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

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

Western Shoshone and others file suit to halt detonation.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 3--LAS VEGAS -- A tribe of Western Shoshone has joined with non-Indian plaintiffs from Utah and filed suit in federal court in Las Vegas to stop the United States from detonating 700 tons of explosives at the...

Six Nations negotiates land claim as standoff draws world's notice.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams May 3--OHSWEKEN, Ontario -- As the shock of the Ontario Provincial Police raid on land rights protesters spread across Canada and beyond, traditional Haudenosaunee Confederacy chiefs resumed intensive negotiations with...

Hometown Prosperity Plan set to spur Plains economy.
May 3, 2006... Byline: David Melmer May 3--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- It may take a full-scale Marshall Plan to save the northern Plains tribes from falling further into an economic abyss. It will take the full cooperation of the federal, state, local and...

Interior calls Hall on accuracy of trust account.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 3--WASHINGTON -- Since 2003, Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Tex Hall has been relating the sad circumstance of a diabetic tribal citizen who died longing for a hydraulic lift on her van [to help her get around...

Hate groups on the rise.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 3--TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Southern Poverty Law Center said the leader of the anti-immigration group Border Guardians has secretly urged the nation's largest neo-Nazi group of white supremacists to launch a campaign...

Barricades still up at Six Nations during talks.
May 10, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams May 10--OHSWEKEN, Ontario -- Barricades still block the Douglas Creek Estates construction site on land claimed by the Six Nations Reserve, but more than a mound of tires separates the largely Haudenosaunee reserve from...

Lynda Lovejoy announces bid for Navajo presidency.
May 10, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 10--CROWNPOINT, N.M. -- Lynda Lovejoy, Navajo, a former New Mexico state representative and current commissioner on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, has announced her candidacy for presidency of the...

Health bill reauthorization 'more important than ever'.
May 10, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 10--WASHINGTON -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has made a name for himself in Indian country as a lawmaker who stands up for tribes, even though few Indians populate his New Jersey district. But as a member of the...

EDITORIAL: War on greed is war on terror: Many say 'no' to ExxonMobil.(Editorial)
May 10, 2006... May 10--The American people have to face reality even more squarely in the face. At this time, reality is facing them and they don't like it. Reality is a huge gauge in gas prices. Reality is an oil company, in the midst of steep price...

Bush's new border patrol effort gets mixed reaction.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 24--PHOENIX -- President Bush's plan to send up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border brought mixed responses from American Indian tribes and tribal members living along the border, ranging...

A conversation with -- Patricia Parker.
May 24, 2006... Byline: David Melmer May 24--Patricia Parker, Choctaw of Oklahoma, owns Native American Management Services. NAMS provides management services to federal clients with experience in financial services, training, technical assistance and...

Dispute over authority to regulate 'internal controls' continues.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 24--WASHINGTON -- A May 11 hearing in the House of Representatives on the oversight of Class III gaming operations turned out to be a rehash of issues that are already before the courts. Last year, in a...

NCAI rallies Capitol Hill for health care reauthorization.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 24--WASHINGTON -- National Indian organizations lost no time calling on Congress to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act following the recent introduction of House Bill 5312 in the House of...

Supreme Court drops Cayuga land claim case.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams May 24--CAYUGA HOMELANDS, N.Y. -- Slamming the door on the Cayuga Indian Nation's generation-old land claim in central New York and threatening an end to similar lawsuits across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court...

Even Start literacy program could lose funding, Dems warn.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 24--WASHINGTON -- A literacy program for low-income families will lose funding on 20 reservations after a federal rating system evaluated the Even Start Family Literacy Program on an irrelevant measure of...

Navajo male weavers blend an ageless story.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 24--TUCSON, Ariz. -- Navajo weaver Michael Ornelas blends the world of traditional Navajo weaving with his university studies in computer science at the University of Arizona. His dream is to design video games...

KILI-FM radio off the air.
May 24, 2006... Byline: David Melmer May 24--PORCUPINE, S.D. -- The main source of communications to an entire reservation has been silenced and out of business for more than a month. Award-winning community radio station KILI-FM on the Pine Ridge...

Appellate court rules voting violation in South Dakota.
May 24, 2006... Byline: David Melmer May 24--ST. LOUIS -- The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision and ruled that the town of Martin, S.D., did in fact violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting voting districts that left...

Fort McDowell Yavapai celebrate sovereignty.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 24--FORT MCDOWELL, Ariz. -- Fort McDowell Yavapai President Raphael Bear urged Yavapai to ensure personal sovereignty as they maintain their tribal sovereignty, which has resulted in widespread economic...

Elders move to restore calm at Six Nations.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams May 31--OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS RESERVE, Ontario -- Calmer heads regained control in the Six Nations land reclamation standoff and road blockades began coming down after a mid-May eruption of fighting between Natives and...

Smith pledges correction for tax-exempt bond issuance.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 31--WASHINGTON -- Unlike state and municipal governments, tribal governments can issue tax-free bonds to finance only "essential government functions" as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. In addition,...

House committee explores delivery of emerging medical technologies.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 31--WASHINGTON -- The health and technology professionals who convened at the Gardner Carton & Douglas law offices in Washington May 18 couldn't have picked a better time to come together. Though probably not all...

Of trade and terror in the Americas.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 31--WASHINGTON -- Ordinary Americans pay their taxes each year without realizing that they're in part supporting more than 700 military installations and spy stations worldwide. So it can't be an easy sell to...

Border and Western Shoshone treaty rights pressed at U.N. forum.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 31--NEW YORK -- The human rights of indigenous peoples living in the borderlands and the violations of Western Shoshone treaty rights were among the vital issues presented at the fifth session of the Permanent...

O'odham oppose planned hazardous waste dump.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell May 31--SONOYTA, Mexico -- O'odham in Mexico joined a 120-car caravan to oppose a planned hazardous waste dump in O'odham ter-ritory south of the international border, near the O'odham sacred site of Quitovac. ...