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
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.
AUTHOR: Greg Peterson Lakota teen suicide crisis addressed by Michigan/South Dakota musicians: Concert raises money for America’s oldest Native American domestic violence shelter and to battle alarming suicide problem on Rosebud Reservation
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.
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.
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has canceled its wild rice harvest for the first time in history.
WHAT: Sante Fe Indian Market
WHEN: August 18-19, 2007
WHERE: Sante Fe, New Mexico
ADMISSION: Free to the market, other entertainment has fees.