Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) articles from December 2004

Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) archives from December 2004

Navajo council consults gaming advisors about proposed casinos in Arizona.
December 1, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 1--WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - The Navajo Nation Council held a special session to hear from Indian gaming advisors on regulations, then questioned who will benefit from and control proposed casinos, following the...

EDITORIAL: Trio of environmental groups disregards indigenous peoples.
December 1, 2004... Dec. 1--Native and traditional peoples around the world are primary practitioners of earth-based survival lifestyles. Whether by cultural preference or by necessity in the face of industrial scarcity, the encouraged participation of Native...

Former employee's lawsuit claims agency inadequately tested Nevada mine site.
December 1, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 1--YERINGTON, Nev. - A recently-fired Bureau of Land Management (BLM) worker is claiming that he was wrongfully terminated for blowing the whistle on foot dragging and inadequate testing by his and other agencies...

California governor says 2 tribes in violation of compacts over video lottery.
December 1, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 1--SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A showdown in the form of a potential lawsuit is brewing on the horizon between two Southern California tribes and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger over the use of linked video lottery terminals and...

ANALYSIS: Tribal wealth-management conference fosters cooperation.
December 1, 2004... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 1--TAMPA, Fla. - "You don't get it," Keller George told his lunch audience of financial advisers at the Inaugural Tribal Wealth Management conference. "You just don't get it." George, president of the United...

Native American Business Center opens in Albuquerque, N.M.
December 8, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 8--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- With the nation's largest concentration of American Indian tribes centered in the Four Corners region, Albuquerque has been selected as the site of the new Native American Business...

Sacramento, Calif., clinic for Indian health closes.
December 8, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 8--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For nearly 35 years the Sacramento Urban Indian Health Project, Inc. sat in a prominent building along one of the main thoroughfares of California's capital city. The health center alone...

EDITORIAL: Whither the wealth of Indian nations?
December 8, 2004... Dec. 8--The enclaves of knowledge where people take a quality professional approach to economic and financial matters continue to grow in Indian country. This is all to the good. Tribal peoples have been severely marginalized across the...

Health insurance plan for American Indians is available on Web site.
December 8, 2004... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 8--LARAMIE, Wyo. -- A new use of an Internet Web site could help a group of families who want to acquire low-cost, high-quality health insurance. It's a new twist on an old concept; strength in numbers offers...

America's health risks are the same as those in Indian country.
December 8, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 8--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The healthiest places to live in the United States are, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont, followed by the sunshine states of Hawaii and Utah and then Massachusetts. However, the least...

Skull Valley, Utah, Goshute tribe challenges leadership.
December 8, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 8--SKULL VALLEY, Utah -- Skull Valley Goshute fighting a proposed high-level nuclear waste dump on tribal land near Salt Lake City planned to challenge the leadership of indicted Chairman Leon Bear, but the...

New York offer of tribal casinos for land causes upheaval.
December 15, 2004... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 15--ONEIDA NATION HOMELAND, N.Y. -- Tensions among the widely dispersed nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) are rising sharply as New York state Gov. George Pataki is dangling the prospect of added...

EDITORIAL: No relief for salmon in Bush regimen.
December 15, 2004... Dec. 15--Every step of the way, it seems, the Bush administration declares itself against nature. On environmental issues, as in most everything else, the message is clear: No accommodation is wanted, or necessary. In the Bush world of...

New York offer of casinos for land causes upheaval.
December 15, 2004... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 15--ONEIDA NATION HOMELAND, N.Y. -- Tensions among the widely-dispersed nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) are rising sharply as New York state Gov. George Pataki is dangling the prospect of added...

Rincon tribe donates land in San Diego County for endangered toad.
December 15, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 15--SAN DIEGO -- It is not often that stories that involve the construction of a tribal casino and involvement by the federal and county governments actually have a happy and easy ending, but that was the case...

Rincon Indian tribe donates San Diego-area casino land for endangered toad.
December 15, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 15--SAN DIEGO -- It is not often that stories that involve the construction of a tribal casino and involvement by the federal and county governments actually have a happy and easy ending, but that was the case...

Historic changes slated for Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
December 15, 2004... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 15--MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. -- Future visitors to the nation's shrine to democracy will experience subtle differences in the programs over the next few years and come away with a better...

Professor at Fort Lewis College in Colorado violated federal law.
December 15, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 15--DURANGO, Colo. -- A Fort Lewis College professor who published student comments and essays without permission has been found in violation of a federal law that protects student records, but the college...

Montana State University students receive national recognition for research.
December 15, 2004... Dec. 15--BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Mariam Stewart, a junior in nursing at Montana State University examines differences in attitudes toward obesity among Native American and non-Native adolescents. The research has taken her from an MSU psychology lab...

Banning, Calif., event illustrates Morongo tribe's rising casino fortunes.
December 22, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 22--BANNING, Calif. -- With nearly as much glitz and fanfare as an academy award show, the Morongo tribe held a "Celebration of Sovereignty" event on the eve of the tribe's $250 million casino expansion. The...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Southwest column.
December 22, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 22--DUCKWATER, Nev. -- NUCLEAR SITES ARE UNWANTED NEIGHBORS: Beyond genocide, the poisoning of ancestral lands of the Shoshone, Paiute and Goshute in Nevada and Utah constitutes ecocide, the death of all life...

Military has poisonous legacy in Indian country, study shows.
December 22, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 22--FORT WINGATE, N.M. -- A new study shows American Indians have been exposed to the toxic legacy of two World Wars and the Cold War, with undetonated bombs, nerve gas and live shells littering Indian country...

Former chairman urges Navajo to fight New Mexico water rights settlement.
December 22, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 22--TUBA CITY, Ariz. -- Former Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald urged the Navajo Nation Council to reject a San Juan River water rights settlement with the state of New Mexico and instead take the battle for...

Tribes join together to build downtown Sacramento, Calif., hotel.
December 29, 2004... Byline: James May Dec. 29--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For thousands of years, much of the Sacramento area was home to the Yalesummi tribe. With the coming of white settlers began disputes for the land. One of these settlers was the...

Navajo Nation announces plans to build new aircraft.
December 29, 2004... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 29--WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. entered into a preliminary agreement with Utilicraft Aerospace Industries, Inc. to build newly designed, twin-engine cargo aircraft with hopes of...

New England ruling favors states over tribes regarding government.
December 29, 2004... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 29--BOSTON -- Cases now awaiting decision in the federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals here could lead to an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for review of an obscure procedural rule that is throwing a darkening...

Wampanoag tribe near Aquinnah, Mass., plan appeal of state limit on sovereignty.
December 29, 2004... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 29--AQUINNAH, Mass. -- Defense of sovereign immunity hasn't ended for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the only federally recognized tribe in Massachusetts. The tribal council voted on the evening of Dec....