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September 27, 2009

11th ANNUAL
NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
TO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON THE INTERNET

All Winners To Be Announced On Saturday, October 3, 2009

New York – The 11th Annual Native American Music Awards (N.A.M.A.) will be broadcast live in its entirety in a free internet broadcast via Single Feather Media, LLC on Saturday, October 3, 2009. 
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(San Francisco, CA)  POWER PATHS follows the efforts of American Indian tribes as they explore ways to bring renewable energy projects into their communities. From the Sioux tribes of Great Plains in the Midwest to the Navajo and Hopi of the southwest, tribes are fighting to protect their land, air, and water from the harmful [...]

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By Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

 
George and Marilyn Keepseagle worry they will lose their North Dakota home on the Standing Rock reservation after a half century of ranching. Claryca Mandan had to trade her cattle and crops for an office job. Montana rancher Luther Crasco declared bankruptcy after being denied a loan [...]

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Sioux leaders work on Black Hills lands proposal for Obama
By Kevin Woster, Journal staff | Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sympathetic signs from President Barack Obama have inspired hope among Sioux spiritual and government leaders that some federal land in the Black Hills might one day be returned to Native American control.
Leaders for Sioux tribes in the [...]

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The U.S. government’s failure to provide equal legal protection to Native American victims of serious crimes is just bizarre.
Mark J. MacDougall and Katherine Deming Brodie
September 28, 2009
Conditions in this obscure country, as reported by sources ranging from Amnesty International to a U.S. Senate committee, are appalling. One in three women will be raped in her [...]

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Monday, September 21, 2009
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media@savethepeaks.org
Rudy Preston — (928) 466-4274
Howard Shanker — (928) 699-3637
 
U.S. Government Ignores Public Health Dangers of Sewer Water Snowmaking
Concerned Citizens File New Lawsuit to Force Government to Study and Disclose Effects of Ingesting Snow Made from Treated Sewage Effluent
 Flagstaff, AZ — A group of concerned citizens will not let the potential [...]

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Sep 16, 2009
Call it the Indian Health Service paradox. The IHS is the largest direct provider of health care in the U.S. Public Health System. Yet it’s an agency either unfairly maligned as a “disaster” or absent from the discourse about health care reform. That’s too bad because the agency is a sustainable model for [...]

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Indian Country Leaders Assemble in Iowa to Explore Innovative Approaches to Building Sustainable Communities www.AmericanIndianSustainableConference.org
Plan includes renewable energy, organic agriculture, cultural preservation, and meditation
Top leaders of Indian Country will assemble to explore how modern organic agriculture and renewable energy technologies combined with ancient meditation practices can be used to build healthy, sustainable American Indian communities [...]

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By Carol Berry, Today correspondent 
DENVER – The time-honored and exclusive right of American Indians to use eagle feathers for religious purposes has been challenged by a Utah judge whose findings will be appealed in the Denver 10th Circuit Court. 
If the challenge is upheld and implemented, non-Natives would be able to obtain eagle feathers and parts [...]

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By Andrew Ramonas | September 10, 2009
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee approved legislation today by voice vote that would give the Justice Department Office of Tribal Justice a presidentially appointed head. 
The Office of Tribal Justice was created under a federal statute in 1995, but exists at the discretion of the Attorney General. OTJ serves as [...]

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