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January 20, 2006
Harjo: Indian art world suffered severe losses
"The world of Native American art and culture has suffered severe losses in the past 12 months and I feel the need to reflect on a few of them for...

Lobbying reform, gaming high on Congressional agenda
Lobbying reform and the $19 billion Indian gaming industry will be hot topics as members of Congress return to work, tribal advocates said last week. During a panel discussion at...

Cheap cell phone service a hit on Montana reservation
Residents of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana are rushing to sign up for cellular phone service as low as $1 a month for qualified tribal members. The state Public...

Editorial: Burns should take lead on lobbying reform
"Montana's junior senator has been getting bushels of unwanted publicity lately. Conrad Burns has not been charged with a crime, nor has evidence been made public that he committed...

Dispute over non-Indian doctor goes to federal court
A dispute over a non-Indian doctor on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation has led to charges in federal court against a tribal member. Steven Christopher Brady Sr., 49, pleaded not guilty...

Bank brings services to Pine Ridge Reservation
The First Security Bank in Rushville, Nebraska, is making it easier for residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, to do their banking. In 1997, the started a...

Virginia tribe won't boycott Jamestown events
Stephen Adkins, the chief of the Chickahominy Tribe of Virginia, says his tribe won't boycott the Jamestown 2007 commemoration of the first English settlement in the United States. Some tribal...

BIA asked to rule on rancheria membership dispute
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is being asked to intervene in a membership dispute within the Mooretown Rancheria of California. Last year, the tribe reclassified the status of about 40...

Menominee Nation confronts education challenges
The Menominee Nation in Wisconsin created its own public school district in 1976 after parents complained that a nearby district treated their kids differently. Dropout, suspension and expulsion rates were...

University hires employee to oversee artifacts
Kansas University has hired a retired anthropology professor from Montana to oversee the handling and repatriation of more than 5,000 tribal artifacts at the school. Thomas Foor, from the...

Massachusetts tribe, town to start new dialogue
The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe and the town of Aquinnah have abandoned a joint land-use agreement and will instead hold an open forum in hopes of improving their relationship. The...

Editorial: Lobbyists not only ones in need of reform
"The lesson of previous reforms is that tightening up in one area while leaving others unaddressed can simply shift abuses elsewhere. Is it really more corrupting for a lobbyist to...

Sen. Burns won't hold birthday bash at lobbying firm
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) won't be celebrating his 71st birthday at a major Washington, D.C., lobbying firm after Jodi Rave of The Missoulian and other news outlets wrote about...

NYT: 'New World' first necessary film of 2006
"Birds and passion still soar in the latest version of "The New World," Terrence Malick's rapturously beautiful telling of the founding of Jamestown and the Indian princess called Pocahontas....

Roger Ebert: 'New World' is Pocahontas' story
"Terrence Malick's "The New World" strips away all of the fancy and lore from the story of Pocahontas and her tribe and the English settlers at Jamestown, and imagines...

Indian president of Bolivia inspires new fashion
When Evo Morales, the first Indian president of Bolivia, is sworn in on Sunday, observers are wondering if he will wear his famous red, white and blue sweater. alpaca...

Movie Review: 'New World' stately, but static
"Look at the savages! What beasts! Snarly, smelly, infested with fleas and lice, their skins marred by hideous markings, their visages warlike, their language a strange clottage of war...

New director for White House Tribal College Initiative
The White House has named Deborah Cavett as the new executive director for the Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities. Cavett was previously director of interagency initiatives at the...

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