November 11, 2011
Indianz.Com Service Note: Site going off-line this Saturday
OK, now it's happening for real and for sure this time! The company that hosts Indianz.Com is moving our server to a new location. As a result, the website will...
Business Week: Navajo Nation prepares to offer $120M bonds
"The largest American Indian tribe, the Navajo Nation, plans to issue its first bonds in a $120 million offering that would be the biggest sale of nongaming tribal debt in...
PBS: Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe works to preserve language
"The Wampanoag Indians of southeastern Massachusetts stopped speaking their native language 150 years ago. But, in 1993, Jessie "Little Doe" Baird began trying to restore their fluency. And filmmaker Anne...
WND: Abramoff claims ex-Sen. Dorgan took $75K in donations
"It was only last week that the Huffington Post began asking elected officials named in Jack Abramoff's new book as recipients of his clients' cash about the charges. The...
APRN: NCAI takes up Alaska Native issues at annual meeting
"Alaska tribal members were in Portland last week for National Congress of American Indians or NCAI conference meetings where resolutions supporting a variety of initiatives passed. Edward Alexander is the...
Fronteras: Chester Nez, last of original Navajo Code Talkers
"Only one veteran Navajo code talker remains of the original 29 Navajo Marines who used their native language to devise an unbreakable code during World War II. Growing up in...
Cover Story: Native students finding home at Yale University
"The average Yale student comes to college from a public school east of the Mississippi. In traveling to New Haven, these Elis leave behind family and friends. A select few...
IPR: Excavation continues at Ojiwbe burial ground in Michigan
"A burial site discovered last week on Mackinac Island continues to be excavated. Representatives of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians say the remains are from their ancestors and they...
Native Sun News: Indian Country continues military tradition
The following story was written and reported by Karin Eagle. All content © Native Sun News. U.S. Marine Brett Lundstrom, Oglala Lakota, who died in Iraq. When World War I...
Kim Teehee: Paying honor to our veterans in Indian Country
"During November, National Native American Heritage Month, we commemorate the enduring achievements of American Indians and Alaska Natives and reaffirm the vital role American Indians and Alaska Natives play in...
Aroostook Band welcomes donation of salmon from hatchery
The Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine is among several tribes that will receive a donation of salmon from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agency is removing about...
Obama administration delays action on Keystone XL Pipeline
The Obama administration is delaying a final decision on a permit for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. The State Department is going to take another look at the pipeline's environmental...
Violent crimes a growing concern for chairman of Crow Tribe
The Crow Tribe only has nine officers to patrol a 2.2-million acre reservation, the largest in Montana. The limited law enforcement presence has Chairman Cedric Black Eagle worried. He's said...
Ruth Hopkins: Don't forget to honor Indian women veterans
"Within Indigenous societies, women are sacred. They personify Ina Maka, Mother Earth—and all creation. Not only did they give rise to all proud, red nations, they continue to play crucial...
Sen. Murkowski: Fighting suicide among Alaska Native youth
"I took the opportunity of AFN this year to convene a field hearing through the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, with the intent of taking our dialogue on Native youth...
DOJ backs tribal court jurisdiction in domestic violence cases
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing on Thursday on S.1763, the Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women Act. The bill seeks to combat the high rates of...
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