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August 22, 2011
Three-year-old girl killed by dogs on Saskatchewan First Nation
A three-year-old girl was killed by two dogs on the Mosquito First Nation in Saskatchewan. Police said the girl wandered in a yard and was attacked by the dogs on...

Zuni Pueblo puts leader on leave following drunken driving arrest
Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico has placed Lt. Gov. Willard Zunie on leave after he was arrested for a drunken driving incident off the reservation. Zunie, 56, was stopped...

Opinion: Shakopee powwow brings cultures, community together
"Under blue skies and calm winds, thousands of people from across the globe gathered this weekend to celebrate their Native American culture. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's annual Wacipi (Pow...

Opinion: Collaboration key to restoring jobs, salmon in Northwest
"Recently, the Obama administration's plan to restore endangered Columbia and Snake River salmon was declared illegal by U.S. District Judge James Redden in Portland, Ore. The Columbia/Snake was once the...

Steven Newcomb: University holding onto Kumeyaay ancestors
"The Kumeyaay have no ceremony for reburying the dead. The remains of a Kumeyaay ancestor unearthed by the dominating society are to be given the same ceremony as a loved...

Navajo Nation settlement includes payments, scholarship funds
The Navajo Nation reached a settlement with Peabody Energy that includes an immediate $50 million payment to the tribe. Peabody also promised $15 million toward infrastructure on the reservation for...

Winnemem Wintu Tribe refuses to go thru BIA recognition process
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe of California refuses to ask the Bureau of Indian Affairs for federal recognition. The tribe believes it was recognized by an unratified treaty and by an...

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe resumes disenrollment process for elder
An 87-year-old woman is facing disenrollment from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan. Anna Bell Atwood became a member of the tribe in 1988. She is a descendant of Edmund...

Native Sun News: UN leaders cite threats to indigenous peoples
The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman. All content © Native Sun News. NEW YORK –– Mining, timbering and other extractive industry development is counterproductive unless native...

Mark Trahant: Real cuts to BIA's budget are taking shape in DC
So far, most of the government’s austerity movement has been theoretical. We know the federal budget is shrinking, but the evidence of that has been slow to surface. Proposals to...

Turtle Talk: Supreme Court Justice Alito's visit to Indian Country
"Of course, too much will be read into this. The last time this happened, when Justices Breyer and O’Connor visiting the Spokane and Navajo tribal courts at the behest of...

Gabe Galanda: State governments see Indian Country as target
"Earlier this year I warned Indian Country that the state tax man cometh. I urged tribal communities to be prepared to defend against state tax collectors looking to balance multi-billion...

Opinion: Alaska Native villages hit hardest by Postal Service cuts
"Rural Alaskans far from roads, stores, medical and other services, who live in small villages spend more money per capita in the post office system than most other Alaskans. We...

Blog: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe holds ceremony for First Salmon
"With song and ceremony, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe this week honored the first chinook salmon caught below Elwha Dam this year by tribal fishermen. Just five chinook salmon in...

Ruth Hopkins: Pretending to be an 'Indian' is patently offensive
"While the misappropriation of American Indian cultures and imagery by western society has persisted for decades, there’s been a gradual uptick in the misrepresentation of Native peoples in the past...

Nancy Tuthill: Jacoby Ellsbury, Navajo, is true poetry in motion
When I watch Jacoby Ellsbury play major league baseball, I clearly see what "poetry in motion" is. His Gazelle-like leaping with elegance and ease to catch a high ball near...

Vi Waln: Rosebud Sioux Tribe welcomes all to 135th annual fair
This week the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is sponsoring the 135th Annual Rosebud Fair, Rodeo and Wacipi. There will also be a parade, softball tourney, carnival and a mud race. There...

Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of mass destruction
Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry appear to be leading a parade of GOP presidential candidates in front of a marching band playing, “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Perry insists that evolution and...

Opinion: Questions for Supreme Court Justice Alito on Indian law
"Surprise, surprise! United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was in South Dakota this past week. He is the justice assigned to the 8th U.S. Circuit, which comprises South Dakota...

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