Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park is hosting a Knap-In, a “3-day celebration of Flintknapping, Atlatl, and Stone Age Skills”, this weekend, May 4, 5, and 6, at 732 Stone Fort Drive, Manchester, Tennessee. They’ll also have basket weaving and other native crafts. For more information please contact the park office at 931-723-5073 or email keith.wimberley@tn.gov. Old Stone [...]
May 042012
The Northern Arapaho in Wyoming have received a permit, the first of its kind, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to hunt two bald eagles for religious purposes and Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, called the decision to issue the permit ”unsettling”. Read the story on the Reuters web site: Wyoming [...]
‘Human safaris’ pose threat to uncontacted Amazon tribe
Wisconsin Endangers A Sacred Tradition
Some Ho-Chunk Nation members in the military have had their sacred tobacco confiscated. This story in Indian Country Today details their concerns: Sacred Tobacco: Ho-Chunk Nation Wants Military Authorities to Stop Confiscating it
Cherokee, NC (PRWEB) March 30, 2011 Cherokee Preservation Foundation (CPFdn) announced it has awarded 24 new grants totaling more than $2.7 million that support cultural preservation, economic development, job creation and environmental preservation for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The grants include: A grant to the EBCI’s Strategic Energy Committee to create showcase [...]
Indian-Only Eagle Feathers Not A Religious Freedom Violation
Cultural Preservation, North America
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Mar 292011
The U.S. 10th Circuit of Appeals has ruled that it’s not a religious freedom violation of non-Indians to restrict possession of eagle feathers to members of federally-recognized American Indian tribes for religious purposes. One of the cases cited in the decision involved a man claiming to be a member of the Paiute Indian Peak Band [...]
Montana Tribes Prepare For Yellowstone Buffalo
Cultural Preservation, Environment, North America
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Mar 292011
The Sioux and Assiniboine tribes at Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana have spent $200,000 to prepare 5,000 acres for 50 buffalo quarantined from the Yellowstone buffalo herd in 2005 to keep them from contracting brucellosis, including a 26- mile fence designed to keep the buffalo in while other wildlife can pass through. The tribes [...]
Mar 262011
The director of Cornell University’s American Indian Program has issued a statement opposing the school’s Genetic Ancestry Project, part of the National Geographic Genographic Project, calling it “fundamentally assimilationist”. Read the story in Indian Country Today and let us know what you think: Cornell American Indian Program Opposes Genetic Ancestry Project
