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Statistics: Most censored indigenous issues of 2007
Posted on Wednesday, January 02 @ 07:21:26 PST (1290 reads)

AUTHOR: Brenda Norrell

The most censored issue of Indigenous Peoples by the media in 2007 was the “Silencing of traditional and grassroots’ voices by those in power,” according to readers voting on a poll of most censored indigenous issues at the Censored Blog.

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Statistics: Census Bureau update provides look at Indian Country
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 01:29:06 PDT (3183 reads)

The United States is home to nearly 2.4 million American Indians and Alaska Natives, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, with Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux and Ojibwe the most prominent tribal affiliations.

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Statistics: Indigenous Languages Spoken in the United States by number of speakers
Posted on Tuesday, February 18 @ 00:08:06 PST (15574 reads)

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The following tables list 154 indigenous American languages which are still spoken in the United States, the number of speakers, and where the speakers are located. Table 1 arranges the languages alphabetically, while Table 2 arranges them according to number of speakers.

Note: *The oldest Makah tribal member and the last fully fluent in the Makah language died at her home Monday, August 21, 2002, at age 100.

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Statistics: Status of Native American Language Endangerment
Posted on Monday, February 17 @ 23:29:40 PST (8328 reads)

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AUTHOR: Michael Krauss

Speaking of the sacredness of things, I honestly believe, as a linguist who is supposed to view languages as objects of scientific study, that somehow or other they elude us, because every language has its own divine spark of life.

Philosophers have said that languages are, in fact, forms of life. I believe that. As I have said before, a hundred linguists working for a hundred years could not get to the bottom of a single language. I never heard any linguist disagree with that statement.

Yes -- and a hundred Navajo linguists working a hundred years on Navajo still, I am sure you would all admit, would not get to the bottom of Navajo. It certainly would help, though, if there were a hundred Navajo linguists working a hundred years on Navajo. Let us hope that Navajo and other such languages will be around for a hundred years.

Language survival is the central topic that I wish to address here today.

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Statistics: Diabetes: Highly prevalent in American Indians, but rarely treated
Posted on Tuesday, March 26 @ 01:17:43 PST (12927 reads)

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AUTHOR: Adam Bowles, Norwich Bulletin

Although his mother and aunts developed the disease, Kenneth M. Reels, chairman of the Mashantucket Tribal Council, never knew what diabetes was until he was diagnosed with it four years ago.

Reels has since become well educated on the topic, hosting five annual conferences on diabetes at tribe-owned Foxwoods Resort Casino, the world's largest gambling enterprise.

But local and state health experts say ignorance and denial remain a problem among hundreds of local American Indians who suffer from the disease, but don't seek care until they face a serious, sometimes life-threatening complication.

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Statistics: Population of Indians on the rise, Utah's percentage exceeds U.S. average
Posted on Thursday, February 14 @ 12:57:58 PST (8660 reads)

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Author: Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah is among 19 states in which the American Indian population exceeds the U.S. proportion of 1.5 percent, and among four Southwestern states in which American Indians make up the majority of the population in certain counties, according to U.S. Census figures released today.

The figures from the 2000 Census also show that the number of Indians is increasing at a faster rate than the overall U.S. population, and the majority of Indians live in the West.

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Statistics: Phoenix is 1st in share of Indians among top 10 cities in the nation
Posted on Thursday, February 14 @ 12:47:53 PST (3967 reads)

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Author: Jon Kamman, The Arizona Republic

Phoenix has the highest proportion of American Indians among the top 10 cities in the nation.

But increasing urbanization doesn't necessarily mean Indians are losing touch with their ancestral homelands and cultures, a leading Indian academician said Tuesday.

A Census 2000 summary released today shows that the population of 35,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives within the city limits of Phoenix represents an Indian component of 2.7 percent. No count was available for other areas of the Valley.

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