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California tribe donates $100,000 to blizzard aidBy Journal staff | Sunday, November 30, 2008
“When the tribe was made aware of the situation at Pine Ridge and at Rosebud, we knew we had to assist our brother and sister tribes,” said Chairman James Ramos of the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians of San Bernardino. [...]

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Collaboration Brings Hope, “as funding allows”Link Center Foundation and NAMA Join Effortsby Stephanie M. Schwartz,President, Link Center Foundation www.LinkCenterFoundation.orgFreelance Writer www.SilvrDrach.homestead.comMember, Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
November 29, 2008
Collaboration Brings Hope, “as funding allows”
In mid-November, 2008, Link Center Foundation’s long-standing Emergency Heating/Utility Assistance Program for the elders, disabled, and seriously ill residents of the [...]

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WESTERN SHOSHONE GRANDMOTHER’S DAY OF RESISTANCE – DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION WITNESSED
From: Western Shoshone Defense Project [mailto:wsdp@usa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 27
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmother, (775) 468-0230
Western Shoshone Grandmothers’ Day of Resistance – Devastation and Destruction Witnessed
(November 27, 2008, Crescent Valley, Newe Sogobia (Nevada). Western Shoshone grandmothers and other Western [...]

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Desert Rock Opponents Send Letters to Washington
By Susan Montoya BryanAssociated Press Critics of a coal-fired power plant planned for northwestern New Mexico say they’re not waiting until Inauguration Day to share their concerns about the Desert Rock Energy Project with President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders. [...]

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Division requests assessments on effects from uranium mining
Copyright © 2008Gallup IndependentBy Kathy HelmsDiné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — The Navajo Division of Health has asked two federal agencies to support comprehensive assessments and research related to impacts on the Navajo Nation from past uranium mining.
Navajo Division of Health Executive Director Anslem Roanhorse Jr. testified Thursday in Tucson [...]

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Police called over Thanksgiving dispute at Claremont school
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
Some Eleanor Daly Condit Elementary School wear traditional Thanksgiving Pilgrim costumes as they are released from school.
Tensions rise as foes and backers of a longtime celebration involving kindergartners in Indian and pilgrim costumes demonstrate outside Condit Elementary. The district eliminated the costumes [...]

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Sekaquaptewa: Time for Hopi to ‘get to self-governing’By Pat Sekaquaptewa
Story Published: Nov 26, 2008
I find myself in the ironic position of highlighting the great strides of tribal justice systems over the years for an ABA journal article while at the same time my own tribal government is in the throws of a constitutional crisis. [...]

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More tribal housing agencies sue HUD over fundingNov 26, 2008 8:36 PM (1 day ago) By P. SOLOMON BANDA, AP
American Indian tribes have filed lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s plan to stop providing money to maintain lease-to-own houses on reservations after 25 years.
Housing agencies for 14 tribes filed lawsuits [...]

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Indian leaders react favorably to Daschle’s Cabinet nodBy Rob Capriccioso
Story Published: Nov 27, 2008
WASHINGTON – When it was recently announced that President-elect Barack Obama had offered the Secretary of Health and Human Services Cabinet post to former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle – and that the South Dakota politician had accepted – a wave of [...]

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Cherokee Nation sets up company to manage landfill
By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer 11/27/2008Last Modified: 11/27/2008 2:43 AM
The Cherokee Nation’s business arm has established a new company to manage its Adair County landfill, which might reopen by late winter, officials said.
Cherokee Nation Businesses has launched Cherokee Nation Waste Management to explore [...]

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