PRNewswire
Feb. 25, 2008 
SAN FRANCISCO CA – Wells Fargo Community Development Corporation (CDC), the Colusa Indian Tribe and the Rincon Indian Tribe today said they have formed First Nations Capital Partners, LLC (FNCP), a specialized $25 million private equity fund. FNCP is the first private equity fund in the U.S. with tribal governments as its primary investors, [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Dhyana Levey — Mreced Sun-Star, Calif.
MERCED, Calif. (MCT) - The sounds of passing trains and honking cars blended with cheers and a pounding drum Feb. 18 as about 100 brightly clad walkers brought their journey through Merced.
They paused in the morning for a break where Highway 59 meets Olive Avenue. A cloud of sweet-smelling [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Larry Banegas
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New money available to provide service to various communities
By: EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
February 24. 2008
San Diego County health officials hope to gather information about what mental health programs are needed at local American Indian reservations during a meeting Tuesday in Rancho Bernardo.
That was good news to several North County tribal leaders contacted Friday. They [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by hunwut
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La Jolla Indians get help from Pala Band
By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
February 23, 2008
Doretta Musick lost everything in October when the Poomacha fire tore through the La Jolla Indian Reservation, in the shadow of Palomar Mountain.
Yesterday, she had a housewarming of sorts. The gift was a new house.

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Editor’s Report / Indian Country Today
February 22, 2008
Authentic Indians” are for many non-American Indians only those who look and dress like the stereotypical image of a Plains Indian - stoic and vanishing. There is a tendency for the general public - and often sympathetic foreigners - to believe that the only true Indians are [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Gale Courey Toensing / Indian Country Today
February 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO CA - More than 500 years after Europeans invaded and colonized the ”New World,” annihilating most of its original inhabitants and expropriating their resources, human rights violations and an institutionalized racism against indigenous peoples is alive and thriving in the United States, according to [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Associate Press
February 22, 2008
WASHINGTON DC - A resolution that formally apologizes to American Indians for years of government mistreatment and abuse will be part of an Indian Health Care Bill expected to pass in the Senate, later in February.

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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Linda LeGarde Grover, Budgeteer News
February 22, 2008
DULULTH MN - Recently a student in an Indian Studies class I teach asked me what, exactly, is an Indian reservation. He had never been on one, he said, but had seen signs on the highway that indicated when cars were entering the Grand Portage and Fond du Lac [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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By Lola Sherman, STAFF WRITER
February 22, 2008
OCEANSIDE CA – Luiseño Indians will have about half an acre set aside as a sacred site in an 18-acre expansion of the Eternal Hills Memorial Park cemetery. The half-acre ordered by the Oceanside City Council on Wednesday is half the space the city Planning Commission required when it [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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By Lola Sherman, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 
February 20, 2008
OCEANSIDE CA – The Luiseño Indians will have about half an acre set aside as a sacred site in an 18-acre expansion of the Eternal Hills Memorial Park cemetery.

Posted on February 21st, 2008 by hunwut
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