2007 Archives

AUTHOR: Mathew Brown They tried casinos on the Crow reservation. The one designed to bring in the biggest crowds, Res-a-Vegas, went broke within a year and has been converted to a fireworks stand. But now the Crow are convinced a really big jackpot lies below the surface: coal.

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has stated his opposition to H.R. 2824, an attempt by his fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) to sever government-to-government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because of an on-going dispute between the tribe and the “Cherokee Freedmen.”

AUTHOR: Carson Walker A South Dakota billionaire banker has pledged a$5 million matching grant to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, thelargest ever in the mountain carving’s nearly 60 year history. T. Denny Sanford of Sioux Falls, a longtime supporter of the project thathonors American Indians, initially wanted to remain anonymous but allowedhis name to be […]

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama opposes the dumping of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a sacred site, and co-sponsored the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2007.

Of the three front-running Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Barack Obama is the only one with a permanent place on his Web site for America’s indigenous peoples.

AUTHOR: Thomas Dahlheimer

The revocation of the 15th century papal bull, Inter Caetera, will definitely announce before the world community that the Vatican no longer supports the principle of subjugation that it promulgated five and a half centuries ago. The Roman Catholic church will be demonstrating its seriousness about respecting the rights and dignity of all peoples. The revocation of Inter Caetera will be an extremely important spiritual and symbolic gesture of peace and healing in creating a culture of peace on earth.

The first class of inductees entered the Montana Indian Athlete Hall of Fame on Friday night. The hall of fame is brainchild of Don Wetzel Sr., a former Browning and University of Montana standout and coach, who with his father decided that Montana’s standout American Indian athletes needed recognized. Most of the seven inductees were […]

Abbott & Fenner Business Consultants are pleased to announce that the scholarship program will be continued for 2008. In 2007 they had one winner from Arkansas and one from North Carolina. For this scholarship you must write an essay of less than 1,000 words on one of two proposed subjects. You do NOT have to […]

I wanted to alert you to an important opportunity for our
youth. The Gates Millennium Scholars program, established
in 1999, was initially funded by a 1 billion dollar grant
from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of GMS
is to promote academic excellence and to provide an
opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial
need to reach their highest potential.

Thirty-three bills are currently before Congress that will affect the Cherokee Nation. Some members of Congress are even going so far as attempting to terminate the existence of the Cherokee Nation as a federally recognized Indian Nation under Bill H.R. 2824.

The essence of Bill H.R. 2824 is to sever United States’ government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

Michael Blake, who wrote the novel Dances With Wolves in 1988 and later the 1990 screenplay for Kevin Costner’s movie by the same name, has now completed a screenplay based on his latest novel, The Holy Road, which is a sequal to Dances With Wolves. The movie is expected to go into production soon.

Chris Eyre, the prominent Native filmmaker, stopped by a
Lakota language class here recently to debunk stereotypes, share his
favorite Native movies and leave his audience in stitches.

“Cowboys and Angels” is a free northern Michigan benefit concert to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the nation’s poorest American Indian reservations.

To Whom it May Concern;

12:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day I was listening to my was favorite radio station WGRR here in Cincinnati when I heard the following re-broadcast from Chris and Janeen morning show.

Navajos showed up on three television channels simultaneously the last Sunday in October, and the spurt of Navajo celebrity isn’t over yet. Billy Luther’s documentary “Miss Navajo” aired Tuesday, Nov. 13, on PBS. And Elsa Johnson, a Navajo cultural consultant for the film and television industry, recently worked on an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s “30 […]

Norman Akers (Osage), Mario Martinez (Yaqui), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead Salish) and Marie Watt (Seneca) — artists who often utilize traditional American Indians motifs in unexpected ways — were selected by the U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian to have their work showcased overseas in U.S. embassies worldwide, introducing foreign audiences to the richness and variety of contemporary American Indian art.