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| Author: Loren Tapahe •
Date: April 10, 2008
by Loren Tapahe Copyright: April 10, 2008 (April 10, 2008) In a vote of 11-2 the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved to replace name Squaw Peak with Piestewa Peak. The vote took place Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Washington, D.C. after a mandatory five-year waiting period.
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| Author: staff •
Date: April 7, 2008
Please forward to all your email lists. We need your help. You must send/email your letters to the address below. We have just received word that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names will decide on April 10 whether to keep the derogatory name Squaw Peak, change it to Swilling Peak, or change it to Piestewa Peak. Up to now the name Piestewa Peak has been official only at the
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| Author: Hopi Office •
Date: February 14, 2008
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| Author: Hopi Tribal Office •
Date: February 14, 2008
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| Author: Navajo Press Office •
Date: February 6, 2008
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., announced
this morning that the Navajo Nation has become the first Arizona tribe to
auction gaming devices and expects to raise more than $140 million over the
next 18 years.
During his first quarterly State of the Navajo Nation address of 2008 to the
Navajo Nation Council, the President said Arizona¹s three largest gaming
tribes bid on the Navajos¹ excess machines during the first pooling auction
held in Arizona last
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| Author: NCAI Office •
Date: February 6, 2008
Indian Leader pushes for financial literacy programs, praises cultural teaching in the classroom, promotes safer Native communities, and advocates for better health care
WASHINGTON—January 31, 2008—In the sixth annual State of Indian Nations Address at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Joe A. Garcia asked Indian Country to not think about what they are working for but
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| Author: Hopi Tirbal Office •
Date: February 6, 2008
Kykotsmovi, AZ. (January 25, 2008.) On January 23, 2008 the Hopi Tribal Appellate Court ruled reaffirming the trial court’s order. “This case is over. We need to get on with the real work of running the Tribe and serving the Hopi and Tewa people.” said Chairman Nuvamsa. The Appellants in the case of Nuvamsa vs. Honyaoma, Sr. filed their notice of appeal on September 14, 2007
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| Author: Staff •
Date: February 6, 2008
Sale Benefits Student Artists WHAT: Heard Museum Guild American Indian Student Art Show & Sale |
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| Author: Staff •
Date: February 6, 2008
Annette Pusher is no ordinary Navajo woman. But she is fighting to change that - she wants more Native American girls to follow the kind of path she has taken: college, graduate school, and ultimately, a PhD and career in science.
Annette is in her second year of a master's program in chemistry at Northern Arizona University. Growing up on the reservation in Bisti, NM this future would have seemed unlikely. The first in her family to go
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| Author: Staff •
Date: February 6, 2008
The Native American Nations of the United States of America honored Hospitalized Veterans and Out-Patents, at the Extended Care Unit VA Medical Center, Prescott this month January. Richard Smith (center) a Korean War Combat Veteran stands at attention as he was honor with a “Warriors Medal of Valor” by Larry Kimmel (left) (Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana) and Ed Albert (right) (Cherokee Tribe) of the Arizona Territory Gourd Society. The event was sponsored by the Military Order of the Purple Heart #608 Major. John R Tapia PhD., and
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