Indianz.Com News Archive: April 26, 2006 Archives

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April 26, 2006
Editorial: Send FEMA trailers to Indian Country
"They're facetiously called "Katrina cottages," and more than 10,000 of them sit unused at an airport near Hope, Ark. What to do with thousands of mobile homes bought by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of...

Nevada tribe finally paid for health services contract
After nearly a decade of fighting the federal government all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a Nevada tribe was finally paid for a self-determination contract on Tuesday. In a settlement filed in federal court, the Department of Health...

Indian artists meet amid controversy over portal
About 180 Native artists in New Mexico met on Tuesday for the annual meeting of the Native American Portal Program. The program, operated under the auspices of the state, ensures that only Native vendors can sell arts and crafts on...

Tribes excluded from new anti-meth grant program
A bill signed into law by President Bush excludes tribes from two new anti-methamphetamine programs, The Albuquerque Journal reports. The USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act became law last month [H.R.3199]. It included the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act that created...

Natives join protest of mining company in Colorado
The American Indian Movement in Colorado and members of the Western Shoshone Nation joined a protest against a mining company. The protest began outside the headquarters of Newmont Mining Corp. It moved to a hotel where Newmont was holding...

Navajo vice president Dayish seeks higher office
Navajo Nation Vice President Frank Dayish Jr. is preparing to challenge his boss for the presidency of the largest tribe in the United States. Dayish has named a campaign manager and has picked up the paperwork to start a run...

Tensions remain high at Native protest in Canada
Negotiations between Native protesters and the Canadian government are set to resume today amid heightened tensions in Caledonia, Ontario. A local mayor angered protesters from the Six Nations Reserve for saying that Natives "have money coming in automatically every...

FBI holds Red Lake student over alleged threats
The FBI is holding a ninth-grade student from the Red Lake Reservation in connection with alleged threats made to the high school. It is not known if any charges are being brought against the juvenile. But a federal grand...

Project preserves histories of Oneida Nation elders
A deal to compensate former students of Native residential schools for abuse they suffered is near final approval. The deal ensures poor elders over the age of 65 will receive early payments. They will be able to apply for $8,000...

Project preserves histories of Oneida Nation elders
A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and two video producers have started a project to record the histories of tribal elders. L. Gordon McLester and the producers have interviewed 375 elders so far and they plan to interview...

Native man undergoes second liver transplant
Richard Haury, a 52-year-old member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, underwent liver transplant surgery on Monday after his wife made a public plea for a donor. Haury is doing well, his wife Margarita said. He needed a transplant in...

Yellow Bird: Lakota horse a living link to Sitting Bull
"When my sister and I arrived in New Town, N.D., this past weekend, it was balmy and warm. But as the days passed, the weather turned, as it does during a typical North Dakota spring. A north wind blew in...

Great Plains tribes meet for economic summit
Tribal leaders and Indian entrepreneurs are meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this week for the eighth annual Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Regional Tribal Economic Development Summit. The summit is being held on Wednesday and Thursday. Organizers expect...

Court orders rehearing on tribe's liquor license
The California 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 1, issued an unpublished decision on Friday ordering a rehearing of the liquor license sought by the Barona Band of Mission Indians. A three-judge panel said the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage...

Sycuan Band rejected sports marketing deal
The Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Indians rejected a proposed sports marketing deal with a tribal member who provided a home to the family of a college athlete now under investigation. Tribal member Michael Chief Michaels, who also goes by the...

The Hill: Republicans still listen to Grover Norquist
Republican still listen to Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, despite Norquist's ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, The Hill newspaper says. In its annual roundup of Washington's top lobbyists, the newspaper says Abramoff's guilty plea "threatens...

GOP ties Democrats to Saginaw Chippewa earmark
The National Republican Senatorial Committee released information from the Interior Department that shows Michigan's two Democratic senators tried to help the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, one of Jack Abramoff's former clients. The NRSC obtained a log of correspondence through the Freedom...

Follow Pombo's money to oil, Indians and Abramoff
"It’s an old, old adage, but that doesn’t make it any less true: follow the money. And in Rep. Richard Pombo’s case, that money leads to some very interesting places, such as Abramoff, oil and Indians. According to the nonpartisan...

Sen. Burns hires white collar criminal attorney
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) has hired a white collar criminal attorney to help with questions surrounding Jack Abramoff. Burns hired Ralph Caccia, a partner with the law firm Powell Goldstein. Caccia specializes in white collar crime and political and congressional...

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