ICT - National - Southeast http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast RSS Feed for ICT - National - Southeast en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:00 GMT Ruby Tiger Osceola remembered http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/70618702.html TAMPA, Fla. – Ruby Tiger Osceola, matriarch of the Seminole Tribe’s Tampa reservation, passed away in 2002 at the age of 106, but her memory will never die. Proper foot care can help diabetics http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/70197892.html ASHEBORO, N.C. – Twenty-four million children and adults in the United States live with diabetes, a disease that leads to potentially life-threatening complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness. Without proper care, 15 percent of diabetics will develop foot ulcers which can lead to an increased risk of foot amputations. Recognition issues may kill Indian Affairs panel http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/70185602.html NASHVILLE (MCT) – Nearly 180 years after President Andrew Jackson forcibly began uprooting American Indians from the Southeast, a Tennessee commission that deals with Native American issues may die amid a fight involving groups wanting state recognition. James Robinson is a product of his tribe http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/66399872.html CHOTCAW, Miss. – A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, James Robinson grew up on the Choctaw reservation and graduated second in his class from Choctaw Central High School. With encouragement from his grandmother, family members and his tribe, he attended Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., earning a bachelor’s degree in business management. New Trail of Tears markers to go up in Arkansas http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/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. Cyrus Ben: A career under construction http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/66401792.html CHOCTAW, Miss. – Whenever Cyrus Ben needs some motivation, he simply looks at his desk. April Locklear offers addicts options to lead productive lives http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/65168217.html LUMBERTON, N.C. – April Whittemore Locklear offers people with substance abuse addictions options when they think there are none, and hope for a future they often can’t see. Locklear is a clinical counselor who offers substance abuse services for Robeson Health Care Corporation. NC video poker machine ban judged by appeals court http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/65162167.html RALEIGH, N.C. – Appeals court judges hearing arguments Oct. 14 on the legality of North Carolina’s video poker ban sounded wary of negating the will of the General Assembly when it granted an exception to machines on the Cherokee Indian reservation. NC senators introduce bill to recognize Lumbees http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/65272552.html RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina’s senators have introduced a bill to provide federal recognition to the state’s Lumbee Indian tribe. Artist’s statues honor Indians in all 50 states http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southeast/42899482.html EDGEWATER, Fla. (AP) – Follow the Trail of the Whispering Giants in all 50 states to discover Peter Wolf Toth’s life story.