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December 09, 2005
Haskell University to lose four longtime employees
Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas will be losing four longtime employees in January 2006. Bill Curtis, Ruby Hernandez, Georgia Keene and Bill McCoy are all stepping down next month....

Grammy announces nominees for Best Native album
The nominees for the 48th annual Grammy awards were announced on Thursday. Under the "Folk" category, the nominees for Best Native American Music Album are: "More Kids' Pow-Wow Songs" by...

Hearing brings little resolve to Cobell lawsuit
Indianz.Com Listening Lounge, House Resources Committee hearing on Cobell v. Norton, December 8, 2005. Chairman Pombo, Ranking Member Rahall:Introduction - 6:34 - 1.50MB Panel I:James Cason Associate Deputy Secretary,...

Federal Register: DOI meetings on Indian energy
The Interior Department will hold a series of public hearings on Indian energy in January 2006. A total of ten meetings have been scheduled across the country, according to a...

Hogan at Navajo Prep catches fire but one hurt
A hogan at Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico caught fire on Thursday but no one was injured, The Farmington Daily Times reports. The fire started at around 11am...

Tribes not worried about Supreme Court ruling
Some tribal officials say the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Prairie Band Potawatomi tax case won't affect how they do business. Mark Graham, the executive director of the...

Eagle feather repository has just five employees
The National Eagle Repository, a federal center in Denver that doles out eagle feathers and eagle parts to thousands of Native Americans, only has five employees, The Washington Post...

Ex-Crow Tribe employees still waiting for pay
Former employees of the Crow Tribe are still waiting to be paid more than four years after being terminated from their jobs. Under a settlement negotiated with the 9th U.S....

Family sues BIA over teen's death at Chemawa
The family of a Yakama Nation teen who died in a holding cell at the Chemawa Indian School in Oregon has filed suit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The...

Family steps in to help Nevada tribe hit by fire
A family in Reno, Nevada, has stepped in to help members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe who were recently hit by fire. Robin Kazel donated wood and fencing after...

Extradition of men from Pine Ridge still sought
A county prosecutor in South Dakota is still seeking the extradition of two men from the Pine Ridge Reservation even after one of their co-defendants was acquitted in the beating...

Non-Indian challenges reservation hunting law
A non-Indian man has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the state of Montana's reservation hunting law. The law restricts hunting within reservation boundaries to tribal members. Non-tribal members...

Tribal member gets life for murdering officer
A member of the Fort Belknap Tribes was spared the death penalty on Thursday when he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a deputy sheriff, also a...

Movie Review: 'Christmas in the Clouds' a nice gift
A movie with a large cast of Native actors is getting some favorable reviews. "Christmas in the Clouds" [IMDB Entry] opens in theatres today and stars Graham Greene (Oneida),...

U.S. forced Aleuts into internment camps
A new documentary being aired on public television stations tells the story of how the United States forced 881 Aleuts in western Alaska into internment camps during World War...

Harjo: Indian people have no word for 'mascot'
"But, here is something I offer at the risk of creating a new culture myth and sending non-Indian linguists scrambling. It seems that we really have no word for ''mascot.''...

Burns wishes Abramoff had 'never been born'
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) blasted Jack Abramoff in a television interview on Wednesday, saying he wished the disgraced lobbyist had "never been born." "This Abramoff guy is a bad...

Opinion: Burns worried about public opinion
"Poor Conrad Burns. It can’t be much fun having negative press reports piling up around his re-election effort like snowflakes in a Montana winter: more mindless off-the-cuff remarks interspersed...

Abramoff said to be in talks with prosecutors
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is said to be in talks with federal prosecutors about a possible plea deal. Abramoff has already been charged with bank fraud in Florida. He...

Ex-partner to testify against Abramoff and Ney
Adam Kidan is prepared to testify against disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors. The deal is all but...

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