ICT - Living http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living RSS Feed for ICT - Living en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:17 GMT Salazar's opening comments to Tribal Nations Conference http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/69304627.html WASHINGTON – More than 400 members of federally recognized tribes gathered today at the Department of the Interior at a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by President Barack Obama, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Cabinet Members. Crazy Horse Memorial will be home to Native education programs http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/67603987.html CRAZY HORSE, S.D. – While the huge likeness of a horse’s head takes rough shape from the granite of Thunderhead Mountain, educational buildings begin to emerge at Crazy Horse Memorial, where the massive statuary tribute to a Lakota warrior and leader is accompanied by a commitment to Native education. Anthropology student wants to take knowledge home http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65808277.html GALLUP, N.M. – Daniel Pedro knew when he was a sophomore at Santa Fe Indian School that he wanted to be an anthropologist. He also knew that as a Zuni, he would not be able to touch human remains – a common task for physical anthropologists. Evelyn Stevenson has illustrious career in law http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65981542.html PABLO, Mont. – Evelyn Stevenson has been deeply involved in legal issues as an attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes since she passed the Montana Bar in 1978, one of the first two Native American women to do so. But her story involves much more than her work in Montana and should begin even before she became an attorney. Channing Concho http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65816347.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For Channing Concho, a petite, pretty woman of 23, music is part of her DNA. Her father was a drummer, and both parents exposed her to a variety of music at an early age. But it wasn’t until high school that she and two of her friends formed a band, and her true passion developed. Professor gets $100,000 to uncover history of Moravians, Native Americans in Pa. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65807802.html LEWISBURG, Pa. – Along the shores of the Susquehanna River in upper Appalachia, a group of Moravians from Central Europe formed an unlikely alliance with the Iroquois Indian tribes. Values and family create leaders http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65980317.html Norma-Chaé Isaac is a woman on her way. Just 18, and with her senior year of high school still to go, Isaac was halfway through a five-week college-prep stint at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts when she talked to Indian Country Today. She was wearing a pair of lavender and silver beaded earrings she made when we met in a reception room at the school. The setting and the earrings are part of Isaac’s story. Tourism and law enforcement needs preoccupy a Colorado tribal nation http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/67600457.html TOWAOC, Colo. – A family recreation destination and a law enforcement department are different yet compatible goals of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe as it contemplates potential uses of federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Killsback finds success in life and legal career by following ‘Mom’s Code’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65807187.html BOZEMAN, Mont. – Dion Killsback has been a good example for a long time, but the 31-year-old attorney now living in Albuquerque, N.M. said that’s because he had the world’s best mentor – his mom. World class golf at the Soboba Classic http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/65797897.html SAN JACINTO, Calif. – The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians scored a major coup by signing a four-year host agreement for the PGA Nationwide Tour.