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09/07/07 -- SACRAMENTO – Many were left to wonder
when the tribe that had perhaps the most to gain from
the latest round of big new gambling agreements dug in
at the last minute and refused to accept the
Assembly's final terms for approval.
09/07/07 -- WASHINGTON -
The unexpected withdrawal of Dr. Charles W. Grim's
nomination to direct the IHS for another four years
left plenty of speculation in its wake. The Sept. 5
announcement caught Washington's Indian affairs
community by surprise. A number of health care
professionals were waiting to know more shortly after
word got around near midday. In the meantime Thomas
Sweeney, director of public affairs for IHS, said
Grim's withdrawal had to do with family needs.
09/07/07 -- WASHINGTON -
The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation
ejected former Chairman David Belardes from the band
in September 1997, by a vote of the general council of
26 in favor, zero opposed and two abstaining.
09/07/07 -- RAPID CITY,
S.D. - Katie has suffered through foster care and
adoption in the past nine years, but her life could
have turned out differently given the same scenario
because of positive changes in a system, a direct
result of collaboration between state and tribes.
09/06/07 -- At 5:35 p.m.,
on Aug. 29, 1907, the shift change whistle had just
blown and the ironworkers constructing the Quebec
Bridge were getting ready to leave for the day.
Without warning, the bridge let out a mighty shudder
and collapsed into the St. Lawrence River, taking 76
men to their deaths. Among them were 33 Mohawk workers
from Kahnawake.
09/06/07 -- Salmon and
everyone who lives in the state of Washington are the
biggest beneficiaries of the recent federal court
ruling requiring the state of Washington to fix
fish-blocking culverts under its highways. Judge
Ricardo Martinez' summary judgment in the culvert case
was clear. The tribes' treaty-reserved right to
harvest salmon also includes the right to have those
salmon protected so that they are available for
harvest, not only by the tribes, but all citizens.
09/06/07 -- On Sept. 13,
the United Nations General Assembly is expected to
vote on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
09/06/07 -- When future
historians analyze the 2008 election results, they
likely will point to the week of Aug. 27 as the time
when the course was set inexorably for the
Republicans' return to minority party status.
09/05/07 -- TALAHASSEE,
Fla. - The Florida Indian Youth Program celebrated its
27th year July 7 - 21. Native students from Florida
and Georgia came to Tallahassee for the annual event,
which features a two-week-long educational experience.
09/05/07 -- KYLE, S.D. -
Many graduation ceremonies are similar, with speeches,
congratulatory messages, tears of joy and beaming
smiles from graduates and family. At Oglala Lakota
College, one of the oldest tribal colleges in the
country, the ceremony is as much a celebratory event
as anywhere else - with one exception.
09/05/07 -- SANTE FE,
N.M. - When the Institute for the Preservation of
Original Languages of the Americas changed its name to
the Indigenous Language Institute in 1997, it also
changed its focus from preservation to revitalization.
09/05/07 -- ANADARKO,
Okla. - For many Native students, the federal Johnson
O'Malley program is a source of stability in their
educational lives. It is the knowledge that school
materials and eyeglasses will be supplied for them, or
that tutoring will be available to them in core
subjects. In many school districts, it provides a
cultural outlet, where Native languages can be learned
or an opportunity to dance as a touring group with
other students exists.
09/05/07 -- LAWRENCE,
Kan. - When Linda Sue Warner, Comanche, returned to
Haskell Indian Nations University this past spring as
its new president, she determined that Haskell was a
''new'' school despite the history of the institution
and began looking at how the university needed to
change. Her goal is to build a school around cultural
values.
09/05/07 -- NORMAN, Okla.
- E. Star L. Oosahwe graduated with a bachelor's
degree in communication from Arizona State University
in 1997. She then graduated from the University of
Oklahoma with a master's degree in education in 2001
and earned her doctoral degree in May from OU in adult
and higher education.
09/05/07 -- BOISE, Idaho
- Elissa Flandro is beginning her college career at
Stanford University, and she's the first enrolled
member of the Kalispel Tribe to do so. The fact that
she's going to college should not come as a surprise,
as it seems to be a family tradition. Her grandmother,
who grew up on the Kalispel Reservation, was the first
college graduate from the tribe when she got her
degree in 1974. Three years later, Flandro's mother,
Debbie, became the third tribal member to graduate
from college.
09/03/07 -- KERNVILLE,
Calif. - The California office of the IHS will invest
$92,150 in water well and wastewater improvements on
two Tubatulabal land allotments in Kern Valley.
09/03/07 -- HONOLULU -
More than 1,000 Native Hawaiians and Asian Pacific
Islanders gathered Aug. 22 - 24 at the Hawai'i
Convention Center for the Council for Native Hawaiian
Advancement's sixth annual convention. This year, the
council partnered with the National Coalition for
Asian Pacific American Community Development. That
move resulted in a near doubling of convention
attendees, who traveled to Hawaii from as far away as
New Zealand, Alaska and North Dakota to join together
to promote Hawaiian and Asian culture and economic
development.
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