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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest, November 20, 2009 (5 items) Compiled by Kendra Kennedy Additional information about sources available at the end of the message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [1] "Indian tribe sues over Calif. ranch development,” Jacob Adelman. November 19, 2009. © Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Full text available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112001415.html “Los Angeles -- An Indian tribe has filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a 5,000-acre gated resort community on a sprawling ranch some 60 miles north of Los Angeles that it claims as tribal land. The lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Fresno argues that the U.S. Department of Interior failed to recognize the Kawaiisu Tribe of Tejon's legitimate claim to areas of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch property where the Tejon Mountain Village project is planned. It also argues that Kern County supervisors ignored the existence of historic tribal sites when they approved the project last month. The suit names the interior department and the county…" [2] "EPA Awards Over $100,000 to the Peoria Tribe of Indians,” EPA. November 19, 2009. © Copyright 2009 United States Environmental Agency. All rights reserved. Full Text Available: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/e6ef674cb3ede0c285257673005b6936?OpenDocument “(Dallas, Texas – November 19, 2009) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $105,000 to the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The Tribe will use the funds to provide continued support for their water pollution control program. Surface water sampling on Tribal lands will continue to determine if a more thorough watershed management program is needed to develop water quality standards. Data analysis after water sampling will determine if Tribal water quality needs are being met, note any changes in the quality or condition of the Tribe’s water, and understand and define the function and health of water stream ecosystems... " [3] “B.C. First Nation approves private property rights,” CBC News. November 19, 2009. Copyright © 2009 CBC. All Rights Reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/11/18/bc-nisga-a-land-reform-property-rights.html “A northwestern B.C. First Nation has approved a revolutionary land reform deal, making it the first in Canada to approve private property rights. After years of discussion and debate, the Nisga'a Lisims government has quietly passed the Nisga'a Landholding Transition Act. The move means that next year Nisga'a citizens will have the chance to own their own homes on what used to be collectively owned native land in B.C.'s Nass River Valley, north of Terrace. They will also be able to mortgage their property or transfer, bequeath, lease, or sell it to anyone they choose, aboriginal or non-aboriginal. The system will be voluntary and all private land will remain subject to Nisga'a laws…” [4] “$10 Million in Grants Aimed at Enrolling American Indian, Alaska Native Kids in Health Care to be Awarded,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. November 19, 2009. © 2009 CMS Media Affairs Office. All rights reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10-million-in-grants-aimed,1055839.shtml “Washington - HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of up to $10 million in grants to help reach American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children who qualify for, but are not yet enrolled, in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These new grants are part of a broader effort to find and enroll uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but not enrolled. The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) set aside $100 million for fiscal years 2009-2013 expressly to help find and enroll eligible uninsured children, including $10 million specifically for Indian health providers…” [5] “MCC Ontario sending H1N1 response kits to remote northern First Nations,” Rick Fast. November 19, 2009. Copyright © 2009 Newport Television LLC. All Rights Reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.mcc.org/stories/news/mcc-ontario-sending-h1n1-response-kits-remote-northern-first-nations “Kitchener, Ont. – Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCCO) is collecting and sending up to 2,000 H1N1 Response Kits to northern Ontario for distribution in remote First Nation communities. “Staff in our MCC Timmins office keep reminding us southerners how our neighbours in First Nation communities experience a much higher risk when it comes to infectious diseases such as H1N1,” says Rick Cober Bauman, MCCO Executive Director. “No matter what conclusion we have drawn about H1N1 or pandemics, the truth is that remote and isolated northern aboriginal communities, with over-crowded housing and poor sanitation systems, do have more to fear than we do in the south.” The World Health Organization has named Indigenous People among the top three at-risk groups most likely to contract the H1N1 virus…” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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. H-AMINDIAN is part of the H-NET family and is housed in the Department of History, Arizona State University. Visit our website at http://history.clas.asu.edu/h-amindian
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