The Native American NAGPRA Coalition (NANC) today strongly endorsed the National Congress of American Indians’ (NCAI) resolution protesting UC Berkeley’s decision to eliminate its tribally approved NAGPRA unit, diminish tribal participation and influence in repatriation processes and declare a huge portion of the Phoebe Hearst Museum’s collection of ancestral remains and funerary objects “to be [...]
Archive for November, 2007
NCAI, the Nation’s Largest Indian Organization, Condemns UC Berkeley on Ancestral Remains (Native American Times)
Posted in NAGPRA, tagged American Indian, indigenous, Native American, ncai on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
$82.7 Million Provided to Tribal Communities for Law and Justice System Improvements (Reuters)
Posted in Funding, Law Enforcement, tagged , American Indian, indigenous, Native American on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Justice todayannounced more than $82.7 million in grant funds and assistance to tribalcommunities for law enforcement and justice system improvements in fiscal year2007. These awards include funds for tribal courts assistance, alcohol andsubstance abuse prevention, juvenile and mental health programs, victimassistance, and developing responses to violent crimes against Indian women.”We recognize that [...]
A Painful Remembrance (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
Posted in Boarding School, Culture, History, tagged , American Indian, indigenous, Native American on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Many in Indian country have expressed that the trauma from the boarding school experience continues to terrorize the hearts of American Indians. Although much has been written about this history that looms so large in the North American indigenous experience, it remains an obscure topic in mainstream America.
Dr. Eulynda J. Toledo, a member of the [...]
Tribe: ‘Change name’ (The Dickinson Press)
Posted in Mascots, Sports, Team Names, tagged American Indian, indigenous, Native American, north dakota on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The term “Fighting Sioux,” represents only a “slice” of what the Lakota and Dakota people were, and it must be changed, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said here Tuesday.“It’s part of who we were, not who we are,” Ron His Horse Is Thunder said during a two-hour news conference at UND’s American [...]
Juaneño band had sought to establish reservation, casino (signonsandiego.com)
Posted in Federal Recognition, History, tagged American Indian, california, indigenous, Native American on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A federal agency yesterday rejected a 25-year-old petition that would have enabled the obscure Juaneño Indian band to establish a reservation and build the first casino in populous Orange County.In a preliminary determination, the Bureau of Indian Affairs denied the Juaneños’ bid for federal recognition as a tribe, a status required to conduct gambling on [...]
Act Ended Federal ‘Kill Indian’ Philosophy (Times Record)
Posted in Family, History, Youth, tagged American Indian, icwa, indigenous, Native American on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act by the U.S. Congress in 1978 reversed more than 100 years of federal government policy directed at “killing the Indian to save the man,” according to an Oklahoma City attorney.
The quote, “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man,” is attributed to Capt. Richard C. Pratt, who [...]
Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait (Science Daily)
Posted in Archaeology, Genealogy, tagged American Indian, genetics, indigenous, Native American on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America?
Or did the ancestors of today’s native peoples come from other parts of Asia or Polynesia, arriving multiple times at several places on the [...]
High rate of ID American Indian children in foster care (seattlepi.com)
Posted in Culture, Family, Youth, tagged American Indian, foster care, idaho, indigenous, Native American on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
American Indians represent 1 percent of Idaho’s child population but make up 6.6 percent of children in the state’s foster care system, two child advocacy groups say.The National Indian Child Welfare Association, and Kids Are Waiting, released the report last week.
To help reduce the number of American Indian children in foster care, the groups said, [...]
Indian voices and a new comprehensive Indian policy (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Federal Government, tagged American Indian, indigenous, Native American on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the space of two years, between 1968 and 1970, Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon made comprehensive and innovative statements on Indian policy. Together, the combined statements created the fundamental principles of contemporary policy, usually called self-determination policy. Neither president used the expression ‘’self-determination policy,” but ‘’self-help,” ”local tribal decision-making” and ‘’self-determination” were [...]
For Wampanoag, a rite of recognition (Boston Globe)
Posted in Federal Recognition, History, tagged American Indian, indigenous, massachusetts, Native American, wampanoag on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To the beat of a large drum sprinkled with ceremonial tobacco, a dozen members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe filed in front of a blanket spread on the carpeted floor, each holding a stick.
One by one, they raised the sticks to their lips, moistened them with the tips of their tongues, and placed them in [...]
