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Richmond, VA— Wayne Newton will join representatives of the USO Las Vegas in accepting a $20,000 donation from General Cigar on behalf of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) on Monday, July 18 at 2:00 PM at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in the Venetian Hotel. General Cigar and the IPCPR are making the donation to support the “$1K a Day” campaign created to help fund the USO Las Vegas facility in McCarran Airport. Doug Bradford, center director of USO Las Vegas says it takes about $900 a day to opera...
WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today announced that the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) has submitted the featured entry in the 2011 Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge targeting college age students and the Oneida Nation High School has submitted the featured entry in the high school-age challenge category. The Challenge is sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in partnership with the Indian Affairs Office of Indian Energy a...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A 32-year-old South Dakota man who was convicted of sexual assault in Arizona more than a decade ago pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for failing to register as a sex offender....
RCMP are investigating the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy on a northern Saskatchewan reserve. Police say they were called to respond to a report of a boy being shot at Hall Lake on the Lac La Ronge First Nation. Mounties say by the time police arrived the boy had died of his wound....
The Dakota expression for child, wakan injan, can be translated as “they too are sacred,” according to Glenn Drapeau, Ihanktonwan Dakota and a member of the Elk Soldier Society on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. “To us, children are as pure as the holy moving energy of the universe, and we treat them that way,” he says....
There are few roads on earth more dramatically breathtaking than Canada's Highway 16. The lonely 837-mile stretch of asphalt slices east-west through British Columbia, winding its way through towering snow-capped peaks, bustling mill towns, and a remote wilderness that feels as if it hasn't been touched since the beginning of time....
The EBCI Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Program held a walk in April honoring Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Some startling and disturbing facts were presented during that event including one that resounded loud and clear, “Incidence of rape is 3.5 times higher in American Indian communities....
(SitNews) Washington, D.C. – United States Senator Lisa Murkowski today seized the opportunity of a U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing to call attention to the “staggering” and “unacceptable” epidemic of domestic violence, sexual assault and sex trafficking among Alaska Natives and American Indians nationwide – and to get answers from federal officials about efforts underway to address the problems....
State officials say they're increasing their enforcement efforts of untaxed tobacco products, saying that a renewed push has led to the seizing of thousands of illicit cigars and cigarettes. The hope is to collect up to $27 million in extra revenue....
ALBANY — In a renewed effort to collect state taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products sold by Indian-operated companies, officials have seized $1.2 million worth of name-brand cigarettes and cigars in the last three weeks....
At a recent tribal council meeting on July 12, the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council approved a resolution specifically designed to improve public confidence in the election process....
ALBANY -- Officials have seized cigarettes and other products worth $1.2 million in tax revenue after a court ruled it can tax Indian tobacco sales last month. Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-seizes-19-744-cartons-of-untaxed-cigarettes-1468705.php#ixzz1SQ1YHnyz...
The Indian Act was enacted in 1876 by the Parliament of Canada under the provisions of Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, which provides Canada's federal government exclusive authority to legislate in relation to "Indians and Lands Reserved for Indians."...
Nearly three-quarters of first nations in Canada rely on water systems that are classified at a medium or high risk of not meeting safety standards, a national study finds....
Two former Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma officials failed to convince a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals July 12 that evidence at trial did not support their sentences for embezzlement and for the theft of tribal funds to purchase vehicles and other items....
At Central New York's Indian smoke shops, the Marlboro Man rides away...
The American Indian Foods project represents a growing number of Native-owned businesses that employ the time-tested methods of growing, cultivating and harvesting food consistent with our respect for the land. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/local/broadband-needed-on-tribal-lands/article_b005512a-af1a-11e0-8049-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1SQ4gfvpi...
CHICAGO - Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that made even the researchers do a double-take....
