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July 31, 2008
Bush signs $2B boost for Indian Country into law
Indian Country will benefit from a $2 billion infusion in law enforcement, health and water funds under a bill signed into law on Wednesday. The unexpected boost was quickly passed by the Senate and the House earlier this month. It's...

Navajo Nation chapter dedicates new building
The San Juan Chapter of the Navajo Nation dedicated a new building on Wednesday. The 10,000 square-foot building in New Mexico cost $1.7 million, making it one of the most expensive on the reservation. "It's nice to have a...

Column: High school kids ran DOJ, says Heffelfinger
"Top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ran the U.S. Department of Justice the way that the snotty kids in your school decided who was cool, and who was not. It would be funny, if it hadn't affected...

San Manuel Band buys naming rights to venue
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians bought the naming rights to a concert venue in San Bernardino County, California. The former Glen Helen Pavilion is now called the San Manuel Amphitheatre. Signs for the facility were changed earlier...

KILI Radio celebrates 25 years with unique gift
KILI-FM, the Voice of the Lakota Nation, received a unique gift for its 25th birthday. The radio station, based on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, will use a wind turbine to broadcast across Lakota Country. The $120,000 turbine...

Pine Ridge family of 15 children left homeless by fire
A large family from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is trying to pick up the pieces after their home was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Mary and Varden Fast Wolf welcomed everyone into their "Rez Mansion" in...

Utes forced to Utah welcomed back to Colorado
The first annual Smoking River Pow Wow was held last weekend to start the healing process for Utes who were marched out of Colorado at gunpoint. Ancestors of the Northern Ute Tribe were forced to leave Meeker in 1879...

Young man, possibly Native, killed in vicious attack
A young man described as Native was killed in a brutal attack on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba on Wednesday night. The man was stabbed repeatedly before he was decapitated, witnesses said. Passengers watched in horror as the attack unfolded...

Native truth commission attorney questioned
Native leaders are calling for the firing of the new chief counsel for Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission will oversee the healing and education process for survivors of the Native residential school system. Attorney Owen Young doesn't fit...

Column: Pink shawls raise awareness of cancer
"Under a full moon, women and girls twirled and swirled heavily fringed shawls in a traditional Native American honoring dance. But what was most striking about the scene was the color of almost 50 shawls: a warm-your-heart pink. It...

Crow couple sues BIA over grazing leases
A couple on the Crow Reservation is suing the Bureau of Indian Affairs over disputed grazing leases. George and Nelvette Siemion thought they leased the land to graze their bison. But it turned out that the land was leased...

Historic Lower Brule building destroyed by fire
A 26-year-old man was arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed the former Indian agency for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. The Lower Brule Agency House, which dates to 1876, served the reservation until it...

Tensions continue between Soboba Band and sheriff
The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians will continue to monitor deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who enter the reservation. Chairman Robert Salgado said the tribe has a right to know who is coming on the reservation. He...

BIA delays decision on Little Shell recognition
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed a decision on the federal recognition petition of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana. The BIA issued a proposed finding in favor of the tribe in May 2000. But extensions of the...

Senate Indian Affairs business meeting and hearing
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a a business meeting and oversight hearing today. Two bills are on the agenda for the business meeting. They are S.952, to fund training for tribal leadership, management, and policy through the Morris K....

California intertribal court moves to new home
The Intertribal Court of Southern California has a new home on the Rincon Reservation. The Rincon Band of Mission Indians offered a building to the three-year-old court, which handled about 100 cases last year. The court is paying $1...

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