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- Stalemate persists over American Indian remains at UC Museum: native…
- Students Won’t Give up the Fight for Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl…
- Proposed legislation would bring slots to Bonita dog track
- National Guard gets hydrogen fuel-power
- PM Rudd is off to a flying start
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Weekend Best Bets: East County
San Diego Union Tribune – Feb 21, 2008
DATE>February 21 2008. CNTENT> PW-WWThe 20th annual Grossmont College Pow-Wow a celebration of American Indian culture will begin at noon Saturday with gourd dancing in the campus Student Center. Activities will continue throughout the day. The event will feature more than 20 dancers and drummers giveaways displays of American Indian arts and crafts and food. The Grand Entry – a procession of about 100 dancers – will begin at 6 p.
Stalemate persists over American Indian remains at UC Museum: native…
Free with registration – Diverse Issues in Higher Education – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 21, 2008
(noteworthy news) A stalemate continues to persist over the remains of 12000 Native Americans stored in a University of California Berkeley museum. A coalition of tribes has been demanding that Native Americans be given more control over the ongoing repatriation process of those remains. UC Berkeley officials however have refused to allow what they say would amount to external supervision of a university entity. Since Berkeley archaeologists excavated them in the 1960s the bones have been stored in drawers and cabinets beneath a pool as part of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Students Won’t Give up the Fight for Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl…
Infoshop News – Feb 21, 2008
Among its goals were the preservation and re-institutionalization of traditional Native American values the perpetuation and exercise of Native American religion and beliefs the establishment of a Native American Research Institute the development of field-based educational delivery systems to Native Americans who cannot attend the school itself and the maintenance of social and personal support systems for D-Q students and staff. DQ has had a troubled history. It is the state’s only American-Indian-controlled institution of higher learning located outside of a reservation. It came under American Indian control in 1978 and remained in trust until 2001 when a Board of Trustees was created. The school lost its major source of funding the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2004 when the agency claimed its American Indian enrollment dropped below 51 percent. It then lost its accreditation with the state in January 2005. A lawsuit eventually transferred power to the current Board of Trustees… DQ has had a troubled history. It is the state’s only American-Indian-controlled institution of higher learning located outside of a reservation. It came under American Indian control in 1978 and remained in trust until 2001 when a Board of Trustees was created. The school lost its major source of funding the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2004 when the agency claimed its American Indian enrollment dropped below 51 percent. It then lost its accreditation with the state in January 2005. A lawsuit eventually transferred power to the current Board of Trustees. Students at the time accused trustees of misallocating federal funds.
Proposed legislation would bring slots to Bonita dog track
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Feb 21, 2008
Following a brief explanation and a few changes the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee approved a measure that would allow dog tracks horse tracks and Jai Alai facilities to operate video slot machines similar to those now allowed at American Indian casinos around the state. The bill’s sponsor Sen. Dennis Jones R-Seminole said the measure would allow long-time Florida establishments to better compete with American Indian gaming facilities that will soon be allowed to operate higher stakes slot games following referenda expanding gambling in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. “This is an opportunity for these 20 facilities around the state — some of them have been here almost 58 years paying taxes and meeting payroll — to expand their opportunities to their customers” Jones said before the vote. The measure passed on a 5-1 vote and now heads to the Senate floor. So far a House version has yet to be introduced. Jones’ plan was opposed Thursday by the Florida Sheriff’s Association the only group to speak against the measure at the hearing.
National Guard gets hydrogen fuel-power
Forbes – Feb 21, 2008
Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory as partners to the National Automotive Center. Albuquerque-based Sacred Power an American Indian-owned company will provide service support and maintenance. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast rewritten or redistributed. Neither the Subscriber nor AFX News warrants the completeness or accuracy of the Service or the suitability of the Service as a trading aid and neither accepts any liability for losses howsoever incurred.
PM Rudd is off to a flying start
Jakarta Post – Feb 21, 2008
Elected last November but actually in office only since January Kevin Rudd looks to be something of a super-sharp Tony Blair type — but without all the America-fawning that in the final analysis was so fatal to the former British Prime Minister. In short order Rudd — almost a pair of decades younger than his rival-party predecessor John Howard prime minister for 11 years — has started to put his own imprint on Australia’s marquee political values. The leader of the country’s Labor Party has sought to set straight the country’s American-Indian style history with its indigenous population. The Prime Minister himself formally apologized for the mistreatment of its aborigines. Such an apology was urged on Howard but persistently rebuffed. By contrast Rudd all but rushed to set the matter straight. Decisiveness and intellectual clarity would appear to be among the new PM’s traits.
Entrusted to us
Denver Post – Feb 21, 2008
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