Schaghticoke Tribal Nation Continues Land Rights Struggle

Gale Courey Toensing
December 31, 2012
The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has asked the 2 nd Circuit Court of Appeals to review a lower court decision to dismiss the nation’s land rights lawsuit in Kent, Connecticut...
Rev. John Norwood

American Indian Untouchables and the 2012 White House Tribal Leaders Summit

Dear Indian Country Today Media Network Editor & Staff,...

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December 30, 2012

Native Leaders Help Shape New State Administration

Richard Walker
December 24, 2012
The chairmen of the Jamestown S’Klallam and Swinomish governments are helping the next administration in Washington state get off to a running start in January...

Cobell Payments Being Sent to Wrong Addresses; Special Master Appointed

Rob Capriccioso
December 21, 2012
Reports are surfacing of problems being experienced by some Cobell class members who say that the federal government does not have the correct addresses to send their settlement ch...

2012 Retrospective: March

ICTMN Staff
December 20, 2012
Take a look back at March 2012's biggest stories from the pages of our weekly magazine, This Week From Indian Country Today ...

2012 Retrospective: February

ICTMN Staff
December 19, 2012
Take a look back at February 2012's biggest stories from the pages of our weekly magazine, This Week From Indian Country Today ...
Jay Daniels

On the Cobell Settlement and Other Consultations: Everyone Wants to Talk, No One Wants to Listen

On November 26, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior announced in a press release that the Cobell litigation is final and the Department will impleme...

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December 19, 2012

California Bishop Will Apologize to Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

ICTMN Staff
December 19, 2012
When the Spanish began colonizing central California and constructing Missions in the late 1700s, the Amah Mutsun people were aware of what the Spanish were doing...

The Bennett Freeze's Surreal Nightmare Should Be Ending—But It's Not

Anne Minard
December 18, 2012
By rights, thousands of Navajos living in the former Bennett Freeze area should be able to repair their homes and build new infrastructure, since President Obama lifted prohibition...
Jay Daniels

HEARTH Act: Another Step Toward True Indian Self-Determination

On July 30, 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Home Ownership Act of 2012, also known as the HEARTH Act of 2012, H.R....

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December 07, 2012

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