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

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

No Child Left Behind Act placed on the back burner.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 4--WASHINGTON -- As the No Child Left Behind education policy of President Bush heads toward its last authorized year in 2007, reauthorization efforts have moved to the back burner at least until after the...

Education: Looking for answers.
October 4, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 4--BISMARCK, N.D. -- When talking about education in Indian country, nearly identical language is used -- it's the future for the children, language and cultural classes are important, and everything leads to a...

Resilience is key to survival on the Gulf Coast.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Oct. 4--POINTE-AU-CHIEN INDIAN COMMUNITY, La. -- On the Gulf Coast, Louisiana Indians were prohibited from attending school with white children until 1966. It is a fact unlikely to be taught in the state's...

Self-governance testimony asserts further lawlessness at Interior.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 4--WASHINGTON -- A week after an independent inspector general told a subcommittee of Congress "anything goes" with the Interior Department's management culture as long as it's not technically criminal,...

Tribes living in the aftermath of two killer storms, waiting for aid.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Oct. 4--ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. -- American Indian tribes in the United States donated millions of dollars to the American Red Cross earmarked for Indian victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. However,...

ANALYSIS: Katrina: When Americans became heroes.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Oct. 4--RACELAND, La. -- When the U.S. government and national agencies failed to bring emergency aid to the United Houma Nation after Hurricane Katrina, Americans responded with tractor-trailer loads of donations...

More than 1,000 Houma still unaccounted for after Hurricane Katrina.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Brenda Norrell Oct. 4--RACELAND, La. -- In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina's wind and resulting floods devastated Houma homes in six Louisiana parishes on the Gulf Coast, leaving thousands of tribal members homeless and...

Native languages bill moves closer to House vote.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 4--WASHINGTON -- A bill that would provide Department of Education funding for Native language immersion schools passed the House of Representatives late Sept. 27. It will now go to the Senate. The Esther...

New school buildings coming to Pine Ridge.
October 4, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 4--PORCUPINE, S.D. -- Two new school buildings on the Pine Ridge Reservation is almost too good to be true, but in two years the Porcupine Day School will have a new facility designed with culture in mind and...

Oglala candidate hopes to promote harmony.
October 11, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 11--PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- If Bruce Whalen is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November he will be only the second American Indian to serve from South Dakota. The late Ben Reifle, Rosebud Sioux,...

ANALYSIS: Another lame duck session looms on the Hill.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 11--WASHINGTON -- Congress runs on a two-year cycle. On committees where the chairmen are engaged with the issues and determined to make law, the first year is for hearings and focus on the fine points, for...

EDITORIAL: Military Commissions Act raises painful memories.(Editorial)
October 11, 2006... Oct. 11--Ghosts of Sioux warriors surround the controversy on the Military Commissions Act, 38 of them to be precise. They offer a warning that should not be ignored. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the type of tribunal the...

Proposed Class II gaming regulations are still open to public comment.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 11--WASHINGTON -- The National Indian Gaming Commission heard strong messages of dissent all day long Sept. 19 as it gathered information for a final draft of new regulations on Class II gaming. Tribes and...

Housing council unveils Web site for home buyers.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 11--WASHINGTON -- The National American Indian Housing Council launched a Web site for Native home buyers at a Sept. 25 meeting on Capitol Hill. One-stop home mortgage shops for low- to moderate-income...

ANALYSIS: Will Senate Democrats win, lose or draw?
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 11--WASHINGTON -- The upcoming November elections in the Senate, called midterms as they fall in the middle of a four-year presidential term, are no exception in one sense: most of the 33 seats being contested...

Delay on rights of way report may signal danger.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 11--WASHINGTON -- A final report on tribal energy rights of way will be delayed until after its scheduled date for submission to Congress of Sept. 29. A Department of Interior Indian Affairs spokesman, Nedra...

New program solves reservation home ownership conundrum.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Jim Adams Oct. 11--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- Building a home on the reservation can be one of the trickiest problems in Indian country. Individual ownership brings back memories of the allotment policy of the late 19th century, and...

Voter project works to educate.
October 11, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 11--BISMARCK, N.D. -- In 1917 Francis Bull Head shot an arrow for the last time and then touched a plow to symbolize that he would become a citizen and possibly give up his tribal ways. It was all a show, the...

United Tribes Technical College opens new wellness center.
October 18, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 18--BISMARCK, N.D. -- The late Lewis Goodhouse once sold his cattle so that another person could receive an education. Goodhouse, Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe and one of the original signers of the charter that...

The 109th is a Congress of distraction for Indian country.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 18--WASHINGTON -- A lobbying scandal, Indian gaming reform, energy rights of way: considered separately, none qualify as a mere distraction. But taken altogether, this trio of troubles has made the 109th a...

Abramoff sought White House clout in 'sordid subculture'.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 18--WASHINGTON -- A Government Reform Committee report of Sept. 29 reviewed the White House lobbying efforts of Jack Abramoff at his old firm and came away with "a detailed glimpse into a sordid subculture of...

The Oglala Sioux vote in primaries.
October 18, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 18--PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe voters have spoken. The vote count from the primary election is in and, pending the results of the challenge vote count, Cecelia Fire Thunder may not be on the ballot...

Federal social compact a defense of tribal rights.
October 18, 2006... Oct. 18--Between reviews of the latest drive-in zombie movies, the pseudonymous critic Joe Bob Briggs used to write a column called "The Vegas Guy." He visited casinos, tribal and non-tribal, and gave snappy updates of their politics. Some of...

Finance Web site hopes to improve tribal information.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 18--WASHINGTON -- Generations of researchers fell on their knees and heard the angel voices, as the old hymn has it, at the launch of a Web site exclusively dedicated to tribal finance. Reliable financial data...

Yankton Sioux Tribe ER closes.
October 18, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 18--MARTY, S.D. -- Signs on the doors and bulletin boards of the IHS facility on the Yankton Sioux Reservation inform people of a reduction in services -- no more emergency room services. The change from an ER...

South Dakota child custody case focuses on jurisdiction.
October 18, 2006... Byline: David Melmer Oct. 18--SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The final judgment in a child custody case involving an enrolled member of a South Dakota tribe that has ended up in state Supreme Court could have an impact on sovereignty and...

EDITORIAL: Court, Congress on collision course for constitutional crisis.(Editorial)
October 25, 2006... Oct. 25--We wandered into a classroom recently at a certain distinguished law school where U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was taking questions from students. His responses reflected someone upset with the U.S. Supreme Court and the legacy of...

Head Start funding reprioritized.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 25--WASHINGTON -- A brief passage in a 340-page Senate Appropriations Committee report represents a formal red flag raised over approximately $186 million a year that could be funding priority Head Start...

OPINION: The 109th is a Congress of distraction for Indian country.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 25--WASHINGTON -- Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, like Sen. John McCain of Arizona and a few other senior Republican lawmakers from Native-populous states, would probably take names if anyone told him the...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Washington briefs column.(Column)
October 25, 2006... Byline: Jerry Reynolds Oct. 25--SENATE INVESTIGATION GOES HARD ON ABRAMOFF NONPROFITS: A third congressional investigation on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's misdeeds has detailed a case for criminal tax fraud and abuse of tax-exempt...