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October 03, 2006
Washington Times: Resign as Speaker, Hastert
"The facts of the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005,...

Villages that rejected heating fuel get donations
Four Alaska Native villages that rejected free heating oil from Venezuela have received donations from across the country, The Anchorage Daily News reports. "The response has been overwhelming," said Dimitri Philemonof, he president of the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association. The...

White House blamed for another delay in Cobell
Efforts to settle the Cobell trust fund lawsuit are in danger because the White House has failed to provide a settlement number, a top senator said on Monday. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee presented an $8 billion figure to the...

Paper examines race relations on sports field
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader continues its series on race relations in high school athletics. Mackenzie Casey, a high school basketball standout, grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. As the child of a Lakota mother and a white father,...

Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe reburies ancestors
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington reburied 21 ancestors who were being held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Kathy Duncan, the tribe's cultural resource officer, and her husband drove the remains back home. "I...

Protest planned for Columbus Day parade in Denver
American Indian activists plan to protest this weekend's Columbus Day Parade in Denver and, more specifically, the involvement of Comanche man David Yeagley. American Indian Movement representatives showed up to a press conference called by the Italian-Americans who put...

FBI seeks help locating Red Lake murder suspect
The FBI is asking the public for help in locating a man accused of a murder on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Jacob John Lussier, 24, who also goes by the name of Jacob John Martin, is charged with...

Ojibwe man dies during Twin Cities Marathon
George Spears, a Red Lake Ojibwe father of seven, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack during the Twin Cities Marathon. Spears, 49, was an avid runner and had no history of heart problems. He collapsed at the 6-mile...

Eastern Band translates new book into Cherokee
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is translating "Thirteen Moons," the new book by Charles Frazier. Frazier and his wife donated $15,000 to the tribe for the project. It is believed to be the first time any new fiction...

First Nations fear return of tuberculosis
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says the rising rate of tuberculosis poses disaster for Native people. Guy Lonechild, the acting chief of FSIN, called for immediate action to address risk factors for Native people. They include overcrowding, poor overall...

EPA takes comments on Navajo Nation power plant
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding two public hearings this week on a proposed power plant on the Navajo Nation. The EPA will take comments on a draft air permit for the Desert Rock Power Plant. Sithe Global Power, a...

Abramoff report lists contacts with Capitol Hill
The House Government Reform Committee's bipartisan report on Jack Abramoff's lobbying of the White House also contains details of his team's Capitol Hill contacts, The Hill newspaper reports. Of the 485 contacts in the report, The Hill counted meetings with...

NCAI kicks off annual meeting in Sacramento
An estimated 2,000 people representing 120 tribes are in Sacramento this week for the National Congress of American Indians 63rd annual conference. In the morning, attendees heard from Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York), Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and former...

Harvard to present Honoring Nations at NCAI
The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development will present its Honoring Nations awards at the National Congress of American Indians today. The program recognizes excellence in tribal governance. Fourteen finalists, out of 86 applicants, were chosen for their...

Lawyers pursue Indian school abuse in state court
Lawyers from California are pursuing two lawsuits alleging abuse at Indian boarding schools in South Dakota. One case filed by former students at St. Paul's School was dismissed by a circuit court. The judge said the plaintiffs waited too long....

Supreme Court won't hear land-into-trust cases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected two lawsuits that challenged the Bureau of Indian Affairs' authority to take land into trust. Without comment, the justices refused to hear South Dakota v. Department of the Interior, No. 05-1428, and Utah...

High court refuses tribal member's state tax case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit from a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation who challenged income taxes imposed by the state of Connecticut. Jo-Ann Dark Eyes argued that income she earned as a tribal official...

Tulalip Tribes lose last Lushootseed speaker
Marya Moses, the last fluent speaker of Lushootseed from the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, died last week. She was 95. Moses was born in a barn on the reservation in 1911. She was sent to a Bureau of Indian Affairs...

Giago: Domestic violence from a male perspective
"As a Lakota man now in his seventh decade, one that has been an observer of Indian people and issues as a journalist for more than 40 years, I would like to expand upon the series of articles by Ms....

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