deltafoxtrot:

The Alaska Federation of Natives, in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians and the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, has launched “Native Insight: Thoughts on Recession, Recovery & Opportunity,”” a writing competition designed to encourage Native Americans to share their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in the current economic and political landscape.

The national competition will distribute a total of $60,000 among three Alaska Native winners and three Native Hawaiian/Lower 48 American Indian winners ($10,000 each), with opportunities for their winning essays to be published in Native journals and magazines across the United States.

The competition is open to Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and American Indians of all ages.

For complete program information, visit the Native Insight Web site.

Actually, the liberal leftists are the worst things that’s ever happened to America, let alone [to] the Indian people. They are, supremely, extremely racist against Indian people. The liberal left is our worst enemy. It’s been the Democrats in Congress that have consistently for almost two centuries, that have put the most debilitating laws into effect that strip us, bit by bit, of our freedoms.

Russel Means in an interview discussing Property Rights and Natives.

This is an intriguing interview with Russell Means by Scott Horton of AntiWar Radio that follows the same theme as yesterday by asking the question, Who really owns Indian land?

Delta Foxtrot: Rebuliding America, one Neighborhood at a Time - Russell Means with Scott Horton

Russell Means in discussion with Scott Horton on topics from Corporate Farming, Establishing Neighborhood Power and the Mass Thievery known as Property Tax.  Among other topics in this thirty minute interview, they speak to the imperial laboratory of Indian Reservations and how tactics perfected there have been exported to other countries, and now brought back to America itself.

Many Native American communities are struggling with a basic question: just who is an Indian? As tribal numbers dwindle, many are reexamining how they define what it means to be a member. But lowering the blood requirement for membership has both political and economic impacts for many groups.

deltafoxtrot:

BOULDER, Colo. – The Native American Rights Fund is initiating a working group to address government intervention in the lives of Native people who work with or use eagle feathers in traditional ways, and tribes are speaking out on the issue.

A number of feather workers and others from scores of tribes have called NARF to express concern about raids they said were conducted by the Fish and Wildlife Service, FBI and other law enforcement officials who have seized feathers and demanded documentation, said an attorney with the Native law/advocacy group.

According to a tribal member, the Northern Cheyenne tribal council recently passed a resolution to “continue to use eagles as has been the custom since time immemorial.”

The resolution also states that the tribal president will confer with the elected Wyoming-Montana tribal leadership, that a meeting will be convened with FWS and other federal officials, and that Congress should address the threat to traditional use of eagle feathers with legislation, said Steve Brady, of the Northern Cheyenne Cultural Commission.

Brady, who has testified on traditional eagle use before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, said the resolution stemmed from the fact that eagles play a part in “every aspect of our culture and fundamental aspects of our way of life.”

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lenxo:

With millions of dollars flowing into the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino near Coarsegold each month, the Indians of the Picayune Rancheria have tapped into a source of wealth they hope will end decades of poverty.

But not everyone gets to share the bounty.

Over the last several years, the tribe has expelled about half its members, stripping them of their Native American heritage, former members say.

This makes me sick.  The old ways are definitely dying.

The red road is a humble one.