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Program to certify Alaska Native art gets new teeth

What started as a simple update to an outdated arts law has dredged up questions about how "Native Alaskan" is legally defined, and whether the state Legislature should be dabbling in race-based laws. The Silver Hand Program uses stickers to authenticate Alaska Native art, the same way the state uses Alaska Grown labels for food. Silver Hand laws haven't been revised since the program was established in 1961. Eligibility is determined by a controversial blood quantum requirement. Many contemporary Native artists don't qualify, since the program's initial focus was traditional handicraft. There are few built-in deterrents for lawbreakers. A bill to modernize

Sex Abuse of Native Americans: The Story behind the Facts

When NPR's Laura Sullivan read in an Amnesty International report that Native American women are two-and-a-half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women, she wanted to know the story behind the facts. For four months, Sullivan followed the case of Leslie Ironroad, a 20-year-old Native American woman who was raped and murdered on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in South Dakota. For her two-part story, which just won a Dart Award for excellence in reporting on trauma, Sullivan interviewed dozens of Native Americans, state medical examiners and hospital officials to find out what happened to Ironroad and

1st Native American is selected for post on Board of Regents

Leonard LuAnn not expect that the remedy of Arizona Board of Regents. Indeed, it did not expect a call from the governor himself confirmed that this was the first Native American in the Appeal Committee. But that's exactly what they received. "I was in shock for some time," Leonard said recently in his office in Kykotsmovi Village, in northeastern Arizona, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the United States. Advertising The director of the Hopi Foundation Fund Education for the Hopi Tribe, said she was intimidated when she learned that she had been drawn to a period of

Jonathan Kay on the feistiness of Caledonians, and the native lawlessness they won’t let us ignore

One of the biggest media scandals in Canada over the past two years, it was the nature and systematic manner, by the mainstream press has ignored the plight of Caledonia, Ont. Where native thugs gesetzloses have a life of hell for local residents and businesses. (This newspaper is, as I suggest, is a notable exception. Findlay John The trial was recently published in the commentary pages of the Post neat exhaustive and definitive account of the whole chaos to date . I am also proud of our latest editorial At this topic.) But Caledonians have not. Over the past few

Arizona County Uses New Law to Look for Illegal Immigrants

To people who say round up more illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County here has an answer: send out the posse. On Wednesday, the posse, a civilian force of 300 volunteers, many of them retired deputies, are to fan out over desert backcountry, watching for smugglers and the people they guide into these parts. Already, a small team of deputies roams the human-trafficking routes to enforce a nine-month-old state law that makes smuggling people a felony and effectively authorizes local police forces to enforce immigration law. Not only do deputies charge the smugglers, but many of their customers have also

California’s Native Americans deserve quality health care

After seven long years of congressional inaction, the Senate finally passed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, a bill to protect the health and well-being of millions of our nation's Native Americans. The legislation, which I cosponsored along with its author, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), aims to improve the administration of Indian health programs and expand and increase access to health care for Native Americans. Specifically, the bill would ensure that Indian health services are modernized and improved, new health care facilities are built, and new programs are implemented to address mental and behavioral health. For the first time, Indian

Update on Dr. George Tiller Case

JOHN KASICH, GUEST HOST: In the "Unresolved Problem" segment tonight: more action in the case of Dr. George Tiller . He's an abortion provider in Kansas, who's been under investigation for allegedly performing illegal late term abortions and failing to report them accurately. Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline was given another chance today to convince a judge to reinstate charges against Dr. Tiller. But no dice. The judge threw out the case. But there may one last chance Kline, who leaves office in two weeks, plans to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. — This is a huge battle in

Freshman senators hold key to Native Hawaiian bill’s hopes

Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) opposes his party Contra senators right to move, which would be the Native Hawaiians the power of their own government and negotiate with the government and the federal authorities. Efforts to identify the 50th Federal State of the indigenous population is a struggle, despite a period of nearly ten years of efforts Akaka and others on Capitol Hill. The latest attempt came during the 109th Congress Republican in the chamber of appeal against 41 of the legislation - rather, in a bedroom, they need 60 votes for the disputed invoices.

Judicial aftershocks from the Schiavo case

In the end, as Terri Schiavo clung to life in her Florida hospice after nearly two weeks without food or water, 12 years of legal battles came down to one final appeal. In a 15-page emergency brief, lawyers asked the US Supreme Court to vindicate Ms. Schiavo's constitutional right to life. The high court's answer came Wednesday around 11 p.m. Application denied. Ten hours later, Schiavo passed away. In the emotional moments after the announcement, pro-life and disability-rights supporters lashed out at a judicial system that they said was being run by activist judges who favor death over life. House majority leader Tom

Important Judicial Decision by Justice Bowie.

An Important decision has been rendered by Judge BOWIE, Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, under the Civil Rights Bill. The facts of the case are briefly as follows: Dr. A. H. SOMERS, of Rockville, Montgomery County, committed an assault upon a colored man in the streets of Rockville, beating him very severely.