• Mich. American Indian Carvings in Danger

• Flotilla Marks French and Indian War
• Navajo Takes MADD Message to Other Tribes

• A lawyer for imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier argued Wednesday for his release
• Shinnecock Tribe Launches Hamptons Claim

• Indian Tribes Shared $900M From Casinos
• Gov. Bush, Seminoles to Talk Slot Machines

• Calif. -- An American Indian tribe has dropped its bid to build a casino in Oakland

• Canada: Ruling in case of aboriginal leader David Ahenakew charged with hate crime expected June 30 - (hatecrimes) - (Canada)
• The vandalism of Indian casino signs near Arlington is being investigated as a hate crime - (hatecrimes)

• Museum Displays Pocahontas' Earrings

Many Hawaiians believe a catalog of all living Hawaiians, estimated at 400,000 worldwide, is the key to founding a nation
The Akaka bill, which Congress is scheduled to take up later this year, is aimed at fending off race-based lawsuits questioning the legality of Native Hawaiian programs and entitlements.

• South Dakota: Tribes Complain of Inadequate Schools
• Navajos Override Gay-Marriage Ban Veto

• CUSTER, S.D. - Crazy Horse Monument Fundraising Begins
• US Senators Consider Indian Apology Resolution - (reader link)

• Lawmakers to Repeal American Indian Ban
  An archaic law has forbidden American Indians from setting foot in the city of Boston since 1675
• New Owners Plan to Clean Sitting Bull Grave

• Abramoff, Indian-Tribe Money Reached at Least 171 Members of U.S. Congress
• Canada: 'Redneck' government was anti-Indian, Ipperwash inquiry hears
• Feds Announce $12M Fort Apache Settlement which an Indian tribe hopes to turn into a tourist attraction.

• Tribe Faces Annihilation in Brazil
• Colorado professor Ward Churchill facing possible dismissal after being accused of plagiarism and lying about his American Indian heritage

• Two Conn. Indian Tribes Lose Recognition

• Some American Indians consider Mount Rushmore memorial a 'defacement' of the sacred native Black Hills
  The new native park head plans eventually to include information about the government's breaking of treaties with American Indian tribes.

• Navajo Head Vetoes Gay Marriage Measure
• American Indians to Gather for Powwow
• Native Alaskan Village Grieves for Whale Hunt Victims
  They also vowed the tragedy won't keep them from continuing an ancient way of life.
• Tribe's Lawyer Argues Yucca Mountain Case

• Navajo Council Outlaws Same-Sex Marriage

• Canada: First Nations Aboriginal Indian Ahenakew blames drugs, reporter at hate crime trial
• Alleged Native American Professor Ward '911' Churchill's Lawyer Challenges University
  DENVER -- A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend to prove he is an American Indian, asking if they plan to use "the Nazi standard for racial purity."
• Canada: Former native leader's hate trial to begin
  Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew goes on trial in Saskatoon Monday on a charge of promoting hatred. The Crown alleges that Ahenakew praised Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust and referred to Jews as a "disease" in comments he made to a reporter in December 2002.

• Tribes, Gov't Want 'Squaw' Names Changed
• Colorado Gov. Bill Owens apologized for saying "the natives are getting restless" during a conference on tribal gambling.

• Amnesty Faults Brazil on Indian Rights
• Ariz. Tribal College Balks at Funding Halt
  
  
• "Spiritual leader" of the Southern Cheyenne Indian tribe was sentenced in federal court for raping a Southern Ute tribal member
  Alden Yelloweagle, 42, a reputed "spiritual leader" in the Native American Church and a distant cousin of the victim, stood motionless, his head bowed, as the judge sentenced him to one year and one day in a federal penitentiary for the attack on Kimberly Hotchkiss.
  
  
• Prosecutors are considering a conspiracy charge against the son of an Indian tribal leader in last week's deadly school shooting,
• Tribal Leader's Son Held in Shooting Probe
  Louis Jourdain, a student at Red Lake High School, was arrested as part of an investigation into a potentially wider plot

Red Lake Indian reservation: Funerals to Be Held for Shooting Victims of 'neo-goth' zombie fan on Prozac
Three victims of the Red Lake High School shooting will have traditional Ojibwe funeral, intended to prepare the soul for a four-day journey into the afterlife. The ceremonies, not freely discussed with outsiders, often includes a "spirit dish" to nourish the departing soul and rouge for a blush on the cheeks of the beloved. The other six victims and the shooter will be remembered with Christian-based services that will have some elements of Ojibwe tradition.

• Hawaiian Language Enjoys Revival

• Hate crime shocks Paiute reservation
  Letters threatened to ''kidnap, rape and dismember'' young girls aged 5 to 9 - signed 'KKK'. The threats are believed to be retribution for the death of a white liquor store manager, Dave Pettet, 48, who was allegedly shot by tribal member Wayne Bengochia in an alcohol-related incident four days before the letters were found. Begochia, 48, was charged with homicide and is awaiting trial. Stafford said it appeared that the author of the letter was trying to create racial tensions by exploiting Pettet's death as a crime against white people; ironically, Pettet was once married to an American Indian woman with whom he had two children.
• Tribe Sues National Science Foundation

• Support Floods Mourning Indian Tribe
• Native American Neo-Goth Zombie fan Jeff Weise was taking the anti-depressant Prozac
• German Community Lends Support to Red Lake
  
  
• Native American Shooter Obsessed With Violence * Portraits of Some Minn. Shooting Victims * Tribe Puts Limits on Shooting Coverage
  Jeff Weise wrote stories about zombies and wore eyeliner. Weise routinely wore a long black trench coat and combat boots. He slammed fellow Indian teens for listening to rap music. Weise, posting under the handle "Blades11," appeared to be a regular contributor to numerous fan fiction sites related to zombies. Also 'fan of Hitler'...
• Ref: "Columbus is the equal of Hitler to the Native American community"
• Ref: Native Americans in World War II - Adolph Hitler, a man they called, "he who smells his moustache."
• Ref: Fascism, the FBI & Native Americans: Historical & Current Perspectives - by Ward Churchill
  "Few people realize that Hitler's genocidal policies in Europe were influenced by the U.S.' treatment of Native Americans."
• Google: "Black neo-Nazi" * "Jewish neo-Nazi" * "Mexican neo-Nazi" * "Gay neo-Nazi"

• Minnesota School Shooter on Neo-Nazi Web Sites
• Remote Indian reservation scene of horror
• In pictures: US school shooting
• Ten dead in shootings on Minn. Indian reservation * "Native American Neo-Nazi 'Yellow Rabbit' Jeff Weise"
  A student went on a shooting spree Monday afternoon in a Northern Minnesota high school, allegedly killing nine people and wounding as many as 15 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said. A preliminary investigation indicated the suspect apparently first shot his grandparents, then went to the school where he allegedly shot a security guard, exchanged fire with police officers and opened fire on other students before killing himself. The suspect is identified as 17-year-old Jeff Weise, a junior at the school, according to The Associated Press, other students and tribal leaders. The Associated Press reported Weise may have posted messages last year on a neo-Nazi Web site calling himself "Angel of Death" and expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler. Reservation Rampage Teenager Admired Hitler - (forum)
  One student says Weise asked a victim if he believed in God, and then shot the boy.

• Tribe Shelves Plan for Calif. Casino
  
  
• Drought Could Parch Indian Reservation
  
• U. of Illinois Trustees Sued Over 'Redskin' Mascot - CHICAGO -- Opponents of University of Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek sued the school's trustees Tuesday, claiming the buckskin-clad figure perpetuates a racial stereotype.
• Judge OKs Indian Inmates, Religion Plan
  LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska's American Indian inmates can have powwows, meet with medicine men and use a tobacco substitute during religious ceremonies under a federal court settlement approved Monday.

[Reader notes] "Clarification needs to be made on your site.
Maori are not the aboriginal people of New Zealand.
They exterminated and ate them all."
Reference links: New Zealand History - and - "Ancient Celtic New Zealand "

White (not 'Spanic'):                      71.8%
"'Spanic'" origin:                            11.5%
Black                                            12.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander:               4.0%
American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut:  0.9% 

The Ignoble Savage By Thomas S. Garlinghouse
Bashers of Western civilization wax nostalgic over an imagined Golden Age, when Noble Savages, uncontaminated by capitalism, enjoyed peace, harmony and environmental balance. In reality, prehistoric peoples waged incessant, brutal wars and hunted vast numbers of animal species to extinction - perhaps even the woolly mammoth and other great Ice Age creatures of North America.

Charles Dickens on 'The Noble Savage' Reproduced from New Nation, no. 1

The Noble Savages.

Rousseau and the noble savage myth. 

The Shadow of the Noble Savage:
Headhunting and Ritual Cannibalism 
in Seventeenth Century New England.

SOCIETY'S FASCINATION WITH THE WILD OUTSIDER.

Did Vikings beat Indians to ancient drawings?