February 06, 2006
USET meeting in Washington for 'Impact Week'
Tribal leaders from Maine to Florida are meeting in the Washington, D.C.-area this week to discuss health care, education, gaming and other issues. The United South and Eastern Tribes (USET)...
Arrests made after three killed on Rincon Reservation
Four men have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of three people on the Rincon Reservation in California. Details of the incident are sketchy but police said there...
Hoop Dance competition draws big crowd at the Heard
Nearly 5,000 people attended the 16th annual World Championship Hoop Dance at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported. Dancers as young as 2 and as old...
Menominee Nation revives sturgeon spearing hunt
For only the second year since the late 1800s, Menominee Nation hunters will be able to spear sturgeon on their reservation in Wisconsin. Sturgeon spearing is one of the tribe's...
Navajo woman refuses to leave home on Hopi land
Pauline Whitesinger doesn't know how old she is but the Navajo woman knows she will never leave her home in Big Mountain, Arizona, even if it is on Hopi...
Cuts to Indian programs feared as Bush rolls out budget
The Bush administration is rolling out its fiscal year 2007 budget today and it's expected that the numbers won't be so great for Indian Country. "It's definitely going to be...
Women tribal leaders confront sexism, stereotypes
Across Indian Country, more and more women are leading their tribes but they still face sexist attitudes and other stereotypes. Cecilia Fire Thunder, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe...
Sandia Pueblo leaders mum on Abramoff relationship
Leaders of Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico won't comment on disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's role in the settlement of the tribe's land claim. The tribe hired Abramoff and his firm...
Human Events: Closing the tribal donation 'loophole'
Human Events Online, a conservative publication, asks members of Congress a hot political question: Should the tribal donation "loophole" be closed? Reporter Amanda B. Carpenter got some rather interesting answers...
Jodi Rave: Native people object to school mascots
"It's no wonder Native people in western Montana object to a school on the Flathead Reservation's use of Maiden and Chief for mascots. The Ronan Indian Education Committee, Native parents...
Q&A with Joe Garcia: Abramoff, stereotypes and more
STATE OF INDIAN NATIONS • View Webcast: NCAI • Download MP3s: Address | Q&A • More: Text of Speech | FY07 Budget Request The Washington Post interviewed Joe Garcia, the...
Opinion: Mohawks defamed by New York Press reporter
The following was written by Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News, in response to The New York Press article "New York's Angry, Armed Mohawks." Horn can be reached at kahentinetha2@yahoo.com....
Tom Cole on the 'warpath' for political donations
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma), a member of the Chickasaw Nation, is vowing to kill any legislation that might limit the ability of tribes to make political contributions. "I am on...
Lawmakers are targeted in round two of Abramoff
Now that Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon have pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors are looking at members of Congress as they expand their corruption probe. But it will be hard to...
Mark Trahant: Sooner or later, America will go broke
"The budget of the United States will be released Monday. In its pages you'll discover all sorts of new cuts to federal programs, ranging from fewer farm subsidies to more...
Tom Cole blasts Interior for cutting BIA funds
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma), a member of the Chickasaw Nation, blasted the Bush administration for cutting the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget and blaming it on the Cobell trust fund...
Yellow Bird: My first time behind the wheel
"I started driving I was 19 years old.The first time I took the wheel, I was about 14 years old, which isn't too young to drive on the farm. I...
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