SWC alum represents Navajos in the Miss Indian World pageant
By: Holly Angeles
Sheilah Naajiibah Dasher is a young woman warrior with strength and fearlessness in her name. Naajiibah means “woman who went to war many times” in Navajo. Dasher wears her Native-American heritage proudly and will represent her people as a candidate in the Miss Indian [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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Two previous plans failed because of water concern
By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The Campo Indian band is reviving a plan to build a huge landfill on its East County reservation near the Mexican border.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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Keyboard overlays help teach students the Cherokee language.
By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer
TAHLEQUAH - Hunkered over the white laptop computer on her desk, Rachel Ballou began to type.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Rich Campbell
Sam Bradford, the University of Oklahoma quarterback who is part Cherokee Indian, will be drafted with one of the first 10 picks in April–as long as his surgically repaired right shoulder is healthy–and many draft analysts believe he’ll end up with the Redskins.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The Campo Indian band is reviving a plan to build a huge landfill on its East County reservation near the Mexican border.
The tribe says the plan is much improved from two earlier efforts beginning in the 1980s that ultimately faltered amid concerns from neighbors about traffic and water impacts.

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by hunwut
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Indian Island Vigil remembers massacre 150 years ago
Donna Tam/The Times-Standard
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Wiyot Tribe had its last dance ceremony on Indian Island.

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Staff reports
On average, less than 50 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native students from the Pacific and Northwestern regions of the United States graduate high school, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at University of California, Los Angeles’ Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS).

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Maureen Magee, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
OLD TOWN (Kosa’aay) - Every week in the outskirts of Old Town, where the Kumeyaay Indians were colonized by the Spaniards more than 200 years ago, scores of urban Indians meet to dance, eat and keep their heritage alive.

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by hunwut
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Saturday, April 3rd & Saturday, April 10th
For information call: 951-849-7289 or check our website at: www.malkimuseum.org

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Roy Cook
There was a bit of disappointment with the Soaring Eagles at the no-show of the media last week. This week we went uptown to the Board meeting to assist the efforts to retain Ballard center for the benefit of children, parents and many ethnic communities.

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by hunwut
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