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Produced by Kimberlie Acosta
Niagara Falls, New York (IndianCountryTV.com)
Latest RezStyle with host Kimberlie Acosta talking with Nammys Living
Legend, Tommy Allsup the day of the 11th Annual Nammys in Niagara
Falls, New York. Tommy Allsup (Cherokee), the original guitarist for
Buddy Hollys band was the one who flipped a coin with Ritchie Valens
for the last seat in their ill-fated plane.
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By Ian James
Caracas, Venezuela (AP) 11-09
Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated Indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said during November that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants.
The deaths happened in forest villages near Venezuela’s border with Brazil over the past 21/2 weeks, said Raidan Bernade, a Venezuelan doctor on a team sent to contain the outbreak and treat the ill.
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By Doug George-Kanentiio©
News From Indian Country 11-09
Over two hundred years after his death and Joseph Brant continues to spark controversy.
Was this Wolf Clan Mohawk a patriot or a crook? A respected leader or an opportunist?
Among the Mohawks of Akwesasne his name is spoken with spite for he was the person who signed away our ancestral lands to the Americans, giving away millions of acres of territory for a few thousand dollars which he conveniently pocketed, claiming it was for damages he suffered during the American Revolution.
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota (AP) 11-09
A federal appeals court says it won’t review failed appeals by government prosecutors who want to try a Canadian man for a 1975 slaying on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
John Graham of the Yukon territory in Canada is one of two men charged in federal court in the killing of Annie Mae Aquash. Prosecutors say American Indian Movement leaders suspected that Aquash was a government informant and ordered her to be killed.
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By Christine Graef
Akwesasne, Ontario (NFIC) 11-09
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Youth Flame Attendant
Aronhiaies Herne with
members of the Akwesasne
Olympic
Torch Committee
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When the torch is lit before the XXI Olympic Winter Games begin in
Vancouver on February 12, the hearts of Akwesasne Mohawk will be
thinking of three men from their community who guided and protected its
journey there.
Elder and faithkeeper Howard Iothore Thompson will greet the flame when it reaches the Kahwehnoke, also called Cornwall Island. Mike Benedict Jr. will be the community torchbearer. Aronhiaies (Sky Striker) Herne, a 23-year-old Bear Clan Mohawk was selected as one of 11 Aboriginal youths to run with the Olympic Flame on its three shifts across the 45,000 kilometers across Canada.
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