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May 21, 2012
Group pushing Blackfeet Nation to change membership criteria
Members of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana say the tribe should relax its membership criteria. A group called the Blackfeet Enrollment Amendment Reform wants to eliminate the tribe's 1/4 blood...

Rep. Young won't introduce Chumash Tribe land-into-trust bill
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, said he won't introduce a land-into-trust bill for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash...

Pine Ridge Reservation grocery store reopens after food scare
A grocery store on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota reopened on Saturday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe said food safety concerns were addressed. The Sioux Nation Shopping Center...

Joanna Mounce Stancil to head USDA Office of Tribal Relations
Joanna Mounce Stancil, a member of the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, has been named director of the Office of Tribal Relations at the Department of Agriculture. As director, Stancil will...

Pala Band still interested in buying ranch in ancestral territory
The Pala Band of Mission Indians is still interested in purchasing a ranch within its ancestral territory in southern California. The tribe offered $20.5 million for the 2,500-acre Warner Springs...

Dave Staddon: Stopped by police for coming from reservation
"Last December, while on my way from work for an eye appointment, I noticed a U.S. Border Patrol van following me closely. Clearly I was being observed. When I turned...

Seneca Nation adds 55 acres to reservation for housing project
The Seneca Nation of New York added 55 acres to its reservation to make room for a housing development. The tribe acquired the property with land claim settlement funds. A...

Letter: Appalling treatment of Mishewal Wappo Tribe recognition
"I am absolutely appalled by the way the county of Napa, not to mention the other counties, chose to handle its involvement with the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley’s...

Supreme Court declines to review Cherokee Nation ICWA case
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined a petition in Nielson v. Ketchum, an Indian Child Welfare Act case. A non-Indian couple adopted a boy who was automatically enrolled in the...

MinnPost: City incorporates the Ojibwe language into daily life
"Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be...

Kevin Abourezk: Winnebago Tribe slowly reclaiming land base
"For more than 100 years, white farmers planted corn here, and corn stubble juts today from a tract northwest of Winnebago that the tribe bought in 1997. Tony Wood stood...

Doug George-Kanentiio: Tribes set standards for membership
Over the past generation it has become somewhat trendy to claim Native ancestry, especially since the expansion of commercial gambling with attendant benefits for enrolled members of federally recognized aboriginal...

Editorial: Indian population in Oklahoma will continue to expand
"Whites of European ancestry now represent less than half of all births in the United States. In many Oklahoma counties, at least 25 percent of children younger than 5 are...

Native Sun News: Parents encouraged to connect with culture
The following story was written and reported by Kate Saltzstein, Native Sun News Correspondent. All content © Native Sun News. Luticia Mann, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,...

Opinion: Archaeologists still arguing about the 'first' Americans
"When and how did the first people arrive in the Americas? For many decades, archaeologists have agreed on an explanation known as the Clovis model. The theory holds that about...

Opinion: Liquor companies profiting from addiction in Whiteclay
"Big brewers like Anheuser-Busch frequently admonish us imbibers of their grain products to "drink responsibly." Well, I say back to them: Lobby responsibly. In particular, I point to a disgusting...

Opinion: Senate candidate tripped up by Indian heritage claims
"It happens in a lot of American families. My maternal great-grandfather was born on a Maine island in the 1880s, in the days when Penobscot Indians still rode birch-bark canoes...

Marc Simmons: New governor battled the powerful Comanches
"On April 6, 1749, young Tomás Vélez Cachupín, newly arrived in New Mexico, took the oath of office to become governor of the province. The document he signed on that...

Ungelbah Daniel-Davila: Johnny Depp, stereotyping and Tonto
"Everyone in Indian country is in an uproar about Johnny Depp playing Tonto in the upcoming flick, The Lone Ranger, but for the wrong reasons. From what I’ve read online,...

Massacre wrongly blamed on Indians resonates 115 years later
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for an 1857 massacre that was wrongly blamed on Indians but descendants of the survivors continue to commemorate the attack. Members...

Tim Giago: Touching an eagle feather to Warren Buffett's brow
Notes from Indian Country By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © Unitysodak1@knology.net The Associated Press article began with; “Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy...

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