November 21, 2009
Southeast
Ruby Tiger Osceola remembered
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
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
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
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
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
CHOCTAW, Miss. – Whenever Cyrus Ben needs some motivation, he simply looks at his desk.
April Locklear offers addicts options to lead productive lives
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.
Artist’s statues honor Indians in all 50 states
EDGEWATER, Fla. (AP) – Follow the Trail of the Whispering Giants in all 50 states to discover Peter Wolf Toth’s life story.
Landowner opens museum of native American pieces
MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) – It’s not hard to get Leon Cooper talking about history – or maybe it’s just the locale. Cooper spoke in a small museum he began, surrounded by American Indian artifacts, some of which were estimated at 12,000 years old.
Russell: Is it a good day to be Indigenous?
Everybody has ancestors. We don’t pick them, but they in some sense made us who we are. It is good to honor our ancestors when they have been honorable even as we live down their faults. We don’t get the choice of basking in their reflected glory while ignoring that which is inglorious or even ugly.
