Native Americans

June 18, 2007 -- Augusta - Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced the names of the winners in the Native American History and Culture Essay Contest today and offered his congratulations to all of the students who took part. “Maine’s students continue to amaze me with the quality of their work and their thorough comprehension of the importance of history and diversity,” said Dunlap. “This year’s Essay Contest winners are proof Maine’s future is a very bright one.”    » read more »

Agreement Paves Way for Introduction of Aamodt and Taos Indian Water Rights Settlements in Congress

June 14, 2007 -- (Santa Fe, NM) – New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson Thursday announced the successful conclusion of a landmark agreement on water supply, which places the Aamodt and Taos Indian Water Rights settlements on a path towards introduction in Congress.    » read more »

June 6, 2007 -- AUGUSTA – Maine Governor John E. Baldacci honored Charles Norman Shay of Indian Island today as he proclaimed June 6, 2007, as Native American Veterans History Day in the State of Maine.    » read more »

05/31/2007 -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced an agreement between his Administration, Big Lagoon Rancheria of Humboldt County and the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians in San Diego County to extend the date the compacts must take effect and the date the land the casino will be built upon must be taken into trust by the federal government.    » read more »

May 15, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (Departments) today delivered to Congress and sent to the Federal Register the Indian Land Rights-of-Way Study required by Section 1813 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT). The study provides analyses and recommendations on energy rights-of-way (ROWs) negotiations on tribal lands.    » read more »

Tribal Leaders, Federal Partners Begin Crucial Dialogue on Indian Country’s Economic Policy Agenda

May 15, 2007 -- PHOENIX - Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne opened the first-ever National Native American Economic Policy Summit with a video-taped message to over 500 tribal leaders, federal officials and leaders of Native organizations encouraging Summit participants to “work together collaboratively to formulate policy recommendations that will improve the quality of life in America’s diverse and growing indigenous communities.”    » read more »

In the spotlight, American Indians seek to educate the broader public

04 May 2007 -- Washington – Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was founded not in the wilderness of legend but rather in the midst of a thriving agricultural community. The small fort on Virginia’s James River had as its neighbors at least 14,000 individuals and nearly 30 tribes comprising the Powhatan Confederation, in a land the natives called “Tsenacommacah,” Algonquian for “densely inhabited land.”    » read more »

April 17, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada issued the following statement in response to the Walker River Paiute Tribe's decision to prohibit the transportation of nuclear waste through its Reservation:    » read more »