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BIA still having trouble accounting for land-into-trust (October 5, 2007)

INDIANZ.COM LISTENING LOUNGE Senate Indian Affairs Committee on backlogs at the Department of the Interior. • Opening Statements • Panel 1: Carl Artman | Q&A • Panel 2 | Q&A...

Editorial: Treaty rights deal closes troubling chapter (October 5, 2007)

"A troubling chapter in history has been closed with the presumptive deal reached with five American Indian tribes in Michigan. It will establish a new treaty defining the rights of...

Trailer parks on reservation riddled with problems (October 5, 2007)

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Indian Affairs inspected three trailer parks on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Reservation in California. The EPA and the BIA found numerous...

Indian adoptees find their way home to tribes (October 5, 2007)

Sandy Whitehawk is helping Indian adoptees find their tribal families. Whitehawk, 35, was born on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. She was adopted by a white family...

Natives say attack on street was racially motivated (October 5, 2007)

A group of Native people were pelted with eggs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last weekend and some say the attack was racially motivated. University of Saskatchewan professor Priscilla Settee was leaving...

Canada makes first residential school payment (October 5, 2007)

The first payment in Canada's $1.9 billion residential school settlement was made on Thursday. Mary Moonias, a teacher from the Louis Bull First Nation in Alberta, spent 10 years...

Mescalero Apache Nation votes out president (October 5, 2007)

Voters of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico ousted incumbent President Mark Chino in a primary election on Tuesday. Chino failed to get enough votes to stay in...

Federal funding restored to Catawba Nation (October 5, 2007)

The Catawba Nation of South Carolina is getting back on its feet with the restoration of federal funds. The Bureau of Indian Affairs cut all of the tribe's 638 contracts...

Hopi council session interrupted by protest (October 5, 2007)

The Hopi Tribe of Arizona finally resolved a leadership dispute in August but some tribal members still aren't happy with their council. The council was holding a regular session on...

Navajo youth compete at junior rodeo in New Mexico (October 5, 2007)

Navajo kids as young as 3 years old took part in the 96th Shiprock Navajo Fair Junior Rodeo in New Mexico. Springsky Chee, 3, competed in the barrel racing,...

Group says NAGPRA bill allows tribes to claim Latinos (October 5, 2007)

A bill to amend the Native Americans Grave Protection and Repatriation Act would allow tribes to claim ancestors of modern-day Latinos, according to a group that supports the study of...

Sen. Craig, salmon critic, won't resign despite ruling (October 5, 2007)

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), a critic of salmon preservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and a defender of a judicial nominee who was unanimously opposed by tribes, won't resign...

Wisconsin county files land-into-trust lawsuit (October 5, 2007)

Sauk County in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department that challenges the legality of the land-into-trust process The county claims Section of the Indian Reorganization Act...

Rogue Makah hunters indicted on federal charges (October 5, 2007)

Five members of the Makah Nation of Washington were indicted on Thursday for illegally killing a gray whale. The five men were charged in federal court with conspiracy, unlawful...

Opinion: Makah Nation has treaty right to hunt (October 5, 2007)

"Why do people whale? Because, that is what their ancestors did. Whaling is their cultural identity. It makes them who they are. Some people are cowboys. Some are fishermen. It...

Native woman found guilty in music sharing case (October 5, 2007)

A 30-year-old Native woman from Minnesota was found guilty for downloading and sharing copyrighted music over the Internet. Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two, was ordered to pay...

CFO Magazine: The Indian trust fund accounting (October 5, 2007)

"Deep underneath an industrial park in Lenexa, Kansas — not far from Shawnee Mission Lake and Arapaho Park — the work goes on. In a vast underground warehouse, historians...

Opinion: Why Natives must reject Columbus Day (October 5, 2007)

"In Colorado, we know something about Columbus Day. We have been working for the past 18 years to dismantle this anti-Indian celebration. Columbus Day was born in Colorado in 1907,...
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