• Tribe Officers Soon to Patrol Neb. Village
• Canada: Alberta native community hopes cadet corps can curb youth violence

• Adoption Tussle With Tribal Council Ends - will not give baby to White couple
  IOWA CITY, Iowa -- An American Indian woman who battled with the Meskwaki Tribal Council over plans to allow a white couple in Indiana to adopt her son has decided to keep the baby. 
• Spokane, WA - Two arrested in alleged hate crime
  The Spokane Human Rights Commission is decrying a violent attack on several Indian teen-agers last weekend by two men who claimed they were with the "KKK" and had painted swastikas on their chests. Jim Fry, 15, says two men he described as skinheads jumped him on a Spokane River beach Sunday afternoon and then attacked his companions, who were huddling in a van. The two men have been arrested.

However the protest turned ugly when they were refused a visit with King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and a fight broke out among a small group of protesters and staff.  Police were called with two men removed to cool down and another arrested for wilful damage. Earlier, the lead protester Alan Taione had arrived at the entry of the residential grounds in a four-wheel drive vehicle draped with protest banners.  He opened the boot of his 4WD to reveal a bomb-shaped metal canister with a material stuffed into its mouth like a wick. Mr Taione, an Auckland motor mechanic, said he was going to sacrifice himself for the people of Tonga unless he got an audience with the King.  

• American Indians Launch Suicide Hot Line
  MINNEAPOLIS -- Monica Yellow Bird was 17 when her cousin hanged himself. The boy, also 17, was ambitious and had plans for the future but drank alcohol, Yellow Bird said. One day, her family returned to her grandmother's home where they found him hanging by a sheet.
• Nicaragua Miskito Indians Seek Probe of Killings  

• Tribal Police Force Being Deputized
  Most of the beer is sold to people from just across the state line at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where all booze is banned but alcohol abuse is rampant.
• Texas Tribe Flounders After Casino Shuts
  YSLETA DEL SUR PUEBLO, Texas -- Jose Lopez Jr. had to start working as a tribal dancer at age 9, in part to make money for his struggling family. Then, in the mid-1990s his Indian tribe, the Tiguas, opened the Speaking Rock casino in West Texas, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
• Minnesota: Tax-exempt Indian casino leaves $1 million hole - (Svejk)

• Canada: Bodies found in Vaughan, Ont., may belong to aboriginal burial ground: expert
• Venezuala: Chavez Gives Land Titles to the Indigenous
• Canada: Premiers agree to 10-year plan to eradicate aboriginal poverty

• Montana Tribe Announces Casino Deal With Florida Company

• Mass. Tribe Seeks Federal Recognition
  MASHPEE, Mass. -- Nearly four centuries after the Mashpee Wampanoag welcomed the Pilgrims to the New England wilderness, the federal government is close to deciding whether the Indian tribe officially exists. And that makes some people in this Cape Cod town uneasy.
• Mormons Excommunicate Australian Author that refuted claim that American Indians descended from 'lost Jewish tribe'
  SALT LAKE CITY -- Simon Southerton, an Australian author who wrote that DNA evidence fails to support the ancestral claims outlined in the Book of Mormon has been excommunicated by The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southerton's book, published in 2004, outlines how existing DNA data for American Indians does not support the Mormon beliefs that the continent's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Israelite patriarch Lehi.

• Native American Iraqi Vet charged in fatal shooting - (forum)
  
• Cherokee Court Weighs Same-Sex Marriage
  TAHLEQUAH, Okla. -- The debate over same-sex marriage shifted Tuesday to a Cherokee Nation courthouse, where justices heard arguments in the case of a lesbian couple who want the tribe to recognize their union.

• Australia: Two Aboriginals sexually assault woman waiting for taxi - (Svejk)

• New Zealand: Local Maori occupy public reserve near Mahia
• New Zealand: Samoans seek compo for dawn raids

• Canada: Ex-native leader Ahenakew appeals conviction for wilfully promoting hatred - (Canada)

• Tribe Wants Reservation Purged of Ordnance
• Judge Rejects American Indian's Appeal
  FARGO, N.D. -- A judge has rejected an appeal by imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who argued the U.S. government had no right to try him for crimes that occurred on a South Dakota reservation.

• Canada: Descendants of U.S. fur trader apologizes to natives near Tofino, B.C.
  B.C. - Descendants of a U.S. fur trader who burned a native village and kidnapped the son of a local chief 200 years ago have apologized for their forefather's actions. William Twombly, a direct descendant of Capt. Robert Gray, forged a new relationship with the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations by just saying sorry.

• Senate to Vote on Hawaiian Self-Rule Bill
  It would grant Native Hawaiians the same rights of self-government enjoyed by American Indians and Native Alaskans, and would lead to U.S. recognition of a native governing entity. - (and more casinos?)

• New Mexico: Sheriff's Deputy Simon Martinez Charged With Hate Crime
  Kraylin Begaye, an American Indian, was handcuffed when the alleged beating took place.

• Nebraska: man arrested for suspected hate crime
  According to police, Brandon Hill, armed with a shotgun, approached a Native man who was smoking a cigarette outside a residence across from Hill's home. Police suspect Hill pointed a shotgun at the man and called him a racial slur.

• Tribe to Pay N.M. $24M in Gambling Suit
• Saskatchewan aboriginal leader David Ahenakew' stripped of Order of Canada for anti-Jewish 'hatecrime'

• New Zealand: Letters tell Masterton businesses they are on Maori land

• Japan racism 'deep and profound'
  racism and discrimination here, especially against the ancestors of Japan's ethnic Koreans.
  He noted the ethnic Koreans and Chinese, along with the former "burakumin" outcast class, and the indigenous Ainu group.
  Ref: Japan's indigenous Ainu still fighting for their land and dignity
  Some scholars believe the Ainu are of Caucasian origin with their fairer skin and large amounts of body hair in contrast to the Japanese.

• Norcal: Gang violence prompts San Bruno police mission to Tonga - (Svejk)

• Canada: Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew guilty of hate crime
• Canada: Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew to learn fate regarding hate charges
  Provincial court Judge Marty Irwin is to rule Friday on whether Ahenakew's comments about Jews and the Holocaust, made to a reporter more than 2 1/2 years ago, constitute wilful promotion of hatred.

Adoption Laws Frustrate American Indian
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Kelly Buffalo, an American Indian from the Meskwaki tribe, believes her newborn son will have a better future if he is adopted by a white Indiana couple. Some in her tribe disagree

• New Zealand: 'Maori Govt' leader denies running scam
• New Zealand: Second arrest in alleged 'Maori police' scam
• New Zealand: 'Maori police' impersonators alarming - police

Indian Tribe Sues to Regain Land in Ohio

• Kennewick Man: How a simple "or was" injects aboriginal religion into science
  Adding "or was" places the material remains of the prehistory of all the unknown peoples of the American past under the exclusive domain of Indian tribes based simply on the geographic location of their present-day lands. Public policy would automatically give tribes the authority to control all evidence that may contradict their particular religious beliefs and give tribes complete veto power over scientific research on those remains. - (Svejk) - (Kennewick Man news)
• Preparations under way for Kennewick Man study
  The study could be canceled by a court order or if the wording of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act changes in Congress. - (Svejk) - (Kennewick Man news)

• Jumping Bull, 75, now lives on the reservation where tension between the FBI and Indian activists escalated

[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?