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Last updated: June 30, 2009
Next update is planned for: July 17, 2009
Selected Native American News Stories
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Culture & Tradition
Cherokee museum expanding (The Asheville Citizen-Times) 6/30/09
Native American boy fights Texas school over hair cut (Examiner.com) 6/29/09
Economic Development
Western Iowa tribal casino suspends operations (Sioux City Journal) 6/30/09
Tribes net $28 million windfall (Wyoming Business Report) 6/29/09
Secretary Salazar announces $93 million in economic recovery investments to improve rural water in the Dakotas (Targeted News Service) 6/27/09
Increase in Native corporation contracts brings Senate scrutiny (Anchorage Daily News) 6/23/09
Roundtable planned for Indian telecommunications issues ( Argus Leader) 6/19/09
Environment & Energy
Nation’s tribes ask Congress for climate legislation (Cherokee Phoenix) 6/30/09
Tribal members fight Enbridge oil pipeline (Duluth News Tribune) 6/29/09
Tribes urged to support renewable energy legislation (Indian Country Today) 6/28/09
Grant to bring renewable energy to Navajo homes (Examiner.com) 6/26/09
Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., Navajo EPA Director Stephen B. Etsitty honored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 for leadership (Targeted News Service) 6/24/09 Health & Welfare
Nebraska court: Tribe can intervene in kids’ cases (Lincoln Journal Star) 6/26/09
Court decision abandons ‘existing Indian family’ doctrine (The Journal Record) 6/24/09
How will universal health care affect Native Americans? (The Huffington Post) 6/21/09
Intergovernmental
Larry EchoHawk sworn in Asst. Secretary of Indian Affairs (Idaho8.com) 6/28/09
Small Business Administration appoints Native director (Indian Country Today) 6/26/09
Crow chairman visits Obama in Oval Office (Billings Gazette) 6/20/09
At conference, Indian officials say sovereignty issue a challenge (Missoulian) 6/19/09
Secretary Salazar lauds Senate's confirmation of Hilary Tompkins as Interior Solicitor (Targeted News Service) 6/19/09
Land & Water
Exxon agrees to pay spill penalty interest (Anchorage Daily News) 6/29/09
Court decision raises questions about tribal land (HeraldNet) 6/28/09
Court upholds dismissal of S.D. tribe’s land lawsuit (Press and Dakotan) 6/27/09
Arguments in Oneida Indian land trust case focus on comma in 1983 federal law (Syracuse Online) 6/24/09
Recognition & Enrollment
Trenton Chippewa try for recognition as separate tribe (The Bismarck Tribune) 6/30/09
BIA head's letter raises questions on rights (Tulsa World) 6/26/09
Coquille Tribe to hold 2-day celebration in Bandon (The Bandon Western World) 6/25/09
Sacred Sites
Tribes’ NAGPRA complaint against UMass moves forward (Indian Country Today) 6/24/09
Tribal members want greater protection for sacred sites (Southampton Press) 6/24/09
Government asks to dismiss Geronimo lawsuit (Fox 16) 6/21/09
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