Topic: Native American Issues
AP News | 2010-02-07 20:02:24
In this Jan. 29, 2010 photo, the National Historic Landmark where the Northwestern Shoshone suffered a massacre in 1863 is seen near Preston, Idaho. Tribal members descend each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled ...
AP News | 2010-02-07 20:02:18
Northwestern Shoshone observe anniversary of massacre, deaths unrivaled in Western history
Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest_ but little remembered_ massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise ...
AP News | 2010-02-05 17:22:37
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2005 file photo, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) Chief Phillip Martin, answers questions from reporters after a press conference at the Mississippi State Capitol Building in Jackson, Miss. Martin, a longtime chief of the ...
AP News | 2010-02-02 23:03:32
Yellowstone bison going to Turner's ranch; Wyo. state park, Indian tribes were denied animals
Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands. The animals were spared several years ago from a periodic slaughter of bison leaving Yellowstone because of ...
