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Note:  We're taking orders NOW until late February for heirloom tomato, pepper and herb plants to be delivered after frost date.  

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Wotanging Ikche -- Native American News  

Aboriginal/AmerIndian Perspective about the First Nations of Turtle Island


Wotanging Ikche 
Lakota -- Common News
Kanoheda Aniyvwiya --
Cherokee -- Journal of the People
Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin --
Blackfoot -- News for All the People
Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse --
Creek -- People's New News
Aunchemokauhettittea --
Naragansett -- Let Us Share News
Ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min --
Ojibwe -- We Are Talking About Ourselves
Ha-Sah-Sliltha --
Ditidaht Nation -- News of the People
Un Chota --
Susquehannic Seneca -- The People Speak


Ximopanolti tehuatzin, inin Mexika tlahtolli --
Nahuatl -- For you we offer these words
It-hah-pe-hah Ah-num pah-le --
Chicasaw -- Together We Are Talking
Sho-da-ku-ye --
Teehahnahmah -- Talking Birchbark
Acimowin --
Plains Cree -- Story or Account or Report
Dineh jii' adah' ho'nil'e'gii ba' ha' neh --
Navajo Nation -- What's Haning among The People News
Okla Humma Holisso Nowat Anya --
Choctaw -- People(s) Red Newspaper
Hi'a chu ah gaa --
Pima -- The stories or the talk of the People  

Agnutmaqan -- Listuguj Mi'kmaq -- News


Native American News --
Language of the Occupation Forces  

Wotanging Ikche and Native American News Copyright c. 1996-2002 http://www.nanews.org  (masthead used with permission)

Kelloggs Breakfast

85 days, indeterminate

Plant produces good yields of large 16 oz orange beefsteak tomatoes. Tomatoes have superb rich flavor and few seeds. A high production heirloom with fruit that is both meaty and juicy.  From Darrell Kellogg, Redford , MI .

If you speak a Native American language not listed above, please send us your words for "news."  We'd rather take up this whole page saving these few words of our hundreds of nations than present a nice clean banner in the language of those people who came here determined to replace our words with their own.

Native America Calling

NATIVE AMERICA CALLING -  the AIROS flagship program, is a live one-hour call-in show, now distributed to over 40 Native and non-Native radio stations across Indian Country, Monday-Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Native America Calling is produced by

Koahnic Broadcasting Corp at KUNM in Albuquerque, NM.

Click Here to go to the AIROS site and listen online or get a list of radio stations carrying AIROS programming

 
 
 


From Indian People: News and reports from Native Americans on the scene of events of interest to our People.  These reports are sent to us by e-mail and are used by permission of the writer.  Native readers are invited to send information or news to owlstar@bellsouth.net.

 

Tribes asked to pray for Peaks - Gallup Independent - Dec. 11, the Dine people have requested prayers from all tribal nations as their legal appeal goes to court to keep "reclaimed water" (treated sewage) from being used to make snow on mountains that are sacred to them.

 

Canada's Mohawk community has been in an ongoing struggle with Europeans and their descendants practically from the moment the first invaders stepped onto the Mohawk's land and decide they were more "fit" to occupy it than the original inhabitants.  The story continues, and some Mohawk women now have determined they don't want to play by British rules anymore.  It has not pleased the Crown.  I recommend the Mohawk Nation News site (http://www.mohawknationnews.com) for the Mohawk side of the story.  Any Canadian News media outlet will tell you what the settlers want you to know.

 

Please go to our Issues Page for on-scene reports on the following stories:

A NEW OKA? 

Since April 2006, the Canadian government has laid seige to a small development occupied by Mohawks, primarily grandmothers intent on protecting further appropriation of their traditional lands, which were never officially ceded to Canada.

Georgia Parks Policy Restricts Native Events 

The same state authorities who held that Native American Festivals were "inappropriate" two years ago claim that the former capital of the Cherokee Nation, now a possession of the state, is too "sacred" and too "environmentally sensitive" to allow government officials to greet the descendants of those who once held those lands.  At the risk of sounding disrespectful, I have to ask - how transparently absurd is that argument?  

Update - January 28, 2008 - The Parks department finally consented to hold a welcoming ceremony on the New Echota site, but only if all three federally recognized Cherokee tribes agreed to send representatives to be welcomed.  The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma quickly declined and the Eastern Band followed them quickly.   Correspondence about this follows on our Issues page.

 


 

Native American Headlines

 

Click on headline links to go to the original story source, 

or click to go to brief descriptions of all stories for the past week.

 

January 25, 2008

 

Federal study backs up land claim by Tigua tribe - Indian Country Today

Tribes worry oil pipeline might cross culturally important sites - Indian Country Today

Navajos plan suit on permit - Casper Star Tribune

Johnson, Thune unite on Native health initiative - Rapid City Journal

January 24, 2008

 

San Carlos Apaches awarded housing units - Courier


Artman invites tribal leaders to national meeting, January 30 - Charkoosta News

Plan would include Red Lake in initiative for paying child protection services - Bemidji Pioneer

January 23, 2008

 

Cherokee Nation council adopts arts and crafts act - Muskogee Phoenix

Gathered tribes hear some hopeful news on health care - Yakima Herald-Republic

Last native speaker of Eeyak dies at 89

Elk herd keeps Stillaguamish Tribe fed - Herald


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Native Voices - Native American radio show


Randy Huffman - Host
Native Voices on 88.3 FM W.A.I.F.
Saturdays 5-6 p.m. ET
SHOWS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!
http://www.nativevoicesradio.net

--------- This Week on AIROS (radio and online broadcasts) ---------

 

Click Here to go to the AIROS site and listen online or get a list of radio stations carrying AIROS programming!

 

NATIVE AMERICA CALLING -  the AIROS flagship program, is a live one-hour call-in show, now distributed to over 40 Native and non-Native radio stations across Indian Country, Monday-Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Native America Calling is produced by Koahnic Broadcasting Corp at KUNM in Albuquerque, NM.


VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE
Voices from the Circle highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment
and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. The weekly
program is produced and hosted by Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi)
and Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa) at WLUW <http://www.wluw.org/> on
Loyola University <http://www.luc.edu/>.

AlterNative Voices
AlterNative Voices <http://www.alternativevoices.org/> features Native
music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country.
AlterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern
Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO <http://www.kuvo.org>-FM in Denver.

Spring is near and so the events calendar is jam packed with events in our
Native communities and professions. We'll highlight a few and you can see
more on our calendars at www.alterNativeVoices.org
<http://www.alternativevoices.org>

 

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Available on Star Choice (1-888-554-STAR), channel 350
and on Bell ExpressVU (1-888-SKY-DISH), channel 448
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APTN Specials This Week

--------  This Week on First Peoples TV (U.S. Satellite/Cable) ---------
Forward from Wotanging Ikche (c) Native American News (c)
http://www.nanews.org

Available on DirecTV (800-531-5000), Channel 375,
and on EchoStar/Dish Network (800-333-3474), channel 9410
(see http://www.dreamcatchers.org/fptv/index.html for more information about First People's TV, hosted by Worldlink. 

Schedules at http://www.worldlinktv.com/)

 


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  • Native Legal/Prison Issues in Canada



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