ICT - National http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national RSS Feed for ICT - National en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT The human face of enrollment wars http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83648297.html WATERTOWN, S.D. – As Indian country evolves, one agent of change – tribal enrollment – seems to stand out, accompanied by blood quantum, lineal descent, disenrollment, and its other sometimes controversial relatives. Volunteers working to include 100,000 Texas Natives in Census http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83648152.html SAN ANTONIO, Texas – There are more than 100,000 American Indians in Texas, and Native volunteers there are working hard to ensure they are all counted in the 2010 Census. Blizzards in Indian country: Navajo Nation http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83647832.html Inclement weather on the Navajo Nation comes with the territory – it rains, it snows, it floods – and residents have learned to prepare for it and hunker down when it happens. But they really got socked this time and it’s not over yet by any means. Major storm recovery effort underway for SD reservations http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83646472.html Record winter storms have left households vulnerable and in dire need on South Dakota Indian reservations. Heat, food and water have been in short supply and volunteers from as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area are sending help. Rights are sometimes absent in Indian country http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83646252.html BOULDER, Colo. – The Constitution is often given short shrift in Indian country, where it’s unlikely there will be a jury of one’s peers, a federal courthouse within a reasonable driving distance, or a grand jury convened nearby. Eroding Alaska village appeals lawsuit’s dismissal http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83646027.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska – One of Alaska’s most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community. Coeur d’Alene Tribe wants broader arrest authority http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83645887.html COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) – The Coeur d’Alene Tribe in northern Idaho is proposing legislation that would give tribal police the authority to arrest or cite non-tribal members and send them to state court. Weather ravaged communities receive support http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83645752.html HIGHLAND, Calif. – The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians donated $220,000 to assist the American Red Cross and nine Native American communities affected by the severe winter weather that has blanketed the Midwest. Fluent Arikara speaker dies http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83645557.html WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) – The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota says one of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara language has died. Salazar weighs two imperatives in Cape Wind energy proposal http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/83644112.html NANTUCKET SOUND, Mass. – In the end, the Obama administration’s decision to approve or deny a massive wind turbine project in Nantucket Sound will hinge on the value it places on respecting an irreplaceable and immovable American Indian sacred site weighed against the worth and importance of a privately-owned renewable energy plant that could be built elsewhere.