February 15, 2011
GOP bill eliminates funds for Office of Tribal Relations at USDA
The Republican budget bill eliminates all funding for the Office of Tribal Relations at the Department of Agriculture. H.R.1 funds most federal agencies for the remainder of fiscal year 2011....
Elected officials of Cherokee Nation due for increase in salary
Elected officials of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma are due for an 11 percent increase in salary over the next four years. A citizen committee has recommended the increase, a...
Court backs sovereign immunity of Amerind Risk Management
Amerind Risk Management Corporation, a federally chartered corporation, enjoys sovereign immunity because it is an arm of tribal government, a split 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. Amerind was...
Little Traverse Bay Bands leaders face another recall attempt
The top two leaders of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan are facing another recall effort. Chairman Ken Harrington and Vice Chairman Dexter McNamara survived a...
Fort Peck official pleads not guilty to DUI charge in tribal court
A council member for the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge. Darryl Red Eagle, 45, was pulled over on...
Inuit teens survive four days in freezing cold in Quebec tundra
Two Inuit teens are recovering after surviving four days in below-freezing temperatures in the tundra of northern Quebec. Isajah Nastapoka, 15, and Kasudluak Kasudluak, 17, got lost while hunting for...
Lakota Country Times: Rosebud Sioux radio station goes on air
The following story was written and reported by Vi Waln, the editor of the Lakota Country Times. All content © Lakota Country Times. MISSION, SOUTH DAKOTA – The Rosebud Sioux...
Yakama Nation promises to rebuild after fire destroys homes
The Yakama Nation of Washington estimates it will cost at least $4 million to rebuild a small community where at least homes were destroyed in a fire on Saturday. Chairman...
Navajo Nation man faces sentence for second-degree murder
A man from the Navajo Nation faces 25 years in federal prison for murdering a woman on the reservation. Patrick Baptiste, 51, admitted that he struck Kathleen Francisco, 71, on...
Craig Lorraine, Mohawk veteran, set for Massachusetts burial
Craig D. Lorraine, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe of New York, died unexpectedly on February 8. He was 45. Lorraine, who was born and raised in western...
Flooding causes some evacuations on Pine Ridge Reservation
Flooding on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota prompted the Oglala Sioux Tribe to recommend evacuations. At least one family left a housing area and more were expected to...
Tulalip Tribes gears up for March election for board of directors
Members of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington will go to the polls on March 12 to fill three seats on the board of directors. Seventeen candidates are in the running....
Harold Monteau: Republican Party getting in bed with far right
"Republican ersatz presidential candidate Sarah Palin, puts Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, “in the crosshairs” in television commercials supporting a Republican candidate for Giffords’s seat in the U.S. House. Palin goes...
KUOW: Yakama Nation reintroduces pronghorns to reservation
"TOPPENISH, Wash. – Pronghorn antelope are back in Washington state. Lewis and Clark spotted the sagebrush speedsters as the explorers crossed the Columbia Basin on their way to the Pacific....
Column: Take responsibility for colonization of Indian Nations
"For example, take the colonization of what is now the United States by England and France. Prosperous nations – such as that of the Iroquois – were devastated by what...
Opinion: A clean energy opportunity under the Buy Indian Act
"The application of an often-overlooked federal law may ensure that green energy investment stays in our economy, while at the same time fulfilling the government’s obligation to Native American tribes....
Obama's new budget reduces Indian programs at Smithsonian
Indian programs at the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History will be reduced under the budget proposal released by President Barack Obama on...
Mark Trahant: Budget for Indian programs mostly a lost cause
"The coming year’s proposed federal budget is a lost cause. Mostly. The budget that will finally emerge from Congress is going to be ugly. A zealous sense of frugality will...
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