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Mohegans name first female chief in 300-plus years
Native Times
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) – One of the nation's best-known and most prosperous American Indian tribes will soon have its first female tribal chief in ...

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Love of the Game makes final preparations annual Madness in March Basketball ...
Native Times
As in years past, countless number of Native American family, friends, and avid basketball fans will gather in Henryetta, Oklahoma to witness a showcase of ...


Ex-Cherokee Chief Mankiller diagnosed with cancer
News from Indian Country
Mankiller served as the tribe's chief from December 1985 until retiring in 1995. She is one of the few women ever to lead a major American Indian tribe. ...


Europe the Beginnings of a Cataclysm....Again.
Gather.com
Eventually the Byzantines too were destroyed by an offshoot of yet another East Asian tribe, the Turks, helped in large measure by their own greed, ...

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They Fly | Honoring Women of Color
The Sacramento Press
Britta Guerrero is Executive Director of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc. (SNAHC), a community-owned and operated non-profit urban Indian ...


NTUA Pursues Funding for Optimized Backhaul using Horizon Quantum
TMCnet
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. NTUA, a nonprofit enterprise, ...

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Illegal fishing case hits snag
Escanaba Daily Press
Officials from the Western District of the US Attorney General's Office said the five tribes - which entered into a consent decree with the nation and the ...


Developing an Assessment Tool for Two Organizations Using Six Sigma Principles
Water World
Aspart of its public health role, the IHS maintains surveillance over environmental conditions that affect the health of American Indian and Alaska Native ...


Haskell guard George a leader on and off the court
Lawrence Journal World
Many Native American tribes believe the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and all of the parts are equal, that it is against custom to distinguish ...


Welcome to Palisraelestine
Online Journal
Scholars, scientists, artists are writing of how the tribal instinct has become a communal instinct, as if man had stepped up a notch to a new level of ...


Native Americans mark 40 years since Fort Lawton protest
Seattle Times
Marty Bluewater, executive director of the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, which runs the center, sees a special mission to serve the more than ...

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Association of tribes opposes land measure
Arizona Republic
The National Congress of American Indians voted late last month to oppose any state attempts to interfere in the federal-tribal process for acquiring land. ...

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Kruger takes next step in taxing Native American cigarettes
YourNabe.com
New York's Tribal Nations and Native Americans cigarette wholesalers on reservations are against the plan, although Kruger said reservation residents can ...


Senecas See Comeback Over Cigarette Sales
NACS Online
“Isn't that the way things go in the American system?” asked Richard Nephew, co-chairman of the Seneca Nation's foreign relations committee. ...

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Lawsuit: Art is not truly Native American
ChicagoNow (blog)
... that a non-Indian maker of products in an Indian style motif cannot use the terms "Indian" or "Native American" or the name of a particular tribe unless ...


New Justice Department Outreach Effort to Victims of Radiation Exposure Announced
PR Newswire (press release)
The law also requires sensitivity toward "established law, tradition and custom of the particular affected Indian tribe." The outreach efforts are intended ...

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Internet gambling: Threat or opportunity?
Indian Country Today
The Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations, a group of 14 of southern California's most successful gaming tribes, is also opposed to the federal ...

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Dams Protect a Reservation
Construction Equipment
Spirit Lake Nation, a Native American reservation near Devils Lake, North Dakota, had been battling rising lake water since 1993 in parts of the tribe's 405 ...


The Seneca Nation's Cigarette Fight With New York State
History News Network
They don't fit the comfortable stereotypes we assign to American Indians—as sometimes ignoble, sometimes noble, savages, tragically destined for oblivion. ...


PM UPDATE: Murrow Home receives contribution from Cherokee Nation
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
“The Murrow Indian Children's Home has many missions and one of those is to provide a home to Native American children who do not have a place to live,” ...


Women of Influence series to welcome Seneca Nation member
AU News
Quigley is chairperson of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education and the Native American Indian Education Association of New York. ...


Jennings: The women of Turtle Island
Indian Country Today
Federal law prohibits Native tribes from prosecuting non-Natives. Determining which justice system (federal, state or tribal) has jurisdiction over the ...

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MIKE v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD
Leagle.com
Plaintiff Angelina Mike is an American Indian and an enrolled member of the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians (the Tribe). ...


NTUA to Trial DragonWave's New Horizon Quantum Radio for LTE Pilot on Navajo ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. NTUA, a non-profit enterprise, ...

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NTUA to Trial DragonWave's New Horizon Quantum Radio for LTE Pilot on Navajo ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is the largest multi-utility company owned and operated by an American Indian tribe. NTUA, a non-profit enterprise, ...

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Agentina's 'The Secret in Their Eyes' wins Academy Award for best foreign ...
Gaea Times (blog)
December 14th, 2009 Mumbai- The Indian Television Academy Awards 2009 was held few days ago in Mumbai, which gave recognition to all the television artists ...

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Bleacher Report

Jim Brown: The Forgotten Athlete
Bleacher Report
He played lacrosse to improve his hand eye coordination and because Indian Tribes played it before battles so it intrested him. Brown broke just about every ...


North's star has bright future
Akron Beacon Journal
Weglarz has no chance to make the Tribe roster out of training camp, but he is never out of the consciousness of team officials for long. ...

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Kennewick Man and the Paiute people
Indian Country Today
As a Native American person not all tribes in the America's were the same. There were reportedly over 500 nations just in North America alone. ...


Examiner.com

Who made the U.S. judge and jury of Armenian Genocide?
Examiner.com
How can the US, as well as Europeans, condemn Turkey when the North American Indian population had been reduced from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to just ...

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