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Native News Update August 13, 2010 (TV)

The latest round-up of News From Indian Country on the Native News Update from the studios on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation at Reserve, Wisconsin with host Kimberlie Acosta. Today's Stories Include: Injunction granted against Padre Municipal Water District; New Office of Native Affairs and Policy at the FCC; New Office of Native American Health at the Sanford hospital; Foxwood Casino purchases the naming rights to one of Broadway's biggest theaters; Citi Foundation gives grant to American Indian College Fund; Smithsonian Institution returns artifacts to Yurok Tribe; The state of Wisconsin, Oneida Casino and Combat USA work together to hold the first state regulated MMA fight; Interview with MMA fighter, Caleb Nelson.

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A collection of IndianCountryTV.com's video productions from the 2010 Native American Journalists Association Conference. Featured programs include: The Student Awards Banquet, Jim Northrup, Minnie Two Shoes Tribute by NAJA, The 2010 Media Awards Ceremony, Comanche Chairman Michael Burgess, Sydney Beane and Valerie FastHorse give Digital Media Presentations.

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By Danny Martin Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) July 2010 Leroy Shangin broke strings at the Carlson Center. Nicole Colbert broke into a laugh. Shangin’s intensity and Colbert’s calm manner helped each capture titles July 23 in the excruciating ear pull of the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. Comment on this Article \| Quote this article on your site
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Iroquois believe survival’s at stake in passport dispute

By Samantha Gross
Onondaga Nation, New York (AP) August 2010

A group of young men have gathered in the longhouse for the feather dance, and the sounds of their singing filter outside, where Mohawk Chief Howard Thompson sits.

His people call him Onerekowa, the name his predecessors have borne for a thousand years. Each month, when he gathers with the 49 other chiefs from the six Haudenosaunee nations, he stands to speak in the language of his ancestors. And when the 50 come to a decision, they don’t take a majority vote. Instead, as it has for a millennium, the leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy decide by consensus.

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By Renee Thony
Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) July 2010

The scissor broad jump is one of the lesser known events at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics, but its competitors are just as serious.

Erica Meckel took first place in the women’s division of the event recently at the Carlson Center with a jump of 27 feet, 2 1/4 inches.

“About six weeks before WEIO, I practice and lift weights,” the 22-year-old Fairbanks native said after her win, “and I do jump training, too.”

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