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2007 Native American News Archive

Native American news and events that occurred in Indian Country in 2007.

Highlights:

— 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

$70,000 in scholarships awarded to native american students by Morongo tribe

In a program designed to provide financial support for California Native
American students statewide, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians provides a
scholarship program unique in the state. Seven Indian students will be the
recipients of this innovative effort this Friday when the Morongo tribal
council presents them with $70,000 in scholarship funds.

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Tribes promise legal status to illegal immigrants

AUTHOR: Oskar Garcia

A non-federally recognized American Indian tribe on Friday defended its recruiting of Hispanic illegal immigrants to the tribe under the promise that joining would keep the immigrants from being deported.

But advocates and federal officials condemned the practice as a scam, saying the group was defrauding people desperate to stay in the country of hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars while giving them false hope.

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6th annual Lakota Hemp Days Aug 21-23

WHAT: Lakota Hemp Days

WHEN: August 21-23, 2007

WHERE: Manderson, South Dakota

ADMISSION: $20.00 for all three days

Lakota Hemp Days is a celebration of the sovereign right of the Oglala Lakota to grow Industrial Hemp on Pine Ridge. KIZA PARK is nourished and surrounded by Wounded Knee Creek, and is where the family of Oglala rancher Alex White Plume planted Industrial Hemp from 2000 to 2002. 

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