Jessica Simpson sparks outcry from Indians
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- Jessica Simpson sparks outcry from Indians
- Maine Indians want athletes honored
- Rare parole hearing for American Indian activist
- Bones From Up To 20 American Indians Found At School Construction Site
- Law Professor Building Native American Program
- New program to tackle diabetes among young Indians
- Birdshill’s Walker selected
Jessica Simpson sparks outcry from Indians
Newsday
“I’m not an Indian giver” Simpson told TMZ. com when asked if she’d insist on the return of a $100000 boat she’d bought Romo from whom she split on July 9. Reaction was swift on TMZ’s Web site and from members of an American Indian watchdog group. “I cringed when I heard Jessica Simpson comment about us Native Americans. Am I mad!?! I should be but look at who the comment is coming from” wrote one commenter. Pata executive director of the National.
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Maine Indians want athletes honored
The Associated Press
Sockalexis played professional baseball for the Cleveland Spiders from 1897-1899 and batted. 338 in 66 games in his first season. A resolution passed June 12 by the Maine Legislature calls Sockalexis the “first known American Indian to play major league baseball” and the inspiration for the team name Indians which was officially adopted in 1915. The resolution also criticizes Sports Illustrated for not including Louis or his cousin Andrew who competed in the lympic marathon in 1912 on its list of Maine’s 50 greatest athletes and asks that the magazine “correct the oversight. “”They were always talked about in my upbringing on the reservation” said Francis adding “they truly were heroes in this community. “But Francis and Mitchell said the contributions of the two athletes have been largely overlooked by baseball and the media. “To me their accomplishments went far beyond their athletic prowess” said Francis.
Rare parole hearing for American Indian activist
Philadelphia Inquirer
28 2009 Rare parole hearing for American Indian activist BLAKE NICHLSN The Associated Press BISMARCK N. – The North Dakota reservation where imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier grew up has made arrangements to incorporate him back into society should he be paroled Peltier’s attorney said Tuesday. Peltier is serving two life sentences for the execution-style deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26 1975 standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in Fargo N.
Bones From Up To 20 American Indians Found At School Construction Site
FoxReno.com
– Human skeletal remains of as many as 20 American Indians from the Bay Miwok tribe have been uncovered at the construction site of a new high school gym in Danville a representative of the tribe said Wednesday afternoon. According to Andrew Galvan who has traced his ancestry back to the Bay Miwok tribe that once lived in Contra Costa County and who is recognized by the state as the Most Likely Descendent of the remains the remains could be anywhere from 250 to 2000 years old. They include the bones of adults children and infants. The burial site was first discovered July 8 when construction crews digging the foundation for a new gym on the San Ramon Valley High School campus uncovered the remains of one person. An archeologist working with the Contra Costa County coroner’s office examined the bones and determined that they were indeed American Indian remains.
Law Professor Building Native American Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
EagleWoman studied political science at Stanford University earned a law degree at the University of North Dakota and a master’s in law at the University of Tulsa in klahoma. She has cross-listed her courses at the University of Idaho so students outside the law school can enroll. Last year she taught 17 law students and two others studying American Indian studies. This fall she’ll have 32 law students and eight others. Along with building the law emphasis curriculum EagleWoman has also bolstered efforts to recruit more Native American students said UI College of Law Dean Don Burnett. “She’s a tremendous asset” Burnett said. EagleWoman hopes one day to have her program grow into a full-fledged degree.
New program to tackle diabetes among young Indians
Salt Lake Tribune
on Monday July 20 2009. The educators will be fanning out across New Mexico Arizona and parts of Colorado and Utah to share the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools curriculum with teachers.
Birdshill’s Walker selected
Lake swego Review
was recently named 2009 Indian Physician of the Year by the Association of American Indian Physicians. Here he poses with his daughter Katherine Walker left wife Patricia Silk-Walker center wrapped in his special “Commemorative Pendleton Blanket. Both Walker and his wife are faculty members at HSU. The family lives in the Birdshill area of Lake swego.
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