This Week from Indian Country Today

Reactions to Cobell decision range from trauma and rejection to hope
by: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today
WASHINGTON - In 1982, Rebecca Adamson walked across a parking lot in Mount Pleasant, Mich., with Arnold J. Sowmick, the late, great leader of the Saginaw Chippewa. Then in her second year of a 25-year tenure as founder and president of First Nations Development Institute, Adamson had been called to Michigan to assess the potential for expanding the tribe's wood pallet production business into a pre-fabricated housing construction operation.
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Lead Editorial

Immigration issue sparks American racism
Posted: August 15, 2008
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today
Perhaps the flare-up of the immigration issue started out more legitimately. Certainly there are serious problems with waves of hundreds of thousands of people entering any country illegally. But like the head of a monstrous snake coming out of a thorny bush, the issue has grown its own nasty viper. Immigration has become the new magnet of American racism. more >>

Special Focus

Hundreds mourn passing of Golden Hill Paugussett chief
Posted: August 15, 2008
by: Gale Courey Toensing / Indian Country Today
TRUMBULL, Conn. - More than 200 people attended a traditional mourning walk Aug. 7 for Chief Big Eagle, the hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe. Big Eagle, known also as Aurelius Piper Sr., died Aug. 3 at one of the tribe's two reservations - the tiny one-quarter-acre reservation in Trumbull. He was 92. more >>