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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest, November 17, 2009 (5 items) Compiled by Kendra Kennedy Additional information about sources available at the end of the message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [1] "Researcher studies American Indian adoption into White households,” United Tribes News. November 16, 2009. © Copyright 2009 Today at Colorado State University. All rights reserved. Full text available at: http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=2682 “American Indian transracial adoptees often find themselves at the intersection of belonging and not belonging in today's society. Colorado State University cultural anthropologist Susan Harness explored issues of ethnic belonging, social hierarchy and social memory and their impact on adult American Indian transracial adoptees - like herself - who were adopted in the 1950s and 1960s…Although these adoptees experienced being "Indian" and being "White," they are not wholly accepted by either ethnicity. Harness’ research takes a keen look at colonization on the home soil of American Indians and their historic placement in U.S. social hierarchy during this little-know chapter of involuntary adoption in America…" [2] "NASA Hosts Native Peoples Workshop to Study Climate Change,” November 16, 2009. © Copyright 2009 NASA. All rights reserved. Full Text Available: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/nasa-hosts-native-peoples-workshop-to-study-climate-change,1047867.shtml “Washington-- NASA will hold a second national strategies workshop to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on native peoples and their homelands. The workshop, which will study the impacts from an indigenous cultural, spiritual and scientific perspective, will take place Nov. 18 - 21 at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minn... " [3] “First Nations children at risk: Madahbee,” CNW Group. November 16, 2009. Copyright © 2009 CNW Group. All Rights Reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2009/16/c9594.html “Toronto- Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee along with other Chiefs of First Nations in Ontario are meeting with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services Minister Laurel Broten to discuss the funding cuts being imposed on a number of native mandated child protection agencies. "4.6 million dollars in funding cuts for Native child welfare agencies will put our children at risk," says Madahbee. "Some of our agencies report that they will not have the funds necessary to provide the required services mandated by the Child and Family Services Act." Madahbee also says that First Nations child welfare agencies were already being funded at levels 22 per cent below provincial agencies across Canada before the announced cuts…” [4] “Alaska Natives seek restrictions on drilling,” Matt Daly. November 16, 2009. © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Full Text Available at: http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7904&Itemid=116 “Call her "the other Sarah" from Alaska.Like former Gov. Sarah Palin, Sarah James, of tiny Arctic Village, is outspoken about oil and gas development in Alaska. But while Palin calls drilling an answer to the nation's energy needs, James calls it an affront. An elder of the Gwich'in Nation, James won the Goldman Environmental Prize for extraordinary grass roots leadership on environmental issues. She and other Alaska Natives were in Washington this week to lobby against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on offshore sites in Alaska. James said drilling for oil threatens the birth place of the porcupine caribou, a sacred figure to the Gwich'in people."We are caribou people. It's our clothing, our story, our song, our dance and our food. That's who we are. If you drill for oil here, you are drilling right into the heart of our existence," James said…” [5] “Probe of Navajo president moves ahead with AG's OK,” The Associated Press. November 16, 2009. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jrBiHmIzsPswGMPM40u9KCFV-RAAD9C1BPUG2 “Window Rock, Ariz. — An investigation into whether the leader of the country's largest American Indian reservation and others broke any laws in connection with two companies that operated on the Navajo Nation is moving forward.Tribal Department of Justice attorney Henry Howe told lawmakers last week that Attorney General Louis Denetsosie soon will file a petition with the Window Rock District Court to appoint a special prosecutor.The lawmakers placed Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. on administrative leave last month. The move came a week after they met in closed session to discuss alleged legal violations arising from tribal contracts with separate Internet and manufacturing companies.Investigators hired by the council compiled the reports, but they haven't been made public…” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest is a daily resource compiled by the H-AMINDIAN staff. It features a sampling of news stories concerning Native issues primarily in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In order to comply with Academic Fair Use and copyright laws, only an excerpt of the news articles is offered here. We will not reproduce articles in whole. Links are provided for articles located online without subscription to an academic search database. Your college, university, or public library may provide access to online data bases and services (such as Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, or Dialog) with full-text versions of these and other stories. 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