Last week Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed a law making July 15th Arizona Native American Right to Vote Day. This right certainly did not get recognized easily, and on July 14th there will be a Day of Action.
The Los Angeles Times reported today that one of the U.S. Attorneys apparently targeted for politically motivated firings by the Bush Administration was singled out for trying to "protect voting rights for Native Americans."
According to the Argus Leader, The American Cancer Society and Northern Plains Comprehensive Cancer Control Program will hold public meetings on reservations to highlight the concerns stemming from disproportionate cancer death rates for Native Americans.
Arizona's Native American leaders came together in March to meet with Governor Dean for a roundtable discussion in Phoenix. Governor Dean spoke about the importance of the Native community within the Democratic Party and participated in a discussion about issues of importance to Native Americans - from funding for security and education to voter ID laws.
Only two months after the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation tribe received recognition by the federal government, court documents say Republican Frank Wolf threatened to get then-Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton fired if she did not take away the recognition.
A piece in the Washington Post tells a story of the rebirth of a dead Native American language. Ken Custalow, a member of the Mattaponi tribe, was presented with the opportunity to learn Virginia Algonquian, which likely has not been in usage for 200 years, according to one linguist.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement in celebration of National Native American Heritage Month.
Last week's election provided many despicable efforts on the part of the GOP to intimidate and deceive American voters. Last Tuesday, despite the efforts of Republicans, the American people went to the polls and rejected the Karl Rove politics of hate and division, and overwhelmingly voted for fundamental change.
There are seven Native American Nations in the state of Montana, and the Indian Nation vote is essential for Democratic victory in Big Sky Montana.
The Democratic Party's "Get Out the Vote" drive to push voters to the polls has begun. Election Day is Tuesday, November 7. Be a part of the new direction. Volunteer with your state Democratic Party and help get Democrats out to vote.
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is working alongside the American Association of University Women to rename a number of locations in Idaho whose names demean women.
Native American tribes from North Dakota, and officials from surrounding states, gathered last month for a summit where they talked about issues facing their community, and strategized about the future.
A week after Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman vowed to supporters in an e-mail that the RNC would "hold nothing back" and "spend whatever it takes" to "maintain our majorities," it's clear that Republicans across the country will do and say just about anything to get elected -- even resort to some of the most insidious forms of intolerance.
In the last week alone, a Republican candidate in Minnesota attacked his opponent's faith, young conservatives in Michigan are running dangerous and divisive "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" and "Fun With Guns" events, and an Arizona Republican Congressional candidate refused to demand that former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke remove an endorsement and a link to his campaign from Duke's website
The Democratic National Committee has created a 50 state strategy for winning elections in 2006 and beyond. In which Native Americans, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawai‛ians are important partners in that strategy.
By adding Nevada and South Carolina, the Democratic Party is significantly increasing the early participation of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans and labor members. Also, states are required to adopt new Inclusion Plans for LGBT Americans, Americans with disabilities, and many others.
Democrats stand for the issues important to American Indians. Tribal governments know what it means to meet the unmet needs of their citizens with unmet resources -- providing care and services to those less fortunate.
The following resolution was adopted by the Democratic National Committee on December 3, 2005. Submitted by: Frank LaMere, At-Large/Nebraska Hon. Lottie Shackelford, DNC Vice Chair/Arkansas Hon. Mike Honda, DNC Vice Chair/California Steven K. Alari, California Kalyn Free, At-Large, Oklahoma Dennis...
For more than a year, the President has allowed the Bureau of Indian Affairs to go without leadership since Assistant Secretary Dave Anderson resigned in February 2005. Over half the time that Bush has been in office, Native Americans have...
The Montana Indian Education Association is questioning whether county school officials are properly spending money that is supposed to be used to educate Montana student about Native Americans. The Indian Education for All program was designed in compliance with Montana...
$17 million will be awarded to tribal and local officials to settle lingering disputes over the Washington state's disturbance of an ancient American Indian village and burial ground. In addition, control over most of the land will be given to...
The chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, Sen. John McCain (R), froze a bill on the committee's agenda that would have settled an $8 billion dollar lawsuit, Cobell v. Kempthorne, because he didn't have encouragement from the administration of...
Here are a couple of online resources for the Native American Community. NEWS OUTLETS: Indian Country Native Voice Indianz.com Native American Times Rez-Biz -Business News for Today's Native American PECHANGA.net Native America Calling ORGANIZATIONS: For more information about Native American...
Native American students who learn to speak native languages from grades one to four succeed better academically according to the new research. "I think there should be a state law to preserve native languages in the state of North Dakota...
DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins, Hispanic Caucus Chair Alvaro Cifuentes, Asian Pacific Islander American Caucus Chair Bel Leong-Hong, Native American Coodinating Council Chair Frank LaMere, and GLBT Caucus Chair Rick Stafford issued the following joint statement commending the vote by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee to add two states to the presidential primary calendar pre-window period to join Iowa and New Hampshire. Nevada will hold a caucus and South Carolina will hold a primary in the pre-window period. The committee preserved the historic roles of Iowa and New Hampshire, with Iowa remaining the first caucus in the pre-window period and New Hampshire remaining the first primary:
Over the past six years, Americans have witnessed a systematic deterioration and near dismantling of Native American programs by the Republican Congress and the Bush Administration. From Head Start to healthcare, from law enforcement to small business; funding for key Native American programs has not kept up with the needs of Indian Country or fulfilled the trust responsibility of the federal government to tribal governments and urban Indians.
In 2001, a bill in the Texas Legislature that would've legalized gambling on Native American reservations was defeated, thanks to the work of five men who painted gambling as a moral issue. Now, Ralph Reed, Jack Abramoff, and three others,...
A recent article in the Dallas Business Journal shed light on controversial comments made by U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson during a recent speech to a Dallas minority real estate consortium.
Republicans are running scared. As more details about the Washington Republicans' numerous corruption scandals are revealed, Washington Republicans are employing ever more desperate and divisive tactics to deflect from their ethical problems.
There's plenty of pervasive corruption in Republican Washington as it is, but today's LA Times article on Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff - and the emails that have been released during the course of the investigation into his practices - shed light on just how bad it is.
We were invited to the Oval Office for a meeting last Saturday. No, hell hasn't frozen over, the Oval Office was in Mystic Lake, Minnesota. Glynn Crooks, vice chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, invited us to meet with him and other Native American leaders at his home.
Governor Dean is in Minnesota tonight, getting ready to give the keynote address at the inaugural INDN's List Campaign Camp at the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake. He will speak to more than 100 future candidates and campaign staff representing 50 tribal nations from all across America who have gathered for four days of campaign training.
We must be an active part of the political power system if we are to make the changes we want as Indian people. Thanks to the Voting Rights Act for helping the Indian Voice be heard.
Forty years ago, after the bloody march in Selma, Congress passed and President Johnson signed the historic 1965 Voting Rights Act striking down centuries of voter discrimination against Blacks and people of color. But today, along with attacks on civil rights, labor, and religion for the poor comes a devious attempt to undermine or eliminate the Voting Rights Act.
From the Arizona Republic: The Senate Republican Policy Committee chaired by Rep. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., on Wednesday issued a report about why the U.S. government should not agree to recognize a "race-based government" of the nation's 400,000 Native Hawaiians in...
From the New Mexico Business Weekly:U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., has introduced a bill to amend the Small Business Act to help more American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Should it gain congressional approval, the bill would expand and...
