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Law->Misc.: Obama's distant American Indian ancestry may make him an attractive candidate to American Indians
Posted on Monday, December 24 @ 05:39:38 PST (1589 reads)

AUTHOR: Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama opposes the dumping of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a sacred site, and co-sponsored the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2007.

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Law->Misc.: Bill being sponsored to terminate the Cherokee tribe from Federal Recognition
Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 15:55:33 PST (991 reads)

Thirty-three bills are currently before Congress that will affect the Cherokee Nation. Some members of Congress are even going so far as attempting to terminate the existence of the Cherokee Nation as a federally recognized Indian Nation under Bill H.R. 2824.

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TNB->Makah Indians: Update on 5 charged in unauthorized Makah whale hunt
Posted on Tuesday, November 27 @ 15:13:28 PST (1033 reads)

AUTHOR: Claudia Rowe, Seattle PI Reporter

The five members of the Makah tribe who took it upon themselves to stage an illegal, unsanctioned whale hunt in the Strait of Juan de Fuca last September have now been formally charged on a number of offenses.

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Law->Court Cases: Multibillion-dollar Canadian residental school settlement passed
Posted on Tuesday, August 21 @ 10:07:24 PDT (1547 reads)

The deadline for Canadian native people to sign up for a multibillion-dollar national settlement came and went on Monday, with the critical number of people agreeing to take the money.

An estimated 80,000 residential school survivors are still alive.

If 5,000 had refused the settlement, Ottawa would have had the right to scrap the deal.

But few declined, meaning an aboriginal who was forced to be away from his or her family while attending a residential school will get an average $27,000.

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Issues->Recognition: Delawares closer to federal recognition
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 01:23:01 PDT (3518 reads)

AUTHOR: S.E. Ruckman, Tulsa World Staff Writer

Cherokee Nation councilors vote to back the tribe's regaining its federal status.

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Law->Misc.: Saving the peoples' right to know: Fight Internet strangulation
Posted on Saturday, June 17 @ 15:31:02 PDT (4052 reads)

A threat is now posed by the ''privatize everything'' crowd to divvy up parts of the Internet and begin charging for faster grades of service and breadth of access. The freedom-to-access tool we have come to appreciate for the rapid communications and byway to knowledge it gives us could be changed forever.

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Law->Court Cases: Sacred Peaks offerred prayers and lawsuits for protection
Posted on Sunday, May 14 @ 13:24:00 PDT (4385 reads)

AUTHOR: Somana Yaiva, The Observer

Amidst the dust and set into the backdrop of the San Francisco Peaks, the Navajo Medicinemen's Association held a weekend long ceremony over April 21 through 23 for the safeguarding and continued protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks.

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Law->Court Cases: Ground zero for an accounting that will take seven years
Posted on Saturday, May 13 @ 18:11:49 PDT (4122 reads)

AUTHOR: John Heilprin

Seventy feet beneath the prairie, the governmentt is filling limestone caverns - protected by guards and a bomb-snifffing dog - with truckloads of American Indian financial and cultural records.

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Law->Court Cases: Head of Indian trust lawsuit urges tenacity
Posted on Sunday, April 09 @ 13:40:44 PDT (4413 reads)

AUTHOR: Michael Moore, Missoulian

MISSOULA -- When Elouise Cobell finally decided to sue the U.S. government for mishandling a century's worth of trust income it held for Indians, she thought the lawsuit might last three years. In two months, the case that bears her name will have been in the court system for 10 years.

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Law->Court Cases: Tribal court rules in favor of “Freedmen”
Posted on Friday, March 10 @ 16:25:31 PST (6059 reads)

AUTHOR: Sam Lewin, Native Times

Justices say Cherokees must grant membership to descendants of slaves

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokees must recognize Freedmen, tribunal rules
Posted on Tuesday, March 07 @ 21:19:50 PST (4707 reads)

AUTHOR: Donna Hales, Phoenix Staff Writer

Cherokee Freedman retain tribal citizenship under the tribe's 1975 constitution and are legally entitled to vote, the tribe's highest court ruled 2-1 Tuesday.

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Law&Politics->Laws: New probate law will create new problems
Posted on Friday, December 16 @ 19:01:52 PST (4161 reads)

A new probate reform act designed to eliminate future fractionation of land is not an end-all and be-all: while it stops fractionation, it creates additional problems that tribes argue will infringe on their sovereignty.

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Law->Court Cases: Boarding schools in America or residential schools in Canada: What was the difference?
Posted on Thursday, December 15 @ 13:12:31 PST (5345 reads)

AUTHOR: Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji)

What happened to the Indian children sent to the "residential schools" in Canada was not very different than what happened to the indigenous children in the United States.

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Law->Misc.: Tribes may lose on trust fund payments
Posted on Wednesday, December 07 @ 19:41:10 PST (3628 reads)

Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases, royalties and sale of property.

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Law->Misc.: Law on books still bans American Indians from Boston
Posted on Wednesday, May 18 @ 22:48:39 PDT (3763 reads)

John "Sam" Sapiel gets an uneasy feeling when he steps over Boston city limits. There are no warrants out for his arrest and he hasn't committed any crime, but he still could be put behind bars -- just because he's an American Indian.

Sapiel, a 74-year-old full-blooded Penobscot Indian who lives in Falmouth, is technically a persona non grata in the city of Boston, where an archaic law forbids American Indians from setting foot since 1675, when settlers were at war with area tribes.

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