Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) articles from August 2007

Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) archives from August 2007

ANALYSIS: Desert Rock project is trouble and toil in the making.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 1--WASHINGTON -- A twice-told article of faith coming out of a conference on tribal energy development July 17 and 18 was that foreign companies sometimes prove to be easier partners than domestic ones. The...

Educators learn how to teach histories, cultures.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 1--ORONO, Maine -- The state's kindergarten to grade 12 educators will have the opportunity again this summer to learn how to teach students about the history and culture of Maine's indigenous peoples...

Energy development: The potential of tribal power.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 1--WASHINGTON -- Only weeks shy of the release in August of rules and regulations that will implement new law streamlining the process around tribal power production, Law Seminars International offered a...

Loriene Roy elected president of American Library Association.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 1--WASHINGTON -- For the first time in 131 years, the leading librarian in the land is an American Indian -- "although there are a lot of great Native librarians," Loriene Roy was quick to add. The American...

Maine tribes and colleges seal education partnership.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 1--INDIAN ISLAND, Maine -- A meeting between tribal leaders and educators has sealed a partnership that will unlock opportunities for Native students and educators and for American Indian studies at three...

South Dakota governor addresses students.
August 1, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Aug. 1--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Middle and high school students from many reservations in South Dakota recently spent six weeks in a college setting, living in dorm rooms, getting acquainted with other students and with...

Trails lead to the Virginia tribes.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 1--WASHINGTON -- Ever since 1992, when indigenous peoples kept faith with the ancestors and did their civic duty toward everyone else by sinking the Columbus Day quincentennial, the various festivals of...

Narragansett ruling affirms trust land, recognition and tribal sovereignty.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 1--BOSTON -- In a ruling that is significant for all of Indian country, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Interior Department's authority to take land into trust for the Narragansett Indian...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.
August 1, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Aug. 1--ROSEBUD, S.D. -- TRIBAL PRESIDENT FACES ETHICS CHARGES: Charges of ethics violations have been filed against Rodney Bordeaux, Rosebud tribal president, over a $1 million land purchase. Bordeaux is accused...

University axes Ward Churchill on charges of academic misconduct.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 1--FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. -- A storm of controversy surrounding an ethnic studies professor whose claims of Indian ancestry have been widely repudiated in Indian country, came to a head July 23 when...

Pros and cons of coal and renewable fuels.
August 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 1--WASHINGTON -- At about the same time the United States has seemed to reach a consensus that global warming is a human phenomenon that has to be confronted, the realization has also settled in that even...

Mashpee Wampanoags' casino plan approved.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 8--MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. -- Months of controversy and contentious debate ended with residents voting 2,387 to 1,335 July 28 to allow the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to build the state's first casino in this...

Cunha, Flowers return to Eastern Pequot council.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 8--LANTERN HILL, Conn. -- The Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation's traditional Fourth Sunday in July elections yielded a new vice chairman. James Cunha, a former longtime council member who resigned 18...

Surprise move against trust relationship occurs at healthcare hearing.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 8--WASHINGTON -- The unexpected revelation of a move to undermine the federal trust obligation toward tribes for health care upstaged a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing July 26. The committee met...

Science clears Cheney in Klamath salmon die-off.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 8--WASHINGTON -- A long day for the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives July 31 began with the majority Democrats pouring discredit on the Republican presidential administration. But...

House committee approves Gun Lake gaming compact.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 8--LANSING, Mich. -- The state House Regulatory Reform Committee unanimously approved a gaming compact between the Gun Lake Tribe and Gov. Jennifer Granholme, edging the tribe's proposed gaming and...

Mitsitam Cafe puts indigenous cuisine on the map.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 8--WASHINGTON -- The Mitsitam Cafe tops $5 million in gross revenues a year, serves between 500 and 2,000 visitors a day, purchases 30 percent of its supplies from indigenous providers, employs 55 people, does...

National Powwow honors warriors, hosts talented dancers.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 8--WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of people will gather in Washington for a three-day celebration of American Indian dance and culture at the largest pow wow on the East Coast. The National Powwow,...

Roads and resources go separate ways.
August 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 8--WASHINGTON -- Though several members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs tried to wring an admission from BIA representative Jerry Gidner that the bureau doesn't fight hard enough for roads funding...

Stanhoff resigns as head of Prairie Band Potawatomi.
August 8, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Aug. 8--MAYETTA, Kan. -- The 18-month tenure of the chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi has ended with her resignation from office. Tracy Stanhoff, who was appointed as interim chairman of the band in January...

Democrats to conduct voter protection survey.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 15--WASHINGTON -- Charging that the Republican Party has gone to extremes of obstructionism in discouraging voter turnout as a stealthy favor to its candidates, the Democratic National Committee announced Aug. 1...

EDITORIAL: Good news: Bad news is avoidable.(Editorial)
August 15, 2007... Aug. 15--The Native American Journalists Association's 2007 Reading Red Report, released during its 23rd annual convention in June, studied mainstream news coverage of Native Americans. The report gathered reports from large newspapers with...

Health care reauthorization gains ground in Senate.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 15--WASHINGTON -- American Indians and Alaska Natives nationwide have invested time and passion in the latest attempt to update the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and the chairman of the Senate Committee on...

Housing assistance act in transition.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 15--WASHINGTON -- As Congress got out of town just ahead of record-setting hot weather in Washington and northern Virginia, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act seemed to be...

Iroquois band marches across the country.
August 15, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Aug. 15--CRAZY HORSE, S.D. -- The Iroquois Indian Band presented a little of the unexpected for tourists while the band traveled through the northern Plains. Audiences usually come to the northern Plains to see and...

Major bills stake out positions before Congress' August recess.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 15--WASHINGTON -- Four major pieces of Indian-specific legislation improved their chances of passage just before Congress adjourned for its traditional August recess. Advocates of each bill consider early...

Bill seeks clarity for parity on tax-exempt bonds.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 15--WASHINGTON -- A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would treat tribal governments the same as state and local governments for purposes of issuing tax-exempt municipal bonds. At present, the...

Code talkers' contributions honored in national museum exhibit.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 22--WASHINGTON -- "Than-zie tlo-chin: Ashdla Chal Din-neh-ih Bi-tsan-dehn: Hash-kay-gi-na-tah taa n-kih tsostsid Tabaha Ah-di a-la-ih tseebii nos-bas-nos-bas Shi-da Klesh ma-e ah-jad be-la-sana..." No need...

Thousands gather in Washington for National Powwow.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Aug. 22--WASHINGTON -- They were days to sit back and let the big drumbeats roll through the bloodstream, as they have for thousands of years in American Indian communities. The National Museum of the American...

Eastern Pequots' land yields colonial-era clues.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 29--LANTERN HILL, Conn. -- Archaeologists working on Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation land this summer uncovered four pits of cultural material -- a trove of 18th century artifacts that will help tell the...

Gun Lake/state casino compact heads to Senate.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 29--LANSING, Mich. -- The state House of Representatives approved a Class III gaming compact between the state and the Gun Lake Tribe Aug. 8, leaving one final legislative step in the process -- approve by...

Dancers head to the northern Plains.
August 29, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Aug. 29--BISMARCK, N.D. -- Now that the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's National Powwow is over, the dancers can look in the direction of Bismarck for one of the largest northern Great Plains...

Massachusetts study recommends gaming licenses for Mashpee, Aquinnah.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Aug. 29--NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- A new study says the state would reap hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of new jobs from three commercial resort casinos, and recommends offering two of the gaming...