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LAGUNA PUEBLO, NM—The Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico unveiled a $3.3 million high-speed Internet system. The tribe worked with Sacred Wind Communications to bring service to six villages on the reservation. Funds for the network came from the Department of Agriculture. “Sacred Wind is pleased and honored to be a part of Laguna’s telecommunications and information future,” CEO John Badal said in a press release. © 2013 Indianz.com...
LOS ANGELES, CA—The Lone-Paiute Shoshone Tribe of California is seeking protections for a recently discovered massacre site. Some 35 Paiutes were killed by U.S. soldiers and local ranchers on March 19, 1863. The site, which includes bullets and tribal artifacts, was unearthed in 2009 as part of work for an air pollution control project. “This ground, and the artifacts in it, is who we are,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, the tribe’s historic preservation officer, told The Los Angeles Times. The tribe wants to ensure the site is...
WASHINGTON, DC—Native Hawaiians have been told that they can't get federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On March 19, Assistant Secretary Kevin Washburn to a House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs that the regulations apply only to groups in the “contiguous 48 states and Alaska.” “We are not able to consider Native Hawaiians under our current regs,” Washburn told the House committee. “Our regs leave out Native Hawaiians.” Up until this time, Native Hawaiians have been treated the same way...
PAWHUSKA, OK—Osage Nation employees are getting paid to lose weight. A recent study conducted among citizens of the Native American community located in northeast Oklahoma showed that below average health conditions were being caused by overeating, smoking and depression. As a result, local employers have taken steps to implement health incentive programs which recognize and reward employees for healthy living choices. One of those programs is provided by incentaHEALTH, a private health care technology company h...
OTTAWA, ON—On the first anniversary of the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, the Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta, the Alliance Against Modern Slavery, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, International Justice Mission Canada, the Salvation Army and World Vision, together recognize the Government of Canada’s commitment to addressing the heinous crime of human trafficking and highlight the urgent need of its implementation. The Action Plan was launched on June 6, 2012, as a comprehensive blu...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation reburied the remains of two teenagers who were killed during the 1863 Bear River Massacre. The tribe repatriated the remains of the teens, a boy and a girl, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. They had been held by The Smithsonian Institution since the massacre. “It is to honor the old Indian custom and train of thought of returning them to their resting grounds,” Vice Chairman Darre...
BOISE, ID—The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes will emphasize culture and language at their new charter school in Idaho. The Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy will open in the fall. It’s named in honor of Chief Tahgee, a Bannock leader who secured land, hunting and grazing rights for his people. The tribe hopes to continue that legacy at the new school. “I think that the tribe is reclaiming their birthright, reclaiming their culture and heritage in a modern setting,” Pete Lipovac...
Tecumseh (/tɛˈkʌmsə/) has become one of the most iconic folk heroes in American and Canadian history, especially with First Nations peoples. Born in March 1768 he became a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. Tecumseh grew up in what is today Ohio during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, where he was constantly exposed to war...
RAPID CITY, SD—Winning singing contests, art contests, being a model and an accomplished hoop dancer might be enough for some, but not for Delaena Rae Uses Knife, 27, of Eagle Butte, SD, who fully intends to reach her dream of becoming an astrophysicist. Uses Knife is looking forward to a summer internship with NASA and she has also been named one of five of South Dakota’s NASA Ambassadors. “It’s a surreal moment for me,” Uses Knife said. “A NASA Student Ambassador...
RIO GRANDE DEL NORTE, NM—Samuel Gomez, the war chief for Taos Pueblo, was in Washington, D.C., on March 25, as U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed a new national monument near the tribe’s reservation in northern New Mexico. The Río Grande del Norte National Monument covers more than 240,000 acres of federal land. The site includes historic Pueblo sites and petroglyphs that date back thousands of years. “This extraordinary landscape of extreme beauty and daunting harshn...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—The Menominee Indian Economic Development Authority (“MIEDA”) of Wisconsin and Applied BioFuels Corporation (“ABF”) of Tulsa, Oklahoma announce the signing of agreement for the placement of an ABF Energy Island. MIEDA’s former Chairman Bruce Pecore, stated “the Tribe is very excited about the long term benefits of our agreement with ABF and the Energy Island will give our tribe a chance to diversify into an alternative energy project that brings new economic...
Over 100 tribes are operating their own court systems, Lisa Jaeger of the Tanana Chiefs Conference said at a forum on March 27. Tribes are handling child welfare cases, domestic violence crimes and other matters, Jaeger said. Their court systems represent nearly half of the 229-federally recognized tribes in the state. “Tribal courts, especially in small, rural communities are really the first level of justice that are available to local communities,” Jaeger said at the for...
McALLEN, TX—The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas is suing the federal government over the seizure of eagle feathers at a powwow. An agent from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided a powwow in McAllen on March 11, 2006. According to a complaint filed in federal court, over 50 eagle feathers and eagle parts were taken from participants. Robert Soto, the tribe’s vice chairman, said the raid violated his religious rights. “If I got caught speeding, I deserve a speeding ticket, but...
FORT BELKNAP, MT—Montana tribes are running into opposition to their efforts to restore bison to their lands. The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community agreed to take 61 bison from Yellowstone National Park last year. But farmers and ranchers, fearing the spread of a deadly disease to cattle and destruction of property, won a court decision that has kept the animals at Fort Peck. The Montana Supreme Court is hearing an appeal of the d...
WASHINGTON, DC—Idaho’s Rep. Mike Simpson, a Republican, asked a critical question. It’s one rarely asked, let alone, answered. The question: Does more government money work? Specifically, Simpson, the chairman of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, was asking if recent increased funding for the Indian Health Service has made a difference. Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, director of the IHS, went through the numbers at an overs...
MUSKRAT FALLS, LABRADOR—A group tasked to train aboriginal workers for jobs at Muskrat Falls thinks not enough of their grads are being hired. Nalcor Energy’s latest statistics show that aboriginals from Labrador account for eight per cent of workers at the construction site. Keith Jacque is the executive director of the Labrador Aboriginal Training Partnership. He said while hundreds of aboriginals are ready to work, only a small percentage have been hired. “I don’t know if...
SPOKANE, WA—The Kalispel Tribe of Washington hosted a three-day Salish language conference, an event that keeps getting bigger every year. JR Bluff, the tribe’s assistant director of culture, started language preservation efforts a few years ago when only a few elders were still fluent in Salish. Now the language is being taught in local schools. “Celebrating Salish is what we’re all about,” Bluff told The Spokesman Review as more than 400 people gathered for the conferenc...
June 6-8 The North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS) hosts their 10th annual symposium at Tyndale Theological Seminary, Toronto. Theme: Shaping Faith: How Language Informs the Journey. Contact: office@naiits.com June 29-July 4 On Eagles’ Wings’ Warrior Leadership Summit followed by the Summer of Hope. For info and to register, please call 1-888-682-5483. July 25-28 Mni Wiconi Wacipi Living Waters Family Camp & Traditional Powwow, Turner, Oregon. For info contact: office@wiconi.com or call: 360...
Ever wondered if you could listen to the Bible in your Native language? The answer is “yes”. Faith Comes By Hearing has made Native language Scriptures available on MP3 CDs with music and sound effects. According to Henry Hostetler from Northwestern Ontario, Ojibwe is one of the languages available and it is available through him and his co-worker Jim Keesic. “We want to make sure the people who receive them will be able to play them,” says Hostetler. “These are MP3 CDs and t...
Arguably the most powerful and perhaps famous of all Native American chiefs, Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in what is now called South Dakota. A Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. The son of an esteemed Sioux warrior named Returns-Again, Sitting Bull looked up to his father and desired to follow in his footsteps, but didn’t show a particular talent for warfare. As a result he w...
“There were times when the treatment center felt a bit like residential school,” said my friend and sister in Christ. “You have to go away from your family and community, follow a strict structure, make your bed in the morning, and eat breakfast at a specific time…” We went on to talk about the pros and cons of the ways that many treatment centers function. We understood the need to take people out of toxic environments to help them look at their lives and choices in a supp...
PHOENIX, AZ (ANS)—A mighty warrior to his Native American people, H. Thomas “Sonny” Claus, 83, passed into the presence of the Lord surrounded by his family, on Friday, March 8, 2013, at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He was described by his close friend, Dr. Dale Kietzman, who helped him found his ministry, CHIEF (Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship), as “a truly great man whose leadership among Native American believers will be sorely missed.” Also known to hi...
GRAND RONDE, OR—This year marks the 30th anniversary of the law that restored the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon to federal government. The tribe was terminated in 1954. Council member Cheryle Kennedy, 65, keeps a copy of the Federal Register notice that documented the loss of federal status. “Your identity taken? That needed to be healed for the Grand Ronde people who went through that,” Kennedy told The Polk County Itemizer-Observer. Restoration efforts began...
Six youths and a guide left Whapmagoostui in January to snowshoe and walk to Ottawa in support of the Idle No More movement. They called the trek “The Journey of Nishiyuu,” which means “The Journey of the People” in Cree. They arrived on Parliament Hill on March 24. The group numbered nearly 400 in the trek’s final hours, according to volunteers and Gatineau police, after other children and youth from Cree and Algonquin communities joined them along the way. Thousands...
OTTAWA, ON—The Correctional Service of Canada was “very dismissive” in its response to a report sounding the alarm to the dramatic increase of Aboriginal Peoples in federal prison, tabled in Parliament this week, Canada’s prison watchdog says. In an interview that aired on CBC Radio’s The House, Howard Sapers, the correctional investigator for Canada, told host Evan Solomon he was “hopeful” he would receive a “fulsome response” that would deal directly with the recommendations...
