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Southern Rockies Nature Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Color me impressed. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced a settlement of the long-standing lawsuit against the federal government for mishandling Indian trust accounts . Spearheaded by Blackfeet banker Elouise Cobell , the suit has dragged on for 13 years. As a girl growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Cobell learned the government was supposed to pay out money...
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Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a "shameful" and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans.' Read more...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction land on one of America's poorest Indian reservations, according to a newly filed ...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a "shameful" and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans.
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
ETHETE, Wyo. The gym is adorned with championship banners, expectations are high, and the players gasp and burn their way through sprints during the first days of basketball practice at Wyoming Indian High School. The afternoon is growing late and the sun casts long shadows across the snowcapped Wind River mountains. Inside the brick gym, the Chiefs - winners of the 2A state championship in...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
ETHETE, Wyo. The gym is adorned with championship banners, expectations are high, and the players gasp and burn their way through sprints during the first days of basketball practice at Wyoming Indian High School. The afternoon is growing late and the sun casts long shadows across the snowcapped Wind River mountains. Inside the brick gym, the Chiefs - winners of the 2A state championship in...
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Bloody Elbow (Free subscription) | yesterday
View full size photo » Dave Meltzer reports that Clay Guida is training with Greg Jackson's famous camp in an effort to reach that elusive next level: Guida left his usual training headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Ill., for Albuquerque, N.M. and the vaunted Greg Jackson camp two months ago. He's lived in an RV on an Indian reservation outside of town, and flew in...
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
U.S. must deal with “microChina” in its own back yard. I have a feature in today’s Toronto Star that looks at the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest, and how the largest Indian reservation in America is pursuing an economic development strategy based on mining and burning more coal. In many [...]
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Clean Break (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I have a feature in today’s Toronto Star that looks at the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest, and how the largest Indian reservation in America is pursuing an economic development strategy based on mining and burning more coal. In many ways the Navajos are like a tiny rural China [...]
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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
IRS Auctions off Sioux land to pay back taxes Posted by Ahni on December 4, 2009 at 4:01pm The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has auctioned off 7,100 acres of land belonging to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in central South Dakota, one of the most impoverished reservations in the United States. The land was sold on Thursday in a bold but hardly shocking attempt by the IRS to recover $3.1...