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It is summer now, we have had summer for three whole days..and it has rained and rained.  Finally yesterday afternoon we saw the sun.  That has been our weather pattern, it rains for three o...
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BISMARCKNative American students are North Dakotas future workers and more needs to be done to help them succeed, the states top education official said. The North Dakota Department of Public Instruc...
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High court wrestles with Indian adoption dispute

The Supreme Court is trying to sort out a wrenching adoption case involving a Native American child, a biological father who first renounced any interest in her and adoptive parents who were eventually ordered to hand her over to the father.

By Associated Press , April 16, 2013

Indian tribes buy back land

Indian tribes buy back land Native American tribes tired of waiting for the U.S. government to honor centuries-old treaties are buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it in federal trust. Native Americans say the purchases will help protect their culture and way of life by preserving burial grounds and areas where sacred rituals are held. They also provide land for farming, timber and other efforts to make the tribes self-sustaining.

By By Timberly Ross, The Associated Press , December 28, 2009

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Native youths to gather in New Mexico

Juanita Toledo knows what it’s like to grow up in a household where alcohol was abused, but with the help of a national organization for Native American youths she has chosen a different path for herself.

July 03, 2009

N.D. native dies

. Carl Kotchian, a former head of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. who admitted in the 1970s to paying millions in bribes in an international scandal that brought down Japan’s prime minister, has died. He was 94.

December 23, 2008

State-tribal tax agreement signed

State and tribal officials leaders say they have signed a new tax agreement aimed at boosting oil and gas production on the Fort Berthold reservation.

June 11, 2008

Judge to end 12-year suit over Indian money

It has been 12 years since a group of American Indians sued the government, saying Washington had cheated them out of profits from land royalties since 1887. On Monday, a federal judge plans to begin hearings to determine how much he thinks the government should pay the Indians. Yet most of those involved in the case expect an appeal, further extending the dispute.

By By Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press , June 09, 2008

Dorgan: BIA ‘incompetent’ in lack of tribal drilling

Sen. Byron Dorgan says “incompetence” at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is stalling energy development on tribal lands in North Dakota. Dorgan, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said Thursday that he wants Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to deal with the problem immediately.

By By Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press , June 06, 2008

Tribes reach agreement for gas, oil production

Oil industry officials predict a new tax and regulatory accord between North Dakota and the Three Affiliated Tribes will spur exploration of oil-producing rock beneath the tribe’s reservation. The agreement limits oil tax rates on reservation land, and spells out how the state and tribal governments will share oil revenues. It specifies that North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources will regulate reservation production.

By By Dale Wetzel, The Associated Press , May 31, 2008

Horse program helps at-risk Indian youth

Horses are part of new court diversion program aimed at building trust, responsibility and self-esteem in at-risk American Indian youth. The program, started last fall by the Spirit Lake juvenile court system, is called Shunka Wakan Ah-Ku, or Bringing Back the Horses. “A lot of kids out there don’t have any identity,” said Darla Thiele, an intake officer with the juvenile court. “But as Native people, one of our greatest identities was as a horse culture.

May 27, 2008

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A dark event inspires Erdrich’s new novel

In her new novel, “The Plague of Doves,” Louise Erdrich explores a dark secret of her home state’s history — the lynching of three American Indians, one of them a 13-year-old boy, in North Dakota in 1897. “I wanted to try and do some sort of justice to that event,” Erdrich says. “It was such a wrenching event in my mind.”

By Jeff Baenen, The Associated Press , May 24, 2008

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Reservation officials discuss oil exploration

The chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes sees new opportunities in oil exploration but says it may come at a price. “We are working with the best interest of all the people — Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and our neighbors — at heart,” Chairman Marcus Wells Jr., said at a reservation energy conference Tuesday. “The development comes with a byproduct, which is a lot of congestion and lot of traffic,” he said.

May 22, 2008

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Turtle Mountain tribal members pray at Metis cemetery

Members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa have held an early Memorial Day celebration. They traveled Tuesday to the Metis cemetery in northeastern Pembina County to pray and honor their ancestors.

May 22, 2008

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