John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is grateful for his intense scholarship.
By Steve Chawkins
Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius. But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a nosy, “Ichabod Crane-like” [...]

Posted on January 31st, 2010 by hunwut
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by Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio
White Earth, Minn. - A charter school on the White Earth Indian Reservation is using traditional culture and language to get kids and parents excited about education.

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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Environment and Resources - Energy
BY Emily Holding
The Tule Wind Power Project is underway this week with an environmental hearing last night in Jacumba and one scheduled tonight in Boulevard. The project would allow Portland-based Iberdrola Renewables to build 67 to 133 400-foot wind turbines along with access roads and a 138-kilovolt transmission line on 15,500 [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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Associated Press
WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota says 1 of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara language has died.
Maude Starr, whose American Indian name meant Yellow Calf Woman, died Jan. 20 at the age of 71. Her funeral was held Wednesday in the Fort Berthold Reservation [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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SLEEK NEW SPACE FOR SIGNATURE STEAKHOUSE
El Rancho Grande and Barona Steakhouse Now Open
(SAN DIEGO) - Barona Resort & Casino is now dishing up authentic Mexican fare such as tamales, ceviche and carnitas at the new El Rancho Grande Mexican restaurant, formerly occupied by its signature steakhouse. Just a stone’s throw from its old spot, the [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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Melissa Pinion-Whitt, Staff Writer
HIGHLAND - The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians on Wednesday donated $1.7 million to the American Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders to help with relief efforts in Haiti.

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Roy Cook
Swift showers cannot dampen the spirit of Soaring Eagle. Tuesday night, 1/26/10, tonight dance workshop offered special and regular activities to educate and entertain parents and visitors. Randy Edmonds, SCAIR Senior advisor and the San Diego Inter-tribal Singers resumed Kiowa Gourd Dance instruction.

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By ERIC A. TAUB
The young woman seated next to us at the sushi bar exuded a vaguely exotic air; her looks and style, we thought, made it likely that she was not American born.

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By la Macha
The practice many universities and museums have of destroying and pilfering native peoples burial grounds in the name of “knowledge” is a long, disgusting and obscene practice. It is one that stems from the belief that Native bodies are extinct and “of the world.” That is, Native peoples are a rare species that [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by hunwut
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Advocate business staff
Rosetta Stone Inc. today announced the release of the Chitimacha language version of Rosetta Stone® software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. The last fluent Chitimach speaker died in 1940 but the tribe is trying to revive its language.

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by hunwut
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