2005 Archives

AUTHOR: Allen G. BreedAmerican Indian leaders in Virginia are threatening to turn their participation in Jamestown’s 400th anniversary celebration into a protest if they don’t gain federal recognition by 2007. The main sticking point is casino gambling — something the tribes insist they don’t even want. “We’re not asking for something that is not ours,” says Stephen Adkins, chief of the Chickahominy tribe. “We’re trying to reclaim that sovereignty that we believe God gave us. And why should man be…

The anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee is a sober reminder of our nation’s bloody past.Continue to Spirit Of Wounded Knee Lives On →

The Cayuga Indian Nation of New York has purchased a farm in the Finger Lakes region, the tribe's first large acquisition since being driven from its homeland during the Revolutionary War. 

Continue to Cayuga tribe acquires first large parcel in more than 200 years →

This year’s edition of the Big Foot ride began Thursday from a camp on the Grand River where American Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed 115 years ago. In two weeks, riders plan to arrive at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Those who have been on the ride before say it is among the saddest and most fulfilling experiences of their lives. By the time they reach Wounded Knee on Dec. 29, the 23 riders that left Thursday…

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.Continue to New probate law will create new problems →

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.

As the result of a lawsuit brought by the survivors of the residential schools, nearly 86,000 indigenous Canadians are eligible to collect money from the $2 billion in Canadian funds allocated for payment.

Continue to Boarding schools in America or residential schools in Canada: What was the difference? →