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Early next month, the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan will hand over human remains to a coalition of Michigan tribes for burial on American Indian lands. The University of Michigan is planning a similar transfer in the near future, part of a national trend by museums, universities and institutions.

Clarence Wolf Guts, 86, the last surviving Oglala Lakota code talker, died Wednesday afternoon at the South Dakota State Veterans Home in Hot Springs.

Elders in Ontario native community say mystery creature is a rare animal known as the "ugly one."

The fatal shooting of a First Nations protester in 1995 at Ipperwash Provincial Park in southwestern Ontario continues to haunt former Ontario premier Mike Harris. Nipissing University's plan to confer an honorary doctor of letters on Harris in a June 11 convocation ceremony isn't sitting well with the province's aboriginal groups.

"I had an experience that lifted my spirits right up today about how groups of people working together can accomplish great things. And you know where I found it? On the Navajo nation."

Flagstaff, Ariz — A proposal to swap reclaimed wastewater for more expensive drinking-quality water for snowmaking at a northern Arizona ski resort got a cold reception Thursday before the Flagstaff Water Commission.

In an attempt to move away from Native American iconography, the Fulton City School District will begin surveying the community about a possible new logo and icon for the Red Raiders of G. Ray Bodley High School.

Enrollment at Fort Lewis College may be poised to rebound after hitting a decade-long low in fall 2009. Early projections unveiled at Friday's board of trustees meeting forecast enrollment of 3,756 students in fall 2010, up from 3,685.

For more than a year, a group of Cherokee elders and local clinicians have been getting together once a month to eat dinner and talk about health, giving the elders a chance to share their views with local medical practitioners. The new Center for Native Health, which hosts the meetings, believes integrating traditional knowledge into health care may just be the answer to solving the high rates of diabetes and other diseases that afflict Cherokees and other Native Americans.

If not for Max Mazzetti and a few other tribal leaders of his generation, American Indian reservations in California might have disappeared decades ago. Mazzetti, 88, a former chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians in Valley Center, died March 25.

The indestructible force known as Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have created yet another controversy with their latest stunt. Several Native American groups are lashing out at the fame-loving couple after they announced they were changing their names in an effort to become "more in-tune with our spirituality."

Joe McDonald didn’t plan on staying at Salish Kootenai College for 32 years. That’s just the way it happened. McDonald, who will turn 77 at the end of March, became the first president of the Montana tribal college in 1978 and has been its leader ever since. His retirement attempts at 65, 70 and 75 were all foiled by institutional uncertainty about finding a suitable replacement.

President Barack Obama could determine the future of the Seneca Nation of Indians’ economy. Late Thursday night the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Prevention of All Cigarette Trafficking Act. Through the legislation the U.S. Postal Service will no longer ship cigarettes in the mail.

After 30 years of language lessons, educators are wondering what key ingredient is missing as students fail to reach fluency in their native language. "What are we doing wrong?" asked Ethel Gardner of Lakehead University as she opened a two-day Ojibway language conference at the Best Western Lakeside Inn.

About 40 grandmothers have occupied the Hollow Water First Nation's band office to protest what they say are corrupt financial practices. Some of the kookums -- Ojibway for 'grandmother' -- say they are meeting Saturday with auditors from Indian Affairs who may consider looking into the band's finances.

Utah lawmakers have approved a $33 million settlement in a dispute alleging Utah failed to properly manage an oil-and-gas royalty trust set up by Congress to benefit Utah's Navajo Indians.

A federal appeals court this week moved to allow uranium mining operations in Churchrock, a Navajo community just east of Gallup, New Mexico. The decision by the Federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals comes at a time of increased financial incentives for uranium mining—but also intense opposition from many communities, including the Navajo Nation, which outlawed uranium mining in 2005.

The Little Shell Chippewa Alliance's election went on without incident Saturday, despite all the controversy leading up to it. Tribal President John Sinclair — the man at the center of the tribe's political rift — attempted to thwart the election by threatening legal action against facilities allowing the election to take place on their property. Alliance poll sites were placed across the state and in Spokane.

All the modern technologies and amenities are available at the new Navajo Regional Behavioral Health Center in Shiprock, but still the emphasis lies on traditional healing. The 56,000-square-foot facility opened to its first eight patients last month, a far cry from its 72-patient capacity.

Amik Smallwood, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, was one of four Ojibwe and Lakota storytellers at the event organized by groups from the University of Minnesota Duluth, UWS, the College of St. Scholastica and Lake Superior College.