nations remember and perform ceremonies at sacred places that are not on their reservations. Do Indians have any spiritual claims to their ancient lands? Is it possible for Indian...

House approves land-into-trust bill for Pascua Yaqui Tribe (May 8, 2013)

The House passed H.R.507, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Trust Land Act, by a vote of 401-2 on Monday. The bill places 20 acres in trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. The tribe gained federal recognition in 1978. The...

USDA Blog: Rosebud Sioux Tribe gets grant for new station (May 8, 2013)

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota used Department of Agriculture grant to build a new waste transfer station: The Rosebud Sioux Tribe was exceeding the landfill capacity of handling 20 tons a day of garbage at the central landfill...

Secretary Jewell makes first appearance before Congress (May 8, 2013)

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made her first appearance before Congress on Tuesday. Jewell told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the Interior Department suffered an $881 million cut due the sequester of the federal budget. Employees are being furloughed and...

BLM puts hold on all oil and gas lease auctions in California (May 8, 2013)

The Bureau of Land Management has suspended all oil and gas lease auctions in California until October. In a press release, the agency said the sequester of the federal budget, along with the need to enforce existing leases and process...

Julianne Jennings: Indian people outlast the anthropologists (May 8, 2013)

Julianne Jennings on the "disappearance" of Native people through anthropology: Samuel George Morton, provided “scientific evidence” of Indian inferiority. In his 1839 study, Crania Americana, and concluded from collected statistical data that the brain size of Europeans was far greater...

Native Sun News: Oglala student brings dance fever to Rapid (May 8, 2013)

A dance event organized by Vaughn Vargas, student at the Oglala Lakota College and board member of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention was held at Main Street Square in Rapid City, S.D. on Friday afternoon.

John Norwood: Cultural groups rushing to claim tribal status (May 8, 2013)

The following is the opinion of the Rev. John Norwood, the Secretary-General of the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes. The Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes (ACET) has passed a guiding resolution regarding a growing issue: cultural enthusiast groups that have...
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