16th Annual Spirit of Wovoka Days Powwow here this weekend

August 22, 2008
Mason Valley/Yerington will once again be host to the 16th Annual Spirit of Wovoka Days Powwow, this weekend Aug. 22-24 at the Pat Peeples Softball... Read more

Nez Perce Tribe opts out of salmon talks

August 22, 2008
The Nez Perce Tribe has withdrawn from settlement negotiations over the federal government's plan to reconcile hydroelectric dam operations with efforts to restore imperiled salmon... Read more

Seeking a safe travel route in Alaska

Vincent Schilling, Today correspondent
August 22, 2008
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Residents of King Cove, Alaska, have long been isolated from their sister community of Cold Bay... Read more

Indigenous languages added to new Ecuadorian constitution

Rick Kearns, Today correspondent
August 22, 2008
QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador could soon become the fourth country in the Western Hemisphere to have indigenous languages included in the list of the nation’s official languages... Read more

Tribes urged to unite for power

August 22, 2008
There was a common theme running through the various panels at the quarterly meeting of the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas on Thursday: Unite. Read more

Washington in brief

Jerry Reynolds
August 22, 2008
Oglala Sioux Tribe and South Dakota come together on commercial code It is common knowledge, off-reservation, that the key to economic development is credit... Read more

Holy Road

Gale Courey Toensing
August 22, 2008
MASHPEE, Mass. – Maurice Foxx, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and a leading advocate for American Indian rights, died in his Mashpee home Aug... Read more

CRYP celebrates 20 years

Carol Berry, Today correspondent
August 22, 2008
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. – The Cheyenne River Youth Project’s first volunteer reunion Aug. 30 – Sept... Read more

Message to Canada: Loosen the grip or else

Kate Harries
August 22, 2008
Justice is prepared to go to court TORONTO - Independence is key, according to the head of a ;'truth-telling'' commission with a five-year mandate to raise awareness of what happen... Read more

Outgoing princess to continue jingle style dance

August 22, 2008
Celine Chantel Bethel is the outgoing Miss Spirit of Wovoka Days Powwow Princess and will have the honor of crowning a successor to fill her moccasins on the powwow circuit. Read more

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