Last updated: May 6, 2008

Next update will be updated on or before: May 13, 2008

Selected Native American News Stories

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Culture & Tradition

• • Promoting traditions (Indian Country Today) 5/5/08

Economic Development

• • Currency bypasses businesses in the Bush (Anchorage Daily News) 5/5/08

• • 'Tribal business structure handbook' (Indian Country Today) 5/2/08

Education

• • Judge rules Klamath school discrimination lawsuit to move forward (The Eureka Reporter) 5/1/08

• • Native education efforts ‘laying a foundation at every school' (The Missoulian) 4/30/08

Environment & Energy

• • Trash cleanup begins on Pine Ridge Reservation (Indian Country Today) 5/5/08

• • Tribe agrees on funding for fish (Yakima Herald-Republic) 4/30/08

• • Salmon decline is a wake-up call (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) 4/28/08

Fiduciary Duty

• • Sioux urged to take Hills payment (Rapid City Journal) 5/4/08

• • Cobell claims to get a price tag this summer (Indian Country Today) 5/2/08

Health & Welfare

• • Senate committee sets hearing on contract health (Indianz.com) 5/5/08

• • Census figures show slow rise in Native population (Indianz.com) 5/2/08

Intergovernmental

• • Appeals court judge strikes blows against Indian rights (Indianz.com) 5/5/08

• • Severing relations: Penobscot cuts state ties in unprecedented move (Indian Country Today) 5/2/08

• • Regret expressed for treatment of Indians (The Denver Post) 5/1/08

• • Court decision questions governor's deals with tribes (The San Diego Union-Tribune) 4/30/08

• • Native Hawaiians blockade historic palace (CNN) 4/30/08

• • Tribal gamble (Bangor Daily News) 4/30/08

• • Meacham says state moving slowly toward single tobacco tax rate (Tulsa World) 4/29/08

Land & Water

• • Tribe may get part of Badlands (Indian Country Today) 5/5/08

• • Crees flown out as Albany River rises (Indian Country Today) 5/5/08

• • House hearing on Missouri River compensation (Indianz.com) 5/5/08

• • Tribe is reclaiming a lost legacy (Star Tribune) 5/3/08

Recognition & Enrollment

• • Lumbee recognition bill elicits concerns from other Indian groups (NBC) 5/1/08

Sacred Sites

• • Cibola County opposes Mount Taylor cultural listing (Las Cruces Sun-News) 4/30/08

• • Lease applications for geothermal development denied (Mt. Shasta News) 4/30/08

• • Gila resolution calls freeway path 'sacred land' (The Arizona Republic) 4/29/08

Tribal Government

• • Looking for relief: Changing concepts of tribal sovereignty (Billings Gazette) 5/4/08

Tribal Jurisdiction

• • Supreme Court must uphold tribal civil jurisdiction (Asheville Citizen-Times) 5/1/08

• • State allowed to prosecute man (Deseret News) 4/30/08

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For a more complete list of recent news stories see
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Indian Country Today
Native Web News Digest
IMDiversity
Native News Online
Native Nations Network

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