APPEALS COURT TO HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS IN MASHPEE WAMPANOAG CASE ON FEB. 5

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BOSTON — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is getting its day in court next week in a case involving its tribal land.   The Tribe appealed a 2019 federal court determination that would not allow the Wampanoag to put land it owns back into trust. At issue is land the Tribe designated to build a casino...

Arizona's longest-living veteran dies at 105

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Yazzie died in Tucson, according to a press release from the Navajo Nation.  Gov. Doug Ducey offered his condolences to Yazzie's family in a tweet.  "Saddened to learn of the passing of Sophie Yazzie, a World War II Veteran and member of the Navajo Nation," part of the tweet read.  "At the...

An ancient aquatic system older than the pyramids has been revealed by the Australian bushfires

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(CNN)Extensive water channels built by indigenous Australians thousands of years ago to trap and harvest eels for food have been revealed after wildfires burned away thick vegetation in the state of Victoria. The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, consisting of channels, weirs and dams built from...

Three Americans killed in plane crash while fighting Australia's wildfires

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A plane helping battle wildfires in Australia crashed in New South Wales state Thursday, killing three American firefighters, officials said. The C-130 Hercules firefighting aircraft, which officials said was from Coulson Aviation — a private American company contracted by the Rural Fire...

Native American artifacts tell the story of life in Aquebogue, Long Island NY thousands of years ago

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Thousands of years ago, the little hamlet we call Aquebogue today was the center of Native American society on the North Fork. “There were tons of villages here, a lot more than you can imagine,” says Lisa Cordani, a professor of anthropology and archaeology at Suffolk County Community College...

90 years young. And counted first

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TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska (AP) — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years on the Bering Sea, and she is about to become the first person counted in the U.S. Census, taken every 10 years to apportion representation in Congress and federal money. "Elders that were before me, if they didn't die too...

Rita Coolidge After 50 years and 18 albums she is still one of the best and she is an American Indian

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Rita Coolidge’s impact is undiminished—her voice as pure, sweet and powerful as ever, and her ability to get inside a song honed by experience and overview.  After ten years during which she bore witness to some of her life’s greatest joys and deepest sorrows—and the publication of her...

Fender Telecaster signed by 16 Navajo Code Talkers

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Richard Anderson, Jr. took out his original USA 1971 Fender Butterscotch Telecaster guitar at a coffee shop in Gallup, New Mexico, and began to identify the 16 signatures of The Navajo Code Talkers who had signed his guitar over the years. One by one Anderson started to spell out the letters and...

Columbia High School announcer terminated after inappropriate announcement made against Browning High School team (Lazy Lady Indians)

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BROWNING- The Superintendent of Browning Public Schools, Corrina Guardipee-Hall, released a letter Saturday in regard to an incident during a girl’s basketball game in Columbia Falls.According to the letter, an announcer for Columbia Falls High School announced the “Browning Lady Indians” as the...

Oprah Gets Blanket from Eighth Generation

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St. Paul, Minn. — On January 10th, Oprah Winfrey stopped by St. Paul, Minnesota, for her “2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus” tour. The goal of Oprah’s tour is to encourage self-improvement and to help people be all they were meant to be. Winfrey is joining local workout groups at each stop as part...