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• Tim Giago: "Culturecide," is a word coined in Indian country (The Huffington Post)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 05:16:27 pm
  Notes from Indian Country By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2009 Native Sun News November 13, 2009 On this sunny November morning I find myself...
• New Films from Native Voices to screen (Char-Koosta News)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 07:32:05 pm
  PABLO — Two new award-winning films that deal with the impacts that government boarding schools had in native lives, and the images of Native women in the media will be screened at Salish Kootenai College in the Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo Theatre on October 23. Native Voices producers CSKT tribal member Dr. Luana Ross and Daniel Hart will lead live discussions of these powerful new works.
• U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Sept. 20 (redOrbit)
  posted on September 20, 2009 at 07:43:03 am
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
• Op-Ed: The Hadassah you know has not changed (JTA)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 03:57:56 pm
  NEW YORK (JTA) -- They say that all publicity is good, as long as they spell your name correctly. That may or may not be true, but certainly it is the case that Hadassah has been in the news a lot lately.
• 10 named to residential school 'survivor' group (CBC.ca)
  posted on July 16, 2009 at 01:12:55 am
  Ten former students of Canada's notorious Indian residential schools have been appointed as advisers to the federal government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as it prepares to begin hearing from ex-students across the country.
• Biker caught doing 210 km/h in downtown Saskatoon (CBC.ca)
  posted on July 16, 2009 at 12:11:04 am
  A 24-year-old man riding a motorcycle was clocked by police radar doing 210 km/h on a stretch of Saskatoon's Idylwyld Freeway Wednesday morning, according to police.
• Group hears tearful recounting of abuse at residential schools (The Peterborough Examiner)
  posted on June 16, 2009 at 01:32:15 pm
  Peterborough’s Shirley Williams used to get so lonesome in her residential school, where she was physically and emotionally abused, that she’d sometimes crawl under her bed covers and imagine she was in her family’s kitchen with her mother and father.[...]
• Your View: Is concern about swine flu overblown? (CBC Manitoba)
  posted on June 11, 2009 at 05:01:47 pm
  Is the swine flu more of a threat than seasonal flu or is it being overblown?
• Leaky pipes cost Ontario 25% of its drinking water, $700M a year (CBC Toronto)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:56:11 pm
  Ontario taxpayers are shelling out $700 million a year for drinking water that never reaches their taps, according to a study released by a group representing the construction industry.
• Landfill fees set to rise in Winnipeg (CBC Manitoba)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:46:41 pm
  Winnipeggers will likely be paying more to dump their trash this summer after a city committee approved landfill rate hikes on Wednesday.
• Syncrude might challenge federal charge over dead ducks (CBC Edmonton)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:31:37 pm
  Oilsands giant Syncrude may launch a constitutional challenge against the charge laid by the federal government earlier this year in the deaths of about 1,606 ducks in a tailings pond in April 2008.
• AKWESASNE UNITY MARCH TODAY - MOHAWKS FREE INDIGENOUS AT BORDER (UN Observer)
  posted on May 30, 2009 at 05:49:24 pm
  2009-05-30 | UN ASKED TO STOP GUNS AT AKWESASNE BORDER (Please scroll down for this.) March Sat. May 30 2009. MNN. May 30, 2009.
• Native American Apology Resolution legislation re-introduced (Indian Country Today)
  posted on May 10, 2009 at 04:10:57 am
  WASHINGTON – The Native American Apology Resolution is back.
• Community Milestones (Winston-Salem Journal)
  posted on May 4, 2009 at 04:01:08 am
  Community Milestones
• RELIGION BRIEFING (The Post-Standard)
  posted on May 2, 2009 at 09:10:43 am
  Texas Christian University will not provide on-campus housing for gay students this fall as previously planned. The DiversCity Q community was to open this fall in some campus apartments for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students - as well as their heterosexual classmates who support them.
• Thursday at a Glance (Vancouver Sun)
  posted on April 30, 2009 at 07:30:52 am
  NEWS ON THE GO -- WESTCOAST NEWS
• News Today @ vancouversun.com (Vancouver Sun)
  posted on April 29, 2009 at 07:35:32 am
  EMPLOYMENT -- WORKFORCE DATA RELEASED
• Is there a natropathic doctor in the house? (Highlands Ranch Herald)
  posted on April 28, 2009 at 05:37:20 am
  When a patient walks into a doctor’s office, and that doctor has an M.D. or D.O., the degree proved the doctor has four years of education beyond a bachelor’s degree.
• Native Canadians want apology from pope for abuse (EARTHtimes.org)
  posted on April 26, 2009 at 03:27:20 am
  Ottawa/Washington - A Canadian organization of native peoples headed to Rome next week for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI is asking the Vatican for an apology for its role in inflicting harmful schooling on native children. In a statement on its ...
• Debate follows closing of state-run school for disabled (Tri-City Herald)
  posted on February 23, 2009 at 10:14:42 am
  SELAH -- Meet Michael Carpenter, 41, who lives in an apartment with a caregiver in Ellensburg. He works, rides public transportation and is active in a disability-rights group.