American Indian
Children permitted at state prison powwows
WALLA WALLA -- Graysun Sherwood lay sprawled across his grandmother's lap, a red Kool-Aid stain ringing his mouth.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
What's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query
What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky...
Date: 05/26/2012 | Nation & World
Yakama tribal jail focuses on rehabilitation
TOPPENISH -- The focus of a new Yakama tribal jail in Toppenish is rehabilitation.It includes classrooms where inmates can study.Chief of Corrections Gene Fenton told KIMA that it will also hold juvenile offenders who previously have been sent to Spokane.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Northwest
American Indian women seek protections from abuse
WASHINGTON -- Diane Millich's ex-husband was never arrested for any of the more than 100 times he slapped, kicked or punched her before showing up at her Colorado workplace and firing a 9 mm pistol, wounding the co-worker who pushed her out of the way.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Teens find possible 900-year-old Indian artifact
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A group of New Mexico seventh-graders have found could be a significant archaeological discovery.
Date: 05/13/2012 | Nation & World
UN completes study of Native American rights
WASHINGTON — A United Nations fact finder surveying the lives of Native Americans and Alaska Natives said Friday he'll recommend in an upcoming report that some of the tribes' lands be restored, including the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Nation & World
Indian tribe reclaims ancient pot donated to Goodwill
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An Oklahoma Indian tribe is reclaiming what's believed to be ancient pottery that was dropped off at a Goodwill Industries donation trailer in western New York.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Nation & World
Tribal group gets ancestral lands in California
SAN FRANCISCO -- A Northern California Native American group is getting its ancestral land back.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Nation & World
Tribe sees reversal of fortunes amid casino woes
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — For two decades, the Mashantucket Pequots lived like Indian gambling royalty. Luxury cars abounded on their tiny, gated reservation of colonial and ranch-style homes in the woods of southeastern Connecticut.
Date: 03/28/2012 | Nation & World
Hundreds attend hearing for Spokane Tribe casino
SPOKANE -- Hundreds of people attended a Monday night hearing on plans for a proposed Spokane Tribe casino at Airway Heights.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Tribe: Bald eagle hunting permit a victory for tradition
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.
Date: 03/18/2012 | Nation & World
EIS pushes controversial Spokane Tribe casino forward
AIRWAY HEIGHTS -- A big casino that the Spokane Tribe of Indians is proposing has cleared a major regulatory hurdle, but the project is drawing bitter opposition from a rival tribe and from some area business and political leaders.
Date: 03/17/2012 | Northwest
Domestic violence new target in 'war against women'
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats fired the latest political shot in what they're calling the Republican "war against women" Thursday, pushing to renew and expand a law that fights violence against women and pays to help victims. They dared GOP senators to vote against it.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Nation & World
Violent skirmish breaks out among casino tribe's factions
COARSEGOLD, Calif. — Sheriff's deputies and security guards from rivaling factions of a casino tribe were on patrol Wednesday, one day after a violent skirmish described as "absolute pandemonium" left three people injured.
Date: 02/29/2012 | Nation & World
State Senate passes bill for tribal retrocession process
YAKIMA -- The Washington state Senate has passed a bill that opens the door for dismantling state jurisdiction over American Indian tribes.
Date: 02/28/2012 | Northwest
Elwhas won't release hatchery steelhead this year
TACOMA -- The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has agreed not to release any hatchery-raised steelhead into the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River this year.
Date: 02/28/2012 | Northwest
Obama approves bill for Quileute tribal move
LA PUSH, Wash. -- President Barack Obama has approved a bill that will allow the Quileute Tribe to move its buildings out of a tsunami zone on the Washington coast to higher ground in Olympic National Park.
Date: 02/27/2012 | Northwest
Lawmakers consider tribal rights bill
YAKIMA -- Lawmakers in Washington are considering a proposal to start dismantling the state's civil jurisdiction over American Indians, a step many consider long overdue. But some say they worry that restoring full sovereignty to tribes over their members might subject outsiders to unfair treatment...
Date: 02/19/2012 | Northwest
New Nisqually building to add to tribe's growth
OLYMPIA -- The Nisqually Indian Tribe is building a $7.9 million administration center, one of many projects helping to transform the small tribe into a major player in south Puget Sound.
Date: 02/18/2012 | Northwest
Sioux sue beer companies for tribal alcohol problems
LINCOLN, Neb. — An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Date: 02/09/2012 | Nation & World
Census: Many Native Americans identify with multiple races
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Almost half of American Indians and Alaska Natives identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to Census data released Wednesday.
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
Reburied skull found near mouth of Elwha River
PORT ANGELES -- The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe plans to rebury a skull found near the mouth of the Elwha River, and it won't be the first such reburial.Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles said the skull was found by tribal members Monday afternoon on a beach.
Date: 01/05/2012 | Northwest
Truth vs. 'Twilight'
Quileute people want you to know they aren't shape-shifters
Date: 11/29/2011 | Life
Fort Sill Apaches win a reservation in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 125 years after the surrender of renowned Apache leader Geronimo scattered tribal members across the Southwest, the Fort Sill Apache have won the right to establish a reservation on homelands in southern New Mexico.
Date: 11/23/2011 | Nation & World
Building their futures
Tulalip Tribes training American Indians in construction
Date: 11/21/2011 | Local News
Progress made toward cleaning up uranium mine
SPOKANE -- The Spokane Tribe of Indians has recently won big victories in its long fight against uranium contamination, including a deal reached this fall between the federal government and mining companies to clean up the long-closed Midnite Mine on the reservation.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Northwest
Dance diva Maryann Sundown dies at 93
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Arnaucuaq, whose English name was Maryann Sundown, the Yup'ik Dance Diva of Scammon Bay, died in her home Wednesday night. She was 93. Beloved by fans of Native dance throughout Alaska, she continued to delight audiences despite her age, performing at the big Cama-i dance...
Date: 10/29/2011 | Northwest
Feds order 25 states to provide bilingual ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the run-up to the 2012 elections, the federal government is ordering that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Nation & World
FBI: 3-year-old witnessed triple slaying in Mont.
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A 3-year-old child witnessed the killing of three people in a remote area of Montana's Crow Indian Reservation and named a family member as the shooter, according to an FBI affidavit.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Northwest
Ruling clears way for appeals of Indian trust deal
HELENA, Mont. -- A federal judge has cleared the path for appeals to move forward in a $3.4 billion U.S. government settlement over mismanaged American Indian land royalties, a ruling expected to further delay resolution of the 15-year lawsuit.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Northwest
Judge reopens voting in Cherokee race
TULSA, Okla. -- A federal judge on Tuesday approved a compromise between the Cherokee Nation and the descendants of slaves once owned by the tribe's members that will allow more than 30,000 registered voters to cast ballots in the tightly-contested special election for tribal chief, if they haven't...
Date: 09/27/2011 | Nation & World
Cherokees miss election pact deadline
TULSA, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation missed deadlines last week to notify roughly 1,200 descendants of black slaves once owned by the Oklahoma tribe’s members that they could vote in a special election for their new chief and to send absentee ballots to some of them.
Date: 09/26/2011 | Nation & World
Capt. Clark's descendants to make amends
LONG BEACH -- After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis prepared to head home. There was just one problem: They were short a canoe.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Northwest
Cherokee Nation makes deal allowing freedman vote
WASHINGTON -- Just as a federal judge was about to get involved, the Cherokee Nation reached an agreement Tuesday to allow descendants of slaves once owned by the Oklahoma tribe's members to vote for its principal chief.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
Freedmen vote could sway Cherokee chief election
TULSA, Okla. -- In a rare move by the government, a federal judge will delve in to the interworking of an American Indian tribe this week by deciding whether to allow the descendants of slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation to vote in the tribe's embattled election for chief.
Date: 09/19/2011 | Nation & World
Cherokees told to take back slaves' descendants
TULSA, Okla. -- A federal order for one of the nation's largest American Indian tribes to restore voting rights and benefits to about 2,800 descendants of members' former slaves threw plans for a special election for a new chief into turmoil Tuesday.
Date: 09/13/2011 | Nation & World
Cherokees expel descendants of slaves from tribe
TULSA, Okla. — One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners' assistance and other services.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Nation & World
Indian activist Russell Means says he has cancer, may die
PORCUPINE, S.D. — Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who led the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, says he has inoperable throat cancer.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Official: Lack of funding harms Native American health
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Native Americans aren't getting the health care they need because services for them are vastly underfunded, the director of the federal Indian Health Service said Friday.
Date: 08/12/2011 | Northwest
Scams may target $3.4B Indian settlement, SEC says
HELENA, Mont. -- The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Native Americans on Friday against scammers who may be coming after their share of a $3.4 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
Date: 07/30/2011 | Northwest
Cherokee court tosses out election for chief
TULSA, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the results of a disputed election to determine the chief of Oklahoma's largest Native American tribe following weeks of legal wrangling and multiple vote tallies that each came out with a different number.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Nation & World
Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes
LYNNWOOD -- A boy who jumped to his death from a Lynnwood overpass in January had been on a waiting list for a bed at a state-run psychiatric hospital. He had been in 22 different foster homes since 1998.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
Results flip-flopping in Cherokee chief election
TULSA, Okla. -- Since an election was held three weeks ago for chief of one of the nation's largest American Indian tribes, the incumbent and challenger have each been declared the winner -- twice.
Date: 07/18/2011 | Nation & World
Challenger in Cherokee tribal chief race wins in recount
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — A recount in the contentious Cherokee Nation principal chief election showed challenger Bill John Baker beat incumbent Chad Smith by 266 votes, both camps said late Thursday.
Date: 06/30/2011 | Nation & World
Swinomish tribal leader Robert Joe, Sr. dies at 82
LA CONNER -- The Swinomish Tribe says former tribal Chairman Robert Joe, Sr., will be buried in the tribal cemetery Friday following his funeral in La Conner.The 73-year-old, also known as Wa-Walton, died Wednesday morning in his sleep. He suffered complications from diabetes.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Northwest
Judge approves settlement over Indian royalties
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Monday approved a $3.4 billion settlement over mismanaged Indian royalties in a case that represents the largest class-action settlement ever approved against the U.S. government.
Date: 06/20/2011 | Nation & World
Judge to hear $3.4B Indian settlement case
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A hearing on the fairness of a $3.4 billion settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed the government mismanaged the trust accounts of hundreds of thousands of American Indian landowners throughout the United States is planned Monday in Washington, D.C.
Date: 06/19/2011 | Northwest
Bones found at Oak Harbor road construction site likely are ‘historic,’ coroner says
OAK HARBOR -- A construction crew at an Oak Harbor road project was surprised Thursday morning when workers uncovered human bones on the site. The bones were later determined to be historic remains, and likely American Indian, officials said.
Date: 06/16/2011 | Local News
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