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I’ll start:
http://indian.senate.gov/publi…
“OVERSIGHT HEARING on The Preventable Epidemic: Youth Suicides and the Urgent Need for Mental Health Care Resources in Indian Country”
From the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Thursday, March 25, 2010
9:30 AM
[from translatorpro]
Program aims to find American Indian victims of radiation exposure
The Associated Press
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_…
Updated: 03/22/2010 07:27:51 AM MDT
Flagstaff, Ariz. » The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the help of students to identify American Indians who might be victims of radiation exposure.
Congress passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990, authorizing funding for people who worked in the uranium mining industry or nuclear weapons testing between 1942 and 1971 and contracted cancer or other diseases from radon exposure.
Most applications are filed by people living in the Four Corners region, but American Indian tradition and customs can make successful claims difficult.
Students can hear more about the part-time internships at Northern Arizona University on March 29, the University of New Mexico in Gallup on March 30 and at Dine College in Shiprock, N.M., on March 31.
[From Martha Ture]
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SD had banned new NHs due to the increased Medicaid costs for the state. This NH will be built on tribal land in Nebraska to circumvent the rule, but is still closer to the reservation. Today there was another exception:
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The author is a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian.
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A few paragraphs on the “thrifty gene” theory and a study of the Pima Indians, who have a diabetes incidence of 50 % in their adult population.
Hey all…
I want to do an article on Native Americans in AZ for a magazine I am starting. Can someone point me in the best direction of who to contact? What is the protocol? Good places to research realities of Native American life (other than here of course which I shall be frequenting a lot more) .
I would greatly appreciate it.
I am thinking of starting a magazine (print on demand) that highlights issues that are not covered elsewhere, new and up and coming models, designers, local Mom and Pop businesses in AZ and covers AZ politics. Any ideas/help would be appreciated on marketing etc.
Thanks,
Chaos
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Fed up with growing gang violence, Montana tribal leaders this weekend will start the first-ever American Indian reservation chapter of the Guardian Angels.
The new chapter of the citizens’ crime-watch group – whose members are known by their red berets in New York, Chicago and other U.S. cities – will begin training about 50 recruits on the rural Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The sprawling reservation on the plains of eastern Montana is home to 6,000 of the approximately 10,000 enrolled members of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes.
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Hundreds of prime acres are up for grabs in this waterfront city and its neighboring towns, valuable commodity on an island known for prized beaches, lavish homes and natural beauty.
The 260 acres on Aquidneck Island were for decades owned by the U.S. Navy, which says it no longer needs the land and is moving to unload it. The island communities envision the property as untapped economic potential for sweeping new development.
But another suitor – the Narragansett Indian Tribe – says the land falls under its ancestral footprint and is mounting a bid that may conflict with local development plans.
The Narragansett, Rhode Island’s only federally recognized American Indian tribe, say getting the land would allow it to expand far beyond its existing reservation and would create room for a hotel complex, shopping, a cultural center, park space and public housing.
The tribe and its supporters see an unprecedented opportunity for a population that’s grappled with poverty and whose past efforts at development, including a tax-free smoke shop and proposed casino, have been rejected by the state.
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Looks as if this hellhole may finally be put to some positive use for a change.
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A nice, cheerful story about a lost craft found again…
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Indian Country Today
“He was a real hero for his tireless fight for justice for the many Navajo and other tribal members who were contaminated by uranium mill tailings. …
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