http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/indian/ en-us Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:23:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094431/posts SIERRA VISTA — A ceremony to prepare a portion of the state-operated veterans cemetery to receive the remains of soldiers who died in the then Territory of Arizona in the late 1800s will be held Wednesday afternoon. Nearly 70 sets of remains, many of them incomplete, will be reburied at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery next May, after being exhumed at a long-abandoned burial ground in Tucson, said cemetery administrator Joe Larson. Initially, the remains of 10 individuals were expected when the project was started, before Larson became the administrator. “Then the number grew to 30, and now it... Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094431/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:23:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080973/posts Welcome to Native Americans Against Obama http://www.nativeamericansagainstobama.com/about.html We are a National Group dedicated to stopping one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made..... We are a intertribal group of many nations. We invite you to join us..... Our main objective is to bring all tribes members, non tribe members together to make a stand against Obama. (Excerpt:) John McCain has made a special effort to reach out to the Native Community. Soon we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of voting rights for Native Americans. John McCain has promised to improve our schools, on reservations, and continue to support... Native Americans Against Obama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080973/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:55:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080579/posts Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tore through the Republican National Convention like a lead sled in the Iditarod dogsled race, while Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who chose to forgo a scheduled convention speech by staying away to deal with Hurricane Gustav, catapulted to the top tier as a GOP presidential candidate in 2012 or 2016. Indian American Republicans who attended the convention Sept. 1-4 unanimously raved to India-West about Senator John McCain’s vice presidential choice and Palin’s stiletto-like jibes at Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama in her acceptance speech. “She sent a vibrant message to Middle America that she connects... India-West http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080579/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065022/posts BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline)-North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Wednesday he opposes a judge's decision to seal all future documents in the University of North Dakota "Fighting Sioux" lawsuit against the NCAA. Northeast Central District Judge Lawrence Jahnke said he wants the parties to move toward a settlement. Stenehjem, whose office is representing the university, said he believes sealing the records violates the spirit of open records. Legal Newsline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065022/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:58:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059535/posts The Keetoowahs are the traditonal people, the keepers of the language and heritage. They came west 20 years before the Trail of Tears, trading their land in North Carolina for new land the US gave them. Later the "civilized" tribes came and "white-manned" the Keetoowahs out of their land and other Federal entitlements. Learn more about the Keetoowahs at http://unitedkeetoowahband.org/History.htm http://www.keetoowahcherokee.org/ keetoowahcherokee.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059535/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045073/posts More than 30 Indian youths have disappeared in New Zealand, where they were in transit to go to Sydney for World Youth Day, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said Monday. Lyndsay Freear told Radio New Zealand that a party of 220 Indian Catholics who arrived in Auckland a week ago were due to fly to Sydney Tuesday, but 32 of them had disappeared. All were billeted with church members in Auckland under a so-called Days in the Diocese programme before going to Australia, where Pope Benedict arrived Sunday for events associated with World Youth Day. Freear said all the... Web India 123 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045073/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:07:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042630/posts Chowdhury Got Angry When Garage Door Didn't Open Quickly. A state legislative candidate from Jefferson County accused of slapping and choking his 16-year-old daughter pleaded guilty Tuesday to third-degree assault. Vince Chowdhury, 48, got angry when his wife and daughter didn't open the garage door quickly enough when he honked his car horn in their driveway on June 17, according to an arrest affidavit. The document said Chowdhury, a Jefferson County school board member, sat in the driveway several minutes honking his horn. His wife and daughter apologized for making him wait but he thought the apology insincere so he... TheDenverChannel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042630/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:52:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024175/posts RIVERSIDE Two recent shootouts between law officers and several members of the Soboba Indian tribe have prompted the Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies Association to warn the public that it considers the tribe's casino to be unsafe, it was reported on Saturday. The 3,700-member union considers the tribal reservation to be "unstable" as a result of "recent violence against Riverside County deputy sheriffs," the Los Angeles Times and Riverside Press-Enterprise reported. Tribal leaders shot back that the deputies union has brought the shootouts into the poitical arena, and said in an e-mail that "the recent tragic events were unrelated to the... cbs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024175/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 23:51:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018283/posts <p>SELMA, Ind. — It's just a drop in the global oil bucket, but an eastern Indiana man is operating an oil well in his backyard in an effort to capitalize on soaring crude prices.</p> <p>Greg Losh's rig produces three barrels of crude oil a day, though he told FOX News that he hasn't started selling it yet. For now, he and his partners are keeping it in storage containers.</p> Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018283/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 21:24:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014384/posts CHEYENNE, Wyo. - An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday reversed a 2006 lower court ruling that dismissed a criminal charge against Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho Indian who has acknowledged shooting a bald eagle in 2005 during the tribe's Sun Dance. In dismissing the charge, U.S. District Judge William Downes of Wyoming said the federal government has shown "callous indifference" to American Indian religious beliefs. Eagle feathers are... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014384/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 13:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010095/posts The 6-year-old girl is recuperating at a state-run hospital in Mathura, the north Indian city where the alleged attack occurred, said Dr. Ramesh Kumar. She is considered a dalit _ a member of the lowest caste in India, where a system of rigid social hierarchy still lingers. The alleged attacker, Madan Singh, 22, comes from a higher caste. Yahoo news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010095/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 05:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008544/posts Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah. A 15-page report congressional report includes intelligence from law enforcement as well as New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance. Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah. One of the key issues... is a potential flaw... Fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008544/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993449/posts Siberian, Native American Languages Linked -- A First John Roach for National Geographic NewsMarch 26, 2008 A fast-dying language in remote central Siberia shares a mother tongue with dozens of Native American languages spoken thousands of miles away, new research confirms. The finding may allow linguists to weigh in on how the Americas were first settled, according to Edward Vajda, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Since at least 1923 researchers have suggested a connection exists between Asian and North American languages—but this is the first time a link has been demonstrated... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993449/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:53:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985474/posts citizen of India living legally in South Carolina pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally export weapons to India, authorities said Thursday. It was one of two cases involving illegal arms in India. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985474/posts#comment Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:41:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985244/posts Indian DNA links to 6 'founding mothers' By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK - Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. The finding does not mean that only these six women gave rise to the migrants who crossed into North America from Asia in the initial populating of the continent, said study co-author... Yahoo News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985244/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:04:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976936/posts Bill would let tribal police arrest non-Indians   Richard Roesler Staff writer February 27, 2008OLYMPIA – A bill that would expand some tribal police officers’ power to arrest non-Indian criminals on reservations is moving quickly in the Legislature.Proponents say the bill would speed up police response on reservations, which some say are in danger of becoming “havens” for non-Indian criminals who feel they have little to fear. The House of Representatives has approved House Bill 2476 and it’s expected to be approved by a Senate committee before a key deadline Friday.“Right now we have citizens in the state of... The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wasington) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976936/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1969981/posts Doctors successfully removed a 2-inch nail from an Indian man’s genitals after he admitted himself to a hospital due to abdominal pain and the inability to speak, the Bahrain Gulf Daily News reported Wednesday. An X-ray of the man, who was not identified, showed the nail lodged in his urethra. The victim claimed that the nail had been inserted by a gang of thieves who attacked and robbed him three days earlier, the paper reported. Foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1969981/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962372/posts WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Interior Department has "unreasonably delayed" its accounting for billions of dollars owed to Indian landholders. The federal agency "has not, and cannot, remedy the breach" of its responsibilities to account for the Indian money, U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in a 165-page decision in a long-running federal lawsuit alleging mismanagement of Indian trust funds. "Indeed, it is now clear that completion of the required accounting is an impossible task" for the department, Robertson said, adding that he would schedule a hearing next month to discuss ways to solve the... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962372/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:13:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960520/posts SANTA MARIA QUIEGOLANI, Mexico - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house. But they aren't allowed to vote in local elections, because — the men say — they don't do enough work. It was here, in a village that has struggled for centuries to preserve its Zapotec traditions, that Eufrosina Cruz, 27, decided to become the first woman to run for mayor — despite the fact that women aren't allowed to attend... AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960520/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:02:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955019/posts Sixty years after independence, with 40 percent of its population under 18, India is now confronting the perils of its failure to educate its citizens, notably the poor. More Indian children are in school than ever before, but the quality of public schools like this one has sunk to spectacularly low levels, as government schools have become reserves of children at the very bottom of India's social ladder. International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955019/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933953/posts Reconstruction: 'Meena' went to India to abort her fourth daughter A study suggests Indian women in the UK are aborting unborn daughters so they can have more boys, the BBC's Asian Network has learned.The Oxford University study suggests 1,500 girls are "missing" from the birth statistics in England and Wales from 1990 to 2005. It shows the proportion of boys compared with girls born to Indian-born mothers has increased since the 1970s. Dr Sylvie Dubuc said this could be due to "sex selective abortion". See sex-ratio of births to Indian born women Dr Dubuc, who studied birth rates of... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933953/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:15:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930832/posts Manish Rajpurohit has been hailed the luckiest teenager in India after he survived being skewered by a metal pole in a bus crash. The 18-year-old student was riding a bus in Andhra Pradesh state when it was hit by a lorry. The force of the smash rammed the four foot safety rail into Rajpurohit's forehead and through his skull - only missing his spine by a few millimetres. Rajpurohit said: "It struck my head and embedded me into the seat. I was stuck there crying 'Help me' as loud as I could." Brave Rajpurohit had to slide his head... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930832/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929224/posts Take a look at Google's Thanksgiving cartooned logo. Sitting to the left of the table is a turkey dressed as an Indian and to the right a turkey dressed as a Pilgrim. Can anyone tell me what is actually on the table being served as the main dish? Looks like a cat but if you zoom the picture it becomes too pixelated to tell. Google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929224/posts#comment Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925308/posts An Indian man who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony. P. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm labourer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, married the four-year-old stray bitch after it was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an orange sari and garlanded with flowers. The marriage took place on the advice of the man's astrologer who said it was the only way to atone for his actions of more than 20 years ago. He was reported to... London Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925308/posts#comment Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:37:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917209/posts Dennis Champlain's grandfather helped win federal recognition for the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Champlain himself has danced in tribal powwows and teaches his children that they are Narragansetts. Yet the Narragansetts say he is no longer a member of the tribe. Champlain and his extended family are among thousands of people removed from American Indian tribes in recent years, often amid tribal squabbles or when a casino comes to town. In Rhode Island, the Narragansetts' removal of about 140 of roughly 2,400 members has become an issue in Saturday's election for the tribe's chief sachem, or leader. Tribal officials say they... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917209/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:46:20 GMT