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Onondaga Nation Youth Protest Onondaga Lake Propaganda Swim July 22, 2015-- Syracuse, NY—Onondaga Lake isn’t clean yet, and the Onondaga Nation knows it. That’s why over 20 Onondaga Nation youth stood up for their future and protested at the “Clean Lake Party in the Park” at which 40 local politicians and celebrities jumped in the lake. “I don’t want to see anyone get sick or hurt from this lake,” stated Pierce Smith, of the Onondaga Nation. “The lake itself is hurting.” While the dredging of the southern end of the lake was deemed “complet...
8 Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke Election Day Results (Kahnawake – 22 Ohiarí:ha/ June 2015) The following are the results of the 2015 Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke Elections held on - Saturday, 20 Ohiarí:ha/June: Joseph Tokwiroh Norton was elected Grand Chief with 488 votes. Mike Delisle Jr., received 397 votes, Lloyd Phillips, received 356 votes and Keith Myiow, received 85 votes. Those elected as Council Chiefs, and their vote totals, are as follows: 1. Kahsennehawe Sky-Deer (728) 2. Carl Horn (690) 3. Clinton Phillips (673) 4. Kenneth McComb...
AFN National Chief Bellegarde Calls For Action after Release of TRC Ottawa, ONTARIO Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde responded to the release of the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that was released on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Bellegarde stated that all Canadians and all governments have a role to play in reconciliation and closing the gap in the quality of life between First Nations and Canadians. “All Canadians are affected by the impacts of the Indian residential schools system and it i...
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Calls on All Countries to Make All Laws and Policies Consistent with International Human Rights Standards (United Nations, New York) - Indigenous peoples’ organizations and human rights groups are calling on all countries, including Canada, to ensure that their laws and policies are consistent with international human rights standards set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Delivering a statement on behalf of a wide range of organizations from across Canada and a...
March and Rally Against Racism to Retire the Cleveland Indians and Their Chief Wahoo Minneapolis, MN (April 16, 2015) The National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media held a march and rally against racism and the Cleveland Indians and their Chief Wahoo logo on Saturday April 18th at Target Field, Gate 34 before the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Baseball game. Speakers included; David Glass, President of the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media; Henry Boucha, 1972 Olympic Silver Medalist and Vice President of the Nation...
Assembly of First Nations (Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde expressed support for the key investments and a new approach based on recognizing First Nations rights that will support a better quality of life for First Nations as set out in today’s Alternative Federal Budget, “Delivering the Good”, released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) calls for removing the 2% cap on funding increases to First Nations that has been in place since 1996. The cap...
Hunting and fishing rights are some of the special rights that Native Americans enjoy as a result of the treaties signed between their tribes and the federal government. Historically, hunting and fishing were critically important to Native American tribes. Fish and wildlife were a primary source of food and trade goods, and tribes based their own seasonal movements on fish migrations. In addition, fish and wildlife played a central role in the spiritual and cultural framework of Native American life. As the Court noted, access to fish and...
Heitkamp, Murkowski Re-Introduce Comprehensive Bill to Improve the Lives of Native American Children U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), introduced their comprehensive plan to find solutions to the complex challenges facing Native American children throughout Indian Country on January 22, 2015. Conditions for young people in Indian Country are tragic. For example; More than one in three American Indian and Alaska Native children live in poverty; Suicide rates for Native children ages 15-24 years old are 2.5 times the...
AFN Planning National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The Assembly of First Nations is carrying out their original intentions set forth in July 2014 of hosting a Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls as part of a framework to develop a national dialogue on addressing and ending violence against Indigenous women and girls. This is the next step towards the broader goal of securing a National Inquiry into this matter. The Roundtable has been confirmed to take place in Ottawa on February 27,...
FIRST NATION LEADERS ELECT PERRY BELLEGARDE AS NEW AFN NATIONAL CHIEF WINNIPEG, Dec. 15, 2014 /CNW/ - First Nation leaders from across Canada gathered at the Special Chiefs Assembly for the past three days and elected former Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). He was elected on the first ballot with 63% of the vote. National Chief Perry Bellegarde will serve a three-and-a-half year term as mandated by resolution by Chiefs-in-Assembly at the 2014 Annual G...
San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler is asking the Senate not to vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act until a provision that would allow a massive copper mining project on sacred land is removed. The House approved a bill on December 4 that gives 2,400 acres of sacred Apache land to a giant international mining corporation, then sent it to the Senate for a fast vote in a process that won’t allow amendments to be made. The land swap bill, called the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013 (H.R. 687), w...
ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS ELECTION 2014 Announcement of Candidates for the Office of National Chief OTTAWA, ON November 5, 2014 – The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, responsible for the December election of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief, has received nomination papers in proper form from the following persons, listed below in alphabetical order: Perry Bellegarde Leon Jourdain Ghislain Picard According to the AFN Charter, an eligible candidate must: Be eighteen (18) years of age or older; Be of First Nations a...
ONGWEOWEH CORP. HONORED BY MINORITY-BUSINESS GROUP Ongweoweh Corp. has received Corporate Plus membership in the National Minority Supplier Development Council, which is bestowed upon less than 1 percent of the more than 12,000 certified minority business enterprises in the United States, the company announced. Ongweoweh Corp. is a pallet and packaging management company in Ithaca founded in 1978 by Frank Bonamie, an enrolled member of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York. It services primarily national Fortune 500 companies in food, beverage,...
United States Mint Announces Designs for 2015 and 2016 Native American $1 Coins WASHINGTON - The United States Mint recently announced the reverse (tails side) designs selected for the 2015 and 2016 Native American $1 Coins. The theme for the 2015 design is "Mohawk high iron workers, builders of New York City and other skylines (from 1886)." The design depicts a Mohawk ironworker reaching for an I-beam that is swinging into position, rivets on the left and right side of the border, and a high...
AFN WELCOMES RENEWED CALL BY PREMIERS FOR NATIONAL INQUIRY ON MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, ACTION REQUIRED TO END VIOLENCE NOW August 27, 2014 (Ottawa, ON) – Following a meeting with Premiers and Territorial leaders in Charlottetown, PEI, Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Ghislain Picard welcomed renewed support for a National Commission of Inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and further stressed the importance of immediate action by the Government of Canada, First Nations and all r...
THE OBVIOUS NEED FOR A NATIONAL PUBLIC INQUIRY! August 19, 2014 (Ottawa, ON) - The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is once again extremely disheartened and discouraged to learn that the wrapped body, pulled out of the Red River, Manitoba on August 18, was that of 15 year-old Tina Fontaine, who had only very recently gone missing. And, just a week ago prior to this event, the remains of another young Aboriginal woman, Samantha Paul, was found near Kamloops, BC. “Every week now, we hear of another Aboriginal girl or woman, who has gon...
TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE & SUSTAINABLE LIVING CONFERENCE OCTOBER 3RD & 4TH 2014 The Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute announces the 9th annual Traditional Agriculture & Sustainable Living Conference to be held October 3rd & 4th, 2014 at the Nick L. Salazar Performing Arts Building of Northern New Mexico College, in Espanola, New Mexico. This year’s conference will again be a multi-national fellowship with speakers and participants from at least 6 countries including Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Canada and the United S...
EPOCH LACROSSE SIGNS TY THOMPSON First Athlete to be Endorsed by Major Lacrosse Company Minneapolis, MN — Two-time Division I All-American and Rochester Rattler rookie Ty Thompson has signed an agreement with Epoch Lacrosse making him the company’s first endorsed athlete. The pride of the Mohawk Nation, N.Y., and the fourth all-time leading scorer at the University at Albany will be representing Epoch Lacrosse at camps/clinics nationwide and providing Epoch’s engineers with real world feedback in the development of future products. What does...
BEGAY HONORED: Notah Begay III, Navajo/Pubelo, a four-time PGA Tour winner and the only Native Americans to play in the Tour, will be inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in October. Begay graduated from Stanford in 1995, and turned pro that same year. From Indian Country Today TRIBES CAN NOW ARREST NON-NATIVES On Friday, August 1, 27 members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police received the power to arrest non-Natives on tribal land. “Up until now they could only hold and detain non-tribal members until the state police c...
RCMP OFFICER SHOOTS NORWAY HOUSE MAN The shooting of a Norway House man has the community angry according to Chief Ron Evans. The incident happened last week during a boys baseball tournament involving players aged nine to 12. Witnesses said an RCMP officer fired four shots at Evan Cromarty, 20, who was hit at least once in the arm, reported APTN National News. Cromarty faced firearm charges for an incident in Norway House back in 2012. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is now in charge of the investigation, a Manitoba RCMP...
TSILHQOT’IN NATION WELCOMES RECOGNITION OF FULL ABORIGINAL TITLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CANADIAN HISTORY Vancouver, BC (June 26, 2014): The Tsilhqot’in Nation welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision overruling the BC Court of Appeal’s judgment on Aboriginal title. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the 2007 ruling of the BC Supreme Court and declared Aboriginal title to approximately 2000 km2 in the heart of the Tsilhqot’in homeland, in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of British Columbia. The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling ends a long his...
Reprinted from Indian Country Today As fans' excitement filled the Arena da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, in the final minutes of the World Cup on Sunday, a similar sentiment could be heard thousands of miles away in Carnegie, Oklahoma, where the Kiowa tribe was hosting its very own watch party for USA striker Chris Wondolowski. Members of the Kiowa tribe erupted in applause when ESPN flashed a photo of Wondolowski on the TV screen and the announcer said that he was "half Native American" and a...
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Cancel Washington NFL Team’s R-Word Trademark (June 18, 2014) In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) cancelled the Washington NFL team’s federal trademark registration of the term “Redskins.” Deeming the term “disparaging to Native Americans,” the ruling by the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) cancels the trademark status of the name, no longer providing the team with legal rights to the term. Earlier this year, the USPTO rejected an application t...
Oneida Indian Nation Gets Trust Land On May 30, the Department of the Interior announced its decision that it will take into trust 13,004 acres of the Oneida Indian Nation’s historical territory. The 13,004 acres include the Nation’s Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona and 32 acres near Oneida where most of the government and cultural offices are located. Interior first announced it would take the 13,000-plus acres into trust in 2008 after three years of investigating its social, economic and environmental impacts. A cluster of lawsuits wer...
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRIBAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN MICHIGAN V. BAY MILLS (MAY 27, 2014) WASHINGTON, DC – On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community, reaffirming the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity. In a 5-to-4 decision, Justice Kagan, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Kennedy, Breyer and Sotomayor, upheld the lower court’s decision that Indian tribal governments posses sovereign immunity against lawsuits, including lawsuits brought by state governments, and rea...
