November 18, 2011
APTN: Investigation ordered into 'spying' on Native advocate
"The deputy minister of Aboriginal Affairs is investigating whether department officials broke privacy rules in their surveillance of First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock. Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said...
HillTube: Abramoff discusses lobbying business in Washington
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy "Asked if he could become Washington's money man again, former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, recently released after three years...
Former Muscogee Nation employees convicted in bribery case
Two former employees of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma were found guilty of accepting bribes from a tobacco wholesaler. Former tribal tax commissioner Dana M. Johnson and former warehouse manager...
Medicine man from Kewa Pueblo pleads guilty for killing eagle
A medicine man from Kewa Pueblo in New Mexico pleaded guilty to killing and possessing a bald eagle but he will be able to take his case to the 10th...
KCAW: Sitka Tribe consulted about discovery of remains at site
"Contractors working in the basement of KCAW discovered human remains in late October. The remains are believed to be old, and likely predate the 103-year-old building that houses the station....
HuffPo: Regulations fail to take tribal subsistence into account
"One fillet of fish a month. That's about how much seafood a Washington State resident eats, according to the assumptions used to set cleanliness standards for the state's abundant rivers,...
BBC: Armed conflict threatening survival of tribes in Colombia
"A group of men, women and children walk up a muddy hill carrying heavy bags filled with sand. They all belong to the Awa tribe: indigenous people displaced by the...
Rick Dowd: Resighini Rancheria challenges dam removal EIS
"Members of the Resighini Rancheria strongly object to the approach taken by the federal government and the state of California for Klamath River dam removal. We are a small, federally...
Legacy: Wilma Mankiller still provides an inspiration to many
"Wilma Mankiller had a formidable name, but she wasn't the lawbreaker one might assume. Quite the opposite, she was a lawmaker – the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation....
Native Sun News: ICWA cases a big concern in South Dakota
The following story was written and reported by Evelyn Red Lodge. All content © Native Sun News. Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Councilman, Peter Lengkeek. WASHINGTON, DC -- Earlier this month,...
Sonny Skyhawk, Sicangu Lakota, ready to answer Ask N NDN
"Sonny Skyhawk, Sicangu Lakota, is a veteran Hollywood actor and now author of “Ask N NDN,” a new feature on this site, in which he will attempt to answer questions...
Lindsey Catherine Cornum: Native American Heritage Month
"Native people across America have just finished another exhausting campaign to explain to the ignorant and insensitive the inherent racial exploitation of their Indian Halloween costumes. Yet, on the heels...
Wind River Reservation mourning over deaths of four people
The Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe lost four people in a fatal accident that authorities in Wyoming say was caused by a suicidal young driver. Corina Surrell-Norman,...
Tribal Fates: Understanding the survival of the Navajo Nation
"While other tribes have disappeared from North America over the centuries, the Navajo Nation has done the opposite. Two geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles, offer an explanation...
Seneca Nation leaders resolve battle over status of president
It looks like things are back to normal at the Seneca Nation of New York. The tribal council rescinded a resolution that removed President Robert Odawi Porter from his role...
Letter: Tribal nations shut out of the courts of the colonizers
"In the beginning of the fall semester, you can usually spot the first-year law students in the hallway — bright and optimistic, true believers in the U.S. legal system. If...
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