American Indian Movement plans to protest Chasco Fiesta “mockery”
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- American Indian Movement plans to protest Chasco Fiesta “mockery”
- Murkowski says she’ll keep Indian affairs a priority
- Feds give initial approval to Crow coal plant
- Heritage foundation in Native American art
American Indian Movement plans to protest Chasco Fiesta “mockery”
Tampabay.com
With the Little Everglades Steeplechase it’s horses and big hats. Land ‘Lakes has flapjacks. And Chasco Fiesta promises American Indian culture. Petersburg Times tbt* Tampa news Tampa newspaper Tampa Bay news world news local news obituaries Tampa St. Petersburg Clearwater Pinellas County Hillsborough County Hernando County Pasco County www.
Murkowski says she’ll keep Indian affairs a priority
Indian Country Today
Although I will no longer serve as vice chair I will continue to be an active member of the committee. In fact I’ve doubled the number of staff in my personal office who focus on American Indian Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian issues. ICT: Can you give more details?Murkowski: Megan Alvanna-Stimpfle King Island Inupiaq has moved to my personal office after serving as a professional staff member on the committee and Nathan Bergerbest former general counsel of Doyon Limited the regional Native Corporation for Interior Alaska who has staffed me on these issues for the past six years will continue his work on Native issues. I’m also interested in revitalizing the Senate Native American Caucus which has been inactive for some time. We need to have a venue to bring together senators who are interested in advancing Native issues but do not serve on the committee. ICT: Will you be an advocate for Indian country in your new positions?Murkowski: My new roles as ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and member of the Senate Appropriations Committee open new opportunities to improve the lives of Native people – in Alaska and throughout the nation.
Feds give initial approval to Crow coal plant
Forbes
4 billion plant would produce an initial 50000 barrels a day of diesel jet fuel fertilizer or other products. The fuel would be produced from coal mined on the Crow’s southeastern Montana reservation.
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Heritage foundation in Native American art
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art" a handsome sampler on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art in St. wisely narrows the field focusing on just six artists whose photos lithographs and sculpture are as much personal expression as cultural statement. Their education is as diverse as their geographic and tribal origins: Star Wallowing Bull a Chippewa from Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation taught himself to draw by watching his celebrated father Frank Big Bear at work in their south Minneapolis home while Marie Watt a Seneca born in Seattle honed her conceptual feminism while completing an MFA at Yale University.
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