Articles
February 3, 2012
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Clara Nomee, the first woman to lead southeastern Montana's Crow Tribe in a term marred by a conviction for theft of tribal land, has died. She was 73.
Nomee died Tuesday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, former executive assistant Arlo Dawes said Wednesday. Dawes said he did not know the cause of her death.
Nomee was chairwoman of the tribe from 1990 to 2000, serving what Dawes said was an unprecedented five terms. She entered office at a time when the tribe was politically fractured and revenue was drying up.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials Thursday released their proposal on how they plan to spend up to $1.9 billion to buy up Native American-owned fractionated lands and turn them over to tribes.
The program is a major part of the $3.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by the late Elouise Cobell of Browning, Mont., over Indian land royalties mismanaged by the government for more than a century.
February 1, 2012
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The epidemic of children being exposed to violence in communities across the nation will have to become more of a public discussion before the cycle can end, members of a national task force assembled by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.
The National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence held its second public meeting in Albuquerque to gather testimony from victims and experts on violence in rural and Native-American communities — two areas often plagued by higher incidents of poverty and child abuse but with fewer options for help.
January 31, 2012
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A school district on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation says two of its best basketball players were wrongfully accused of drinking alcohol and asked to take a breath-analysis test before a game in Clark County earlier this month.
The Shoshone-Bannock School District has filed a complaint with the Idaho High School Activities Association over the Jan. 13 incident at a Dubois high school.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Carol Good Bear says she worries for her safety after the attorneys who negotiated a $3.4 billion settlement over misspent Native American land royalties published the phone numbers and addresses of the four people objecting to the deal.
Good Bear, of New Town, N.D., started receiving angry phone calls about a week ago, after the letter went out. She has since unplugged her home phone and started screening her cellphone calls.
January 30, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, raising money for his campaign among tribal leaders, said Friday he wants American Indians to be "full partners" in the economy.
Obama met with 70 to 75 supporters from Native American tribes. Democratic officials said the fundraiser would benefit the Obama Victory Fund, a joint committee of the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Tickets started at $15,000.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of the Native Mob gang have shot rivals in Minneapolis, sold drugs in Duluth, and thrown boiling water in a person's face in Crow Wing County. Authorities say they've also assaulted an informant on the White Earth Indian Reservation and shot up houses from Cass Lake to Mille Lacs.
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TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — In the far reaches of northern Arizona, where city sprawl gives way to majestic canyons and a holy place is defined not by steeple and cross but rather by earth and sky, lies a monument to a people's past and a symbol of the promise of peace between two long-warring Indian nations.
January 27, 2012
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The warning from the ratings agency could not have been more direct: The parent company of the Mohegan Sun faces a "wall of debt" due early this year as the casino, struggling with rising competition and a weak economy that's hammered consumer spending, tries to refinance hundreds of millions of dollars in loans.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre has been appointed chairman of Santa Fe University of Art and Design's film department.
He'll take over the New Mexico school's Moving Image Arts Department on Feb. 1.
Eyre directed "Smoke Signals," which won a Sundance Audience Award and the Sundance Filmmakers Trophy. His television and film work has won numerous awards, including a Peabody and an Emmy.
His latest film, "Hideaway," starring Josh Lucas and James Cromwell, is due for release in May.
