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- Governor signs bill to collect sales tax on Indian-sold cigarettes
- American Indian College Fund Selects DonorFirst(TM) Platform
- The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival honors top films and …
- US prosecutors argue for 1 trial in 1975 Pine Ridge slaying
United Health Foundation Provides $45000 for Scholarships to the …
MarketWatch
The scholarship recipients were chosen based on their academic achievement financial need education enrollment status and American Indian community involvement. Scholarship recipients include five tribal college students at Dine College including Melissa Clark a pre-medicine major from Shiprock New Mexico; Alison Dedman a nursing major from Nazlini Arizona; Danielle Goldman a pre-medicine major from Farmington New Mexico; Danelle Jishie a pre-medicine major from Tsaile Arizona; and Thomasita Kinsel a health occupations major from Lukachukai Arizona. Mainstream college scholarship recipients include Rachelle Hovel a social work major from Phoenix Arizona and Tenai Roan a nursing major from St. Michaels Arizona both studying at Arizona State University; and Kelly Saganey a biology major from Flagstaff Arizona and Belinda Style a social work major from Tuba City Arizona both studying at Northern Arizona University.
The Wild Wild Doctoring in the Wild Wild West
New York Times United States
Dary has enormous respect for early Indian cures and he deplores the way the English ignored them. “Most English looked down on the native peoples and considered them savages” he writes “and rejected anything associated with them. ” Over time American Indian practices did catch on. “It is fair to say” Mr. Dary writes “that Indian medical knowledge is what gives early American medicine its particular character. ” It was not easy it seems to have been an American Indian medicine man. These practitioners were sometimes jumpy and for good reason.
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American Indian Health Expert Discusses Findings of Recent Cancer …
Kaiser network.org DC
Kaur was a co-author of the report ‘An Update on Cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations 1999-2004. ‘ The study found that cancer appears to affect Natives differently based on the region where they live. It called for implementing prevention and education programs and basing treatment on cultural differences within the American Indian culture and tribal subgroups. indiancountrytoday.
Governor signs bill to collect sales tax on Indian-sold cigarettes
The Central New York Business Journal NY
David Paterson signed into law today a bill that prohibits cigarette manufacturers from selling unstamped cigarettes to stamping agents who do not have the proper certification. The bill ensures that American Indian retailers tax cigarettes sold to non-Indians according to the governor’s office. Although cigarettes sold by agents to retailers for re-sale to non-Indian purchasers must bear tax stamps the state adopted a policy of non-enforcement for many years. Agents still sell unstamped cigarettes to Indian retailers who sell them to non-Indians at discount prices according to the state.
American Indian College Fund Selects DonorFirst(TM) Platform
MarketWatch
com) an innovativeprovider of philanthropic technology for the financial services andnonprofit industries announced today that the American IndianCollege Fund (the Fund) has selected them to provide the Web-basedadministrative platform for their new Donor Advised Fund (DAF)initiative. “We are excited to be selected by the American Indian College Fund tosupport their new initiative and consider it a tribute to ourcorporate vision of enhanced donor engagement and collaboration thatan organization with their unique mission and commitment has electedto provide our program to their donors” said William Hewitt CrownPhilanthropic Solutions’ National Marketing Director. Distributingapproximately 5000 scholarships each year and supported by more than22000 donors The American Indian College Fund transforms Indianhigher education by creating awareness of the unique community-basedTribal Colleges and Universities. The Fund offers students access toknowledge skills and cultural values which enhance theircommunities and the country as a whole. “Tribal colleges are beacons of hope for social and economic changein the communities they serve” said Tammy Miller-Carlson ChiefFinancial Officer of the Fund. “These institutions are vital toNative America and beneficial to the country as a whole because theyhelp Native communities in the fight against poverty and act topreserve language and culture by integrating these important elementsinto their curriculum.
The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival honors top films and …
News from Indian Country WI
The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) put on another first class American Indian Film Festival during November. As the nation’s most prominent outlet for Native American films the American Indian Film Festival premiered over 80 new feature films shorts public service music videos and documentaries from USA American Indian and Canada First Nation communities. The festival ran Nov. 7-12 at the Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinemaand concluded Nov. 13-15 at the Palace of Fine Arts a grand oldtheater once used for a Worlds Fair.
US prosecutors argue for 1 trial in 1975 Pine Ridge slaying
The Canadian Press S.D.
prosecutors say two American Indian Movement members charged with the 1975 slaying of a Canadian woman on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation should be tried together. John Graham and Richard Marshall have pleaded not guilty to charges they committed or aided and abetted the first-degree murder of Annie Mae Aquash. They’re scheduled to stand trial in Rapid City starting Feb. Lawyers for both men argued for separate trials.
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