Index of the Tribes

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A Abenaki-Achomawi-Acolapissa-Acoma-AleutAlgonquian-Alabama-Alnobak-Alsea-AnishinabeApache-Arapaho-Arikara-Athapascan
B Baja-Blackfoot
C Caddo-Cahuilla-Catawaba-Cayuse-Chelan-Cherokee-Cheyenne-Chickasaw-Chinook-Chipewyan-Choctaw-Chukchee-ChumashCochiti-Comanche-Coos-Costanoan-Coushatta-Cowichan-Cree-CreekCrow
D Dakota-Delaware-Digueno F Flathead H Haida-Haudenosaunee-Hitchiti-Hopi-Hupa-Huron
I Illini-Inuit-Innu-Iroquois-Isleta
K Kalapuya<>Kanglanek<>Kanienkeh<>Karuk<>Kato<>Kiowa<>Klamath<>Koryak<>Kwakiutl L Lakota<>Lassik<>Luiseno<>Lumni
MMahkussuts<>Maidu<>Makah<>Maliseet<>MandanMenominee<>Metis<>Micmac<>Miwok<>ModocMohawk<>Mojave<>Mono<>Multnomah
NNakota<>Natchez<>Navajo<>Nez Perce'
OOjibwa<>Okanagan<>Omaha<>Oneida<>Onondaga<>Osage<>Otoe<>Ottawa

PPaiute<>Passamquoddy<>Pawnee<>PenobscotPequot<>Pima<>Pomo<>Ponca<>PotawatomiPowhatan<>Pueblo
QQuillayute<>Quinault
SSai<>Salinan<>Salish<>San Jaun<>Sanpoils<>SerranoSeminole<>Seneca<>Shasta<>Shoshone<>Skokomish<>SliammonSnohomish<>Snoqualmie<>Spokane<>Squamish<>Squaxin
TTewa<>Tahltan<>Thompson<>Tillamook<>TlingitTohono O'Odham<>Tsimshian<>TuscaroraUUte<>Unangan
WWabanaki<>Wampanoag<>Wappo<>Wasco<>WinnebagoWintu<>Wyandot
YYakima<>Yana<>Yaqui<>Yavapali<>YokutYuchi<>Yukaghir<>Yuma
ZZuni

Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements

Indian Treaties 1778-1883 were one of the ways the United States Government used to remove the Indian population from their Native Soil. Many of the treaties were broken almost as soon as they were written and not always by the Indians. The removal of the Indians was necessary for the US Governments expansion to the West.

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/treaty/

Click on link to see full listing of treatys for further study.

Quotes

"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts. Speak Americans...I will not lie to you; do not lie to me."

Cochise, Apache - b. 1812, d. June 8, 1874

Battle heats up over geothermal energy facility

TULELAKE, Calif. - It is among North America's most unique geological areas, a lush 200-square-mile stretch of sloping mountains and smooth, shield volcanoes deep within the Modoc National Forest. It is also one of the most disputed.

For local tribes, the Medicine Lake Highlands just below California's border with Oregon is sacred, where the Pit River Nation believes the Creator rested while creating the world.

But for the federal government and a major U.S. power company, the federally owned region is a rare and untapped source of geothermal energy, abundant with steam and potential profit.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414876

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Rosebud leaders worried about spike in suicides

ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) - Leaders on the Rosebud Indian Reservation are worried about a recent spike in suicides and attempts.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement officers responded to three deaths by suicide and 197 attempts in 2006. Through March of this year, police had been called to three completed suicides and 51 attempts.

Whether the rise is part of a cyclical pattern or the start of something worse, Rosebud Sioux Tribal President Rodney Bordeaux wants to do something about it immediately.

He's declared a state of emergency with the hope of bringing in more federal funding to boost suicide prevention efforts on the reservation.

''We're hoping to prevent some in the future,'' Bordeaux said. ''You just don't know.''

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414891&na=1559

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Micmacs and Maliseets lose sovereignty under recent appeals court panel rulings

BOSTON - In a 2 - 1 decision, a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued a ruling in an employment discrimination case that effectively terminates the tribal sovereignty and immunity of the Aroostock Band of Micmacs and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians.

The two rulings were issued simultaneously on April 17. Judges Sandra Lynch and Levin Campbell issued the majority ruling, with Lynch writing the decision. The Hon. Kermit Lipez wrote a dissenting decision.

The majority ruled that the federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 and the Aroostock Band of Micmacs Settlement Act also subjected the band to total state jurisdiction, including how tribes handle employment. The judges then applied their decision to the Houlton Band of Maliseets.

''There is no 'internal tribal matters' exception in the statute,'' Lynch wrote.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414887&na=1559

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