Last updated: July 22, 2008

Next update will be updated on or before: July 29, 2008

Selected Native American News Stories

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Culture & Tradition

• • Pojoaque gallery to become SWAIA showcase (Santa Fe New Mexican) 7/19/08

• • Noted powwow set this weekend (Tulsa World) 7/17/08

• • Native American magazine coming (Rapid City Journal) 7/16/08

• • American Indians return to tradition (Post And Courier) 7/16/08

Education

• • Review finds background checks lacking at BIA schools (Indianz.com) 7/21/08

• • Indian school under scrutiny to reorganize (San Diego Union-Tribune) 7/17/08

• • Half of Utah's Indian students drop out of school (KCPW) 7/16/08

Environment & Energy

• • Richardson asks BLM to protect Otero Mesa grasses (Indian Country Today) 7/21/08

• • Colo. official speaks out on N.M. power plant (Indian Country Today) 7/21/08

• • Interior Dept. opens 2.6 million Alaskan acres for oil exploration (New York Times) 7/17/08

• • Mining company liable for pollution at former uranium mine (Seattle Times) 7/16/08

Fiduciary Duty

• • Chippewa bands can't agree how to split multi-million dollar settlement (Minnesota Public Radio) 7/22/08

Health & Welfare

• • Helping Native Americans (National Ledger) 7/22/08

• • Sanford takes on tribal health care problems (Argus Leader) 7/22/08

• • Villagers can't kick soda pop habit (Anchorage Daily News) 7/20/08

• • Senate backs bill with $2B for Indian Country (Indianz.com) 7/17/08

Intergovernmental

• • Tribal board's funding restored (Bangor Daily News) 7/22/08

• • Senate Finance hearing on Indian tax policy (Indianz.com) 7/18/08

• • Sovereignty allows tribe exemption (Durango Herald) 7/18/08

Land & Water

• • Tribe fights to be heard on water issue (Ada Evening News) 7/21/08

Recognition & Enrollment

• • Mediation OK'd in split by tribe on membership (San Diego Union-Tribune) 7/17/08

Tribal Government

• • Tribe backs civil-rights effort [NARF] (Billings Gazette) 7/20/08

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IMDiversity
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