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August 23, 2012
Democrats invite Eastern Cherokees to upcoming convention
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will be sending representatives to the upcoming Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. Frances Marquez, of the convention's Office of Public Engagement, visited the...

Sex offender registry office opens on Wind River Reservation
Christopher A. Crofts, the U.S. Attorney for Wyoming, said a sex offender registration office is up and running on the Wind River Reservation. In a press release, Crofts said the...

Northern Cheyenne Tribe to distribute trust fund settlement
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana will distribute nearly half of a $50 million trust fund settlement to its members. Each of the 10,522 members is eligible to pick up...

Social Security Administration issues ruling on trust payouts
Tribal members who receive a share of a trust fund settlement won't lose Social Security or Medicare benefits under a recent ruling from the Social Security Administration. A total of...

Republicans axed grant for home visits at Spirit Lake Nation
Republican lawmakers in North Dakota killed a $1.8 million grant that would have sent child protection workers to the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation, The Grand Forks Herald reports. Republicans said...

Penobscot Nation sues state to clarify jurisdiction on waters
The Penobscot Nation is suing the state of Maine to clarify jurisdiction over a 55-mile stretch of the Penobscot River. In court papers, the tribe says it has exercised "exclusive"...

Lise Balk King: Sacred site sale poses test for United Nations
"On December 16, 2010, President Obama announced the United States’ support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UNDRIP), an aspirational document adopted by the...

Jodi Rave: Countdown to auction of sacred site in Black Hills
"We often hear mainstream stories where poverty and the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation, the Oceti Sakowin, are used interchangeably. Yet, the story most often overlooked embodies the great spiritual...

Opinion: Native women exploited again for political purposes
"Early this week, two U.S. House Representatives members and the Tacoma News Tribune took clear stands against protecting women from sexual assault. Representatives Todd Akin, R-Missouri, and Steve King, R-Iowa,...

Arctic Slope Native Association gets ruling over IHS contract
The Arctic Slope Native Association in Alaska will be awarded contract support costs from the Indian Health Service under a ruling from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday....

Federal judge rules in tobacco case affecting tribal retailers
A federal judge issued a decision last Friday in a tobacco taxation lawsuit brought by New York City. The city sued two wholesalers that supply tobacco to retailers on the...

Opinion: Media slanted against ICWA in South Carolina case
" On July 26, the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision affirming the return of Veronica, an adopted 2-year-old Cherokee child, to her biological father, Dusten Brown. The court’s...

Yankton Sioux house where toddler died is called a meth lab
A housing unit managed by the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota was used to manufacture methamphetamine, probably for years, according to a cleanup company. The Yankton Sioux Housing Authority...

Mitt Romney wants states to control energy on federal lands
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in New Mexico today to discuss his energy plan, which would put states in charge of energy development on federal lands. States...

Simon Moya-Smith: Faux pas from head of western museum
"Comfort claims oodles of unsuspecting victims. In fact, comfort is what I think happened to Sarah Hunt, daughter of billionaire Phillip Anschutz and the director of the new American Museum...

Steven Newcomb: Tracing the origins of federal Indian policy
"In 1942, the renowned legal scholar Felix Cohen famously wrote about the Spanish origin of Indian rights in the federal Indian law conceptual system of the United States. The two...

Gyasi Ross: Paying attention to non-Native political systems
"I guess this is Part 1 of a short series on the upcoming elections and politics. These pieces will be kinda short, to-the-point, and not that artsy. The reason why?...

Kimberly Craven appeal delays $3.4B Cobell settlement again
Payouts from the $3.4 billion Cobell trust fund settlement will be delayed again as one critic files an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The settlement was ready about a...

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