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May 23, 2011 Crow Tribe issues disaster declaration due to major floods The Crow Tribe of Montana has issued a disaster declaration for the entire reservation due to massive flooding. The declaration was prompted by flooded homes and buildings, washed-out roads and... Walter Soboleff, Tlingit spiritual elder, passes away at 102 Walter Soboleff, a Tlingit spiritual leader from Alaska, died on Sunday. He was 102. Soboleff was born in the Tlingit village of Killisnoo on November 14, 1908. His Tlingit name... Phoenix Indian Medical Center undergoing $8.2M upgrade The Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona is undergoing an $8.2 million makeover. Operation Eagle Rebirth will bring upgrades to the facility's electrical infrastructure, the central equipment sterilizer and air-handler... Witness list for House hearing on Navajo Nation coal plant Two subcommittees of the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a joint oversight hearing tomorrow to discuss the Navajo Generating Station. The coal-fired power plant is owned by located on... Native Sun News: NRC delays uranium bid in South Dakota The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman. All content © Native Sun News. Native American and non-Indian activists welcomed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s May 6 notice... Mark Trahant: 2012 elections important for Indian Country Canada just finished its national elections and the governing Conservative Party expanded its majority in parliament. Last week Prime Minister Stephen Harper also announced the historic appointment of two Native... Bill for Indian affairs post in Oklahoma passes in nine days A bill to disband the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission and replace it with a cabinet-level liaison passed the state Legislature in just nine days, giving tribes little opportunity to comment... Tribunal to hear Native woman's discrimination complaint The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will hear a Native woman's complaint of discrimination against a nightclub in Vancouver. Colleen Mitchell White, who is Cree, Ojibwe and Metis, was denied... Wambli Sina Win: Oklahoma Indian inmates need our help How often in our busy lives do we take time to reflect upon the simple things in life that are taken for granted? Our freedom is “priceless.” No amount of... San Manuel chair and rival seek police union endorsement The San Bernardino County Safety Employees' Benefit Association hasn't decided who to endorse in the race for 3rd district supervisor. James Ramos, the chairman of the San Manuel Band of... Senate Energy Committee to hold hearing on Sealaska bill The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing this Wednesday on five bills, including S.730, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act. Sealaska,... Five candidates in running for Eastern Band principal chief The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina will hold an election for principal chief this summer. Five candidates are running for the job. They are: incumbent Michell Hicks,... Marc Simmons: Zuni Pueblo often retreated to sacred site "One of New Mexico's most fabled shrines is Towa Yalane, a flat-topped mountain rising a thousand feet above a sandy plain, just three miles southeast of Zuni Pueblo. The name... Kevin Abourezk: Chief Standing Bear Breakfast in Nebraska "As a child, he would walk with his grandfather across the prairie and along rivers on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Winter, spring, summer and fall, a... Financial Times: Cut in BIA loan guarantee fund hits tribes "The Delaware Nation has a simple idea for creating jobs for the 60 per cent of its members who are unemployed – it wants to manufacture lighting. However, no one... Kevin Gover: NMAI strives to address myths about Indians "Congress established the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989, noting that the establishment of the museum within the Smithsonian would “give all Americans the opportunity to learn of... Steve Russell: Drugs and violence killing Mexican economy "In 2009, some of my students from Indiana University took one of those inexpensive “Spring Break in Cancun” packages. Every one of them was the victim of crime. Separate crimes,... Melvin Martin: Indians still inspiring fear for White America Indian people everywhere have told me that perhaps too much has already been analyzed, written about, and publicly debated by a multitude of activists and scholars on both sides of... Vi Waln: Lakota philosophy prepares us to face everything Last week people were abuzz about the rapture. Some thought it meant the end of the world. But I awoke on Sunday and the world was still intact. I haven’t... Charles Trimble: Young Indian man chained by victimhood The following column was published in The Lakota Country Times. Recently I’ve received a series of shrill and insulting e-mail messages from a young Native American man named Joseph who... Tim Giago: Boarding school survivors start healing process The elder Winatchapam (Yakama) woman, Levina Wilkens, was puzzled. She was about to say the prayer to open the Boarding School Healing Symposium in Boulder, Colorado, but she didn’t know... |
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