American Indian Remains Looking for Resting Place
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- American Indian Remains Looking for Resting Place
- 2008 showed fewer American Indian fatalities on Montana highways
- Fort Laramie in Wyoming commemorates 175 years
- How Indians spell SUCCESS at the bee
- Court steers clear of Ariz. ski resort dispute
American Indian Remains Looking for Resting Place
WRCB-TV
Native American groups say returning these remains to the proper tribe is a form of respect. At least twelve tribes are in talks with TVA but some say the bones belong to a member of Chattanooga's first tribe. Tennessee Indian Affairs Commissioner Tom Kunesh said there is a respect factor involved in all of this. “It is important for all people to claim their loved ones” said Kunesh. “It does not matter if it were last year 15 years or 1000 years ago. Relatives go back to relatives. It is the same in every culture.
2008 showed fewer American Indian fatalities on Montana highways
The Missoulian
In addition to the Safe n All Roads program and coordination with tribal partners MDT is also helping to fund extra patrols and equipment for some law enforcement agencies on the reservations while encouraging tribal agencies to enforce seat belt and DUI laws and start DUI task forces. These projects to reduce Native American crash deaths earned MDT and the tribes a national award from the Federal Highway Administration in 2008. American Indians comprise about 6. 3 percent of the population in Montana but historically they have represented about 14 to 20 percent of the motor vehicle crash fatalities in the state. The number from 1995 to 2007 averaged 40 Native Americans per year most among those ages 15 to 34. “A lot of factors influence the number of deaths” Lynch said adding that weather patterns the number of vehicle miles traveled the population of drivers in high risk age groups the distances between the crash site and a trauma center and other factors can affect the trend in fatalities. “We do know that if more people wear their seat belts more people will live” Lynch went on.
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Fort Laramie in Wyoming commemorates 175 years
San Jose Mercury News
It didn’t take long for Fort William to outgrow its simple cottonwood palisade as it blossomed into a trade center and important station on the regon Trail. The Army purchased the post in 1849 and gave it a new name. Fort Laramie became the largest military post on the Northern Plains and a staging area for a series of bloody conflicts between American Indian tribes and the expanding United States. Now a National Historic Site run by the National Park Service Fort Laramie will host a symposium June 19-21 to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of Fort William. The weekend will include presentations by experts of the western fur trade and a re-creation of a trappers camp like the one founder William Sublette pitched at the confluence of the North Platte and Laramie rivers on May 30 1834. “We’re celebrating that era of the fur trade” said Mitzi Frank superintendent of the site. “The reason that’s so important to us here is mostly we are associated with the military history.
How Indians spell SUCCESS at the bee
Wall Street Journal
” Balu Natarajan spelled it — and transformed it. Natarajan now a sports doctor correctly spelled the word to become the first Indian American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Before you ask for a definition it means “the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops.
Court steers clear of Ariz. ski resort dispute
The Associated Press
Shanker said he doesn’t believe all avenues have been exhausted. “As long as there are Native Americans who believe in the sacredness of these sites there are going to be people who try to preserve and protect those beliefs” he said. Jack Trope executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs called on Congress to strengthen religious freedom laws to better protect sites that American Indians consider sacred. Forest Service earlier had approved the ski area’s expansion. The bama administration opposed the high court’s intervention in the case noting that the ski resort has been in operation for more than 70 years and that recent snowfall has been sporadic.
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