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Tribe plans blockade at lake to perform war dance

Last updated Friday, May 25, 2012 - 1:49pm

With one of the busiest tourism weekends of the year ahead, a showdown is looming between the U.S. Forest Service and an Indian tribe over plans to hold a war dance at a popular Northern California lake and recreation area.

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In Nevada, Sierra Club is working with the Moapa Band of Paiutes to transition NV Energy away from the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant -- which sits only 45 miles from Las Vegas and a short walk from community housing at the Moapa River Indian Reservation.

Nevada tribe fights coal plant in pollution battle

Cristina Silva The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 - 10:39am

MOAPA, Nev. -- Kami Miller's heart flutters irregularly, she needs an inhaler to breathe and she's been diagnosed with thyroid problems. Even more troubling, her 12-year-old son already has the same health woes.

For the Miller family, there is little doubt why they and their fellow tribe members living on the tiny Moapa Band of Paiutes reservation outside Las Vegas are struggling with a litany of medical problems. Steps away from their front doors, a 50-year-old, coal-burning power plant churns out a blanket of white and yellow smoke that hangs over their reservation and obscures the mountain views their people have long admired.

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Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement

Shannon Dininny The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 4:26pm

YAKIMA, Wash. — The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands, under a settlement announced Wednesday.

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FILE - This June 7, 2003 file photo shows a man drinking a beer standing with other Native Americans on the streets of Whiteclay, Neb.The Oglala Sioux Tribe announced Thursday, Feb. 6, 2012, that it will file a $500 million federal lawsuit against some of the nation's largest beer distributors, alleging that they knowingly contributed to the chronic alcoholism, health problems and other social ills on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The lawsuit also targets the four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town (pop. 11) on the South Dakota border that sells about 5 million cans of beer per year. (AP Photo/William Lauer, File)

Tribe suing beer companies for alcohol problems

Grant Schulte The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 6:29pm

LINCOLN, Neb. -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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In this Jan. 5, 2012 photo, Geriann Headrick, acting food service manager at the Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau, S.D., cuts bison meat. The school began preparing school meals with fresh bison meat this year as part of a project between the Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe and South Dakota State University researchers to restore the cultural significance of the animal and consumption of bison meat among community members, particularly the youth. Through cooking demonstrations and educational outreach opportunities, the students are learning that there are healthier _ and tasty _ options available that also connect them to their ancestors. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton)

Will teens eat bison burgers over hamburgers?

Kristi Eaton The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 11:23am

FLANDREAU, S.D. -- It seems an unlikely concept: teenagers forgoing the immediacy of a McDonald's Big Mac to learn how to cook their own lower-fat version.

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