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Group pushing Blackfeet Nation to change membership criteria (May 21, 2012)

Members of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana say the tribe should relax its membership criteria. A group called the Blackfeet Enrollment Amendment Reform wants to eliminate the tribe's 1/4 blood quantum requirement. They say enrollment will gradually decrease if the...

Rep. Young won't introduce Chumash Tribe land-into-trust bill (May 21, 2012)

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, said he won't introduce a land-into-trust bill for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in California. Young met with the tribe to discuss...

Pine Ridge Reservation grocery store reopens after food scare (May 21, 2012)

A grocery store on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota reopened on Saturday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe said food safety concerns were addressed. The Sioux Nation Shopping Center faced protests after tribal members said they were sold outdated...

Joanna Mounce Stancil to head USDA Office of Tribal Relations (May 21, 2012)

Joanna Mounce Stancil, a member of the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, has been named director of the Office of Tribal Relations at the Department of Agriculture. As director, Stancil will help the USDA improve its tribal consultation policies and improve...

Pala Band still interested in buying ranch in ancestral territory (May 21, 2012)

The Pala Band of Mission Indians is still interested in purchasing a ranch within its ancestral territory in southern California. The tribe offered $20.5 million for the 2,500-acre Warner Springs Ranch but the deal fell through. The property's owners have...

Dave Staddon: Stopped by police for coming from reservation (May 21, 2012)

"Last December, while on my way from work for an eye appointment, I noticed a U.S. Border Patrol van following me closely. Clearly I was being observed. When I turned off he turned on his lights and pulled me over....

Seneca Nation adds 55 acres to reservation for housing project (May 21, 2012)

The Seneca Nation of New York added 55 acres to its reservation to make room for a housing development. The tribe acquired the property with land claim settlement funds. A federal law requires that the land be placed in restricted...

Letter: Appalling treatment of Mishewal Wappo Tribe recognition (May 21, 2012)

"I am absolutely appalled by the way the county of Napa, not to mention the other counties, chose to handle its involvement with the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley’s lawsuit with the federal government. When I received your “Keeping...

Supreme Court declines to review Cherokee Nation ICWA case (May 21, 2012)

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined a petition in Nielson v. Ketchum, an Indian Child Welfare Act case. A non-Indian couple adopted a boy who was automatically enrolled in the Cherokee Nation under the tribe's temporary citizenship law. But the...

MinnPost: City incorporates the Ojibwe language into daily life (May 21, 2012)

"Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the...

Kevin Abourezk: Winnebago Tribe slowly reclaiming land base (May 21, 2012)

"For more than 100 years, white farmers planted corn here, and corn stubble juts today from a tract northwest of Winnebago that the tribe bought in 1997. Tony Wood stood here recently, surveying it, trying to envision early Native farmers...

Doug George-Kanentiio: Tribes set standards for membership (May 21, 2012)

Over the past generation it has become somewhat trendy to claim Native ancestry, especially since the expansion of commercial gambling with attendant benefits for enrolled members of federally recognized aboriginal governments. Not so long ago Natives were seen as a...

Editorial: Indian population in Oklahoma will continue to expand (May 21, 2012)

"Whites of European ancestry now represent less than half of all births in the United States. In many Oklahoma counties, at least 25 percent of children younger than 5 are minorities, due largely to American Indians and Hispanics. U.S. Census...

Native Sun News: Parents encouraged to connect with culture (May 21, 2012)

The following story was written and reported by Kate Saltzstein, Native Sun News Correspondent. All content © Native Sun News. Luticia Mann, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, serves as a school resource officer for the Bureau of...

Opinion: Archaeologists still arguing about the 'first' Americans (May 21, 2012)

"When and how did the first people arrive in the Americas? For many decades, archaeologists have agreed on an explanation known as the Clovis model. The theory holds that about 13,500 years ago, bands of big-game hunters in Asia followed...

Opinion: Liquor companies profiting from addiction in Whiteclay (May 21, 2012)

"Big brewers like Anheuser-Busch frequently admonish us imbibers of their grain products to "drink responsibly." Well, I say back to them: Lobby responsibly. In particular, I point to a disgusting binge of besotted lobbying by Anheuser-Busch (now owned by the...

Opinion: Senate candidate tripped up by Indian heritage claims (May 21, 2012)

"It happens in a lot of American families. My maternal great-grandfather was born on a Maine island in the 1880s, in the days when Penobscot Indians still rode birch-bark canoes from their inland reservation to the coast for their annual...

Marc Simmons: New governor battled the powerful Comanches (May 21, 2012)

"On April 6, 1749, young Tomás Vélez Cachupín, newly arrived in New Mexico, took the oath of office to become governor of the province. The document he signed on that occasion is still preserved in the state archives. As he...

Ungelbah Daniel-Davila: Johnny Depp, stereotyping and Tonto (May 21, 2012)

"Everyone in Indian country is in an uproar about Johnny Depp playing Tonto in the upcoming flick, The Lone Ranger, but for the wrong reasons. From what I’ve read online, most people are outraged by the decision to have a...

Massacre wrongly blamed on Indians resonates 115 years later (May 21, 2012)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for an 1857 massacre that was wrongly blamed on Indians but descendants of the survivors continue to commemorate the attack. Members of the Mormon Church attacked and killed about 120 settlers...

Tim Giago: Touching an eagle feather to Warren Buffett's brow (May 21, 2012)

Notes from Indian Country By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © Unitysodak1@knology.net The Associated Press article began with; “Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.” For...
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