Blog: Oglala Sioux Tribe set to manage first national tribal park (September 13, 2010)
"Pending the results of management plan vetting currently under way, the National Park Service is primed to turn the South Unit of Badlands National Park...
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Mark Trahant: Shrinking government and Indian health spending (September 13, 2010)
"No matter who wins the coming election it’s pretty clear that government at all levels will reduce their number of employees. The federal government is...
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Senate Indian Affairs Committee hosts field hearing on schools (September 13, 2010)
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a field hearing on Indian education on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota on Saturday. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-North...
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Judge dismisses fishing citations against Alaska Native group (September 13, 2010)
A judge dismissed fishing citations against four Alaska Native men who said they were exercising their subsistence rights. Sen. Albert Kookesh (D) and three others...
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Paper looks into botched Apache reservation rape investigation (September 13, 2010)
The person or persons responsible for a series of sexual assaults on the Fort Apache Reservation were likely never caught due to a botched investigation...
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Public school on Navajo Nation closes amid arson investigation (September 13, 2010)
The FBI is investigating an arson at a public school on the Navajo Nation. A fire was set inside the library at the Mesa Elementary...
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Lac Vieux Desert council members out of jail after court ruling (September 13, 2010)
All nine council members for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan have been released from jail after a tribal...
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Penobscot Nation chief and vice chief win reelection campaign (September 13, 2010)
The top two leaders of the Penobscot Nation of Maine won their bids for re-election. Chief Kirk Francis defeated former chief Barry Dana by...
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Lumbee Tribe lobbies for recognition with Congress back in DC (September 13, 2010)
Members of Congress are returning to work this week and the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina will be there to make a final push for...
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California sheriffs dispute provision in Tribal Law and Order Act (September 13, 2010)
The California State Sheriffs Association is disputing a provision in the new Tribal Law and Order Act. The law authorizes tribes to access national criminal...
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Echo Hawk affirms UKB's right to follow land-into-trust process (September 13, 2010)
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and its members can follow the land-into-trust process, Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk said in a decision on...
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Interview: Dorgan 'enormously proud' of Indian health, law bills (September 13, 2010)
As part of its "Exit Interviews" series, MSNBC talked to Sen. Byron Dorgan, the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Dorgan is retiring after...
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Obama calls trust fund settlement 'priority' at press conference (September 13, 2010)
President Barack Obama called the $3.4 billion settlement to the Indian trust fund lawsuit a "priority" at a press conference on Friday. A reported asked...
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Elouise Cobell: Sen. Barrasso needs to work for trust settlement (September 13, 2010)
"After more than 14 years of acrimonious litigation, 500,000 individual Indians and the government agreed to settle the Cobell case in December and to turn...
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Tim Giago: There are still active missile silos on Highway 71 South (September 13, 2010)
Jackie and I set out from Rapid City to Albuquerque for two reasons. The first was for Jackie to have her annual Multiple Sclerosis checkup...
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