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WASHINGTON — Angelica Chavis, a third-year law student in North Carolina, received her prized eagle feather from a tribal elder at age 7, when she was crowned Little Miss Lumbee. Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/02/17/2277123/lumbees-say-theyll-keep-their.html#storylink=cpy...
Following on the heels of the Emancipation Proclamation, in February 1863 the Cherokee Nation declared that all slaves within its limits were “forever free.” In 1983, the descendants of these slaves, known as the Cherokee Freedmen, were removed from tribal membership rolls and prohibited from voting in Cherokee elections. A series of protracted legal battles over Freedmen citizenship ensued and continue today....
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada....
Thursday, Jefferson Keel, President of the National Congress of American Indians, delivered the 11th Annual State of the Indian Nations Address. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/opinion/who-does-ncai-represent-147721...
Current and former Mashantucket Pequot tribal officials charged with stealing more than $800,000 from the tribe have asked that their federal trials be delayed for months....
SHIPROCK — Almost a decade has passed since millions of dollars were invested to build 90 homes at the south end of Shiprock. Today, most sit empty, seriously damaged by weather and vandalism....
Diet pop and other artificially sweetened products may cause us to eat and drink even more calories and increase our risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes, researchers are learning....
MASHPEE — Votes cast in next Sunday's Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe election could send one of two messages — tribe members want to blaze the same trail for the next four years or shake things up dramatically....
The RCMP is questioning the oft-cited claim by an aboriginal group and some federal politicians that about 600 aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada....
Manitoba’s provincial Grand Chief Derek Nepinak compared Manitoba to British Columbia in a statement Friday that described the state of missing and murdered aboriginal women in the two provinces as "eerily similar."...
NBC 10's I-Team has uncovered the questionable practices of a loan company called Western Sky Financial....
Douglas County election officials violated a federal law in November when they didn't let dozens of people vote provisionally without showing voter identification numbers, a state-appointed official ruled Friday....
Lake St. Martin flood victims desperate for resettlement face yet another setback, this time allegations that their chief and council bought an election victory with whiskey, cash and marijuana....
For Native Pride Dancers, a Minnesota-based group formed in 2003 by World Champion Fancy Dancer Larry Yazzie, the journey through song and dance is just about to cross borders as they travel the distance to express themselves. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/16/native-pride-dancers-journey-just-beginning-147718...
The percentage of aboriginal students in B.C. who are completing high school within the expected time frame continues to climb, the provincial Education Ministry reported Friday. The completion rate for First Nations students in public and independent schools last year rose to 56.4 per cent from 53.7 per cent in 2010-11 and 50.4 per cent in 2009-10. The rate is up almost 14 percentage points from 10 years ago, the ministry said in a release. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/More+native+students+graduating+from+hig...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A North Dakota woman is accused of lying to investigators about a stabbing on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation....
ALBUQUERQUE — Mexican gray wolf No. 1105 was shot dead by wildlife managers after having a tryst — and puppies — with a common ranch dog. No. 1188, an alpha female, was almost executed, then taken away from her pups and pack, for killing cattle. And wolf No. 1133 was returned to captivity after failing to woo his intended mate....
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan has resigned from cabinet over an inappropriate letter he wrote to the Tax Court two years ago, a mistake seen as inexcusable that gives the Conservative government an opportunity to shed one of its weaker performers....
AUBURN, Mich. – Jim Eurick has no Native American bloodlines. But he's proud to say he has an Indian history and a Warrior legacy....
Federal officials will hold a town hall meeting on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota this month to discuss the reservation’s child sexual abuse problem, which last year led the federal government to take over the tribe’s social services program....
With the receipt of a letter signed by 17 Republican lawmakers this week, pressure is mounting on Speaker John Boehner to approve the Violence Against Women Act, whose fate lies with the House of Representatives after being passed by the Senate Tuesday....
Sequestration of the federal budget will have a negative impact in Indian Country, members of the Obama administration told the Senate Appropriations Committee....
Courageously she stood, a blanket around her shoulders. Roxanne Chinook wasn't alone in the Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center Longhouse....
The Wind River Indian Reservation is not an easy place to get to, but I had to see it for myself. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wind-river-indian-reservation-in-wyoming-2013-2?op=1#ixzz2LFm34z00...
RAPID CITY- The family of Steven Bear Crane has been allowed by the Supreme Court of the United States to sue an FBI agent for discrimination....