The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation recently distributed $153,000 in checks to local towns and organizations and to two national scholarship funds for American Indian students in an 11-year tradition of donations.
The presentations were made at a ceremony Dec. 20 at the tribe’s Lake of Isles Golf Resort in North Stonington opposite its Foxwoods Resort Casino.
The [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Mashantucket donates $153,000 to youth groups, scholarships (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Casino, Gaming, Scholarships, Youth, tagged American Indian, connecticut, indigenous, Native American on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Casino lessons in Connecticut (Metro West Daily News)
Posted in Casino, Gaming, tagged American Indian, connecticut, indigenous, Native American on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They sprang up in a verdant corner of Connecticut better known for its submarine base and shipyard, pharmaceutical industry and the straggling remains of a once-vibrant mill complex.
In less than two decades, casinos owned by two American Indian tribes in Connecticut have grown into massive entertainment facilities beyond bingo halls, slot machines and table games.
Foxwoods [...]
THERE’S LIMITED TIME LEFT TO STUDY CLARK COUNTY’S INDIAN OLD FIELDS (Herald-Leader)
Posted in Archaeology, History, tagged American Indian, indigenous, kentucky, Native American, shawnee on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After a while, the Rev. James Clark’s kitchen table started to look like a museum exhibit.One by one, he laid out the arrowheads, delicately notched and chipped, the bounty of childhood afternoons and grown-up work in the fields where the retired minister and farmer has lived his life. Even more rare were the rocks that [...]
Indian mortgage glass half-empty in 2007 (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Financial, tagged American Indian, indigenous, Native American on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2007 was not a banner year for news about mortgages made to American Indians. According to government numbers released in August, the total dollar volume of loans made to Indians and the number of lenders willing to extend credit to Native people fell for 2006, with Indians in danger of being lapped by loans to [...]
Young musician Ozan called the ‘future of Native American music’ (Today’s Zaman)
Posted in Art, Music, Youth, tagged American Indian, california, Native American, turkish on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Evren Ozan, a 14-year-old flute player of Turkish and Native American descent, fascinates listeners with his enchanting performance of Native American music.
The young musician, whose compositions and performances are heard on the radio, in solo concerts and as scores for independent films, is portrayed by music critics as the future of Native American music.
A [...]
Learning Native American history with the Crow (The Buffalo News)
Posted in Culture, Education, tagged American Indian, crow, indigenous, montana, Native American on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most students are taught Native American history and culture throughout grammar school, high school and sometimes even in college. They read about Indian rituals like sweat lodges and buffalo hunts and see old photographs of teepees in their textbooks. Students are usually outsiders looking in on a way of life very different from their own.
But [...]
‘Creative Spirit’ boosts new talent in Hollywood (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Art, Film, tagged American Indian, indigenou, Native American on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The world premiere of two American Indian short films screened to a packed house at the Shelly Lansing Theater on the Paramount Studios Lot in Hollywood as part of the first-ever Los Angeles Skins Fest – a Native film festival that took place in November.
Both short films – ”Ancestor Eyes,” written and directed by Kalani [...]
‘Broken Promises’ to promote Cobell litigation (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Treaty Issues, tagged American Indian, cobell, dawes, indigenous, Native American on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Raised on the vast, remote Blackfeet Indian Nation of Montana, it was not likely the great-granddaughter of legendary Indian leader Mountain Chief would become a friend of the San Diego filmmaker who until four years ago could not recall setting foot on an American Indian reservation.
But they have, indeed, become both friends and allies: Elouise [...]
Second trial in 1975 Aquash slaying set for June (seattlepi.com)
Posted in Crime, tagged American Indian, indigenous, Native American, south dakota on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The second man charged with the 1975 slaying of an American Indian Movement activist will stand trial in Rapid City starting June 17, according to court documents.
John Graham, 52, was extradited from Vancouver, British Columbia, on Dec. 8, four years after he was arrested and charged with killing fellow AIM member Anna Mae Pictou Aquash [...]
The State of the Native Nations (Indian Country Today)
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Culture, tagged American Indian, indigenou, Native American on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars who have developed a deep understanding of Native culture from time spent working and studying among the nation’s Indians are often well-suited to carry dispatches from Indian country to share with the larger world. From such a group of individuals comes ”The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination,” an [...]
