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2005 Native American News Highlights
—The Red Lake massacre was an incident of spree killing that occurred in two places on the Red Lake reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. The first murders began on the morning of March 21, 2005, when 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend. He later drove his grandfather’s police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he shot and killed seven people on the school campus, comprising five students, one teacher and an unarmed security guard, and wounded five others. The shooting ended when Weise committed suicide.
AUTHOR: Allen G. Breed American Indian leaders in Virginia are threatening to turn their participation in Jamestown’s 400th anniversary celebration into a protest if they don’t gain federal recognition by 2007. The main sticking point is casino gambling — something…
The anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee is a sober reminder of our nation’s bloody past.Continue to Spirit Of Wounded Knee Lives On →
The Cayuga Indian Nation of New York has purchased a farm in the Finger Lakes region, the tribe's first large acquisition since being driven from its homeland during the Revolutionary War.
Continue to Cayuga tribe acquires first large parcel in more than 200 years
This year’s edition of the Big Foot ride began Thursday from a camp on the Grand River where American Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed 115 years ago. In two weeks, riders plan to arrive at the site of the…
A new probate reform act designed to eliminate future fractionation of land is not an end-all and be-all: while it stops fractionation, it creates additional problems that tribes argue will infringe on their sovereignty.Continue to New probate law will create…
What happened to the Indian children sent to the "residential schools" in Canada was not very different than what happened to the indigenous children in the United States.
As the result of a lawsuit brought by the survivors of the residential schools, nearly 86,000 indigenous Canadians are eligible to collect money from the $2 billion in Canadian funds allocated for payment.
Continue to Boarding schools in America or residential schools in Canada: What was the difference?
Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases, royalties and sale of property.Continue to Tribes may…
AUTHOR: Betty Reid, The Arizona Republic A group of urban Native American high school students launched a Web site that acts as an educational site for the public and a useful source to Valley Native Americans, especially parents.Continue to Students…
To the American Indians who hold them sacred, the seven rocks in the way of
Paseo del Norte's westward expansion aren't inanimate stones.
They're alive. They're connections to their sacred earth that can't be
replicated 100 feet away.
Continue to Apaches say moving rocks 100 feet would destroy their spiritual significance
Lewis and Clark - An excavation turns up no physical evidence of the
explorers' stay at Ft. Clatsop. A 200-year-old mystery remains unsolved.
Continue to Closest look yet at Fort Clatsop leaves mystery
AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Navajo Times Native American director Chris Eyre delivers an impressivelayup shot with his new film “Edge of America,” a Showtime original pictureairing later this month on cable TV, co-produced with Shelia Tousey. The film opens as African…
A new film has Aleuts talking through the pain. Long-silent Aleuts revisit the suffering of World War II camps in a new documentary film set to air on Public Television this month.
Flore Lekanof was a teenager in June 1942 when the Japanese attacked Dutch Harbor to try to divert American forces from the naval battle at Midway.
Continue to Did you know Aleuts were sent to interrment camps during WWII? Documentary film tells their story
We are pleased to announce that Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War has been selected for national PBS distribution through American Public Television’s Exchange Service. This two-hour documentary about a significant event in the early history of America…
My international movement to rename Minnesota’s Rum River is steadily gaining more and more support. Recently, several Minnesota legislators sent me letters wherein they thanked me for the work that I am doing to change this river’s derogatory name.
Continue to Changing Offensive Names
It’s a website for Native youth that’s long overdue! Native Youth Magazine.com is an online lifestyle magazine about Native youth on and off the reservation. By the touch of a button young Native people can now finally find out what…
Edited by Christopher Simmons ASPEN, Colo. – May 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “Why, then, make so greatado about the Roman and the Greek, and neglect the Indian?,” wrote HenryDavid Thoreau in his Journal in 1857. A missing piece of what…
Chris Eyre and Scott Garen, the team behind the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s signature film A THOUSAND ROADS, have created a new production company, Seven Arrows Signature, for Native American films.
Continue to Chris Eyre and Scott Garen Form New Production Company for Native American Films
For decades Hollywood portrayed Indians as savages, enemies and losers. Now a generation of Native American filmmakers and actors is trying to overturn stereotypes and tell its own truth.
Continue to Indian actors strive to be positive role models
BISMARCK, N.D. - The federal Bureau of Land Management says it is selling
wild horses to American Indian tribes for the first time.
The BLM has sold 141 horses to the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota and 120
horses to the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. More sales are planned in
the next several weeks, bringing the total to more than 500 horses.
Continue to BLM announces first sale of wild horses to tribes
RED LAKE, Minn. – A Red Lake High School student went on a shooting rampage Monday afternoon, killing his grandfather and a woman at their home and then strapping on his grandfather’s police weapons and driving to the high school,…
South Dakota men planning Native American Holocaust Monument…keywords: native american monument american history native american memorials monument project Three South Dakota men are trying to leave a permanent memorial for their people. Bryan Williams and his father Laurs, both of…
Native American Roots, Once Hidden Now embraced…KEYWORDS: native american roots indian ancestry ethnic roots lost culture lost traditions what it means to be Indian cherokee heritage cherokee grandmother Cherokee Indian Strong American Woman AUTHOR: Aunita Tyler The only story I…
Bill addresses slow-moving tribal recognition process.. KEYWORS: federal tribal recognition process Indian laws legislation for native americans government recognition of tribes BIA The House Resources Committee will hold a hearing this Thursday on a bill that seeks to speed up…
Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations… KEYWORDS: oklahoma hall of fame modern day heroes Indian hero Wilma Mankiller Alice Brown Davis Robert L. Owen Fred Lookout Here is your chance to nominate a fellow Native American to join what…
The hefty reward being offered for a stolen Zuni kachina is for real, according to a Santa Fe antiques dealer who said he’s working on behalf of an anonymous pueblo. Claudio Ortega contacted the Journal on Thursday and said he…
Oklahoma Native veteran’s organization offers resources to those that served In October 2004 an entirely Native American Veterans Organization, the National Native American Veterans Association, began operations. The Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, is the first National Organization which…
Chris Eyre will direct “Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th Century,” a four-part series to air on PBS television stations nationwide. The “Indian Country” series is the follow-up to the acclaimed 1995 miniseries “500 Nations.” The new series willchronicle…
The Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards…KEYWORDS: 7th annual NAMMY Awards native american music awards Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida music awards The highly anticipated arrival of the Seventh Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony at the…
Fort Robinson Break Out Spiritual Run honors Cheyenne tribal past … KEYWORDS: Northern Cheyenne spiritual run cheyenne history Southern Cheyenne Dull Knife Little Wolf Fort Robinson breakout run Chief Dull Knife Chief Little Wolf nebraska indian history Northern Cheyenne reservation…