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Native News Update September 28, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today Paul DeMain catches up with Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and environmentalist. Click here to watch this edition of the Native News Update.
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Native News Update September 27, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today's Stories: Navajo Nation flags half-staff to honor late Code Talker Jimmy Lee Benally - Sentence reduced for man convicted in Aquash murder - Running Strong for American Indian Youth gives food to Keshena Primary School - Cherokee Nation missed deadline to inform Freedmen they could vote - And today ICTV's Josh Pearson talks with Dirk Whitebreast about suicide prevention. Click here to ...
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Native News Update September 26, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today we go to Anchorage, Alaska and talk with Alaska Public Radio Network News Director Lori Townsend about major embezzlement charges against Maggie Ahmaogak - a lawsuit by Alaska asking for IHS to reimburse them for contracted expenses - and possible shut-down or reductions in postal service "flying contracts," for delivery of mail. Click here to watch this edition of the Native News ...
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Native News Update September 22, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today's Stories: Bad River Band Chippewa tell WI Governor that Penokee iron ore mine is unacceptable - Poll says NY should roll dice on non-Indian casinos - Deal allowing Cherokee Freedmen to vote called milestone - Bloomington High to sell American Indian Statue - Seneca Nations gets appellate affirmation of federal court injunction against new cigarette taxes and law. Click here to watch ...
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Native News Udpate September 21, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today's Stories: Un-damming the Elwha - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe holds blessing ceremony for totem pole - Creek Nation chief, second chief candidates advance to general election - Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head gets justice grant - Connecticut casinos seek break on paying for security - Oneida Nation of Wisconsin uses grant for elder housing. Click here to watch this edition of the ...
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Native News Update September 20, 2011 (TV)

The latest edition of the Native News Update from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com with host Paul DeMain. Today's Stories: Limited moose hunt planned for UP - Freedman vote could sway Cherokee Chief election - Work under way on $68 million Alaskan Native Health Center - Long-Serving and honored tribal leader, Ernest House Sr. passes on - Duluth Pocahontas casting criticized - BP will pay US $20.5M to settle royalty case. Click here to watch this edition of the Native News ...
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California city, tribe, ecologists fight proposed quarry

By Amy Taxin Temecula, California (AP) September, 2011   Antique shops line the streets of Temecula’s quaint downtown fashioned after the Old West, with tour vans waiting to whisk visitors to scenic vineyards outside the city and hot air balloons gliding above the greenery. It’s a postcard image amid a series of desert towns in inland Southern California – one that hundreds of residents, ecologists and members of tribes fear is threatened by a proposal to build a quarry on a mountain overlooking the ...
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US attorney: Eagle feathers in caskets were legal

Rapid City, South Dakota (AP) September, 2011 Native American police officers did not break the law by burying eagle feathers with two slain Rapid City officers in order to honor them, a federal prosecutor said, rejecting a call to bring charges by an American Indian group. Representatives of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council contend that the Native American officers had no right to possess the eagle feathers because they aren’t enrolled members of a federally recognized tribe, Read More
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Court says no to using Kansas land for casino

Kansas City, Missouri (AP) September 2011 By Heather Hillingsworth A federal appeals court has ruled that the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma doesn’t have the right to use a tract of land in eastern Kansas that it abandoned more than 130 years ago for a casino. The tribe began trying to get approval to build a casino near La Cygne Lake in Miami County more than a decade ago. A tribal member had tried to donate a 35-acre tract for the proposed casino. Read ...
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Colorado Buffalo Bill museum recognized by magazine

By Colleen O'connor Denver, Colorado (AP) September, 2011 Master showman Buffalo Bill is credited with revealing the mystique of the American West to the world. Nearly a century after the legend’s death, master curator Steve Friesen is credited with evolving the roadside attraction built to honor him into a first-rate museum of Old West mythology. The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, high atop Lookout Mountain, has been named the Western Museum of 2011 by True West magazine. Read More
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