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U.S. census count critical for funding urban Indian programs
Twin Cities Planet
During the February 18 meeting, several tribal and community leaders urged American Indians from multi-racial families to identify their household as ...


States Move to Reclaim Power Over Intrastate Commerce
Tenth Amendment Center (blog)
It give Congress the power to: “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. ...


Standing Rock nickname supporters to submit petition
Grand Forks Herald
... which considers American Indian nicknames offensive, requires the university to win the support of both Sioux tribes. The Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation had ...


Recharge

Finavera to advance four British Columbia wind projects
Recharge
To get the projects moving, Finavera needs to finalize partner agreements with First Nations Indian tribes and obtain Environmental Assessment Certificates, ...

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The importance of the words "I'm sorry"
Idaho State Journal
That's because leaders in Indian country are divided over the meaningfulness of a statement from the nation telling native people it is sorry “for the many ...


AT WAR: Captured Taliban Leader Reportedly 'Singing Like A Male Canary'
Huffington Post (blog)
"Delhi had put all its eggs in the American basket and now needs to activate its regional policies." Some Indian foreign policy analysts said that New Delhi ...


Casino cash could boost local scholarship programs
Newsday (subscription)
Michigan has more than 20 casinos run by American Indian tribes. The tribes have agreements with the state that typically provides 2 percent... newsday.com ...

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Native Americans Enjoy Autonomy, But Land Use, Sovereignty Questions Persist
Voice of America
Indian tribes in the United States enjoy the legal status of autonomous nations, with their own rules of governance. Agreements between tribes and the US ...

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Long Island Press

Native American Cigarette Industry is Being Crushed
Long Island Press
Harry Wallace is the elected chief of the Unkechaug Nation who has found himself at the center of one of the largest controversies facing Indian nations ...


Tribal members protest outside State of the Tribe speech
Grand Forks Herald
A letter sent to Vizenor last month from various reservation members stated complaints in regards to favoritism in hiring, ignoring Native American ...

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NTUA To Trial DragonWave's New Horizon Quantum Radio For LTE
RF Globalnet (press release)
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. NTUA, a non-profit enterprise, ...

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New talks change ski resort's snowmaking source
JackCentral
The proposal has the support of the resort's owner and American Indian tribes who contend spraying the San Francisco peaks with snow made from reclaimed ...


1934 may be key to Oneida Indian Nation land trust suit
Oneida Dispatch
WASHINGTON — After a Supreme Court ruling decided only Native American tribes federally recognized before the inception of the 1934 ...

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Tribes face hurdles with sex offender registration
The Associated Press
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, NM — Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly ...

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Sault Tribe gets a new judge
SooToday.com
She served as a law clerk and staff attorney for the Ho-Chunk Nation Tribal Court in Wisconsin before taking a position as a tribal attorney for Sault Tribe ...

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Of Cabbages and Kings: With the Congregation of Baseball
The Daily Astorian
Phoenix is home to the remarkable Heard Museum, one of the nation's largest collections of Native American art. Some afficionados say the Heard offers a ...


Haiti's Plight
CounterCurrents.org
If you are black or Native American this should bring back memories of a few years prior, when separate but equal was normalized by law. ...


The Author, Linda Legarde Grover pens shorts stries of Ojibwe struggles
Lake County News Chronicle
... a Native American. “The fictional short stories I have written are a very small part of a much bigger true story of family, community,tribe and nation,” ...

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Sassounian: If Turks Had Not Denied the Genocide, CBS Wouldn't Have Aired this ...
Armenian Weekly
Turks are Asians and their language is spoken in China by the Uighur tribes. Turks are the decendants of Ghengis Khan. Furthermore, Armenians are not middle ...

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Metro Atlanta unemployment jumps to 10.8 percent
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Thanks soul brothers & sisters, I'm glad to be part of the tribe. I know its' too much for you to comprehend. But thanks for playing! ...

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Bellingham Herald

New program teaches welding to Native Americans
Bellingham Herald
Lummi Nation also provides financial support to the program. Aaron Maurer, 33, a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, is married with three children. ...

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Cobell critics surface on Capitol Hill
Indian Country Today
Craven's problems with the proposal echoed those of Bill Martin, president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. ...

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4 Love of the Game makes final preparations annual Madness in March Basketball ...
Tulsa Native American Times
As in years past, countless number of Native American family, friends, and avid basketball fans will gather in Henryetta, Oklahoma to witness a showcase of ...

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Official: Tribal children need 'healthy families'
The Associated Press
"The sovereign nations of native people would stand tall and handle their own situations. That is the direction this nation ought to go," he said.

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DragonWave's New Horizon Quantum Radio Selected by NTUA for LTE Pilot
TMCnet
NUTA is a non-profit enterprise and the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. The authority had been established in ...

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Eagles are becoming more common in metro area
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Working together, a whole host of government agencies, American Indian tribes, conservation organizations, private landowners and volunteers were able to ...

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National Treasures
Harvard Crimson
For example, the federally-recognized Cape Fox Corporation—which legally represents various Alaskan Native American tribes—deemed one totem pole in the ...


Europe the Beginnings of a Cataclysm....Again.
Gather.com
Eventually the Byzantines too were destroyed by an offshoot of yet another East Asian tribe, the Turks, helped in large measure by their own greed, ...

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They Fly | Honoring Women of Color
The Sacramento Press
Britta Guerrero is Executive Director of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc. (SNAHC), a community-owned and operated non-profit urban Indian ...


NTUA Pursues Funding for Optimized Backhaul using Horizon Quantum
TMCnet
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. NTUA, a nonprofit enterprise, ...

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