March 28, 2011
Pueblo man found guilty for murder of Northern Arapaho man
A federal jury convicted a man from Ohkay Owingeh for the April 2009 murder of Naayaitch Friday, who was a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Carl Ernesto Romero, 20,...
House Appropriations Committee hearings on BIA, IHS budget
The House Appropriations Committee will hold two hearings this week to focus on the budgets for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service. On Wednesday, the Subcommittee...
Column: A Pueblo population explosion comes to New Mexico
"Scott Ortman is standing among the ruins of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo south of Santa Fe, explaining how the bits of broken pottery collected here aren't just pretty relics of days...
Column: Urban Indians in Chicago discuss issues at conference
"Susan Power grew up in a three-room house on a South Dakota reservation, a stone's throw from where Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull was believed to be buried. "Whenever we...
Column: Land disputes led to hanging of Nisqually Chief Leschi
"Chief Leshi, a prominent Nisqually Native American elder, played out his story in Lakewood. South Puget Sound land in the 1850s was land in dispute. The British had already...
Pala Band continues long fight against landfill near sacred site
The Pala Band of Mission Indians continues to fight a proposed landfill in Gregory Canyon, a sacred site in southern California. The tribe wants to protect Chokla, a mountain that...
Odor at reycling plant on Cabazon Reservation stirs neighbors
A soil-recycling plant is not violating federal air quality laws but nearby residents say they are being sickened by the smell coming from the Cabazon Reservation in southern California. “You...
Native American Natural Foods still looks to expand enterprise
Native American Natural Foods, an Indian-owned business on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, launched its first major project -- the Tanka Bar -- in October 2007. The bison-based...
Mark Trahant: Termination returns in the health reform debate
Just over a year ago President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. That measure, of course, also includes the...
Subcommittee sets hearing on bill to limit Cobell attorney fees
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs will hold a hearing next week on H.R.887, a bill to limit attorney fees in the Indian trust fund lawsuit to...
Wambli Sina Win: Uniting Indian Country with indigenous pride
Now the old Lakota holy man sits by himself. The ashes from the ceremonial fire are cold and everyone has gone home. Once a powerful Thunder Dreamer (Heyoka), the old...
Vi Waln: Internet Indians perpetuate the victimhood mentality
It is easy to be a victim; you simply fill your mind every day with dark thoughts about all the injustice you have suffered. It also helps to dwell upon...
Review: How tribes in Washington lost millions of acres of land
"Richard Kluger has written a half-dozen novels, but he’s best known for telling true stories, hard stories, very well: Brown v. Board of Education (“Simple Justice”), the rise and...
Editorial: Include Saginaw Chippewa Tribe in land transfer plan
'The city of Mt. Pleasant made the right move by purchasing the Mt. Pleasant Center property. City leaders admit they don’t really have a plan for the property yet. That...
Rep. DeFazio presses BIA about services for terminated tribes
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) is trying to help members of two terminated tribes get services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Congress terminated the federal government's relationship with the Chetco...
Yvette Roubideaux: IHS working to regain trust of our patients
"The March 23 Rapid City Journal editorial - "Time to stop talking, start fixing" - did not include the many corrective actions taken to date to improve the operation and...
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