Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2007.
— Billionaire donates $5 million to Crazy Horse Memorial
— Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe celebrated in Smithsonian exhibit
— Old Indians mounds claimed by Eastern Cherokee tribe
— Duck Valley Indian Rez without water, running low on food after fire destroys village
— Crow Tribe wants to exploit coal
— Makah tribal member kills whale without permits or tribal sanction
— Multibillion-dollar Canadian residential school settlement passed
AUTHOR: Mathew Brown They tried casinos on the Crow reservation. The one designed to bring in the biggest crowds, Res-a-Vegas, went broke within a year and has been converted to a fireworks stand. But now the Crow are convinced a really big jackpot lies below the surface: coal.
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has stated his opposition to H.R. 2824, an attempt by his fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) to sever government-to-government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because of an on-going dispute between the tribe and the “Cherokee Freedmen.”
AUTHOR: Carson Walker A South Dakota billionaire banker has pledged a$5 million matching grant to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, thelargest ever in the mountain carving’s nearly 60 year history. T. Denny Sanford of Sioux Falls, a longtime supporter of the project thathonors American Indians, initially wanted to remain anonymous but allowedhis name to be released if it would help the fundraising effort, said RuthZiolkowski, president and CEO. Her husband, the late Korczak Ziolkowski, started the project in 1948 andshe…
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.
Of the three front-running Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Barack Obama is the only one with a permanent place on his Web site for America's indigenous peoples.
The revocation of the 15th century papal bull, Inter Caetera, will definitely announce before the world community that the Vatican no longer supports the principle of subjugation that it promulgated five and a half centuries ago. The Roman Catholic church will be demonstrating its seriousness about respecting the rights and dignity of all peoples. The revocation of Inter Caetera will be an extremely important spiritual and symbolic gesture of peace and healing in creating a culture of peace on earth.
The first class of inductees entered the Montana Indian Athlete Hall of Fame on Friday night. The hall of fame is brainchild of Don Wetzel Sr., a former Browning and University of Montana standout and coach, who with his father decided that Montana’s standout American Indian athletes needed recognized. Most of the seven inductees were all-round athletes, but each was a standout on the basketball court. They told stories of shooting at small hoops, some just 6 inches in diameter,…