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TNB->Crow Tribe: Crow Tribe wants to exploit coal
Posted on Thursday, July 17 @ 14:30:27 CDT (1211 reads)

AUTHOR: Mathew Brown

They tried casinos on the Crow reservation. The one designed to bring in the biggest crowds, Res-a-Vegas, went broke within a year and has been converted to a fireworks stand. But now the Crow are convinced a really big jackpot lies below the surface: coal.

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TNB->Pequot Indians: Gambling success brings controversy for Mashantucket Pequot tribe
Posted on Tuesday, June 10 @ 21:17:58 CDT (1282 reads)

AUTHOR: Claudia Parsons

Most of the past 400 years have been miserable for the Mashantucket Pequot. Almost annihilated by English settlers and the smallpox, the survivors were enslaved and scattered. Reduced to just a few dozen members by the 1970s, they grew lettuce and tapped maple syrup, living in poverty in trailers on a scrap of Connecticut woods.

Gambling has changed all that.

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Educ->Funding/Grants: National Indian Education Association is hiring
Posted on Wednesday, February 27 @ 22:48:35 CST (3279 reads)

NIEA Job Description: Project Coordinator
Deadline- *EXTENDED* March 10, 2008

The National Indian Education Association is seeking resumes from highly motivated individuals to work on a full time basis as Project Coordinator that will coordinate and facilitate a new organizational initiative focused on high school reform.

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TNB->Souix Nation: "New" pemmican energy bar going on the market
Posted on Thursday, September 27 @ 02:36:59 CDT (3605 reads)

Native American Natural Foods Set to launch Tanka Bars Oct. 5-7, 2007. Pine Ridge-based company creates "new" food category with buffalo energy bars based on old pemmican recipes.

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News->Legal: Tribes promise legal status to illegal immigrants
Posted on Tuesday, August 14 @ 14:56:09 CDT (3215 reads)

AUTHOR: Oskar Garcia

A non-federally recognized American Indian tribe on Friday defended its recruiting of Hispanic illegal immigrants to the tribe under the promise that joining would keep the immigrants from being deported.

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Indian Casinos, All: Indian gambling revenue in 2006 outpaced Nevada casinos
Posted on Monday, June 04 @ 21:19:06 CDT (3005 reads)

AUTHOR: Erica Werner

Federal figures announced Monday, compiled from 387 tribal facilities in 28 states, show Indian gambling revenue has nearly doubled in five years.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminoles have a rags-to-riches story
Posted on Friday, April 27 @ 03:11:47 CDT (4328 reads)

AUTHOR: Sue Reisinger, Seminole Corporate Counsel

Several times last autumn, the Florida Seminoles' efforts to buy Hard Rock Cafe International Inc. hit a snag. Some tribal leaders balked at spending nearly a billion dollars for the hotel/restaurant/casino franchise; they didn't want to hear advice from outsiders, such as Wall Street investment bankers, to go ahead with the deal. It was tribe general counsel Jim Shore -- the first Seminole to graduate from law school -- who saved the day and the deal.

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Rez->Lake Traverse: Mercury-tainted fish are a concern in Great Lakes communities
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 01:00:07 CDT (3854 reads)

AUTHOR: John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer

WELLSTON, Mich. (AP) - As the setting sun cast long shadows over Pine Lake, its surface rippled by a gentle breeze, Jimmie Mitchell dropped a pinch of tobacco into the water - a gesture of gratitude for nature's bounty.

Mitchell, chairman of the natural resources commission with the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, and tribal biologist Marty Holtgren have netted 11 yellow perch and two bluegill from the small lake in southern Manistee County.

Their mission is partly scientific - evaluating fish population dynamics in area lakes. But the perch and bluegill will be frozen and eventually served during a ceremony, perhaps a funeral or festival. To the Anishnaabe tribes of northern Michigan, fish is more than just food. It's a link with past generations, a symbol of cultural identity.

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AN->Inupiaq Villages: Oil and 2 ways of life in Alaska
Posted on Friday, February 03 @ 11:27:01 CST (8223 reads)

Native villagers are divided over oil drilling debate.

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TNB->Navajo Nation: Navajo Tribe looking to gaming, businesses and theme park for revenue
Posted on Tuesday, January 03 @ 01:41:44 CST (6058 reads)

AUTHOR: George Hardeen

Despite the expected loss of revenue from the closure of the 35-year-old Black Mesa Mine on Saturday, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. is optimistic about millions of dollars of new revenue that could be available beginning in 2006 and beyond.

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Rez->RoseBud: BLM announces first sale of wild horses to tribes
Posted on Monday, March 21 @ 23:18:10 CST (6188 reads)

BISMARCK, N.D. - The federal Bureau of Land Management says it is selling wild horses to American Indian tribes for the first time.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Time is Now to launch New Tribal Economies
Posted on Sunday, October 10 @ 15:57:57 CDT (6371 reads)

Anonymous writes AUTHOR: Terrance H. Booth, Sr., Director
Native Nations Sustainable Alliance

A. David Lester, Executive Director, Council on Energy Resources Tribes (CERT) writes, “Indian business is not about money, it is about expressing our deeply held Indian Values in economic terms, to allow us to serve one another. Money is not the goal, money is a means, to allow a person to live according to our Indian ways.” (1) The late Ira C. Booth, Tribal Historian, Tsimshian quotes “Tribal Economic Development in reality would be a re-discovery of who we are as tribal people.”

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TNB->Inupiat: Inupiat Eskimos question religious opposition to ANWR development --Presbyterian
Posted on Friday, February 08 @ 22:28:43 CST (16727 reads)

Keywords: Inupiat Eskimos inupiat eskimos Alaska National Wildlife Refuge ANWR Presbyterian Church religious oposition oil and gas development native economy North Slope of Alaska energy exploration Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation Inupiat of Kaktovik North Slope of Alaska inupiat people Gwich'in aboriginal environmentalists Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

Source: Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation

WASHINGTON, Feb 8, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Inupiat Eskimos from the North Slope of Alaska questioned the validity of Presbyterian leader Dr. Tom English's generalization that Presbyterians are opposed to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy exploration.

Most Presbyterian residents in ANWR -- the Inupiat Eskimos -- support development.

In a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill, thousands of miles from the North Slope, clergy and lay people joined The Wilderness Society and Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) as they expressed their theological and religious reasons for opposing Arctic drilling, and their solidarity with the Gwich'in Indians.

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Rez->CrowCreek Sioux: Crow Creek Sioux Reservation Overview
Posted on Tuesday, January 29 @ 02:45:56 CST (42781 reads)

The Crow Creek Sioux Reservation is located in the central portion of South Dakota, 26 miles northwest of Chamberlain, South Dakota, which is on Interstate 90.

At one time The Great Sioux Nation extended from the Big Horn Mountains in the west to the east side of Minnesota. Canada is the northern boundary and the Platte River in the southern boundary.

The reservation boundaries on the west and south include lakes Sharpe and Francis Case, the large reservoirs formed by mainstem dams, Fort Randall and Big Bend dams, on the Missouri River.

The reservation covers an area of about 400 square miles within Hughes, Hyde, and Buffalo counties. Of this area about 35 square miles are covered by major reservoirs and about 201 square miles are owned by the Tribe and Tribal members.

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TNB->Colville Tribes: Colville confederated tribes purchase Omak mill
Posted on Saturday, January 12 @ 23:35:08 CST (8975 reads)

AUTHOR: Rob McDonald
Spokesman Review

The Colville tribes completed a deal this week to purchase a veneer and lumber mill in Omak that closed 18 months ago. The reopening of the mill is expected to be a big boost to the Okanogan County economy, which is in dire straights.

Colville Indian Power and Veneer will bring between 70 and 120 jobs to Okanogan County, said Terry Knapton, chief operating officer of the Colville Tribal Enterprise Corp.

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