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In todays red round up, the Chickasaw find an energetic partner, a roundtable on native issues is set up, the Duwamish and the Muckleshoots struggle over a recognition status, a governer says he just isn't ready yet, a Church gets on well on the Mattaponi Reservation and Abramoff gets some of what he deserves (even if it isn't all of what he deserves).

Abramoff Gets Reduced Sentence of Four Years in Prison

In todays red round up, the Pima get their water back, a native warrior exhibit is unveiled, a tribal college amps up the native identity, the NIGC issues a violation notice, Wal-Mart gets interested in the Cherokee while the Cherokee also postpone a booze vote and the usual in todays red round up.

Pima Indians celebrate return of life-giving water

from Survival International:

In todays red round up, we observe a cancelled pow wow at the Cohakia Mounds, a pastor is elected to president of FONAC, Morgan Fawcett comes home, $9,500 goes towards learning about Native culture, Wilma Mankiller initiates a speaker circuit, Christian hypocrites get caught faking a tribe, a group decries how unfair it is that natives get to sell tax-free cigarettes, tribes commemorate the Nome Cult Trail, a native cult classic comes to light, Indian Country Today gets some cred and water for migrants is banned by the Tohono O'odham. Enjoy!

In todays' red round up,

Clash With Tribe Spurs Effort to Shut a Casino

from the New York Times:

One of my responsibilities at Reznet is updating the redlines section every weekday and during the weekend if I'm feeling partiuclarly zazzy. You come across all kinds of odd things with a web crawl like that.

One of them being a grammatical error that most word processors just can't catch: Native American.  Unless you're dealing with journalists who don't lean on spell check, you'd spell it just like that. Capitals, two of them.

But those journalists who do rely on spell check like a crutch end up spelling it "native American."

The DNC has pretty much routed all news today, which is why the round up is so paltry in comparison to yesterdays effin' bible.  Anyway:  In todays round up, news in the Aquash murder, some hype on tribal influence in the presidential race and the stunning failure of multiple federal agencies that tried so hard to pin something, anything on the Coyote Valley Reservation.

Man to stay in jail for South Dakota AIM slaying

from KXMB:

In today's Red Round Up, the Snoqualmie Tribe hosts an art show, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribe gets recognition as charitable big spenders, the Senecas stop building a casino, the Cherokee Tribe meet the Boy Scouts, the ATF continues to mess with Native tobacco operations, Pendleton promotes the American Indian College Fund, a Pueblo leader mistakenly bleeives that online cigarettes are tax free, an old friend writes a letter to Barack and much more.

No federal charges in Pine Ridge police crisis

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from Free Speech Radio News:

For sixteen years now, Native American tribal leaders have fought for long-term federal funding for Indian healthcare programs. They celebrated a major breakthrough early this year when the Senate passed such a proposal. Since then, however, it's been stuck in the House. As Yanmei Xie reports, the monkey wrench in the machine is an abortion ban. 

Cross-posted from my New West blog, Off the Reservation:

A friend of mine texted that she was going to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for family matters.

I told her, "Damn! You'd better watch your back, man."

"Why is that, huh?" she replied. She must have thought I was going to rag on the Sioux, but that wasn't even remotely the case.