ICT - National http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national RSS Feed for ICT - National en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:50:32 GMT President’s remarks and Q&A at Tribal Nations Conference http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69326782.html The president: Thank you. Please, everybody have a seat. Thank you to Jefferson Keel, thanks for the wonderful introduction; to Clarence Jackson for the invocation. Good morning to all of you. I am honored to be with you today at this unique and historic event, the largest and most widely attended gathering of tribal leaders in our history. (Applause.) And I am so grateful to many members of Congress who could join us today, along with several members of my Cabinet who will be participating in this conference today. Salazar's opening comments to Tribal Nations Conference http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/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. Tribes seek halt to proposed Cape Cod wind farm http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69379722.html MASHPEE, Mass. – From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe’s religion. Native American veterans sought for ‘Words of War’ project http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69378442.html BOSTON – An anthropology professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston is inviting Native American veterans to participate in an anonymous online survey to track the relationships between Native American history, colonial wars, and U.S. military language in conflicts of the last 50 years. Off-reservation gaming decision ‘tantalizingly close’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69378547.html NEW YORK – Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the Obama administration will make a critical decision on off-reservation gaming policy in the coming weeks. Mashantucket Pequots elect council chairman and members http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69378312.html MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has elected Rodney Butler as the new chairman of the tribal council. Despite 35 years, Michigan Indian Day slow to catch on http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/69378062.html EAST LANSING, Mich. – About 200 American Indians, local community members and students gathered in East Lansing to participate in festivities marking the 35th annual Michigan Indian Day Sept. 25. Exotic beetle killing black ash tree central to Native cultures and livelihood http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/67587217.html AKWESASNE, N.Y. – It takes just three years for a tiny beetle called the emerald ash borer to kill the same black ash tree traditional basket makers have depended on for thousands of years. Indigenous use of ancestral lands threatened http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/67586982.html BOULDER, Colo. – Climate change may be only the latest of many challenges facing Indian country, but it is having devastating effects in parts of the far North where at least one Native village faced with inundation by melting polar ice is suing energy companies it says are responsible. NCAI regional vice president to pursue unity among northeast nations http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/67581982.html PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – The National Congress of American Indians’ new northeast regional vice president hopes to foster unity among the tribal nations who first met, and were affected by, the European colonists.