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September 20, 2005 Pombo seeks changes to Endangered Species Act Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), the chairman of the House Resources Committee, introduced a bill on Monday to make it harder to designate critical habitats under the Endangered Species Act. Pombo... Wiyot Tribe returns home to sacred Indian Island After nearly being wiped out by a massacre, the Wiyot Tribe in northern California is returning home to Indian Island. The tribe lived on the island in a village... Indian woman wins SBA award for person of year An Ojibwe woman who owns a construction company has been named the 2005 Minnesota Minority Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Kathleen Meyer,... Pine Ridge woman accuses IHS doctor of misconduct A woman from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is suing an Indian Health Services doctor of inappropriate conduct during a visit to an IHS hospital. Tamara Star Comes... Code Talkers museum may be coming to Gallup A museum to honor the Navajo Code Talkers may be coming to Gallup, New Mexico. The city and the Southwest Indian Foundation received a $90,000 grant from the state and... Disenrolled Indians organize rally in California Ousted members of wealthy California tribes are holding a rally at the state capitol in Sacramento on Friday. The rally calls attention to the removal of hundreds of people from... Wild rice harvesting still an important tradition Harvesting wild rice is still an important tradition for Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota although some elders worry that fewer younger people are interested. Rice is an important revenue stream for... Cobell plaintiffs: Swimmer to blame for trust woes "If anyone should know about what's wrong with the government's Indian Trust program, Ross Swimmer should know. When he was head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Reagan... DOI spends $30K to produce glossy report on trust The Interior Department spent $30,000 to produce a glossy, 24-page brochure on the Indian trust fund, the Associated Press reports. The brochure was prepared after the July 26 Senate Indian... Museum in Argentina plans to display Indian children A museum in Argentina is running into controversy over its plan to display the bodies of three mummified Indian children who were discovered in preserved condition. The Museum of High... Editorial: Say no to Goshute nuclear waste dump "At the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, there must be panic. The NRC, years ago, was supposed to have been storing high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev. But that plan has... Oglala Lakota College assumes control of Head Start The Oglala Lakota College has taken control of the Head Start program formerly managed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The college received a $4.7 million grant from the Department of... Newspaper back for Chippewa Cree Tribe meetings The Havre Daily News in Montana is no longer barred from attending the Chippewa Cree Tribe's council meetings. The paper had been barred after publishing a story about proposed changes... Two more guilty pleas in Goshute theft case Two members of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing from the tribe while a third member was sentenced for the same crime. Marlinda... Tim Giago: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina "It would be nearly impossible for a natural disaster of this magnitude not to have pointed out some very serious flaws in our systems of government and I was keenly... White House official arrested in Abramoff probe A White House official resigned on Friday and was arrested on Monday in connection with the probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. David Safavian, the head of procurement policy... |