The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s diabetes program has collected more than $1.1 million to build a center for diabetes education, prevention, and exercise. The $6.8 million building will be constructed in phases, but when it is finished it will have classrooms, practice kitchens to teach people how to cook healthy meals, an indoor walking track [...]

An eastern Washington state newspaper reports that this year may be remembered for the big comeback of the Columbia River’s migratory fish. (I’m no expert on salmon but it looks like wild fish are not recovering and these increases are in hatchery fish.) The paper reports that coho salmon and steelhead had record returns and [...]

The Navajo Nation announced that it will build a $200 million wind farm near Flagstaff, Ariz., in conjunction with Foresight Wind Energy and Edison Mission Energy. The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority confirmed that plans for the wind farm on the Big Boquillas Ranch were approved by the Navajo Nation Council last week. The plan calls [...]

The goal of most American Indian tribes is to use whatever business profits and funds they can acquire to rebuy their land base. Governments need defined territories to govern if they are to exercise real sovereign powers. A recent press report shows that when tribes can squeeze some extra dollars from what are needed to [...]

A new bus maintenance facility for the Navajo Nation in Arizona and a new transportation center for the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina are only two of 100 of transit projects on tribal lands that will share in $32 million in Public Transportation on Indian Reservations funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s [...]

The press reports that the Cherokee Nation’s Immersion School expanded this month and added a new 6,000-square-foot building. Through the walls, the sounds of children talking and singing in Cherokee could be heard. The entire building was filled with the buzzing energy of classrooms of elementary-age students. The school is also going to have a [...]

The board of directors for the Bristol Bay Native Corp., an Alaska Native corporation, voted against the Pebble copper and gold mind. The board said it was concerned about the impact on fish runs. However, that decision was quickly condemned by Alaska Peninsula Corp. and Pedro Bay Corp., two Native village corporations that own land [...]

The House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R.2314, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009. The bill extends the policy of self-determination to Native Hawaiians. It creates a process by which a Native Hawaiian governing entity would be created and approved by the Interior Department similar to how American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are [...]

In what looks like a press release that I received via email, apparently organizers from the Six Nations in Canada have taken actiona against the Olympic Torch Relay. Their goal was to keep the torch and its relay caravan out of their territory to prevent the Torch Relay from being used to paint a benevolent [...]

The Oregon Archives Division recently launched a database of of information about Oregonians, includ information back to before statehood in 1859. The Early Oregonians Project draws from census records, marriage licenses, death certificates, and other documents to offer information about the area’s earliest settlers. Much of the information provides a glimpse of the residents who [...]