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Navajo Nation seeks support for sacred site case (December 3, 2007)

Leaders of the Navajo Nation on Friday rallied for support as a federal appeals court takes on a sacred site case. A full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of...

Fortune helps Sister Sky with small biz makeover (December 3, 2007)

Fortune Small Business went to the Spokane Reservation in Washington to help two sisters with a "makeover" of their growing business. Monica Simeon, 40, and Marina TurningRobe, 41, founded...

Navajo designers launch hip-hop fashion label (December 3, 2007)

A young Navajo couple put their love for fashion and hip-hop together to launch a clothing line called UN3EK SY5TEM. Tyson Powless, 28, and Quishana Begay, 21, say their...

Largest marijuana ring grew on New York reservations (December 3, 2007)

The largest marijuana ring in New York history exploited jurisdictional loopholes on three reservations, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports. Alexander Cammacho and Anthony DeJohn used the Mohawk, Oneida and Onondaga reservations...

Onondaga Nation won't pay taxes on 157 acres (December 3, 2007)

The Onondaga Nation of New York says it won't pay property taxes on 157 acres it recently purchased. An attorney said the land falls within the tribe's ancestral reservation. "This...

Cherokees remember 'The Trail Where We Cried' (December 3, 2007)

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma requires all employees to take a course on tribal history to make sure they learn about the Trail of Tears. In the Cherokee language, the...

Scientists oppose pro-tribal NAGPRA amendment (December 3, 2007)

Scientists are opposing an amendment to he Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act that would help tribes reclaim ancestral remains. The scientists say the amendment would prevent them from...

Juaneno factions fail to unite for recognition (December 3, 2007)

Rival factions of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians tried to come together as recently as August in hopes of gaining federal recognition. But the effort failed when the...

Two Idaho tribes sign gasoline tax agreements (December 3, 2007)

The Nez Perce Tribe and the Kootenai Tribe signed gasoline tax agreements with Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Friday. The tribes agreed to charge the same 25-cents-per-gallon tax as...

Editorial: No sense in grants to wealthy Seminole Tribe (December 3, 2007)

"The Seminole Tribe of Florida is by no means the only dubious recipient of federal grant money, but the $80-million it has pocketed in five years as it profits from...

Drug gangs run Tohono O'odham out of homes (December 3, 2007)

Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation who live in Mexico are being run out of their homes by Mexican drug gangs. Julian Rivas was the leader of the Cu:wi...

'Fighting Sioux' lawsuit cost more than $5M (December 3, 2007)

The lawsuit over the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo cost more than $5 million, the judge handling the case said. UND sued NCAA in June 2006....

Editorial: No appetite for 'Fighting Sioux' fight (December 3, 2007)

"In the days after the settlement between UND and the NCAA was announced, the following things could have happened. Gov. John Hoeven could have stepped forward and said he'd...

McKosato: Reservations are hot tourist attractions (December 3, 2007)

"It's the part of America that most of America never has wanted to talk about and, generally speaking, knows absolutely nothing about — the Indian reservation. In New Mexico, this...

Opinion: Overnight Indians and wannabes in Tennessee (December 3, 2007)

"On a popular messageboard, Indianz.com, if you tell people you are Cherokee and from TN they will basically dismiss you as an "overnight Indian" or more likely "wannabe" without a...

Mark Trahant: Financial system rivals natural disaster (December 3, 2007)

"Line by line a national narrative is being advanced: We're going to rescue (fill in the blank) from the mortgage catastrophe. I say "fill in the blank" because we don't...

Tim Giago: Three courageous Indian women (December 3, 2007)

The Lakota Times was the only independently owned Indian weekly newspaper in America in 1981. Now there are several. Ironically, the three most read, most influential of these independent newspapers...

Jodi Rave: Foreign visitors come for powwows (December 3, 2007)

"Rob McDonald remembers a German tourist couple who arrived on the Flathead Reservation in search of a powwow. The man appeared visibly frustrated after McDonald, a spokesman for the...

Editorial: Indian water settlements get costlier (December 3, 2007)

"With every passing season — especially the dry ones — the tension over rights to water ratchets tighter on this state where there's so little of it. And with every...
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