Showcase for Model Tribal Housing

Mark Fogarty
May 17, 2013
Tribes looking for ways to build energy-efficient and culturally relevant housing for their members now have a model for the task. In fact, they have 22 of them...

Indian Country Leading Green-Building Revolution

Nate Seltenrich
May 14, 2013
On the 108-acre Pinoleville Ranch­eria in Ukiah, California, two hours north of San Francisco, Nathan Rich showed me around the new home he planned to move into with his three kids...

A Very Long Time Between Housing Projects at San Felipe

Mark Fogarty
August 29, 2012
The first big housing project to be built in 40 years on the San Felipe Pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico has just seen its first 28 families move in...

Tribal Housing: Big Challenges Remain, But Some Positives Seen As Well

Mark Fogarty
July 05, 2012
Hefty challenges remain for American Indian housing advocates battling inadequate and decaying reservation homes, continuing overcrowding of units, and a lack of outside investment...
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Indian Benefits: Misnomer and Propaganda

Contrary to popular belief, especially among non-Natives, American Indians did not simply relinquish their rights to lands, waters, and other natural resources....

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Bill John Baker, Policy-Maker: An Interview With the New Cherokee Principal Chief

Brian Daffron
March 05, 2012
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker’s campaign for chief against three-term Principal Chief Chad Smith made national news, with the months-long campaign marred by recou...

Veterans Administration and HUD Announce Homelessness Among Veterans has Dropped in 2011

Vincent Schilling
December 14, 2011
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced in a conference call December 12 that h...

Citizenship Denied: The Latest in the Cherokee Freedmen Saga

Brian Daffron
September 08, 2011
This story was researched and developed last week and will be in the September 21 issue of This Week From Indian Country Today ...

HUD Denies Cherokee Funding Over Freedmen Issue

Rob Capriccioso
September 08, 2011
WASHINGTON – The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has released a letter indicating that the U.S...

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