ST JOSEPH, Mich. – The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers has named Cara Cowan Watts, of Claremore, Okla., winner of the 2010 Robert E. Stewart Engineering – Humanities Award. The award, which honors outstanding contributions of agricultural engineering students to the advancement of the interaction of the profession and the humanities, was presented June 23, at the ASABE 2010 Annual International Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Penn.
MESA, Ariz. – The Minority Business Development Agency recognized the Arizona Native American Business Enterprise Center, operated by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, with two top awards during the MBDA Summit held recently in Washington, D.C.
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. – “I wanted them to see, this is who we are and [ask], please, help us before climate change takes away our way of life,” Rosalie Kalistook, Orutsararmiut, Department of Natural Resources Environmental Coordinator explained.
SUQUAMISH, Wash. – Port Madison Enterprises employees are celebrating a record donation to the American Cancer Society. Workers for the Suquamish-owned company generated more than $25,000 in donations for the North Kitsap Relay for Life this year, marking the largest employee contribution ever given at Port Madison Enterprises.
During and shortly after World War II (1939-1945), a number of anthropologists were writing about the topic of indigenous peoples and what was then being referred to as the “colonial administration” of various empires. Looking back at those writings today enables us to shed some additional light on the historical context of what are now commonly referred to as “indigenous peoples” and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly on Sept. 13, 2007.
In 2006, federal authorities failed to prosecute 65 percent of major crimes cases on reservations. Too often, that failure to prosecute major crimes is accompanied by silence on the part of federal authorities.
A cancer diagnosis is tough. You probably have many questions. And it may be overwhelming to know who to ask, and to sift through all the information. So here are the answers to four commonly asked questions about cancer:
BRADLEY, Mich. – The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians has met the latest in a long history of challenges.
There’s an old joke: A Native American student comes home from a geography lesson, shows his grandfather a map, and then asks, “What did we call the United States before it was a country?” His grandfather answers, “Ours.”
TERRACE, British Columbia – A totem pole designed and carved by instructors and graduates of the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art was unveiled July 4 in Chengdu, China in a ceremony presided over by a Canadian delegation that included Her Excellency the Right Honourable Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean and Grand Chief Edward John of the First Nations Summit.
CHEROKEE, N.C. – Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel recently announced the debut of a new, high-energy Entertainment Lounge and gaming expansion.
Editor’s note: Dr. Henrietta Mann, president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, was recently honored by Women Empowering Women for Indian Nations in Tulsa, Okla. This excerpt was taken from her acceptance speech.
Mine is an old story, relived today, and retold for contemporary Native America. My great-grandmother White Buffalo Woman was a traditional healer – a doctor so to speak – who survived the atrocities of Sand Creek and the Washita. She was among those who went into the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency at Darlington to begin living without the buffalo in a radically altered environment. Although the changes she experienced may have chipped at her heart, they never broke her spirit. Her lifeblood flows through my veins, just as it does for my daughters and granddaughters. I call it brave-hearted blood, tinctured with the will to live.
During the course of its investigation into the current Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Associated Press was given information from the then-office of Mineral Management Services that was not making a lot of sense.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians announced a commitment of $2.5 million to a program of career technical instruction offered by the Riverside County Office of Education for students of Sherman Indian High School.
Forty-eight American Indian youths from reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota, as well as Omaha, participated in the Science Education Partnership Award camp hosted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center June 6 – 9.
The camp is part of a $1.3 million grant principal investigator Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics for UNMC and the Munroe-Meyer Institute received in 2006 from the National Center for Research Resources a division of the National Institutes of Health.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc., has produced many success stories as a national leader in educational support for underrepresented minority students in engineering. One such story is that of NACME Scholar Monica Yellowhair, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona. Yellowhair wants to use her degree to research the causes and prevention of cancers among the Navajo people that were allegedly caused by depleted uranium on and around the reservation.
INDIO, Calif. – First the POM restaurant at Fantasy Springs won the “People Love Us on Yelp!” award from users of the Web site www.Yelp.com. Now, the casual yet upscale resort cafe has another user-based, unbiased accreditation to add to its virtual trophy case. POM has earned a Diners’ Choice award for “Best Service” in the Palm Springs/Palm Desert area from users of www.OpenTable.com.
