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CUWiN Announces Mesa Grande Reservation Installation
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http://cuwireless.net/node/224
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Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network is pleased to announce an agreement with Tribal Digital Village to install a CUWiN wireless network on the Mesa Grande Reservation.
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Washington state Indians must continue to protect their rights
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410060&CFID=597298&CFTOKEN=58315573
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American Indians are seeing their economic and political influence grow in the Pacific Northwest.
Reservations are in the midst of economic expansion projects. Local governments are increasingly asking for tribal nation assistance in restoring the health of land and water.
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Beach: 'Tis the season to consider Native people's sacrifice
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410046&CFID=597298&CFTOKEN=58315573
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First, give thanks if you are a member of a tribe that still exists. And, if you are able to sit down to a meal of your tribe's traditional foods give another word of thanks. Since the time of contact more than 200 Native American tribes are now extinct, numerous species of wildlife are extinct, and vast acreage of tribal lands, including sacred places destroyed.
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Did Indian Casino Fire Trump?
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http://celebrityjustice.warnerbros.com/news/0412/27a.html
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Between his high-profile properties and the hit TV show "The Apprentice," Donald Trump is one of the world's most visible billionaires. But now, behind the scenes, he's upping the ante in a casino war with a Connecticut Indian tribe.
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O'odham Christmas in Mexico, a special measure of love
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410071
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Tohono O'odham children in Sonoyta, south of the border of Arizona, received special Christmas presents from a circle of Tohono O'odham, Pechanga and non-Indian friends in Arizona, California and Mexico.
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Lumbees react to media ban
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http://www.robesonian.com/articles/2004/12/27/news/news/story04.txt
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The Lumbee Tribal Council had hoped to close the door on negative news reports when it banned journalists from covering its meetings.
But the decision may only serve to open the Tribal Council to more bad publicity as some tribal members wonder what leaders have to hide.
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Rawiri Taonui: Orewa to Oscars - itÿffffe2ÿffff80ÿffff99s been a big year for Maori
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=9004648
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Early in the year, Maori, as equal citizens under the Treaty of Waitangi and English common law, asked the courts to examine the continuing existence of their pre-colonial customary ownership of the seabed and foreshore.
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Polling Location May Move Off Santo Domingo Pueblo
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http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/252847elex11-04-04.htm
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The governor of Santo Domingo Pueblo wants Sandoval County to consider moving its polling location off the pueblo.
Gov. Sisto Quintana said in a telephone interview Wednesday that he closed the voting location on the pueblo Tuesday because it was the All Souls Day feast.
"The pueblo was closed for the feast and no outsiders were allowed on the pueblo,"
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Troubled youth arrested in young womanÿffffe2ÿffff80ÿffff99s death
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http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20041007011755.shtml
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A Banning man with alleged gang ties was charged with the murder of an 18-year-old Desert Hot Springs woman shot multiple times and left on a Morongo Indian Reservation road, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department reported.
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Haskell students see fee increase as burden
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http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/183750
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Why, the senior at Haskell Indian Nations University asked, should he have to pay higher fees to live in Roe Cloud Hall when he gets so little for what he pays now?
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Fight over landfill may boil down to water fears
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040928-9999-1m28propb.html
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People have been fighting against a landfill in Gregory Canyon since the county first proposed putting one there 15 years ago.
Opponents, now led by the Pala Band of Mission Indians, have raised one argument after another for why the canyon was ill-suited for a dump.
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The Smithsonian Redistributes Honor
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http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15267
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It’s official: the new National Museum of the American Indian declares all brown-skinned people of the Western hemisphere are now “American Indian.” All “indigenous” people of North, Central, and South America, and even Pacific Islanders, are aggrandized in the $219 million dollar showcase of brown pride. The NMAI is shrine for native resentment – a cultural center for anti-white, anti-European sentiments.
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U.S. considered the place 'where languages come to die'
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/9413651.htm
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - To become one of the last living speakers of the Acjachemen language, you first have to pass an unusual test.
Ka`chi Lobo Golden, the ceremonial teacher and "Revealer" of the San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based Acjachemen tribe, will sit on a hill near her home and "release" your name into the wind. She will wait six days for a response.
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Casinos and Indian Sovereignty
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http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18188/article_detail.asp
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American Indian sovereignty is on the rocks in California. The decisions Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is making about Indians and casinos will forever effect the future Indian status in the United States. If tribes are required to pay taxes, or agree to "share profits," then tribes are no longer sovereign, but business partners.
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Homeless in Hawaii: More land for the military than for Hawaiians
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http://indiancountry.com/?1090938578
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Under the cover of the term "Military Transformation" and with the blanket of 9/11, the military is taking a wide berth in land stealing. And, recently enacted Act 50 makes criminals out of people who have been displaced by the military itself, many of them Native Hawaiian.
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Mount Rushmore will get more of an Indian ÿffffe2ÿffff80ÿffff98faceÿffffe2ÿffff80ÿffff99
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http://indiancountry.com/?1090339175
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The new superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Monument intends to give Indians more prominence at the popular tourist magnet.
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Coin: Fighting the myth of the rich Indian
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http://indiancountry.com/?1078153950
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Elected officials are proposing to slash by 70 percent ($30.5 million from $43 million) funding to the Temporary Assistance to Needy Family program being administered by the California Tribal TANF Programs.
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Supreme Court affirms tribal powers over all Indians
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http://indianz.com/News/archive/001818.asp
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Reversing a decision widely seen as an erosion of tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that tribes have criminal jurisdiction over all American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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Tribes take to wireless web
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3489932.stm
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As with other rural areas of the US, wiring Native American reservations for telephony and internet access has never been an attractive proposition for established phone companies.
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TDV gets a Wemmy!
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http://wcai.com/pdf/2004/ts10_wemmies.pdf
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Tribal Digital Village has deployed wireless broadband
links between 13 of the 18 reservations and now serves 1,000 persons at 55 buildings at these 13
reservations.
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Action Alert: Help families move from poverty to self-sufficiency
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http://www.crcjustice.org/crjs_poverty_tanf.htm
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In January President Bush presented his latest proposal for reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF, also known as welfare), in a 15-minute press event at the White House.
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