Native Traditions

Hawaii Passes Bill to Protect Taro Plant

April 4, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Thomson Financial News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/04/afx4856190.html

The sacred Hawaiian taro plant cannot be genetically modified for at least five years, according to a measure approved by lawmakers Thursday.

The moratorium falls short of the demands of many taro farmers and Native Hawaiian groups who want taro to remain...

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Incoming Elmhurst College President is Lawyer, Theologian

March 13, 2008

Author: Joseph Sjostrom

Source: The Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-elmhurst-prez_13mar13,1,4802800.story

The incoming president of Elmhurst College is a lawyer, theologian and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

The college announced late last month that S. Alan Ray, an administrator at the University of New Hampshire, will replace Bryant Cureton on July 1 to become Elmhurst College...

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Activist: Old Native Ways Can Be Used in New Sustainability Efforts

March 9, 2008

Author: Brynn Grimley

Source: Kitsap Sun

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/mar/09/using-old-ways-to-create-a-new-environment/

As a mother, Lydia Sigo is concerned about her child's future. As a member of the Suquamish Tribe, Sigo is concerned about the next seven generations and what their futures hold.

That's why the young mother attended an event held Sunday at the Suquamish Clearwater Casino and Resort...

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Walkers Seek Protection of Sacred Sites, Native Rights

February 23, 2008

Author: MICHAEL MARESH

Source: Lahontan Valley News

http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20080223/News/407659684

Several people are reliving a walk of 30 years ago from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., to promote that all life is sacred, whether it be the Earth, sites or life itself.

Participants arrived Fallon on Thursday and stopped at the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation. They will rest there through the weekend...

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Army Sued to Clear Ordnance from Hawaiian Temples

February 20, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Environment News Service

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2008/2008-02-20-095.asp

Today, community group Malama Makua asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii to order the U.S. Army to move quickly to expand cultural access to Native Hawaiian sites at Makua Military Reservation on Oahu.

This access is required under the October 4, 2001 settlement that resolved Malama Makua's lawsuit...

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Native Youth Protest 2010 Olympics

January 31, 2008

Author: Sam Bick

Source: The McGill Daily

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6953

With the 2010 Vancouver Olympics rapidly approaching, indigenous groups in Canada are protesting that the events – to be held on unceded Salish, St’at’imc, and Squamish territory – will wreak environmental and social destruction.

Activists Kanahus Pelkey and Dustin Johnson have embarked on a three-week speaking tour across the East Coast...

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Barack Obama Says He Supports the Akaka Bill

January 28, 2008

Source: Indian Country Today

Wire Service: AP

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416547

HONOLULU (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would sign the Akaka Bill recognizing Native Hawaiians if elected president.

The Illinois senator said in a statement released Jan. 22 he supports federal recognition for Native Hawaiians because they are an important part of the local culture. The bill would...

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Native Leaders Fill Six Democratic Convention Posts

January 28, 2008

Author: Jerry Reynolds

Source: Indian Country Today

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416546

DENVER - The standing committees of the Democratic national convention include six American Indians after January elections, an unprecedented number that national party chairman Howard Dean said reflects the strength-in-diversity of Democrats and their convention.

The convention, to be held in Denver in August, will nominate the...

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Apaches Rise to Defend Homelands from Homeland Security

January 10, 2008

Author: Brenda Norrell

Source: Immigration Daily/International Relations Center

http://www.ilw.com/articles/2008,0317-norrell.shtm

Apache land owners on the Rio Grande told Homeland Security to halt the seizure of their lands for the U.S.-Mexico border wall on Jan. 7, 2008. It was the same day that a 30-day notice from Homeland Security expired with the threat of land seizures by eminent domain to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Homeland...

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Jesuits Settle Indian Sex Abuse Suit

January 3, 2008

Author: JOHN K. WILEY

Source: The Associated Press

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQphM33AusDGN_MP9yhVsA5hfOvgD8TUQ0KO1

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An order of Roman Catholic priests announced a $5 million settlement Thursday with 16 people who said they were sexually abused while attending a boarding school on an American Indian reservation.

The Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuit Order of priests,...

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Uranium Cuts a Tragic Path Through the Navajo Nation

January 2, 2008

Author: Amy Levek

Source: The Watch

http://www.telluridewatch.com/articles/2008/01/02/news/doc47769e602698d188576771.txt

Three coyotes run through the sagebrush, stopping briefly to check us out. Head of the Uranium Education Project at Diné College Perry Charley and I are out in the windswept canyons of the Navajo Reservation, looking at the legacy of uranium mining and its sad and tragic intertwining with Navajo...

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Zimbabwe: Zim Traditional Healers Take Their Trade to UK

December 17, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: allAfrica.com

http://allafrica.com/stories/200712170549.html

A number of Zimbabwean traditional healers have set up base in the United Kingdom and have reported brisk business.

In Bexleyheath, South East London, Sekuru Mutero (49), has set up his office and confirms that more and more Zimbabweans living in London are turning to him in search of good fortune. I visited him at his two-bedroom rented house last week to...

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New Travel Rules Leave Native Americans in Limbo

December 16, 2007

Author: Tim Gaynor

Source: The Vancouver Sun

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bd56183-0614-480c-9c4c-8f673ac410b4

The U.S. border inspector at this lonely desert crossing with Mexico fingers the tribal enrollment card decorated with a wooden staff and eagle feathers, and glances at the holder's photograph.

Tohono O'odham elder...

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Tribes Protest Federal Plans for Sacred Peaks

December 11, 2007

Author: Molly R. Okeon

Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune

http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_7697222

PASADENA - Protesting the use of treated sewage water to make snow in an area they hold sacred, Native American activists marched through the city with environmental leaders to a hearing at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.

In colorful garb and playing traditional music, the Native Americans walked from All Saints Episcopal Church to...

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