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Native Americans

Learning N.C. American Indian culture helps broaden horizons

ST. JAMES N.C. The flat coastal plain, punctuated by trailers and cornfields, offers few clues that this is the home of the Waccamaw-Siouans, a little-known American Indian tribe that has lived in southeastern North Carolina since the mid-1700s.

August 12, 2007

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Rancher, linguist working to preserve native language

TWIN BUTTES N.D. An effort to save the Mandan language may rest on the shoulders of a 75-year-old horse rancher.

August 6, 2007

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R.I. loses lawsuit casting doubt on Indian land trusts

PROVIDENCE R.I. Rhode Island authorities lost a lawsuit Friday disputing the federal government’s ability to take land into trust for American Indian tribes, a case Indian rights groups fear could undermine tribal land across the country.

July 22, 2007

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Virginia festival to showcase 15 American Indian tribes

HAMPTON Va. Powhatan Red Cloud-Owen occasionally runs into people including other American Indians who are surprised to learn there are still Indian tribes in Virginia.

July 22, 2007

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Navajo Leaders Meet with Indian Affairs Delegate

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. Needs across Indian Country include jails, schools, infrastructure and water. On the Navajo Nation, those needs surface on a much larger scale than elsewhere, a U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs official says.

July 17, 2007

Leadership & Policy

To educate a nation; Native American tribe hopes to bring higher education to an Arizona reservation – Tohono O’Odham Nation, Papago Indian Reservation, Sells, Arizona

When the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s surveyed its members last year about barriers that they faced to obtaining a college degree, recurring themes kept cropping up. The nearest college to the Sells, Arizona community was more than an hour’s drive away. Moving to a city with a college was not an option for others. And many found the high cost of big-city rent prohibitive.

July 12, 2007

Sports

UCLA Hires New Director of Basketball Operations

LOS ANGELES Joe Hillock, the women’s coach at Southern Utah for 10 years, has been hired as director of operations for the UCLA men’s basketball program.

July 8, 2007

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University of Wisconsin woman’s disappearance remains a mystery

MADISON Wis. Was Kelly Nolan kidnapped? Is she lost, hurt, or worse? Or did she just walk away and not look back?

July 2, 2007

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Oklahoma American Indian tribe receives $3.8 million federal grant for education, economic development

WASHINGTON The Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation will receive a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to be used for technology-driven regional education and economic development activities, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Friday.

June 29, 2007

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Tribal members receiving an education thanks to gambling

MESA Ariz. One of the payoffs of gambling on the Gila River Indian Community is education paid for by the tribe.

June 25, 2007

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Search For New UND President Needs American Indian Voice

BISMARCK, N.D. The president of United Tribes Technical College says the committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president should include an American Indian.

June 17, 2007

Students

In Fairness

Tribal college leaders criticize proposal to fund nontribal institutions with 10 percent American Indian student enrollment.

May 16, 2007