usatoday.com. 2/23/07.greg boeck. 2/23/07.
tuba city,ariz.

ryan hemstreets won a gold medal in denver as a short stop and pitcher for arizonas 16 and under native american team in julys north american indigenous games an olympic style event. hemstreet is going to move to phoenix and go to a big high school so he can attract big colleges so he can get a scholarship. but he thinks thoses who leave the reservation have a better chance of getting a scholarships.

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution Jan. 31 that would supply $463.5 billion to nine federal departments through fiscal year 2007. The departments, including Education, Public Health, Housing and Urban Development, and Interior and the Environment, were left unfunded for FY '07 when the 109th Congress came to a close last year; they have been funded since at FY '06 levels by continuing resolutions, the latest of which expires Feb. 15. The Jan. 31 resolution of the House funds all nine departments at FY '06 enacted levels through Sept. 30 (when FY '07 ends), while providing for increases in a comparative few high-priority programs and maintaining agency staff.

1-12-07
Ford's presidency found room for Indian country
WASHINGTON - As the tributes gathered around the reputation of President Gerald R. Ford following his death on Dec. 26, Indian country did not forget that his signature is on the most important Native-specific legislation of modern times. one of the largest tribes the navajo joined others in flying flags at half mass closing buldings.

Anti-mascot movement made headway in 2006
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WASHINGTON - The decades-old effort to abolish the use of sports logos considered racist, offensive and damaging by American Indians advanced significantly in 2006, despite opposition and a well-funded attempt by pro-mascot lobbyists to pass a law that would protect universities from banning their ''Indian'' trademarks.
On the legal front, six young American Indians filed a petition in August with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking cancellation of six trademarks owned by the Washington Redskins that use the word ''Redskins'' or ''Redskinettes.''

indian country
12/06/06
Wilson's presence in Congress now and next January will continue momentum toward passage of a law to provide federal grant funding for Native language immersion schooling. Wilson introduced House Bill 4766 in the House. With the support of committee chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., the bill passed in the House prior to the election and now awaits Senate action.

Nixyaawii was awarded chater school of the year. It was the school picked out of 71 charter shcools in oregon because its most closely adhered to the six legislative goals set for charter schools in oregons charter school law. at pendleton high school native american drop out rate was about 63 to 64 percent now its about 15 percent.

iam really proud to be a student at theis school i am happy that we got charter school of the year that makes me feel good about the years to come.

Bus bomb kills 20 in Baghdad
11/13/06
A bomb tore through a minibus in a largely Shiite Baghdad neighborhood Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18. Gunmen killed at least 10 people.

In Washington, the blue-ribbon bipartisan commission trying to devise a new course for the war in Iraq . The Iraq Study Group plans to announce its recommendations to Bush and Congress by the end of the year.
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