Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) articles from July 2006

Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) archives from July 2006

EDITORIAL: Shrill attacks on Cecelia unfair to her intent.(Editorial)
July 5, 2006... Jul. 5--It was clear from the start of the controversy that Cecelia Fire Thunder's courageous decision on behalf of women's reproductive health and rights would have explosive opposition. At Pine Ridge Reservation and in South Dakota...

EDITORIAL: 'Individual sovereignty' needs to be defended, too.(Editorial)
July 5, 2006... Jul. 5--Alarms go off in Indian country at the phrase "property rights." Historically, and in some quarters today, it referred to the rights of property carved by settlers out of aboriginal territory. Behind it stands an ideology of economic...

Rights of way are the center of attention for another week.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 5--WASHINGTON -- For the second week running, tribal leaders gathered in Washington to strategize over a forthcoming congressional study on rights of way and to deliver a clear message on Capitol Hill against...

Educators seek grants for language programs.
July 5, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 5--SEATTLE -- Three bills in Congress have the potential to offer grants for programs that work to foster Native children's learning skills through language immersion and would help to continue the languages and...

Senate report shows tragic victims of a lobbyist gone bad.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 5--WASHINGTON -- The care and thoroughness of a Senate Indian Affairs Committee report on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's criminal schemes demonstrates what many have said, and not as many have believed, about...

Pease appointed to regents.
July 5, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 5--HELENA, Mont. -- Janine Pease, a member of the Crow Nation, has been appointed to the Montana Board of Regents. She began serving on the regents in June. Pease, currently vice present for planning and...

Unity, commitment needed to protect common interests.
July 5, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 5--CROW AGENCY, Mont. -- Tribal unity and commitment is necessary to combat many of the federal government's funding and policy authorizations that hurt Indian country, large reservation tribal leaders claim. ...

Ward Churchill responds to dismissal with lawsuit threat.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Jul. 5--BOULDER, Colo. -- Ward Churchill is threatening a lawsuit in response to a dismissal notice issued June 26 by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The university sanction and his response brings the prolonged...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 5--HUD HOLD ON HOUSING MILLIONS DEFIES BELIEF FOR SENATE COMMITTEE: The leadership of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs flat-out refused to believe that a May 25 ruling in a Colorado courtroom over $400,000...

Navajo councilman challenges Congress over relocation bill.
July 12, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jul. 12--TUBA CITY, Ariz. -- Speaking out against the Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act of 2005, known also as Senate Bill 1003, Navajo councilman Hope MacDonald-LoneTree said the U.S. government is treating Navajos...

Famed golf course design firm to develop Seneca project.
July 12, 2006... Byline: Sarah Moses Jul. 12--CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- World-renowned golf course design firm Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects has been chosen to develop the Seneca Nation's 18-hole championship level golf course. Seneca Niagara...

Shuvraloff continues to meet national housing challenges.
July 12, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 12--WASHINGTON -- Marty Shuvraloff got into Indian housing the hard way, beginning a long tenure as executive director of Kodiak Island Housing Authority in 1996, the year the Native American Housing and...

Judicial clarification should release $300 million in block grant funds.
July 12, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 12--WASHINGTON -- The June 30 judicial amendment of an original decision is likely to result in the continued distribution of $300 million in Indian Housing Block Grants. "This really defines... the...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Southwest column.
July 12, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jul. 12--FARMINGTON, N.M. -- JOE SHIRLEY JR. AND FARMINGTON MAYOR MEET AFTER RACISM ALLEGATIONS: With three decades of documented tortures and murders constituting racial hate crimes in this Navajo bordertown, the...

Fire Thunder impeached.
July 12, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 12--PORCUPINE, S.D. -- The first woman elected to lead the Oglala Sioux tribe was removed from office with five months remaining in her first term. Cecelia Fire Thunder, former president of the Oglala Sioux...

Rights of way draft study is delayed.
July 12, 2006... Jul. 12--WASHINGTON -- The draft of a study due to Congress on tribal rights of way has been delayed until mid-July. Meetings with tribes on the study, tentatively scheduled for July 10 and 13, will also be set back. Paul Moorehead,...

John Simmons to lead Native People for Cancer Control.
July 19, 2006... Jul. 19--SEATTLE -- John Simmons, Nisqually tribal member, has been named the director of Native People for Cancer Control at the University of Washington. Native People for Cancer Control is one of 28 Community Network programs funded by...

IHS, Mayo Clinic combine efforts to improve care.
July 19, 2006... Jul. 19--ROCKVILLE, Md. -- On July 10, the IHS and the Mayo Clinic signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a formal collaborative relationship. This relationship will capitalize on the individual and combined strengths of the two...

On Capitol Hill, we'll know it's lobbying reform when ...
July 19, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 19--WASHINGTON -- Was it the iconoclast Gore Vidal who once wrote that to accept the celebrated definition of patriotism as the last refuge of the scoundrel -- is to overlook the full potential of reform? A...

OPINION: Immigration issue sparks American racism.
July 19, 2006... Jul. 19--Perhaps the recent flare-up of the immigration issue started out more legitimately. Certainly there are serious problems with waves of hundreds of thousands of people entering any country illegally. But like the head of a monstrous...

OPINION: Eternal vigilance is the price of tribal sovereignty.
July 19, 2006... Jul. 19--The strongest weapon in support of tribal sovereignty is the will to defend it. Tribes are still here in the first place because of their stubborn will to survive, not from the benevolence of the mainstream culture. Federal...

Racism and sovereignty at the borders.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jul. 19--TEMPE, Ariz. -- Racism has led the United States to target dark-skinned people at the southern border, with little attention focused on the northern border, where border crossers are more often...

Lumbee continue the quest for full federal recognition.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 19--The Lumbee of North Carolina sent about a hundred strong to Washington July 12 as the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs took up the Lumbee Recognition Act, the latest in a long sequence of efforts to earn...

Nations gather to protect sacred site.
July 19, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 19--STURGIS, S.D. -- Hundreds of people, both American Indian and non-Indian supporters, gathered recently at the Bear Butte to seek guidance and pray for answers to help stop the growth of entertainment venues...

New York state's tax crisis simmers across range of issues.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Jul. 19--ALBANY, N.Y. -- Tribal struggles for tax sovereignty are heating up across New York state as the four-term administration of the sometimes sympathetic Republican Gov. George Pataki nears its end. As reservation...

Lamberth is out; impact on Cobell is up in the air.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jul. 19--WASHINGTON -- Federal defense attorneys lost their favorite target in the trust funds lawsuit known as Cobell v. Norton, following an appeals court order that the chief judge for the District of Columbia...

Colbert appointed to national board.
July 26, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 26--WASHINGTON -- President Bush appointed J.D. Colbert, Creek-Chickasaw, to the Community Development Advisory Board of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Colbert, president and CEO of...

Energy genocide, backlash yield new peoples' movement in the Americas.
July 26, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jul. 26--CASS LAKE, Minn. -- The longtime exploitation of indigenous peoples' land and water resources in the Americas by governments and corporations has resulted in "energy genocide" for indigenous peoples; now,...

Schaghticoke lawsuit takes on 'most powerful' D.C. lobbyist.
July 26, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Jul. 26--HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation is attacking one of the biggest names in Washington lobbying, accusing it of engineering the reversal of its hard-won federal recognition. In a civil lawsuit...

Conference: Toxic legacy endangers land and people.
July 26, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jul. 26--CASS LAKE, Minn. -- American Indian environmental warriors, armed with new methods and solutions, gathered to combat the effects of mining, toxins and border racism in Indian country, during the 14th annual...

Fire Thunder reinstated and removed once more.
July 26, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 26--PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Oglala Sioux Tribal President Cecelia Fire Thunder was reinstated as tribal president by Oglala Sioux Tribal Judge Lisa Adams on July 17, but the judge rescinded her decision the next day....

Wyandotte win another legal round in federal court.
July 27, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Jul. 27--KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A federal district court has ruled that land owned by the Wyandotte Nation fits within the guidelines of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and that gaming is acceptable on the trust land....