Redlines
Headlines from North America
Redlines are pulled from multiple news sources to keep you up-to-date on issues which involve or affect Native Americans.
February 14, 2011
Residents are trying to recover after a devastating weekend fire in a Yakima Indian Reservation community in Washington State.
July 21, 2010
Early next month, the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan will hand over human remains to a coalition of Michigan tribes for burial on American Indian lands. The University of Michigan is planning a similar transfer in the near future, part of a national trend by museums, universities and institutions.
June 18, 2010
Clarence Wolf Guts, 86, the last surviving Oglala Lakota code talker, died Wednesday afternoon at the South Dakota State Veterans Home in Hot Springs.
May 23, 2010
Elders in Ontario native community say mystery creature is a rare animal known as the “ugly one.”
May 23, 2010
The fatal shooting of a First Nations protester in 1995 at Ipperwash Provincial Park in southwestern Ontario continues to haunt former Ontario premier Mike Harris. Nipissing University's plan to confer an honorary doctor of letters on Harris in a June 11 convocation ceremony isn't sitting well with the province's aboriginal groups.
May 23, 2010
“I had an experience that lifted my spirits right up today about how groups of people working together can accomplish great things. And you know where I found it? On the Navajo nation.”
May 23, 2010
Flagstaff, Ariz — A proposal to swap reclaimed wastewater for more expensive drinking-quality water for snowmaking at a northern Arizona ski resort got a cold reception Thursday before the Flagstaff Water Commission.
April 3, 2010
In an attempt to move away from Native American iconography, the Fulton City School District will begin surveying the community about a possible new logo and icon for the Red Raiders of G. Ray Bodley High School.
April 3, 2010
Enrollment at Fort Lewis College may be poised to rebound after hitting a decade-long low in fall 2009. Early projections unveiled at Friday's board of trustees meeting forecast enrollment of 3,756 students in fall 2010, up from 3,685.
April 3, 2010
For more than a year, a group of Cherokee elders and local clinicians have been getting together once a month to eat dinner and talk about health, giving the elders a chance to share their views with local medical practitioners. The new Center for Native Health, which hosts the meetings, believes integrating traditional knowledge into health care may just be the answer to solving the high rates of diabetes and other diseases that afflict Cherokees and other Native Americans.
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