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  • Jun 1, 2011

    As Facebook becomes the window to the Web for its more than 500 million users worldwide, the security of the social network has never been a hotter topic....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- There was swelling on the little girl's skull and hemorrhages around her brain. There was a tear between her right ear and scalp. The scars on her 36-pound body were consistent with burns from a space heater, a curling iron and hot noodles....

  • Mind-boggling leap in buttlegging at Long Island Indian reservation cries out for a state crackdown

    Jun 1, 2011

    It's hard to believe that the rampant tax dodging by Indian cigarette dealers could get any worse, but it has. A lot worse. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/05/31/2011-05-31_smoking_and_the_bandits.html#ixzz1O1KMJXfl...

  • Tribal Law and Order Act at a glance

    Jun 1, 2011

    The Tribal Law and Order Act, signed by President Barack Obama last summer, seeks to give tribes greater authority and additional resources to combat reservation crime. Key provisions: — U.S. attorneys who decline to prosecute Indian Country cases must notify tribal justice officials, coordinate with them on the investigation's status and share evidence so the case can be pursued in tribal court. Federal prosecutors must maintain records of declined cases....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    A tribal court judge did not enjoy sovereign or judicial immunity when he became embroiled in a controversy over attorneys’ fees, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 27....

  • Oklahoma’s largest American Indian tribe says it’s starting a jobs initiative that it says is the first of its kind among tribes....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    Madison - State election officials on Tuesday approved recall elections against three Republican senators but put off decisions on certifying recall petitions against three Democrats....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    The Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation’s band office at Pavilion remained closed last week because of a dispute between the Chief and Council and dissident band members....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    Roads in rural settings can be dangerous for pedestrians. More than a thousand are killed each year on rural roads — with rates particularly high in resort towns and on Native American reservations....

  • Please help with adoptive homes

    Patty Frazer

    The Leech Lake Child Welfare Department is in dire need of adoptive homes for children who need a permanent loving home. We have several sibling groups waiting for a family to call their own. If you have a lot of love, patience and room in your home and heart for a child, please call or stop in for more information. One sibling group will be adopted to a non-native family if a native family is not identified and the process started within the next 30 days. These children have been in foster care for almost four years and have not had much...

  • Jun 1, 2011

    It was a drunken, bikini-clad woman aboard her friends' powerboat, flashing her breasts and screaming across the McCloud River at the Winnemem Wintu and their friends....

  • Sacred White Buffalo Born in Texas

    Jun 1, 2011

    GREENVILLE, Texas - A white buffalo, an animal rich in the lore of Native Americans and sacred to many tribes, was recently born in Texas. Read more on myFOXdfw.com: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/unusual/053111-sacred-white-buffalo-born-in-texas#ixzz1O1SB2aTp...

  • Jun 1, 2011

    Just days after eleven deadly tornadoes plowed across southwest Missouri and central Oklahoma, tribes located within the state of Oklahoma are doing whatever they can to help provide critical support for devastated communities. Their efforts include setting up shelters for displaced families and organizing crews to help with relief and recovery. Almost all are trying to account for their tribal citizens who reside in outlying areas....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    Richard Cuevas is the great, great grandson of Paulina Hunter, who he believes was a member of the Pechanga tribe....

  • Jun 1, 2011

    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two Warm Springs residents have been sentenced to 30 and 18 years in federal prison for what a judge called an "extraordinarily brutal" murder in which a mother of three was stabbed, strangled and burned to death in the fall of 2008....

  • Indian youth will join First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House this Friday as part of her Let's Move initiative....