WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks this morning in the Capitol at an enrollment ceremony with Democratic Members of the House and Senate to sign legislation that would provide funding to settle African American farmers' and Native Americans' lawsuits against the federal government. The cases are known as Pigford and Cobell. The House passed the legislation Tuesday; the Senate passed it in November. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature into law. Below are the Speaker's remarks. It's appropriate that the bells are ringing this morning as we walk in for the enrollment ceremony of this important legislation. [Bells] We can wait. Because it signals the end of a sad chapter in our nation's history. By sending the Presi...
An influential downstate senator says that the Seneca Nation waves its flag of sovereignty only when it is convenient and insists that New York State will not back down from taxing Indian cigarettes. State Sen. Carl Kruger, D-Brooklyn, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, contends that the lawsuits filed by Native American retailers have no basis in law and are needlessly adding to New York's already troubling budget deficit.
BLYTHE, Calif. - American Indians are clashing with the federal government over plans to fast-track approval and construction of massive solar energy projects that the American Indians fear will harm sacred and culturally significant sites in Western deserts. Recent lawsuits by two native groups pose a threat to a half dozen proposed solar developments that the Obama administration has identified as a high priority in its quest for more clean energy production. One suit already has halted work on a major solar farm in Southern California.
..., has historically been used by certain American Indians for religious rituals that depend upon pri... and procedures, in consultation with native religious leaders, of changes necessary to protect... itself ensnared in a host of Lilliputian lawsuits, it has been criticized as inherently ethnocentric...
This is blatant discrimination of the worst kind," said [Diane Watson] (D-CA). "I and my colleagues in the Black Caucus question the validity, legality, as well as the morality of the Cherokee Nation's vote. Black descendant Cherokees can trace their Native American heritage back in many cases for more than a century. They are legally a part of the Cherokee Nation through history, precedent, blood, and treaty obligations. There is no such thing as a Black American Indian or white American Indian," said [Mike Graham], a citizen of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation. "You're American Indian or you're not! If you're Black or White and have Indian heritage, that is all you can and should claim. It's an insult to the American Indian community for people of another race to claim their Indian heri...
... to defend itself from Native American lawsuits, Bush finally caved in and gave the natives what t...
... to the broader, distinctively American history of legal adjudication that edges toward pa...(57) . In Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., residents... response to the wave of public interest lawsuits triggered by widespread congressional authorizatio...
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A new TV ad blitz intended to stop New York State's attempts to tax Indian businesses will begin today in Buffalo and New York City. The ads, which will air during the Buffalo Bills and New York Giants football games, feature members of the Seneca Nation talking about their 200-year-old treaty with the United States and what they describe as New York's attempts to violate that agreement.
...In September, Kruger argued that the lawsuits filed by Native American businesses have no basis...
...-- Philip Morris USA (PM USA) filed lawsuits today in federal court against eight retailers sel... enforcement on cigarettes sold to Native American retailers, makes the already significant ...
This research explores the relationship between Native American newspapers and tribal sovereignty. By means of a content analysis of more than a thousand environmental stories in four tribal newspapers in Wisconsin, interviews with Native American journalists, and discussions with Indian focus groups, the study examines the themes and values tribal journalists and their readers attach to sovereignty. The research suggests that Native newspapers are an important source of information about sovereignty for Native Americans. It also finds that cultural values and themes that reinforce sovereignty emerge from Native news reports about the environment.
... coded stories involving environmental lawsuits, conservation laws, and similar content into the l...
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