http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/americanindians/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:32:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414708/posts apology to native peoples of the united statesSec. 8113. (a) Acknowledgment and Apology- The United States, acting through Congress-- (1) recognizes the special legal and political relationship Indian tribes have with the United States and the solemn covenant with the land we share; (2) commends and honors Native Peoples for the thousands of years that they have stewarded and protected this land; (3) recognizes that there have been years of official depredations, ill-conceived policies, and the breaking of covenants by the Federal Government regarding Indian tribes; (4) apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native... Defense Appropriations Bill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414708/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:32:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411471/posts The language of the Comanche people, a lifeline of its culture, is fading fast. Its muted vowels and sapient cadence once echoed throughout the fenceless grasslands of the South Plains, but today it can muster barely a whisper... With a recent $215,000 two-year grant from the Administration for Native Americans, they'll shoulder the task on modern technology and a new generation of Comanche students eager to learn their ancestral tongue. "Its important for any language to have its say, to be documented," Williams said. "It's interesting for Comanche because it rose to dominance on the South Plains so quickly, then... Lubbock Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411471/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:35:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402508/posts BROWNING — An official says the Blackfeet Tribe in northwestern Montana has signed the largest oil exploration agreement in the tribe’s history. Oil and Gas Manager Grinnell Day Chief says the tribe on Thursday signed an agreement with Houston-based Newfield Production Co. to allow test wells in the middle of the reservation. Day Chief says the company will be drilling horizontal wells into the Bakken Formation and other formations. New drilling technology has made the Bakken Formation one of the nation’s hottest oil exploration areas in recent years. Day Chief declined to give the dollar amount of the agreement. But... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402508/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:43:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400797/posts US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a "shameful" and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans. The 7,112 acres - or 11 square miles - of Crow Creek Sioux ancestral land in central South Dakota was auctioned off on Thursday by the US Internal Revenue Service to help pay off more than $3.1 million (£1.9 million) in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest. The land, part of the tribe's original reservation established in an 1868 treaty, was originally held by the federal government in a trust for... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400797/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401098/posts "We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture," the Rev. Robert Chase, a minister in the Collegiate Church, told representatives of the Lenape tribe at a "healing" ceremony at Bowling Green. "I had to dig deep in my heart and ask, can I truly forgive?" said Lenape elder Carmen McKosato Ketcher, her voice shaking. "Yes, we forgive you," she added. "But don't forget, we are alive and well." Friday, the two sides played music and exchanged wampum, or shell beads, once used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401098/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:22:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395904/posts NEW YORK — Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday — for the first time — for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. "We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land," the Rev. Robert Chase told descendants from both sides. "With pain, we the Collegiate Church, remember our part in these events." The minister spoke on Native American Heritage Day at a reconciliation ceremony of the Lenape tribe with the Collegiate Church, started in 1628 in then-New Amsterdam as the... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395904/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:49:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395458/posts WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Mint today announced the new design that Americans will see on the reverse (tails side) of Native American $1 Coins next year. The design, based on the theme "Government - The Great Tree of Peace," depicts the Hiawatha Belt with five arrows bound together, with the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, Haudenosaunee and Great Law of Peace. The United States Mint will commence issuing these coins in January 2010, and they will be available throughout 2010. The Journal of Business http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395458/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395170/posts VIRGINIA, Va. -- It's probably the last time that Timothy M. Kaine will step outside his house in the morning to find two dead deer and a turkey on his doorstep. But yesterday, the outgoing Virginia governor and his wife, first lady Anne Holton, stood outside the Executive Mansion in Richmond to preside over a Thanksgiving tradition that dates to the late 1600s -- Virginia's Indian tribes paying tribute to the governor. On a damp and gray but mild morning, Kaine welcomed about 200 people, including members of several generations of Indians in traditional garb, as well as Capitol Square... Richmond Times-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395170/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:49:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363841/posts <p>PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88.</p> <p>Lawrence Oliver said his father died at the Northern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System Hospital in Prescott, Ariz. He had been declining health for the past two years.</p> woodtv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363841/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:39:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360867/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will host a Tribal Nations Conference discussing issues of importance to Native Americans on November 5, the White House announced Monday. Representatives from each the country's 564... CNN Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360867/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360753/posts Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492 that Italian explorer, working for Spain, opened America to his fellow Europeans. The result: we got a prosperous New World by impoverishing, enslaving and murdering the natives who were already here. But this view fails to distinguish between two types of exploitation—one over other humans and the other over nature: the former which should be expunged from our moral codes and civilized society, the latter which is the essence of morality and civilization. The former form of exploitation was suffered especially by the tens of millions... The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360753/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360596/posts An exchange Sunday with my eldest son got me to thinking (a rare feat, indeed). He asked if tomorrow was a holiday. I responded that it’s Columbus Day. Sensitive and bright guy that he is, he came back – half joking -- with “Don’t you mean Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Day?” He and I have debated the matter of the government’s treatment of the American Indian many times. He takes the position that we badly mistreated these original and mostly warrior inhabitants of what we now call America. I agree with him that, sadly, by violating treaties, marching them off... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360596/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344435/posts Who heard it? A player on the Giants offense gave his college as "University of Chief Illini" in the pre-recorded intros. Sunday Night Football http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344435/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:48:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340468/posts WASHINGTON -- A group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive wants the Supreme Court to take up the matter. The group late Monday asked the justices to review a lower court decision that favored the NFL team on a legal technicality. ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340468/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:47:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340460/posts American Indians look to high court Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive wants the Supreme Court to take up the matter. The group late Monday asked the justices to review a lower court decision that favored the NFL team on a legal technicality. The seven Native Americans have been working through the court system since 1992 to have the Redskins trademarks declared invalid. A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office panel ruled in their favor in 1999, but they've since suffered a series of defeats from judges who ruled that the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340460/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:38:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328113/posts Europeans named the southern mountains after the Apalchen or Apalachen tribe of natives. How did the name progress from "Apalchen" to "Appalachia" and "Appalachian Mountains?" By the whims of cartographers and geographers, it seems. The steps from "Apalchen" to "Appalachian" can be traced by referring to vintage maps which provide names for the mountains of the East. Backcountry Notes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328113/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:14:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322291/posts ON the road through the tree-studded high desert toward the small town of Chinle, Ariz., the car radio was bringing in the local Navajo station, with a playlist heavy in Top 40 hits, peppered with Navajo-language station breaks and car commercials. The sky was a cloudless blue, and I was on my way, with my childhood friend Esther Chak, to Canyon de Chelly, a geologic maze of towering red cliffs and deep-cut gorges dotted with pictographs and ruins of ancient cliffside villages. Lying in the heart of the 21st-century Navajo Nation, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322291/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:39:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321677/posts A “Broken” Health Care System for Native Americans On paper, the situation sounds good: Based on a 1787 agreement between tribes and the United States government, the U.S. has an obligation to provide American Indians with free health care on reservations. But that’s not how it works, reports the Associated Press. Roughly one-third more is spent per capita on health care for felons in federal prison, according to 2005 data referenced by the AP. The system’s ineffectiveness has yielded a common refrain on reservations of “don’t get sick after June,” because that‘s when federal funds run out. AP Obama via Finding Dulcinea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321677/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320255/posts Judge Napolitano in for Beck about Indian Reservation health care. Glenn Beck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320255/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315596/posts The FReeper Canteen Presents….. ~ National Navajo Code Talkers Day! ~ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Peter Pace (left), US Marine Corps, talks with Navajo Code Talkers after they presented him with a Navajo blanket in the Pentagon on Aug 10, 2007. Code Talkers were Native American Marines who served in World War II and developed a communications code based on their native language. DoD photo by Staff Sgt D Myles Cullen, US Air Force. (Released) Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies’ militaryand family members of the above.Honoring... Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315596/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312842/posts COLLINSVILLE -- Human sacrifice! Victims buried alive! Read all about it in "Cahokia -- Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi." According to this new book by University of Illinois archaeologist and professor of anthropology Tim Pauketat, the mound builders were not always the idyllic, corn-growing, pottery-making, fishing-hunting gentle villagers depicted in various dioramas at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville. Pauketat said these long-vanished people practiced human sacrifice of women and men on a mass scale and weren't always careful to bury only the dead. Based on years of study of artifacts including many from the extensive... BND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312842/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294049/posts If you’re a young Lakota woman with a big heart, an even bigger smile, but an immune system compromised to its brink by lupus—you know who the enemy is. If you’re a tribal chairman receiving a phone call in the middle of the night that another one of your tribal members has taken their own life—you know who the enemy is.... U.S. Commission on Civil Rights http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294049/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277541/posts WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The College of William & Mary in Virginia is looking for a mascot and ideas have ranged from a feathered horse to an asparagus stalk. The school said Monday more than 400 nominations have been submitted. William & Mary for decades was known as the Indians, but the school changed its nickname to Tribe in the 1980s. The NCAA ruled in 2006 that the college could keep the Tribe nickname but its feathered logo was demeaning to Native Americans and had to go. The school's athletic teams will still be called the Tribe, but the college wants... philly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277541/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275820/posts Out of Deference to Tribes, State Outlaws It in Names of Public Places, Prompting a Squall STOCKTON SPRINGS, Maine -- For nearly a decade, locals here have been fighting American Indians over the name of a dead-end dirt road.The lane in question, on a woodsy bluff overlooking the ocean, was once called Squaw Point Road. Maine banned the word "squaw" from place names in 2000, in deference to Indians who consider it racist. Names such as Squaw's Bosom Mountain and Little Squaw Brook quietly receded into history. But residents here played Scrabble with the spelling instead. They renamed the road... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275820/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274866/posts RAPID CITY, S.D. - Custer rides again, although he's atop a plastic motorcycle and in a McDonald's Happy Meal box. And that doesn't sit well with some in the Native American community. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was killed in 1876 along the Little Big Horn River by Native Americans he aimed to destroy. But Hollywood brought him back to life as a character in the Ben Stiller comedy “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” which opened in theaters May 22. McDonald's included characters from the movie as toys in its kid-sized Happy Meals. The fast food chain's... The Missoullin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274866/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:15:58 GMT