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

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

'An Inconvenient Truth'.
January 3, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses Jan. 3--CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- When former Vice President Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential race, he was devastated. "It was a hard blow, but what do you do?" he said in his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth: A...

Confusion rules over federal budgeting process.
January 3, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 3--WASHINGTON -- The virtue of conventional continuing resolutions on the federal budget is their elegant simplicity: federal programs all know what they get in the way of set funding, namely the lowest funding...

Notah Begay to endorse Turning Stone Resort Championship.
January 3, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses Jan. 3--CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- The first American Indian-owned venue to host a PGA Tour event will have a well-known American Indian golfer as its ambassador. Notah Begay, half-Navajo, one-quarter San Felipe and...

NativeEnergy helps Al Gore travel emission-free.
January 3, 2007... Jan. 3--CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- A privately held American Indian energy company has teamed up with Al Gore in delivering the former vice president's message of global warming to millions of people around the world. NativeEnergy has been...

Indigenous artists honored for community spirit.
January 3, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 3--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Even though there is no word for "art" in any American Indian language, that which today is referred to as art were decorated, functional objects and songs that taught, inspired and deepened...

Africa's indigenous San win in court, now face regulations.
January 3, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 3--FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- The High Court in Botswana ruled Dec. 13 that the indigenous peoples of the Kalahari Desert have been "wrongfully deprived of their possessions," including land where their ancestors...

News from the Great Plains.
January 3, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 3--FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- NEW ARMY HELICOPTER NAMED AFTER THE LAKOTA: A new helicopter, the Lakota Light Utility or UH-72A, was given the name "Lakota" to honor the determination and strength of the Lakota...

Education act proposed in South Dakota.
January 10, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 10--PIERRE, S.D. -- When the new and slightly more moderate South Dakota Legislature opens the 2007 session this January, one item on the agenda will be to debate an American Indian Education Act that would...

NEWS FROM THE GREAT PLAINS: SuAnne Big Crow center receives academic grant.
January 10, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 10--PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- The largest Boys and Girls Club in Indian country will now add an academic element to its already large list of programs. The SuAnne Big Crow Boys and Girls Club recently received a...

Mashantucket Pequots' golf event raises $25,000 for juvenile diabetes research.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 17--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has donated the proceeds of a golf tournament to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. A check for $25,000 was presented to the...

Dome caps Cherokee Nation Muskogee Health Center.
January 17, 2007... Jan. 17--MUSKOGEE, Okla. -- Onlookers held their breath Jan 8 as construction workers carefully placed a 50,000-pound steel dome atop the new Cherokee Nation Muskogee Health Center. Supported by seven brick interior columns, the 64-foot-tall...

The Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News Digest Column.
January 17, 2007... Jan. 17--MONTANA LEGISLATOR MAKES RACIST REMARKS, APOLOGIZES: HELENA, Mont. -- Montana Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred, apologized to the state Legislature for what were considered racist remarks he made prior to a hearing in which he is presided...

Sitting Bull Grave Sites Renovated.
January 17, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 17--FORT YATES, N.D. -- The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has taken ownership of one of the two supposed grave sites of the legendary and revered Chief Sitting Bull. Left unprotected and subject to vandalism, the...

Narragansett case threatens tribal-land ownership nationwide, experts say.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 17--BOSTON -- By the end of a Jan. 9 federal appeals court hearing on the Interior Department's decision to take 31 acres of land into trust for the Narragansett Indian Tribe, one thing was clear: If the...

Mashantucket leaders take office.
January 17, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 17--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- With winter sunshine streaming through the glass wall of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center's Gathering Room, tribal members, local and state dignitaries, and...

EDITORIAL: A boost for Indian health strategies.(Editorial)
January 24, 2007... Jan. 24--Kudos this week to the University of New Mexico, creator of the first national, interdisciplinary center for health policy dedicated to the development of American Indian and Hispanic students. With an initial commitment of $18.5...

Energy rights of way report approaches 'final draft' status.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 24--WASHINGTON -- A report on energy rights of way on tribal lands is approaching final draft status, with comments on the latest draft due on Feb. 5. If the latest draft of Dec. 21 holds up, the report will...

Holy road.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 24--WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 2 in Washington, Lucy Kramer Cohen followed legions of women who have died without fanfare, their work and character more or less unknown outside a small circle of admirers but forever...

'Settlement concepts' offer remains viable in Cobell case.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 24--WASHINGTON -- In an effort to rationalize the federal trust relationship with tribes and settle the litigation known as Cobell v. Kempthorne over federal accounting of the Individual Indian Money trust, the...

Jana's 'American Indian Story' receives GRAMMY nod.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses Jan. 24--CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- In 2006, 26-year-old Lumbee singer and songwriter Jana was able to cross two more goals off her list: receiving a GRAMMY nomination and filming her first movie. Jana's third album,...

OPINION: Self-government's roots: Communities.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Duane Champagne Jan. 24--The origins, and continuity, of American Indian rights to self-government are not well-understood, but are extremely important to contemporary American Indian communities. Most people in the general...

Tribe seeks Housatonic River restoration grants from settlement.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 24--KENT, Conn. -- The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's Environmental Committee is seeking grants from a $9 million General Electric settlement fund for environmental and public safety projects at the tribe's...

Vitter amendment killed in Senate vote.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 24--WASHINGTON -- In a Jan. 10 vote, the Senate dealt a setback to an amendment that sought to define tribes as corporations under the Federal Election Campaign Act. By tabling the amendment on a 56 -- 40 vote,...

Abenaki acknowledgement decision postponed.
January 24, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 24--SWANTON, Vt. -- The final determination on the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi's petition for federal acknowledgement has been postponed following the tribe's request for an...

Bear Butte liquor license dispute headed for state Supreme Court.
January 31, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 31--PIERRE, S.D. -- The South Dakota Supreme Court has received an appeal on a lower court decision to not allow petitioners a chance to veto the issuance of a malt beverage license near sacred Bear Butte in the...

New exhibit tells the history of race and racism.
January 31, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 31--ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Many people have been led to believe there are four races, and it is by those racial definitions that people are identified and certain behaviors explained. In the past, segregation...

Rep. Renzi made co-chair of Native American Caucus.
January 31, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jan. 31--WASHINGTON -- In one of the organizational meetings that have gone on across Capitol Hill in late January, as Congress works to finalize its committees and caucuses, the Congressional Native American Caucus...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.
January 31, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 31--HOT SPRINGS, S.D. -- URANIUM MINING OPPOSED IN SOUTH DAKOTA: Two groups have joined forces to oppose a request for uranium mining in the southern Black Hills. The Defenders of the Black Hills and Action...

Narragansetts plead not guilty in Rhode Island smoke shop raid.
January 31, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jan. 31--SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. -- Narragansett Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas and six tribal members pleaded not guilty Jan. 23 in district court to charges in connection to a controversial smoke shop raid on their...