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Obama stimulus casts a wider government safety net, expands programs for the poorPhoenix Business Journal – by Mike Sunnucks
Substantial portions of the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus plan favored by the Obama administration and passed by the U.S. House go toward expanding government safety net and social service programs, as well as offering money to federal [...]

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Dry Creek leaders seek to protect ousted tribal members
By CLARK MASONTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 5:10 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 5:17 p.m.
The leaders of the Dry Creek Rancheria, which owns Sonoma County’s only Indian casino, say they hope the tribe will reverse plans to kick out 13 [...]

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In rural Alaska, villagers suffer in near silence
Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times
Nastasia Wassilie waited alone for days with little food and no heat before villagers in Tuluksak, Alaska, came to offer what little help they could spare.Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times
Nastasia Wassilie waited alone for days with little food and no heat before [...]

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Running Strong warehouse closing
January 28, 2009
Lagging national contributions have so crippled Running Strong for Native American Youth, that the nonprofit organization will close its Rapid City distribution warehouse June 30.
Running Strong, represented by Lakota Olympic gold medal winner Billy Mills, has served South Dakota’s reservations since 1986. The group will try to carry [...]

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Parents proud, son Barack Black Eagle enters White House By Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Today correspondent
Story Published: Jan 30, 2009
HELENA, Mont. – While the world celebrated as an African American assumed the highest office in the United States, Barack Obama was accompanied by his adopted parents, brother and clan members of the Apsaálooke, or the Crow [...]

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EchoHawk spawns concern as likely BIA chiefPawnee politician has defendersBy Rob Capriccioso
Story Published: Jan 30, 2009
WASHINGTON – News that President Barack Obama is close to selecting Larry EchoHawk as assistant secretary of Indian affairs is receiving mixed reactions from tribal officials and their surrogates. Many readily admit he’s a strong advocate for Indian country, [...]

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Pine Ridge Starts Reservation-Wide Bus Service
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is now served by a public transportation system that was five years in the making. Transit Coordinator Emma Featherman-Sam says it gives many of the roughly 45,000 residents a way to work, shop, attend school, socialize and go to the doctor without having to [...]

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Michael Bucher’s ‘Dirty Water’ music video delivers strong message
Michael Bucher
Michael Bucher on the set for his video to “Dirty Water” which is dedicated to protecting Bear Butte Mountain in South Dakota.By Vincent Schilling, Today correspondent
Story Published: Jan 29, 2009
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Cherokee musician Michael Bucher has released a music video from a [...]

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Eyak language dies with its last speakerTue, January 22, 2008 Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories
Chief Marie Smith Jones in 2004
The last traditional speaker of the Eyak language died yesterday, making the language extinct. Eyak Chief Marie Smith Jones was 89 years old. She was the last person to have learned the language the traditional [...]

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Energy development on reservations still a goBy ERIC NEWHOUSE • Tribune Projects Editor • January 26, 2009
Although crude oil prices have hit five-year lows, a Denver investment firm says it still is interested in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on energy development on two Montana Indian reservations.
“That’s what our company does,” Lynn Becker, [...]

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