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

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

Noted architect finds balance in unified vision.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Mar. 1--OTTAWA -- After confronting imperial designs in two capitals, Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal has returned home to the work of building Native communities. His recent breakthroughs in village design could well...

Cardinal uses new technology for village's breakthrough design.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Mar. 1--OTTAWA -- For the Kamloops Indian Band village's innovative design to work, Douglas Cardinal needed a new technology in the lowly field of sewage. When he went looking for a solution, he was surprised to find it...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington in brief column.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 1--INOUYE RIDS LOBBYING BILL OF INDIAN PROVISIONS: It was no surprise to see Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, covering the flanks of Indian country Feb. 28 with a voice amendment to strike Indian provisions from a...

Gaming regulatory act to lose its 'two-part test'.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 8--WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain held his ground against tribal resistance Feb. 28, remarking at the outset of a hearing on the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that his bill to amend IGRA will retain language that...

Delegation examines Venezuelan health care initiatives.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Mar. 8--CARACAS, Venezuela -- An indigenous delegation to Venezuela, inspired by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's new indigenous health care initiatives, met with Amazonia's indigenous governor and began...

Leaders annoyed by BIA exit from budget session.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Mar. 8--ARLINGTON, Va. -- When Department of Interior Associate Deputy Secretary James Cason excused himself from a budget session with leaders from 12 BIA regions, dismayed and frustrated tribal leaders quickly...

Trust case headed for settlement in joint bill.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 8--WASHINGTON -- The trust funds lawsuit is headed for legislative settlement if a bipartisan cohort of congressional members can get its way. The message couldn't have been more clear at a rare joint...

Prairie Island seeks nuclear waste disposal.
March 8, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Mar. 8--WELCH, Minn. -- The Prairie Island Sioux Community continues its search for a location to dump nuclear waste that sits in dry casks just yards from the community. Since 1994, when the casks were first...

Senate committee agrees to refine gaming oversight.
March 15, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 15--WASHINGTON -- The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs accepted some criticism of its gaming reform bill March 8 with a show of reason, and rejected some with a show of temper. By hearing's end, committee...

Communications conference calls for more Native voice in media.
March 15, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 15--WASHINGTON -- The leadoff speaker for the March 2 "Hear Our Story: Communications and Contemporary Native Americans" conference in Washington set the table with a simple tale from her childhood, when her...

Poll shows support for tax-free status on New York reservations.
March 15, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Mar. 15--UTICA, N.Y. -- Odds for a state versus Indian tax confrontation over reservation sales took a dramatic turn on the eve of the legal deadline, when a new poll by the well-respected Zogby International survey firm...

EDITORIAL: Filling the void in Indian law doctrine.(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... Mar. 22--The U.S. Supreme Court has made "a mess" of Indian law, to quote one prominent scholar. After decades of increasingly arbitrary decisions, the closest thing it has left to a basic principle is the almost totally discredited "doctrine...

Pombo moves to shut door on off-reservation gaming.
March 22, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 22--WASHINGTON -- Rep. Richard Pombo expanded the congressional move against off-reservation gaming at a March 15 hearing, arguing that the potential exists for several hundred applications to take land into...

Counting friends in Washington.
March 22, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Mar. 22--CRESCENT VALLEY, Nev. -- Western Shoshone National Council Chief Raymond Yowell praised a U.N. committee for intervening to halt the United States' seizure of Western Shoshone lands for nuclear underground...

First conventional mortgage loan to be made on the Crow reservation.
March 22, 2006... Mar. 22--HARDIN, Mont. -- The first conventional (or non-government-backed) loan was closed in Montana on the Crow reservation thanks to a partnership between the Crow Tribe, Fannie Mae and First Interstate Bank. Closing on the loan was...

Study investigates Hopi wind power potential.
March 22, 2006... Mar. 22--MESA, Ariz. -- The Rosebud Sioux Tribe in Sioux Falls, S.D., invested in wind energy more than two years ago as a way to provide energy for its community. Now it's considering expanding to a commercial wind farm and selling the excess,...

South Dakota's abortion ban has sweeping implications.
March 29, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Mar. 29--PIERRE, S.D. -- The South Dakota Legislature created a firestorm when it passed a bill that banned abortion with only one exception: to save the life of the mother. It was signed by Gov. Mike Rounds on March...

A conversation with Chickasaw/Creek J.D. Colbert of Native American Bank.(Interview)
March 29, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Mar. 29--DENVER -- J.D. Colbert, Chickasaw/Creek, was recently named president of the four-year-old Native American Bank and appointed to the national advisory board of Native American Capital, LP. Colbert has been in...

Cigarette tax issue smolders in New York State.
March 29, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Mar. 29--MASTIC, N.Y. -- The taxation of reservation sales of cigarettes is burning hotter than ever as a New York state political issue, weeks after Republican Gov. George Pataki tried to stub it out until after he left...

Kempthorne has a lock on top Interior post.
March 29, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Mar. 29--WASHINGTON -- President Bush has written off environmental voters as lost to Republicans, which isn't the same as saying he means to throw mud in their eyes. But if he did, that mud's name would be Dirk...

Sacred places and mining subjects of federal scrutiny.
March 29, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Mar. 29--PHOENIX -- The protection of places considered sacred by tribes living near the U.S./Mexico border and the health risks associated with mining in relation to arsenic and diabetes are the focus of new federal...

OPINION: After Norton, lowered expectations at Interior.
March 29, 2006... Mar. 29--In a C-SPAN television appearance after announcing her resignation, Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton mused that she had begun her tenure with a program of four "C's" but when she ended, they had been condensed to two. The fate...

Navajo President Joe Shirley urges formation of urban chapters.
March 29, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Mar. 29--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. urged urban Navajos to form their own chapters in Albuquerque, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, Salt Lake City and Chicago, and attracted immediate...

Sections of the Voting Rights Act will soon need reauthorization.
March 29, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Mar. 29--WASHINGTON -- The Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965, will celebrate its 41st anniversary on Aug. 7; yet some provisions of the act, which supporters argue have brought American Indians into the political...