Author: Ann Tweedy

Proposed transfer of national park land to Quileutes would allow tribe to move from tsunami zone

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the article from Seattle Times:   Outdoors | Transfer of park land would let Quileutes move from tsunami zone | Seattle Times Newspaper.

Landless Cowlitz Tribe to Receive Reservation in Southwestern Washington

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the article from the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013768567_cowlitzcasino26m.html

Violence Against Indigenous People in Easter Island, Chile

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the information, as reported by Robert Miller’s blog.

Dozens Hurt in Easter Island Disputes
More Violence in Rapa Nui

Washington State Trial Court Rules Against Swinomish Tribe on Instream Flow Issues

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the letter opinion: <a href="Thurston County Court decison“> The Swinomish Tribe and the City of Anacortes were fighting to keep water in the stream for salmon. The Department of Ecology had repeatedly amended the instream flow rule to the detriment of salmon in order to allow for more development, and the Tribe and City had challenged the latest amendment.

Senate vote on Cobell settlement likely today

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the article from Greenwire.

Canada endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Ann Tweedy

Go Canada!

Perhaps there will be some analysis from our Canadian correspondent forthcoming . . .

 

NM Pueblo Bans Newspaper

Ann Tweedy

From the Seattle Times:

Exercising its rights as a sovereign nation, a small Indian community has banned the local newspaper from its reservation for publishing details about the horrific killing of a member of the tribe.

Elsewhere, such a move would have prompted a debate on freedom of speech.

But in the remote town nestled in northern New Mexico’s mesas and red rocks, the ban is an example of press freedoms long accepted throughout the U.S. running up against tribal sovereignty.

The leaders of the Jemez Pueblo were horrified by the seven-paragraph story in the Jemez Thunder newspaper that recounted the killing.

Tribes exploring trade partnerships with Turkey

Ann Tweedy

Here’s the Seattle Times article and an excerpt:

Native American businessmen are increasingly seeking global business partnerships to create jobs and new businesses in their territories. They have held talks with Chinese, Spanish and Australian companies, but their tribal leaders’ trip to Turkey was the first large-scale overseas exploration of new trade ties, they said.Lincoln McCurdy, president of the Turkish Coalition of America, which organized the trip, said Thursday that the Native American tribes belong to sovereign nations that can strike their own trade deals and offer special tax incentives.

“Native Americans are becoming global minded,” said McCurdy, adding that they already have held talks with foreign companies to do business in telecommunications and mining industry, including copper.

The delegation, representing 17 tribes from at least 10 U.S. states, has been welcomed by the Turkish government, which wants to bolster trade ties with the United States, a key ally and Turkey’s seventh largest trading partner.

Here’s some information about tribal religious claims to Rattlesnake Mountain in Eastern Wash.

Ann Tweedy

The article is weighted toward non-Indian concerns.  http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/10/07/1199522/rare-rattlesnake-mountain-tours.html

U.S. Government and Indian Farmers Preliminarily Agree on $680 million settlement

Ann Tweedy

http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-American-Indian-farmers-101910