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

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

Navajo graduates receive highest academic degree, set record.
June 6, 2007... Jun. 6--WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has congratulated three University of Arizona graduate students for receiving their doctoral degrees in engineering, which set a UA record for Navajos receiving the highest...

Native 8a program is economic initiative success story.
June 6, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Congress has provided Native-owned small businesses with unique advantages for unique reasons. Now Congress is poised to cancel some of those advantages, due in part to the unique success of...

EDITORIAL: Narrow immigration debate fails indigenous peoples.(Editorial)
June 6, 2007... Jun. 6--Much in the world has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, when America effectively lost its grip as the last superpower. Despite domestic and foreign policies generated by the Bush administration's "war on terror" to buttress the United...

Carbon sequestration affects new players in the energy industry.
June 6, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- If global warming is a self-correcting phenomenon -- that is, if planet Earth can be counted on to take care of itself at any cost in human disruption -- then coral reefs begin to make sense as...

Oglala Lakota College Head Start program holds graduation ceremony.
June 6, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 6--KYLE, S.D. -- Tiny red caps and gowns mingled among a mass of people who were congratulating, primping and consoling the graduates before the May 11 graduation ceremony. The 180 graduates, ages 4 and 5,...

Passamaquoddy medicine man receives honorary degree.
June 6, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 6--UNITY, Maine -- Fredda Paul, a Passamaquoddy elder, medicine man, healer, storyteller and living encyclopedia of the uses of indigenous plants, was recognized for his knowledge and practice with an...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.
June 6, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 6--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- SOUTH DAKOTA'S LARGEST HIGH SCHOOL HIRES AMERICAN INDIAN PRINCIPAL: Mike Talley, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will become the next principal of Rapid City Central High School,...

Lakota student gets education opportunity of a lifetime.
June 6, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 6--KENNEBEC, S.D. -- A good way to move into the senior year of high school is to spend a summer studying in a college preparatory program at Princeton University. Only 54 young people have that opportunity...

Mashpee Wampanoags officially recognized.
June 6, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 6--MASHPEE, Mass. -- The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's federal acknowledgement became official May 24, three months after the BIA issued its positive final determination: and no one challenged it. Tribal...

Schaghticoke seeks ruling against attorney general.
June 6, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 6--NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- In a dramatic new turn in the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's appeal of the BIA's reversal of its federal acknowledgement, tribal lawyers have accused state Attorney General Richard...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.(Column)
June 6, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 6--CLINTON SAYS NO TO 'PREZ ON THE REZ': Sen. Hillary Clinton has become the first presidential candidate to reject an invitation to "Prez on the Rez," according to a press release from the first-ever political...

Gun Lake releases casino logo as high court OKs state/tribal compacts.
June 13, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 13--KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Just a week after the Gun Lake Tribe released its official casino logo, the state Supreme Court ruled against an anti-casino group's efforts to quash tribal/state gaming compacts,...

Law enforcement needs attention on Great Plains reservations, parties testify.
June 13, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 13--LOWER BRULE, S.D. -- Tribal chairmen and law enforcement officials made the point clear at a U.S. House of Representatives Resources Committee field hearing: More funding, more flexibility and more cooperation...

Pension provision overturn derailed.
June 13, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- Three lines in the 900-page Pension Protection Act will continue to burden tribes following a failed effort to remove them from the law passed last year. The lines amend the U.S. Internal...

Field hearing: Police officer training should be flexible.
June 13, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 13--LOWER BRULE, S.D. -- It has been suggested that the BIA training program for law enforcement officers is not flexible enough to help increase the number of officers needed by some reservations. The...

Strawberry Moon Festival features stories, music, art - and strawberries.
June 13, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 13--WASHINGTON, Conn. -- This year, the Institute for American Indian Studies will celebrate a delicious common meadow berry with the first-ever Strawberry Moon Festival on June 16, beginning around noon....

Officers paint a bleak picture of law enforcement.
June 13, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 13--LOWER BRULE, S.D. -- There are too many miles, too few officers, too many calls and not enough money to properly protect thousands of people in the Great Plains. With more funding, cooperation, flexibility...

House, Senate look at Native 8a reform bills.
June 13, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- An aggressive effort in the House of Representatives to reform the award of federal contracts for goods and services has produced a legislative process with many Native-specific moving parts...

Interior: Oneida's gaming compact valid.
June 20, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses Jun. 20--VERONA, N.Y. -- The Department of the Interior has decided that the Oneida Indian Nation of New York's Turning Stone Resort and Casino will remain open. OIN announced June 13 that Interior decided not to...

Cherokee health advocate earns new national award.
June 20, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 20--SEATTLE -- Marcella Morton, Cherokee, was overweight, disliked exercise and lived on junk food. That's the story she tells young people and adults to encourage them to become healthier. Morton received the...

Hard work ahead for health care reauthorization.
June 20, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 20--WASHINGTON -- Rep. Frank Pallone made it clear June 7 that despite the best efforts of the new Democratic majority to position them for passage, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act amendments of 2007 are...

Appropriations include language revival.
June 20, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 20--WASHINGTON -- An appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives made June 7 a hopeful day for Native language revival, marking up an extra $3 million for the Administration on Native Americans...

'Technicalities' of Miller pension amendment touch on sovereignty.
June 20, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 20--WASHINGTON -- Days after the camp of Rep. George Miller claimed his pension amendment in an Iraqi supplemental spending bill was technical in nature -- by contrast with the substantive amendment on Indian...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.(Column)
June 20, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 20--LUMBEE TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARD RECOGNITION: The House of Representatives has voted by a two-to-one margin, 256 -- 128, to recognize the Lumbee of North Carolina as a legitimate tribe. The Lumbee...

Water protection is 'the ultimate fight'.
June 20, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 20--UNITED NATIONS -- Of the dozens of recommendations submitted to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May, one of the most universal and compelling was a call for the protection of water....

Western governors' hot topic is alternative energy.
June 27, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 27--DEADWOOD, S.D. -- Discussions over clean energy opened the 2007 Western Governors' Association's recent annual meeting in the Black Hills. Ten of the 19 governors were in attendance and elected officials...

Strawberry Moon Festival proved to be a spiritual success.
June 27, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 27--WASHINGTON, Conn. -- It's hard to tell what visitors to the Strawberry Moon Festival at the Institute for American Indian Studies expected. But what they got was an experience of the transcendent...

Leaders are dedicated to improve health care for tribes.
June 27, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 27--SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Tribal chairmen and members of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board rededicated themselves to work for the people on health care in light of the fact that many health care...

Red Feather Music releases two new albums.
June 27, 2007... Jun. 27--ARVADA, Colo. -- The Red Feather Music label has announced the release of two new albums: "Wind of the West" by Sacred Earth with special guest Bill Miller and "The Shape of Light" by Jeff Ball. Sacred Earth's "Wind of the West"...

Ninth Annual Native American Music Awards announced.
June 27, 2007... Jun. 27--NEW YORK -- The 9th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMMYs) will be held Oct. 6 at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls. Tickets will be priced at $20, $30 and $50, and will go on sale July 6. NAMA Advisory Board...

Canyon Records, Red Feather Music release albums.(Sound recording review)
June 27, 2007... Byline: Lucinda Rowlands Jun. 27--PHOENIX -- Canyon Records has announced the release of four new albums featuring courting and social Round Dance songs, Northern-style pow wow music and a unique recording of vocals that meld with Mayan...

New book, exhibit look behind photographs to tell Ojibwe's story.
June 27, 2007... Jun. 27--ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Ojibwe people of Minnesota were among the earliest subjects during the introduction of photography in the mid-19th century. Images of leaders wearing headdresses and holding pipes, birch bark canoes, wild ricing...

Vote or constitutional lawsuit may determine Penobscot slots.
June 27, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 27--AUGUSTA, Maine -- The decision to allow the Penobscot Indian Tribe to operate slot machines on its reservation ultimately may not rest with the Legislature or the governor, but with a civil rights...

Penobscot pharmacy penalized for employees' illegal activities.
June 27, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing Jun. 27--INDIAN ISLAND, Maine -- The Penobscot Indian Nation's now- defunct mail order pharmacy was slapped with a $500,000 penalty in May for the illegal activities of former employees surrounding sales of...

'In the Blood' by Robert Mirabal.
June 27, 2007... Jun. 27--TAOS PUEBLO, N.M. -- After a four-year hiatus, American Indian recording artist Robert Mirabal is back with the strongest album of his career. The 13 tracks on "In the Blood," blend scenes from the American experience -- past, present...

School district settles lawsuit with conditions.
June 27, 2007... Byline: David Melmer Jun. 27--WINNER, S.D. -- The Winner School District and the American Indian community reached an agreement that will settle a class-action lawsuit against the school district. The lawsuit included all American...

Pre-trial hearing limits accounting in Cobell lawsuit.
June 27, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Jun. 27--WASHINGTON -- Judge James Robertson served notice that accounting for funds in the Individual Indian Money trust will be the keynote in his courtroom as the Cobell trust litigation proceeds. His...