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

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

Ambassador Charles Blackwell's diplomacy builds relationships.
May 2, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 2--WASHINGTON -- With a background that spanned five tribal cultures and a taste in art that would one day account for the furnishings of magnolia-shaded Pushmataha House on Capitol Hill, the young Charles...

Barbour, Griffith and Roger in the spotlight for terminated deal.
May 2, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 2--WASHINGTON -- Barbour, Griffith and Roger has been in the media spotlight for activities other than its lobbying of Washington decision-makers to terminate the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's federal...

'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' selects Navajo family for makeover project.
May 2, 2007... May 2--PINON, Ariz. -- "Good Morning, Yazzie family!" was the wake-up call heard on the Navajo Nation on April 9. Ty Pennington, along with the rest of the crew from the hit television show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and the team from...

Lobbying firm subpoenaed to release documents in Schaghticoke case.
May 2, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 2--WASHINGTON -- Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, the high-powered lobbying firm at the center of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's claim that unlawful political pressure forced the BIA to rescind its federal...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.
May 2, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 2--BISMARCK, N.D. -- GIPP TO BE HONORED FOR SERVICE TO UTTC: David Gipp will be honored for his 30 years of service to United Tribes Technical College at a reception scheduled for May 2. He is only the third...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.(Column)
May 2, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 2--WASHINGTON -- REAUTHORIZATION OF HEALTH CARE TO FLOOR: The principal committees of jurisdiction in both the House of Representatives and the Senate brought the Indian Health Care Improvement Act before their...

Cobell accounting trial set for October.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 9--WASHINGTON -- The new judge in the class action lawsuit over the Individual Indian Money accounts waded into the case publicly April 20, ordering a trial that will begin Oct. 10 "and continue as long as...

'Green' efforts showcased on Earth Day.
May 9, 2007... May 9--WASHINGTON -- American Indians across America celebrated Earth Day April 22 and used the day to showcase tribal efforts that demonstrate a variety of green energy and conservation programs to preserve and improve reservation lands and...

Constitutional revisions could help economy.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A love-hate relationship with the IRA constitutional structure on most reservations has brought many tribes to the brink of constitutional revision in order to thrive socially and...

EDITORIAL: Native Children Left Behind.(Editorial)
May 9, 2007... May 9--Every parent in Indian country should be aware of President Bush's 2008 budget proposal to cut funding for critical education programs. Tribes, on behalf of their youngest members, must fight measures to eliminate critical funding for...

WaSioux game provides poker without the pressure.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Darrell Campbell, president of WaSioux and a member of the Prairie Island Dakota Community, has invented an electronic poker game that may not appeal to the avid and dedicated poker player,...

Employment and training conference draws hundreds.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 9--NEWPORT, R.I. -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night, nor the fiercest nor'easter to hit the East Coast in recent memory kept hundreds of people from attending the 28th National Indian and Native...

Boston Indian center begins fund-raising campaign with gala event.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 9--BOSTON -- In 2004, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized the Division of Capital Asset Management to enter into a 99-year lease with the North American Indian Center of Boston. The lease was signed in...

Carbon sequestration takes center stage in the campaign against global warming.(Concert review)
May 9, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 9--WASHINGTON -- Between a resurgent Democratic Party in Congress and the remarkable Al Gore, global warming has acquired a new cachet in America that has brought a myriad of doctors to its doorstep, offering...

Al Gore continues to share message.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses May 9--CLINTON, N.Y. -- Former Vice President Al Gore has traveled all over the world to talk about global warming, an issue that he presents as a nonpolitical topic. "This is not a political issue, it is a moral...

Minority brokerage firm offers increased speed and flexibility.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--NEW YORK -- For experienced investment managers who have a hard time getting a large investment company to move faster and with more agility to accommodate customers, the answer is to start a new company. That...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Northeast column.(Column)
May 9, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 9--JUDGE DISMISSES NARRAGANSETTS' LAWSUIT: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal court judge has granted the state's motion to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit filed by seven Narragansett Indians who were arrested...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.(Column)
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--NORTH DAKOTA, FORT BERTHOLD SHARE OIL TAX REVENUE: BISMARCK, N.D. -- The North Dakota Legislature has passed a measure that would allow the state and the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation to split the tax...

North Dakota Legislature funds tribal colleges.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--BISMARCK, N.D. -- The North Dakota Legislature has agreed to compensate tribal colleges for non-beneficiary students. Tribal college presidents worked diligently to convince the Legislature and governor that...

Tribal governments can both help and hamper economic growth.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Tribal government will have to separate itself from its businesses and support the growth of the private economy before any real economic benefits can be realized, experts said at the April...

U.N. Permanent Forum names North American representative.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 9--NEW YORK -- Tonya Gonnella Frichner, an impassioned advocate for the rights of more than 370 million indigenous peoples in some 70 countries worldwide, has been named the North American representative to...

Panelists: Master plans and zoning are critical for business.
May 9, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 9--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- The success and growth of business, whether private or tribally owned, on any reservation is directly related to the infrastructure. Roads, water, sewer, power and now Internet...

Culturally sensitive company builds up Indian country.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 10--PHOENIX -- In the midst of the excitement of opening day at a casino in California a few years ago, a woman fell and injured herself. The tribe wanted to have a cleansing and blessing ceremony so that...

Background and basics on the Akaka Bill.
May 16, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 16--WASHINGTON -- The United States participated in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, the aboriginal governing entity of the islands, in 1893. One hundred years later, the United States passed a resolution...

Recognition of Native survival.
May 16, 2007... May 16--A classic fight for federal recognition is on. Amid recent international attention on the commemoration of the founding of Jamestown, local tribes strategically participated in what was hailed as "America's 400th birthday." Strategic...

Red Lake walleye make comeback to retail market.
May 16, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 16--RED LAKE, Minn. -- After many years of not exercising their traditional ways on Red Lake, members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians now have the opportunity to regain one of their oldest traditions and...

Vermont recognition authority for Indian artists to be explored.
May 23, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 23--MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs will participate this summer in a study group that will work to clarify a state law that has led to gridlock over the authority to...

Eklutna Class II gaming hopes bring backlash for Alaska Natives.
May 23, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 23--WASHINGTON -- A Class II gaming application by the Alaska Native government of Eklutna Village has revived long-standing efforts in the state Legislature to revisit federal recognition of tribes in Alaska....

Composer brings silent film to life.
May 23, 2007... Byline: Sarah Moses May 23--ONEIDA, N.Y. -- American Indian composer Brent Michael Davids took his fascination for the story "The Last of the Mohicans" to the next level by creating a score for the 1920 silent version of the film. ...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Great Plains column.(Column)
May 23, 2007... Byline: David Melmer May 23--PIERRE, S.D. -- WIDE HEALTH DISPARITIES REVEALED IN SOUTH DAKOTA: Data collected by a health task force in South Dakota reveal health problems among American Indians are above the national and state averages....

United South and Eastern Tribes appoints new executive director.
May 23, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 23--NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For years before Mike Cook became executive director of United South and Eastern Tribes, he dreamed about landing this job. Cook, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe at...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.(Column)
May 23, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 23--HEALTH, NATIVE HAWAIIAN BILLS ADVANCE IN SENATE: The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs voted four bills out of committee May 10, putting them before the full Senate with a year and a half left to go in the...

Native 8a program is also an economic initiative success story.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 30--WASHINGTON -- Gaming is often called the only economic development initiative for Indian country that has ever worked, but there is another one: the Small Business Administration's Native 8a contracting...

EDITORIAL: Making our own future economic path.(Editorial)
May 30, 2007... May 30--There is an expression in development policy that there are advantages to coming late to market-based economic development. Recent economic development surges in non-Western nations such as Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and...

Funding of law enforcement programs to go up.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 30--WASHINGTON -- Statistics say a lot sometimes, as proved by W. Patrick Ragsdale at a May 17 hearing on law enforcement in Indian country before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Ragsdale, of the BIA,...

Pottery artist Clarence Cruz puts an emphasis on regeneration.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Jerry Reynolds May 30--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The materials of pottery are ancient, of the earth itself, and they were the subject of an "Emergence" exhibit in April at the University of New Mexico. Almost as ancient are comparisons...

Rhode Island pow wow draws thousands.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 30--PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Indian Council holds an annual pow wow that attracts up to 10,000 people, with American Indians and indigenous peoples coming from all over North and South America....

Passamaquoddy launch grass-roots campaign for racino vote.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 30--PLEASANT POINT, Maine -- The Passamaquoddy Tribe will send a tribal delegation on the road this summer to hold informational sessions on a proposed racino project that will go to a referendum vote in...

Shinnecock dedicate new recovery home.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Gale Courey Toensing May 30--LONG ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Shinnecock Indian Nation held a special ceremony May 20 to dedicate a new recovery house for tribal members who are struggling to free themselves of drug or alcohol addiction....