ICT - National - Plains http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains RSS Feed for ICT - National - Plains en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:58:59 GMT Terra Telecom at the root of IHS communication advances http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/66067132.html TULSA, Okla. – Terra Telecom has teamed with Trans-Tel Central, a Native American-woman-owned IT solutions company, to continue providing advanced telecommunications solutions to IHS throughout its 10 locations. New Trail of Tears markers to go up in Arkansas http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/69075512.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – New signs and markers along Arkansas’ portions of the Trail of Tears should be erected by spring, officials said after President Barack Obama signed an act that expands the historic trail to more than 4,900 miles in nine states. Crazy Horse Memorial will be home to Native education programs http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/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. Evelyn Stevenson has illustrious career in law http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/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. Indigenous use of ancestral lands threatened http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/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. Help Cheyenne River Youth Project bring joy to children this Christmas http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/66560947.html EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. – Amid the dark clouds of the ongoing recession, the Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle Butte, S.D., is hoping to bring the light of hope, joy and holiday cheer to more than 1,000 children on the 2.8-million-acre Cheyenne River Reservation. Killsback finds success in life and legal career by following ‘Mom’s Code’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/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. Blackfeet Tribe launches new Web site http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/66538557.html BROWNING, Mont. – The Blackfeet Nation recently went live with a completely new Web site featuring numerous new features and sections. BIA commits to funding support for Shoshone-Bannock Justice Center http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/66544752.html FORT HALL, Idaho – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and BIA officials signed two contracts Sept. 30 paving the way for the tribes to receive operations support for the law enforcement and corrections components of the new $19.7 million Shoshone-Bannock Justice Center when it opens early next year. Indian college president faces backlash on tuition http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/66417977.html LAWRENCE, Kan. – Linda Sue Warner had big ambitions when she arrived in 2007 as president of Haskell Indian Nation University, the only four-year college operated by the federal government for American Indians. Now she wonders whether those ambitions could cost her the job.