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November 24, 2008
Editorial: Daschle nomination a smart move for HHS
"Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will be playing a new role in Washington. Wednesday it was announced that Daschle had been selected as President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. The announcement was immediately heralded...

Meeting to discuss border town racism at Blackfeet
A member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana is hosting a public meeting on Wednesday to discuss border town racism. Mike Little recently reached with the Montana Human Rights Bureau that requires police officers in the city of Cut Bank...

S.E. Ruckman: The Indian story on the big screen
"Imagine putting the collective American Indian story on the big screen. Our story has everything: betrayal, passion and violence to spare. It could make a bundle. But money isn’t everything, my elders remind me. Besides, in the feel-good atmosphere of...

Column: Lakota author draws on mixed heritage
"Halfway through the world premiere of the opera "The Trickster and the Troll" in Brookings last Sunday, it occurred to me that I was watching a Thanksgiving story more appropriate to the South Dakota experience than that feast in 1621...

Review: 'Shadows at Dawn,' an Apache massacre
"In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a group of attackers ambushed an encampment of Apaches in Aravaipa Canyon, outside the town of Tuscon. 144 people — overwhelmingly women and children — were slaughtered. This much we know at...

10th Circuit upholds immunity for tribal business
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on November 17 ruled that a business of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma enjoys sovereign immunity. The 23-page decision said Seneca-Cayuga Tobacco is an arm of the tribal government. "As sovereign powers, federally recognized...

More charges for lobbyists connected to Abramoff
Another lobbyist connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal is expected to plead guilty today while a second lobbyist could face charges. Federal prosecutors filed a charge of information against James Hirni on Friday. He is accused of providing gifts to...

Column: Alaska Native corporations take
"Alaska Native corporations, our large private landowners, frequently take the lead in natural resource and economic development. We see these corporations hustling for minerals and oil exploration on their land and sometimes land owned by others. We see them taking...

Western Shoshones sue Interior over gold mine
Members and leaders of the Western Shoshone Nation of Nevada filed suit against the Interior Department for approving one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the country. The plaintiffs say the Cortez Hills project will prevent them from using...

Native leader faces another hate crimes trial
David Ahenakew, a Native leader from Saskatchewan, goes on trial today for hate crimes charges. Ahenakew, a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations and former president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Senate, made disparaging statements...

Kara Briggs: Apologies to indigenous peoples
"The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian illuminated the evening sky last week with a massive column of white light. The display was the climax of a symposium called “Harvest of Hope,” about the role of national apologies...

San Manuel woman arrested after home sentencing
A member of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of California who was recently sentenced to home detention as part of a murder-for-hire plot was arrested on Friday. The Riverside Press-Enterprise said Stacy Cheyenne Nunez-Barajas could end up...

Tribes await naming of Indian post at White House
President-elect Barack Obama will fulfill a campaign pledge to appoint an Indian adviser at the White House, a spokesperson said. Tribes currently deal with an adviser who also works with state and local governments. They are looking forward to having...

Yellow Bird: Whiteclay, a heartbreaking town
"A filmmaker and some activists will be at UND Monday to tell the story of the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota people’s fight for justice. The brutal murders of Ronald Hard Heart, 39, and Wilson “Wally” Black Elk Jr., 40,...

Interior employees disciplined in ethics scandal
As many as ten employees of the Interior Department were disciplined or fired after an investigation into ethical lapses at the Minerals Management Service. According to news reports, two employees were fired for accepting gifts and drugs and exchanging sex...

David Wilkins: Obama's support in Indian Country
"eing trained in the art, not science, of politics I was transfixed at the recent election of Barack Obama. I studied the campaigns of both major parties during the last two long years of America’s highly partisan politics, and I...

Editorial: Bush administration's rushed regulations
"Acknowledging "the historical tendency of administrations to increase regulatory activity in their final months," White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten issued a directive to federal agencies in May to release any final regulations before Nov. 1. The administration...

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