Banning center aims to keep Indian cultures alive
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- Indian Country Business Summit 2007 offered in KC.
- Indian store owners gain from American lottery
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- Indian Health Services Needs Reform
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Banning center aims to keep Indian cultures alive
Press-Enterprise – Aug 27, 2007
The center’s expenses exceeded its revenues by about $4500 in 2005 the most recent year for which its records are available. Ernest Siva said the renovation schedule for the building will depend on the cost. ther challenges include the fact that research on California Indians had been spotty until a resurgence in the past few decades said Clifford Trafzer Rupert Costo chairman of American Indian affairs at UC Riverside and a noted American Indian historian. "People just didn’t see it as important as other history" Trafzer said. Some tribes actively document their history but don’t share it. But Ernest Siva and the center are reaching out to a wider audience Trafzer said. "He’s providing those windows for people like me.
Secrets from the past
Times Herald-Record – Aug 27, 2007
“It enhances and enlarges our understanding of early house sites in range County and the Town of Wallkill” Guillet said. “Not a lot of work has been done in the area (so) that anything we learn has importance. “The two American Indian sites which are separated by a narrow swale but seem to be connected have already revealed interesting aspects of life in the region 4000 years ago. American Indians most likely from the Algonquian group of tribes seem to have used the spots to manufacture and fix tools as well as to process animal hides. The archaeologists have found no traces of habitation. They appear only to have been work sites. “Its importance is more in a regional context” Guillet said… “Not a lot of work has been done in the area (so) that anything we learn has importance. “The two American Indian sites which are separated by a narrow swale but seem to be connected have already revealed interesting aspects of life in the region 4000 years ago. American Indians most likely from the Algonquian group of tribes seem to have used the spots to manufacture and fix tools as well as to process animal hides. The archaeologists have found no traces of habitation. They appear only to have been work sites. “Its importance is more in a regional context” Guillet said. “This particular site is part of a series of sites that we’re finding in the Wallkill Valley on knolls overlooking the river.
Indian Country Business Summit 2007 offered in KC.
Free with registration – Journal Record (klahoma City K) – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 27, 2007
10-11 at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in klahoma City. Sponsors include the American Indian Ch.
Indian store owners gain from American lottery
Times of India – Aug 27, 2007
There are two separate lotteries Powerball and Mega Millions eachwith a top prize pumped up to more than $200 million waiting to be won becauseno one has hit the right numbers for the last several weeks. People are headingin droves to supermarkets and convenience stores to buy the $1 tickets for whatis by far the biggest payout week in the history oflotteries. American states arenot typically inhibited by the expressions of morality or piety that seize manyIndian states where there is a periodic cry to ban lotteries because it isargued poor people waste hard-earned money chasing an improbable win. Most states here thrive onlottery sales earning millions in tax revenue that is funnelled into educationand schools.
pinion | Indian Health Services ‘Needs Reform’ pinion…
Kaiser network.org – Aug 27, 2007
According to Graff ‘For the past 15 years Congress has let IHS go unchecked and underfunded. ‘ In addition reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ‘has failed several times in the last decade’ Graff writes. Meanwhile American Indians across the nation experience underfunded facilities higher death and disease rates than the rest of the population and inadequacies in overall health coverage and care according to Graff.
Indian Health Services Needs Reform
emaxhealth.com – Aug 27, 2007
According to Graff "For the past 15 years Congress haslet IHS go unchecked and underfunded. " In addition reauthorization ofthe Indian Health Care Improvement Act "has failed several times in thelast decade" Graff writes. Read about: General Health ArticlesMeanwhile American Indians acrossthe nation experience underfunded facilities higher death and diseaserates than the rest of the population and inadequacies in overallhealth coverage and care according to Graff. "A bipartisan collectionof senators primarily from the. " According to Graff reauthorization of theIndian Health Care Improvement Act would turn IHS "into a system thatis well-managed and adequately funded [and] could reduce the number ofuninsured Americans.
Food for thought quick and over easy
Greensboro News and Record – Greensboro News Record – Aug 27, 2007
A teachable momentPeople must like to play Indian. There was Nasdijj who lived in Chapel Hill for a time and wrote the acclaimed 2000 memoir “The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams. ” Kirkus gushed: “Love pain and anger radiate from every word of this strikingly beautiful and tragic memoir of an American Indian. ” Sheepish critics later discovered the author who claimed to be part Navajo was really Timothy Barrus a writer of gay erotica. Then there was Carlos Castaneda’s best-selling writings about hallucinogen-inspired learning from a “Yaqui shaman. ” They led to countless Native American rebuttals and a futile search for Castaneda’s mentor. And there’s “The Education of Little Tree” a 1976 book billed as a memoir written by a part-Cherokee but really penned by white supremacist Asa Carter.
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