Enhanced tribal IDs considered by Tulalip, Colville tribes

Babette Herrmann, Today correspondent
August 31, 2009
W hen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security enacted the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative June 1 tribal IDs were not on the list of acceptable forms of identification... Read more

Historic site complicates work

August 31, 2009
Some 1,200 years ago, a group of American Indians cooked meals of beaver, deer or perhaps woodland bison on a stone hearth near the cool waters of a perpetual spring a few miles we... Read more

Twin Arrows namesake gets a face-lift

August 31, 2009
The famed giant arrows at the defunct Twin Arrows Trading Post east of Flagstaff, Ariz., recently were refurbished after years of deterioration and neglect... Read more

St. Regis awarded grant to implement Tribal Healing to Wellness Court

Staff reports
August 31, 2009
AKWESASNE, N.Y. – The Department of Justice’s Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program recently awarded $350,000 to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Court... Read more

Trahant: When a step aside was ‘a godsend’

Mark Trahant
August 31, 2009
S en. Edward M. Kennedy jumped into American Indian issues with zeal after his brother, Bobby, was assassinated. Sen. Robert F... Read more

Counts up for steelhead passing Bonneville dam

Erik Robinson, The Columbian
August 31, 2009
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – When Joe Hymer first saw the figure, he thought it must have been a typo... Read more

Can we reconcile rolls, relations and identity?

Letter to the Editor
August 30, 2009
B efore the 1970s, tribal rolls were controlled and determined by BIA policy, but since then tribes have won the power and freedom to determine tribal enrollment requirements... Read more

‘Ramp It Up’ tells story of Native America’s vibrant skateboard subculture

Kara Briggs, American Indian News Service
August 29, 2009
T he All Nations Skate Jam , held every year at the same time as the Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, N.M., attracts hundreds of American Indian kids who glide and fly o... Read more

Mashpee chairman’s photo sparks pro- and anti-casino blogger battle

Gale Courey Toensing
August 28, 2009
A photo of Mashpee Wampanoag Chairman Cedric Cromwell published in Indian Country Today earlier this month has sparked a battle between pro- and anti-casino bloggers in Middleboro,... Read more

Mashantuckets' $2.3B debt restructuring could answer unknowns about Indian casinos defaulting

August 28, 2009
For months, the recession's effect on tribally owned casinos has been raising troubling questions in Indian Country. What would happen if a tribal casino defaulted? Could the U.S... Read more

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