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Home > News > More Headlines April 20, 2009 Staffer aided Mississippi Choctaws for Abramoff gifts Ann Copland, a former aide to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), helped the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in exchange for meals, concert tickets and other gifts from corrupt lobbyist Jack... Rosebud council member arrested for solicitation Michael Valandra, a council member for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, was arrested for soliciting a minor and sexual contact, KOTA-TV reports. Valandra, 49, was arrested last Thursday... Sunday Conversation: Indian law clinic in Oklahoma "Q: Tell me how the resource center was started. Casey Ross-Petherick of Native American Legal Resource Center at the Oklahoma City University School of Law: The Native American Legal... Curtis Campbell, Prairie Island elder, dies at 74 Curtis C. Campbell, a former president of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, died on April 12. He was 74. Campbell was one of the last remaining Dakota... DC Circuit blocks offshore drilling plan in Alaska The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blocked an offshore drilling plan in Alaska. The court said the Interior Department, during the Bush administration, failed to consider the environmental... Strategy session on use of Indians as mascots Suzan Shown Harjo, the president of the Morning Star Institute, will be facilitating a strategy session on the use of Indians as sports mascots next Wednesday, April 29, in Washington,... 10th Circuit rules in Indian Country status case A proposed uranium mine in New Mexico is located in Indian Country, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said on Friday. Hydro Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Uranium Resources... Commentary: No to Ward Churchill reinstatement "Ward Churchill has hurt Native American communities, Native American academics and Native American education. He has claimed to be someone he is not and used that as a platform to... Seneca Nation donated $330K to Democrats in 2008 The Seneca Nation of New York donated $330,000 to Democratic committees last year, The Buffalo News reports. The tribe donated $180,000 to then-candidate Barack Obama’s Committee for Change. Another $150,000... Tim Giago: Good things and bad things come in April In April of 1921 Vaudevillian entertainer Al Jolson stood on the stage in Jolson's 59th Street Theatre in New York City in blackface in the production of the Broadway musical... Charles Trimble: Recalling the Burro of Indian Affairs The Heyoka in Lakota culture is a “contrary,” a man who does everything backward, such as walking backward, or saying things that mean the opposite of what he says. He... Obama asks Cabinet to make $100M in budget cuts At his first Cabinet meeting today, President Barack Obama plans to ask federal agencies to make $100 million in budget cuts, The Washington Post reported. The cuts will have to... Crow Tribe elects Cedric Black Eagle as chairman Members of the Crow Tribe of Montana elected Cedric Black Eagle as chairman on Saturday. Black Eagle, who has been serving as interim chairman, won with 75 percent of... Senate confirmation hearing for Tompkins at Interior The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a confirmation hearing this Thursday for Hilary Tompkins as Solicitor of the Interior Department. Tompkins is a member of the Navajo... Senate confirmation hearing for Roubideaux at IHS The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a confirmation hearing this Thursday for Yvette Roubideaux to be director of the Indian Health Service. Roubideaux is a member of the Rosebud... Judge won't halt Spirit Lake vote on 'Fighting Sioux' Members of the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation will be able to vote on the "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo of the University of North Dakota. Opponents claimed some of the... Pueblo teenager arrested for murder of Arapaho man A teenager from Ohkay Owingeh was arrested in connection with the murder of a Northern Arapaho man, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports. Carl Romero, who is either 18 or... Jodi Rave: Kyi-Yo Powwow brings families to dance "Todd and Tina Beebe set up five tiny folding chairs Friday afternoon at the Adams Center on the University of Montana campus, the first family to stake out a...

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