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.
April 3, 2010
If not for Max Mazzetti and a few other tribal leaders of his generation, American Indian reservations in California might have disappeared decades ago. Mazzetti, 88, a former chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians in Valley Center, died March 25.
April 3, 2010
The indestructible force known as Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have created yet another controversy with their latest stunt. Several Native American groups are lashing out at the fame-loving couple after they announced they were changing their names in an effort to become “more in-tune with our spirituality.”
March 25, 2010
Joe McDonald didn’t plan on staying at Salish Kootenai College for 32 years. That’s just the way it happened. McDonald, who will turn 77 at the end of March, became the first president of the Montana tribal college in 1978 and has been its leader ever since. His retirement attempts at 65, 70 and 75 were all foiled by institutional uncertainty about finding a suitable replacement.
March 13, 2010
President Barack Obama could determine the future of the Seneca Nation of Indians’ economy. Late Thursday night the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Prevention of All Cigarette Trafficking Act. Through the legislation the U.S. Postal Service will no longer ship cigarettes in the mail.
March 13, 2010
After 30 years of language lessons, educators are wondering what key ingredient is missing as students fail to reach fluency in their native language. “What are we doing wrong?” asked Ethel Gardner of Lakehead University as she opened a two-day Ojibway language conference at the Best Western Lakeside Inn.
March 13, 2010
About 40 grandmothers have occupied the Hollow Water First Nation's band office to protest what they say are corrupt financial practices. Some of the kookums — Ojibway for “grandmother” — say they are meeting Saturday with auditors from Indian Affairs who may consider looking into the band’s finances.
March 13, 2010
Utah lawmakers have approved a $33 million settlement in a dispute alleging Utah failed to properly manage an oil-and-gas royalty trust set up by Congress to benefit Utah’s Navajo Indians.
March 13, 2010
A federal appeals court this week moved to allow uranium mining operations in Churchrock, a Navajo community just east of Gallup, New Mexico. The decision by the Federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals comes at a time of increased financial incentives for uranium mining—but also intense opposition from many communities, including the Navajo Nation, which outlawed uranium mining in 2005.
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