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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers are once again looking at the alcohol problems in the Panhandle town of Whiteclay....
TOPPENISH, Wash. -- More than 70 people turned out at the Yakama Nation's Winter Lodge just west of Toppenish on Friday for a special legislative hearing on the tribe's controversial proposal to unravel the state's civil and criminal jurisdiction over its people....
As the Hopi Tribe signaled a new willingness to share representation in Washington, the Navajo Nation proposed Thursday that Arizona's new congressional districts include one with enough Native Americans to elect one of their own to Congress. Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/09/15/3499634/hopi-chairman-says-same-district.html#ixzz1YN6Fvjqy...
WASHINGTON — The Navajo Nation’s top transportation official complained to Congress Thursday that his tribe’s members are treated as “second-class citizens” when the government allocates road funds....
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA -- In the wake of the explosive violence on August 2 that shook the North Rapid community to its core, Chief of Police Steve Allender has made an invocative attempt at conciliation with the community’s mostly Native American residents....
King County Superior Court judges have declined a request by the family of a First Nations woodcarver killed by a former Seattle police officer last summer to convene a citizens' grand jury to determine whether the officer should be charged with a crime, according to a court filing released on Friday....
Residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations in the Four Corners region are dismayed that a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) on the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., “clearly omits consideration of the coal-burning plant’s pollution impacts on public health....
The oil giant had been accused of under-reporting the value of natural gas extracted from lands including those in New Mexico belonging to the Jicarilla Apache Nation....
A Manitoba grand chief wants aboriginal police officers with the power to keep alcohol out of dry communities to replace the RCMP on northern reserves when the province's contract with the force expires next year....
Organizers of the second annual Buffalo Heart Camp near Hermantown say they’re carrying out the dream of Gary Silk, a Lakota man who died last year before he could realize his vision....
A 26-year-old man who is roughly halfway through a 13-year sentence for a double-manslaughter conviction is on the loose in Saskatchewan, prison officials say....
The Cherokee Freedmen issue has been a topic of discussion over the past couple of weeks and with it Indian Country Today Media Network presents the latest as the New York Times offers up the topic of “Tribal Rights v. Racial Justice” in it’s Room for Debate....
The idea that a 21st-century sovereign nation would expel a racial minority that had been part of it for a century and a half seems outrageous. Yet this is precisely what has happened in the last month in the Cherokee nation, the second largest American Indian tribe. The US government's condemnatory response, however, may cause more problems than it solves....
MARTY — The chairman of the Yankton Sioux Tribe and seven of nine members of the Tribal Council were voted out of office this month....
When officers shot a Pit River Indian in south Redding last month, it brought to light a lingering tension between tribe members and police that's been brewing for decades. Both sides say they're now worried about violent retaliation....
The youngest of the 355 homeless people surveyed this week in Anchorage are 19. The oldest: 77. Almost one in four are veterans. Nearly half of those identified as the most at risk are Alaska Native. Eighteen reported having cancer. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/09/16/2072638/abuse-jail-illness-challenge-anchorages.html#ixzz1YOQjf9fm...
A 39-year-old hunter killed by a wounded grizzly bear yelled out to draw the 400-pound male bear toward him in an effort to keep it from attacking his young hunting partner, the man's family said....
It began inside a jail cell, where a young man hanged himself. Read more: http://trib.com/special-section/suicide/article_9c00e087-6904-54b4-a097-090e8afed8d1.html#ixzz1YOZUgSdC...
Again this year the Native American Music Awards (MAMMY’S) will be celebrated from the Seneca-Niagara Hotel and Casino in Niagara Falls, New York. Located in downtown Niagara Falls, the Seneca-Niagara Hotel and Casino is just a short walk from the Niagara Falls State Park and the majestic Falls of Niagara that the Native tribes called the thundering falls some 400 years ago. The thirteenth annual NAMMY’s will be presented on October 7....