We will hold our monthly protest/prayer this Saturday, Nov. 1st from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm at the corner of Bolsa Chica St. and Warner Ave. We encourage you to attend as we want to have a strong presence of prayer as we prepare for the revocation hearing on Thursday, Nov. 13th. We have about [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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International Indigenous Hip-Hop Gathering brings artists, fans together
By Shadi Rahimi, Today correspondent
LOS ANGELES - For Happy Frejo, the International Indigenous Hip-Hop Gathering was a place to make a stand. Not just for Native artists, but also for women.

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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University of California denies request for repatriation of remains.
Rex Dalton
San Diego
In the latest twist in the tug-of-war between Native Americans and anthropologists, officials at the University of California have decided not to repatriate a pair of well-preserved skeletons that are nearly 10,000 years old.
Archaeology students unearthed the bones in 1976 near the clifftop home of [...]

Posted on October 29th, 2008 by hunwut
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(SAN DIEGO) - The Barona Cultural Center & Museum has announced that it will now be open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum will be closed on Sunday and Monday to focus on creating new exhibits and providing community outreach.

Posted on October 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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Blackfire, Red Hawk among winners
By Vincent Schilling, Today correspondent
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Many Native artists attended the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards show, held Oct. 4 at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, N.Y. More than 35 artists were awarded NAMMY awards, including Arizona-based Blackfire. The group was awarded the Album [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Marilyn Stasio : October 27, 2008
Tony Hillerman, whose lyrical, authentic and compelling mystery novels set among the Navajos of the Southwest blazed innovative trails in the American detective story, died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, The Associated Press reported.
He was 83 and lived in Albuquerque.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by hunwut
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Gala event benefits tribal college students
By Rob Capriccioso
Oct 27, 2008
NEW YORK - The American Indian College Fund is gearing up for its 13th annual Flame of Hope Gala, which will celebrate the success of tribal colleges since the founding of the first such institution 40 years ago by the Navajo Nation.
Event organizers said the gala’s [...]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by hunwut
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Contract Terms With Sycuan Tribe at Issue
By CONNIE LEWIS, San Diego Business Journal Staff
Michael Gallegos, who heads American Property Management, said he has received an appeal to a court decision that reverses a lower court ruling that favored the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in lawsuits that both parties filed after the tribe fired [...]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by hunwut
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By EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
Hundreds of items, including some ancient human remains considered sacred by American Indian people, are waiting to be recovered.
The collection, stored in a museum near Escondido, also includes quartz crystals, pipe fragments, raptor talons and stone tubes believed to be used by native peoples hundreds and thousands of years ago [...]

Posted on October 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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More than 10,000 oaks in S.D. County affected
By Mike Lee, STAFF WRITER
October 25, 2008
Bugs and diseases are killing trees at an alarming rate across the West, from the spruce forests of Alaska to the oak woodlands near the San Diego-Tijuana border.
Several scientists said the growing threat appears linked to global warming. That means tree mortality [...]

Posted on October 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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