This Week from Indian Country Today

Tribes get $100 million for housing
WASHINGTON – Fifty tribes have been awarded $100 million in federal stimulus money to bolster housing and stimulate community development. Read more »

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Fort Sill Apache Tribe vows to appeal NIGC decision to close Akela Casino
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe gathering data on health of Sequim Bay
Tohono O’odham files suit against Glendale
Tribes get $100 million for housing
Controlling the milfoil
American Indians steel education
Humetewa officially resigns
Indian Youth Summer Program sees record applications
Tribe to house inmates in new jail
Casino and Canoe Journeys
Cherokee Nation refurbishes historic Ross Cemetery
President pushes health care reform agenda
Johnson examines effects of economic crisis on rural communities
Appeals court: Indian trust accounting needed
Stimulus money helps Coeur d’Alene
Natives use Twitter to showcase sacred site
Schaghticoke appeal moved forward in 2nd Circuit
Chiefs blast attorney general’s ‘distorted, revisionist account’ of Settlement Act negotiations
Meet Mellor Willie
Episcopal Church repudiates Doctrine of Discovery
McCaskill knocks Alaska Native Corporations
Non-Indian interloper charged with marijuana possession on Schaghticoke reservation
Recreational use of sacred sites damaging to spirituality
‘Boorish conduct’ may not mean ‘hostile’ on the job, judges say
Gillette reflects on White House role

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Opinion

Newcomb: The right of Christian invasion

At its 76th General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., July 8 – 17, the Episcopal Church adopted a resolution entitled, “Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.” I’d like to discuss the significance of the resolution in relation to the efforts by indigenous nations to protect their sacred places. The Black Hills, Mt. Graham, the Go-Road in Northern California, Yucca Mountain and San Francisco Peaks are the most well known, but there are certainly many others throughout the continent. Read more »

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