2006 Archives

The remains of an aboriginal child that have been on display at a private museum in the Vancouver Island community of Ladysmith are being returned to the nearby Chemainus First Nation. The bones and the cedar burial box they’re in are believed to be those of a six- to 10-year-old Coast Salish child who died between 100 and 150 years ago.Continue to Aboriginal child’s remains being returned by museum →

Casey Phillips, The Albuquerque TribuneALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – In this plain, white room at Albuquerque’s Veteran Affairs Medical Center, many stories have been told; few of them have happy endings. But the five veterans sitting in a circle facing each other are tied together by more than their unhappy tales. They all served in Vietnam, they all suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and they’re all Navajo. On the first and third Friday of every month, they and other veterans meet…

Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina is calling for entries to their successful annual Native American Indian Film & Video Festival held this year on November 1-5, 2006. ECSIUT will once again bring images, stories, documentaries and dramatic feature films in celebration of National Native American Indian Heritage Month to the audiences of the southeastern United States in their 10th annual film festival. On November 1-5, 2006 the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of…

AUTHOR: Louis GrayThe Choctaw Scleroderma Foundation was created as an Oklahoma 501 (c) 3 non-profit group in May of 2006 to help sufferers and their families to know they are not alone. Aimee Angle-Zahn, Taloa Gibson and Alicia Seyler are the founding members of this noble and needed organization. Seyler and Gibson’s Grandmother died from a form of Scleroderma. They know what we all know; we need to do all we can before Scleroderma takes one more loved one. If…

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.Continue to Saving the peoples right to know: Fight Internet strangulation →

WASHINGTON – Observances and ceremonies will be held across the country on June 21 to mark the 2006 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places. ”Native and non-Native people nationwide are gathering to honor sacred places, with a special emphasis on those that are endangered by actions that can be avoided,” said Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee. Harjo is the president of The Morning Star Institute, which organizes the national prayer days and is a…