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University of Montana nears completion of Indian center (03/10)
The University of Montana is set to dedicate the Payne Family Native American Center on May 13. The building was designed around a 12-sided rotunda. Each side represents the...
10th Circuit split on uranium activity on Navajo Nation (03/09)
A split decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a federal permit for uranium activity on land held in trust for the Navajo Nation and on...
Obama administration eyes compromise on sacred site (03/09)
The Obama administration disappointed tribes last year when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear a sacred site case involving the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. The...
Death of informant in artifact case raises legal question (03/09)
Attorneys for defendants in a major Indian artifact case are challenging the work of a federal government informant who died last week. Ted Dan Gardiner, 52, went undercover to buy...
Hoh Tribe awaits vote on measure to acquire park lands (03/09)
Congress has yet to take approve a bill that would allow the Hoh Tribe of Washington to acquire land within Olympic National Park. The tribe needs the land in order...
Wampanoag tribes rejected $2M in sacred site dispute (03/05)
The developers of the controversial Cape Wind energy project in Massachusetts offered $1 million each to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe but both tribes rejected the...
Utah tribes upset about development near sacred site (03/05)
Tribal leaders in Utah celebrated last year when Gov. Gary Herbert (R) stopped construction of a train station at a sacred site near Salt Lake City. But tribes say the...
Coeur d'Alene Tribe sues mining company for pollution (03/04)
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho and the federal government say a mining company dumped more than 100 million tons of mining waste over the past century. The tribe...
California tribes awarded $1.5M in conservation grants (03/04)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded $1.5 million in habitat conservation to seven California tribes. The money will help the tribes with invasive species, environmental restoration and other conservation...
Prosecutors assess Indian artifact case following death (03/04)
David Gaouette, the U.S. Attorney for Colorado, told the Associated Press that he might delay the trial of a defendant in a major Indian artifact theft case due to the...
Source in Indian artifact theft case found dead in Utah (03/03)
The source in the major Indian artifact theft case was found dead on Tuesday in what authorities in Utah said was an apparent suicide. Ted Dan Gardiner, 52, went undercover...
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes take bison in Wyoming hunt (03/03)
Members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho participated in a ceremonial hunt on the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming. About 60 tribal members participated, the Associated Press reported. Four bison...
Salazar set for action on wind farm at Wampanoag site (03/02)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he will stick to his plan to make a decision in April on the controversial Cape Wind energy project in Massachusetts. Salazar said the developers,...
Investigation into vandalism of Nez Perce pictographs (03/01)
Tribal, local and federal authorities are investigating the vandalism of pictographs on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho. Based on the initials and markings left on the rocks, authorities...
Opinion: Native community depends on future of mine (02/26)
"My Inupiaq family has lived in the northwest Arctic for generations. I am a NANA shareholder and I am employed by Teck Alaska at Red Dog zinc and lead...
Deadline approaches for Salazar in sacred site dispute (02/26)
The deadline that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar set for the controversial Cape Wind energy project in Massachusetts is approaching with no agreement in sight. Salazar hoped the developers, two tribes...
Opinion: Hope flows again through Klamath River deal (02/25)
"The river rose last night. Three inches of rain in 36 hours, a neighbor reported. Hopefully, somewhere in the high country that translates into the beginnings of an ample...
EarthTalk: Update on nuclear waste storage and tribes (02/25)
"Dear EarthTalk: Some time ago there were issues with Native American tribes storing nuclear waste on their land, something that was both unhealthy to the communities and caused considerable controversy...
Wind farm company offered $1M in sacred site dispute (02/25)
The developers of the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts offered $1 million to the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe, The Martha's Vineyard Times reports. A tribal member told the paper that the...
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe opposes tower at sacred site (02/24)
The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota says a television station shouldn't rebuild a broadcast tower on sacred Medicine Butte. KELO-TV built the tower 50 years ago, when...
Wampanoag man hired by wind farm developers (02/19)
A member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts has been hired by the developers of the controversial Cape Wind. Jeffrey Madison, an attorney and former tribal council member,...
Cherokee tribes discuss sacred site with company (02/19)
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians met with Duke Energy to discuss an electrical station near Kituwah, the ancestral Cherokee home....
Inupiat youth on cultural exchange in Connecticut (02/18)
Two young people from the Inupiat village of Point Lay, Alaska, are on a cultural exchange with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. Leslie...
Fort Sill Apache Tribe not allowed in Geronimo lawsuit (02/17)
A federal judge won't let the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma intervene in a lawsuit over the reburial of the remains of Apache warrior Geronimo. But Chairman Jeff Houser...
Opinion: State asks Obama to break pledge to tribes (02/15)
"The decision by the federal gvernment in 2007 to recognize the Mashpee Wampanoag as a historic Indian tribe documents tribal efforts to preserve their rights. The decision relies on extensive...
Hoopa Valley Tribe votes against Klamath dam deal (02/11)
The Hoopa Valley Tribe of California won't be signing the Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement or the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. The Interior Department announced a settlement last year that would...
Eastern Cherokees oppose building near sacred site (02/11)
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina says a proposed Duke Energy electrical station will harm Kituwah, the tribe's ancestral home. Kituwah is the birthplace of the...
Opinion: Deck stacked against tribes over sacred site (02/09)
"Back in the 1950s, the standard Western movie would include a scene in which some dignitary from Washington would meet with an Indian chief and his council in the hope...
Obama proposes cut in NAGPRA tribal grant program (02/08)
In his fiscal year 2011 budget, President Barack Obama is seeking a 25 percent reduction in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act grants, Indian Country Today reports. Congress appropriated...
Lummi Nation and county reach agreement over ferry (02/05)
The Lummi Nation and Whatcom County, Washington, reached an agreement for the continued operation of the Lummi Island ferry. The tribe agreed to a 25-year extension of the lease...
Mining company owes royalties to Coeur d'Alene Tribe (02/03)
A mining company says it needs more time to figure out how much money it owes to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho. Sterling Mining Co. is in bankruptcy court....
Montana sends Yellowstone bison to Ted Turner ranch (02/03)
Over the objections of tribes and some conservationists, the state of Montana will transfer up to 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park to a ranch owned by media mogul...
Salazar not expecting consensus on wind farm project (02/03)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he doesn't expect tribes and the developers of a wind farm to reach a consensus on the controversial project. Salazar went to Massachusetts to...
Salazar meets Wampanaog tribes to discuss sacred site (02/02)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is in Massachusetts today to discuss the controversial Cape Wind energy project. This morning, Salazar met with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to greet the sunrise...
Red Cliff Band worried about spread of deadly fish virus (02/02)
The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is taking extra steps to prevent the spread of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia, a deadly fish virus. The tribe is worried the virus...
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