• Lobbyist charged with defrauding tribes
  Michael Scanlon, partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was charged Friday with conspiring to defraud Indian tribe clients of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished golf trips, meals and campaign donations on a member of Congress.  
• Indians Vow to Protest in Colombia
  BOGOTA, Colombia -- Indians who have seized control of 18 large farms vowed Friday to stage protests across the country after land reform talks with President Alvaro Uribe ended without any agreements.

• Vine Deloria, Sioux Activist, Dead at 72
• Off-Reservation Gambling Bill Splits Tribes
• Canada: The federal government has spent more than $2 million  on hotel rooms for 40 aboriginals evacuated from an Ontario reservation
• South Dakota police investigating rape attempt by Native American - (White Boy) 

• Dutch to Return Maori Head to N. Zealand
  Netherlands -- The Dutch Ministry of Culture said Tuesday it will return a tattooed and mummified 19th century Maori head to New Zealand.

• Bison Hunt to Begin Outside Yellowstone

• Two Maori activists cleared of charges
  Two members of a self-styled Maori security force have been cleared of demanding money with menaces from a Gisborne motelier. After a depositions hearing at Gisborne District Court, JPs found Sue Wyliam Nikora, 69, who calls herself the "Prime Minister of the Sovereign Government of Aotearoa", and Elijah Matenga, 32, had no case to answer.

• "Peyote Not Harmful to American Indians"  
 

• Canada: Thirteen guilty in Mohawk trial
  of 18 Mohawks and a non-Indian accused of rioting and forcibly confining 67 aboriginal police officers and special constables in Kanesatake
• Canada: 250 native evacuees bound for Ottawa
  until a new 500-home subdivision can be built by the federal government.
  Tainted drinking water forced the evacuation of the reserve, which is home to 1,100 natives.
• Kashechewan evacuation adds to aboriginal mental health 'epidemic:'

• Indigenous leaders from around the Americas met Friday in the Argentine capital 
• Belgium: Aboriginal elders hold ceremony to call spirits of fallen soldiers home
• First water, now education: another Ontario aboriginal community in crisis

• Canada: Churches liable in sexual abuse cases
  TORONTO and VANCOUVER -- Churches that helped run aboriginal residential schools must share the liability for sexual abuse suffered in those institutions, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled yesterday. - (Canada) - (Abo)
• Amazon Indians Say Texaco Left Damage

• Fake Maori backs race-row colleague - (another angry white)
  Former Ngai Tahu whakapapa unit boss Terry Ryan, the man exposed as a fake Maori, has thrown his weight behind a Ngai Tahu employee imprisoned for a racially-motivated assault.   Court documents obtained by the Sunday Star-Times reveal Ryan wrote a letter of support for Wade Anthony Osborn, a whakapapa unit historian who broke a Pakeha work colleague's jaw. - (Editor note: 'pakeha' is a NZ racist term for 'white')

• New Zealand: Cannabis link to Maori cancer
  Heavy cannabis use could be a cause of Maori having the world's highest lung cancer rate, groundbreaking research suggests.
• New Zealand: Call to scrap free tattoo removal

• British Museums to Return Human Remains
  LONDON -- The British Museum and eight other leading institutions plan to return human remains to indigenous communities abroad, according to a new British law. Culture Minister David Lammy said the change was a "response to the claims of indigenous peoples, particularly in Australia, for the return of ancestral remains."

• Australia: Oxfam slams indigenous land reform
  PLANS to allow traditional owners to lease out entire towns on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory have been criticised by a major aid organisation.The Federal Government wants to allow Aboriginal communities in the Territory to offer 99-year leases on their land to help boost their economic prosperity and raise the level of home ownership. But Oxfam Australia said the changes are unnecessary and fail to address the real needs of indigenous Australians.  

• Thousands Seek 24 Mont. Bison Hunt Permits

• Federal Indian records found discarded 

• Australia: Sartor won't quit over 'black' comment
  Planning Minister Frank Sartor has apologised but refused to resign after he told an Aboriginal leader to get his "black arse" down to his office.  

[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?