Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) articles from September 2005

Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) archives from September 2005

Students attend USD camp.
September 4, 2005... Sep. 4--VERMILLION, S.D. -- Four students from St. Francis Indian School and Little Wound School attended the South Dakota Governor's Camp 2005 on the University of South Dakota campus at Vermillion. SFIS ninth-grader Star (Anpo) Eastman and...

Wall Street bond raters skeptical on sovereignty.
September 4, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Sep. 4--NEW YORK -- As Wall Street opens more and more to tribal financing, one of the last barriers is the arcane process of bond rating. Three main rating agencies hold the keys to a public sale of tribal bonds,...

Ellsworth to remain open.
September 4, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Sep. 4--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Anxiety turned into jubilation in South Dakota Aug. 26 when the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted 8 -- 1 to keep Ellsworth Air Force Base, the state's No. 2 employer, open. ...

Bond raters pick best bets in casino financing deals.
September 4, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Sep. 4--NEW YORK -- Foxwoods looks like the prime place to risk your bond money, if you want to put it on a tribal casino. Mohegan Sun is on a downturn, and another hit might take it to the lower level of Turning...

Navajos receive award for banning uranium mining.
September 4, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 4--SANTA FE, N.M. -- The Karl Souder Water Protection Award of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center was awarded to three Navajos, including a youth and a tribal councilman, for their role in banning uranium...

KILL: Stories written by Philip Burnham.
September 9, 2005

New civic center disturbs remains.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 14--SANTA FE, N.M. -- Tesuque Pueblo Gov. Mark Mitchell said the site selected for the new Santa Fe Civic Center, where human remains have been revealed during construction, is on the tribe's ancient Pueblo. ...

While people suffer, IHS reserves funds.
September 14, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Sep. 14--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Some IHS-reliant Great Plains tribes question whether the regional office's withholding of "residual funds" has harmed the quality of their health care. The Great Plains Tribal...

Homes and hearts opened to Katrina victims.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 14--NEW ORLEANS -- American Indians opened their homes and pocketbooks, while others boarded buses and fire trucks as medics and firefighters, to help in Louisiana and Mississippi, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina...

National organizations raise disaster relief funds.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 14--NEW ORLEANS -- As American Indian tribal members on the Gulf Coast seek refuge in their home communities, the National Indian Gaming Association and National Congress of American Indians are raising funds...

Louisiana state coastal tribes hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 14--HOUMA, La. -- Hurricane Katrina destroyed the homes of Louisiana-state recognized American Indian tribes on the Gulf Coast, and some have lost everything to hurricane damage and flooding. Tribal members...

New York tax foreclosures revive painful memories.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Sep. 14--ONEIDA NATION HOMELANDS, N.Y. -- Foreclosure stirs up a long, dark history for New York state American Indians. These memories shadow the Oneida Indian Nation's decision to contest tax bills in 22 localities...

New Mohegan regime to take over.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Sep. 14--UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- After voting for a near-certain turnover in top leadership, the ultra-rich Mohegan Tribe is waiting to see in what direction it will take its budding national gaming empire. The new...

Houma Nation aerial survey reveals total devastation.
September 21, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 21--GOLDEN MEADOW, La. -- United Houma Nation tribal officials and representatives of the National Congress of American Indians surveyed Houma tribal communities on the Louisiana coast by helicopter and found...

ANALYSIS: Bad news comes all at once, but good news comes in small doses.
September 21, 2005... Sep. 21--A welcome, modest dose of good news came recently through a report on the small district of Porcupine on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The 300-resident district is intent on improving its conditions from the ground up. Where in...

NativeEnergy LLC is now Native-owned.
September 28, 2005... Sep. 28--ROSEBUD, S.D. -- The nonprofit Intertribal Council on Utility Policy has acquired a majority interest in NativeEnergy on behalf of its member tribes, COUP and NativeEnergy, the leading national marketer of Renewable Energy Credits and...

School mascot logos still hot-button issue with tribes.
September 28, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Sep. 28--BISMARCK, N.D. -- The political give and take over an American Indian mascot may be more exciting this fall than what takes place on the gridiron of the University of North Dakota. American Indian...

Discarded Indian Trust documents found.
September 28, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Sep. 28--WASHINGTON -- Someone in the Department of Interior may have intentionally discarded records pertinent to Indian Trust accountability, according to a letter from the Office of General Counsel. The...

American Indian voters face hostility in South Dakota.
September 28, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Sep. 28--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- It came as no surprise to many when members of the U.S. Commission on the Voting Rights Act heard people refer to South Dakota as "racially hostile." The Lawyer's Committee of the...

A Pointe-au-Chien family describes survival after Katrina.
September 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 28--VILLE PLATTE, La. -- Surviving Hurricane Katrina meant floating on couches and waiting to be rescued in shrimp boats for Pointe-au-Chien tribal members of the Verdin family of St. Bernard Parish, including...

Navajo legalize religious use of peyote.
September 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 28--CHINLE, Ariz. -- The leaders of the Navajo Nation joined a ceremony proclaiming the tribe's new law which decriminalizes the use of azee', commonly known as peyote, in ceremonies. Navajo Council Speaker...

Rapper delivers aid to Mississippi Choctaw.
September 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Sep. 28--BOGUE HOMA, Miss. -- Muscogee Cree rapper Shadowyze has made three trips carrying relief items to Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi, rallying family and friends in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla. to...

Roberts invokes Alaska work to demonstrate compassion.
September 28, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Sep. 28--WASHINGTON -- In an apparent attempt to show empathy for Indian country, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. twice told the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings about his visits to Alaska Native...