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November 28, 2005
Second Texas tribe involved in Abramoff scandal
LOBBYING SCANDAL Public relations consultant Michael Scanlon refused to answer questions at November 17, 2004, Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing. • Plea Deal | Attachment | US v. Scanlon The...

Golf course in Ohio is built atop Indian mounds
A golf course in Ohio is located on top of the Newark Earthworks, a part of the largest Indian mound site in the world. The location is causing friction...

Chitimacha Tribe wins awards for health clinic
The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana is earning awards for improved services at the Chitimacha Health Care Clinic. Since the hiring of Dr. Indira Gautam as the primary physician three years...

Q&A with Joe Garcia, the new president of NCAI
Diana Marrero of Gannett News Service interviews Joe Garcia, the newly elected president of the National Congress of American Indians. Garcia, the governor of Ohkay Owingeh, or San Juan...

NCAI staffer seeks public office in Minnesota
Irene Folstrom, a staffer at the National Congress of American Indians, is running for State Legislature in Minnesota. Folstrom is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. If...

Elouise Cobell: Lamberth frustrated with DOI
"In its haste to condemn U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth for his anger over the government's deception, stonewalling, document destruction and witness intimidation in our 10-year-long lawsuit, the...

Judge Lamberth, the cowboy, sides with Indians
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, the judge handling the Cobell trust fund case, says he isn't worried what others think about his rulings. "I don't shrink from making decisions, even...

Native Voice to move home office to Washington
Native Voice, an independent newspaper focusing on national Native news and issues, is moving is home office to Washington, D.C. Publisher Frank King said the office will move within six...

Lakota Country Times celebrates first year
The Lakota Country Times, the newest publication on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, recently celebrated its first anniversary. The weekly newspaper debuted in October 2004. It was...

Editorial: Anything goes when it comes to scandal
"Thousands of young people head to Capitol Hill each year hoping to launch their careers, and when Michael Scanlon arrived in the mid-1990s, he was fairly typical: talented, ambitious, not...

Abramoff probe spreads to members of Congress
Several members of Congress, their former aides and even a couple of spouses are being investigated as part of the Department of Justice's probe into the activities of disgraced lobbyist...

Editorial: Corruption scheme and Rep. Bob Ney
REPRESENTATIVE #1 • Scanlon Plea | Attachment • US v. Scanlon "In the dispassionate language of criminal law, the scandal of the rapacious duo of Jack Abramoff (Lobbyist A)...

GOP activist blasts McCain for lobbying probe
Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, a Republican anti-tax group, is again criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) for the Jack Abramoff lobbying probe. Norquist says McCain subpoenaed...

Opinion: Tribes, state to combat meth problem
"Last week, the Tribal Leaders Conference brought the tribal communities of our state together. The enclave focused on the strong interdependence of the Indian culture and how as a people,...

Opinion: Deloria was passionate advocate
"With the passing of Vine Deloria Jr., I lost a beloved friend and mentor of more than 20 years, and the world lost one of its intellectual giants and great...

Yellow Bird: Tribal college leadership problems
"There are about 34 tribal colleges in several states, and most have regional accreditation. In 1990, enrollment in tribal colleges was 8,093; by 2004, enrollment had grown to a resounding...

Editorial: Permanent protection for Bear Butte
" Bear Butte is sacred ground to upwards of 60 American Indian tribes. Thousands of Indians make the pilgrimage to the isolated mountain north of Sturgis each year. As the...

Editorial: Tribes skirting state tobacco tax law
"Any doubt that some American Indian tobacco shops are skirting the state's tobacco tax law was erased last week during a meeting of a state House committee that's exploring Oklahoma's...

Editorial: Culture of corruption in Washington
"The Abramoff affair unfolding in Washington, D.C., is hard to follow in its particulars. In broad outline, however, it's a simple story: People who wanted something from the federal government...

Mother: Red Lake shooter 'must have went crazy'
The mother of Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old who shot and killed nine people on the Red Lake Reservation before turning the gun on himself, said her son "must have went...

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