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Last updated: May 31, 2013
Next update is planned to be published by: June 7, 2013
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Culture & Tradition
• • Native Sun News: Vision Maker Media shares Native stories (Indianz.com) 5/28/13
• • Should the Hopi people continue to have the right to kill eagles? No (Denver Post) 5/26/13
• • Navajo Nation's 'Mother of Justice' dies (Farmington, NM Daily Times) 5/24/13
• • Navajo case against Urban Outfitters on hold (ABQ Journal) 5/24/13
• • Echohawk discusses tribal rights (The Dartmouth) 5/23/13
• • Trail of Tears marks 175th anniversary (Cherokee Tribune) 5/22/13
• • Upper Sioux tribal elder, educator and historian Tom Ross walks on (Indian Country Today) 5/19/13
• • Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet (Reuters) 5/18/13
• • ACLU joins Huy in support of indigenous prisoners' religious freedoms (Indian Country Today) 5/17/13
Economic Development
• • Ninth Circuit demands Interior Secretary explain Glendale trust gaming decision (Phoenix Morning Call) 5/27/13
• • Twin Arrows Navajo Resort & Casino opens its doors (Indian Country Today) 5/27/13
• • Beckoning the Bakken: Will the oil boom reach Montana's impoverished Fort Peck Tribes? (Indian Country Today) 5/26/13
• • Ariz. officials fight for trial in casino case (CNBC) 5/23/13
• • Feds lift hold on reservation pipeline project (NBC Montana) 5/22/13
• • Cuomo, Mohawk leaders sign casino pact (Wallstreet Journal) 5/21/13
• • Mark Trahant: Indian Country feels the pain of the sequester (Indianz.com) 5/20/13
Education
• • Navajo schools lose funding due to sequestration cuts (NPR) 5/28/13
Environment & Energy
• • Native Sun News: Tribes take action to stop Keystone XL bid (Indianz.com) 5/29/13
• • Senate Indian Affairs Committee sets roundtable on energy (Indianz.com) 5/29/13
• • Colorado Basin shortages possible by 2016 (Albuquerque Journal) 5/29/13
• • Native American activism: Environmental issues take priority (Ecologist) 5/28/13
• • US Navajo deny uranium miner access to transport ore on tribal land (Canadian Manufacturing) 5/28/13
• • Native American communities from New York launch fight against fracking and for the environment (AlterNet) 5/28/13
• • State appeals federal ruling on salmon-blocking culverts (Seattle Times) 5/28/13
• • Battle over uranium mining rages on at the Grand Canyon (Mint Press News) 5/22/13
• • Interior releases updated hydraulic fracturing draft rule for public, Indian lands (Water World) 5/17/13
Health & Welfare
• • In western Alaska, health care is spread thin (Anchorage Daily News) 5/28/13
• • 'Invisible' Urban Indians (Indian Country Today) 5/24/13
• • Native Americans trade tales of displaced children (Gillette News Record) 5/18/13
• • House repeals health care act, including IHCIA, once again (Indianz.com) 5/17/13
Intergovernmental
• • Massachusetts asks dismissal of suit against casino law (Nowich Bulletin) 5/29/13
• • Native American vets push for recognition (Arkansas Online) 5/26/13
• • Washburn announces plan of attack for Patchak patch (Indian Country Today) 5/24/13
• • Indigenous culture, youth among key topics as UN permanent forum opens 12th session (St. Louis News) 5/20/13
• • Mohawks rally to speak out against border-crossing issues (Watertown Daily Times) 5/18/13
• • Efforts to grant tribes more authority are met with resistance from non-tribal lawmakers (Wyoming Public Media) 5/17/13
Land & Water
• • BIA accepting comments on rule for land-into-trust appeals (Indianz.com) 5/29/13
Recognition & Enrollment
• • Ninth Circuit sides with Cahto Tribe in enrollment dispute (Pechanga.net) 5/20/13
• • Metis Tribe receives state recognition (Pilot News) 5/20/13
Tribal Jurisdiction
• • Pueblo's rules take a back seat in bald eagle case (Indian Country Today) 5/23/13