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Honoring Our Own People NEWS Archives - Jun 04
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Native
American Sharing
Jun
Casinos
Give $5.7 Million To Fire Protection, CA
May
Ho-Chunk honor anthropologist Lurie with gift of blanket
, WI
The
Southern Ute Indian Tribe &
Sky Ute Casino Provide Local Nonprofits
$20K, CO
Opportunities
to Participate
Jun
Jun
14-18 ANISHINAABE WAY YOUTH GATHERING, WI
Jun
17 Native American Rally Successful: Call for Help on
Issued by NAES, Chicago, IL
Jun
24 Smith Barney Hosts "A Focus on Planned Giving"
Mid Year Conference, CA
Jul
Jul
9 NATIVE COLORADO MUSICIAN LITTLEBIRD HOSTS BENEFIT
FOR LEGAL RIGHTS FIRM, CO
Jul
10 Free festival to celebrate tribes' cultural heritage,
ME
Aug
NATIVE
AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND: Art Auction to Benefit Indian
Legal Defense Fund, CO
Opportunities
to Give
Lori
Piestewa Memorial Fund (Hopi Tribe)
Lori
Piestewa Memorial Scholarship Fund (Hopi Foundation)
Opportunities
to Receive
Looking
for Grants? Find info at the bottom of this page
and at People
News Archives
and at HOOPower
listings (Federal, Foundation and other resources)
Why
Do Tribal Nations Remain Underfunded from the Federal
Government?
Grant
Opportunities specifically for Native Americans
ThreeHoops'
members get first notice...sign up here.
Jun 30 04
Humbolt
Area Foundation - Native Culture Fund Grants - NW California
Fellowships
for Cultural Participation - Deadline Aug 2
Native Community Technology Initiative - Deadline Aug
2
The
Humbolt Area Foundation has created a useful map to
make it easy to see if your Tribal Nation can qualify
for application.
Millions of Dollars Available for Diabetes Prevention
IHS announces available grant funds
Jennifer Tedlock, NativeTimes.com, TULSA
OK
Competitive
grant funds are now available to IHS, tribal, and urban
Indian programs. Indian Health Service announced the $24.7
million, to be used to target efforts to prevent diabetes
among American Indians and Alaska Natives, on Wednesday.
The grants, offered by the Special Diabetes Programs for
Indians, are also to be used to address risk factors for
cardiovascular disease a serious complication of diabetes.
"In
the last decade, the prevalence of diabetes among American
Indians and Alaska Natives has increased more than 50%,
making this grant funding of timely and vital importance"...
IRS'
Indian Tribal Governments Newsletter for JULY 04
Download the pdf version by clicking the link above.
To subscribe directly - contact Gary.L.Hahn@irs.gov
Jun
29 04
Jacob
K. Javits Fellowship Program
Application
Deadline for Individuals - Oct 8
Jun 28 04
Court
to review American Indian tax case
By
GINA HOLLAND, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER, http://seatlepi.nwsource.com,
WA
WASHINGTON
-- The Supreme Court said Monday it would clarify when
governments can tax Indian property. The tiny city of
Sherrill, N.Y., and the state of New York had asked justices
to review a lower court's decision barring the taxation
of a textile plant and a gas station-convenience store
owned by the Oneida
Indian Nation. The Bush administration urged the court
to stay out of the extended fight between the Oneidas
and the government over land. Justices announced that
they would hear arguments in the case, likely in the fall.
The Oneida Indians of New York, Wisconsin and Ontario
have been in a long-running lawsuit against New York state
for the return of 250,000 acres the state purchased from
the tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries...
NATIVE COLORADO MUSICIAN LITTLEBIRD HOSTS BENEFIT FOR
LEGAL RIGHTS FIRM
BOULDER,
CO - Songwriter, performer and recording artist, Leon
Joseph
Littlebird, is hosting a compact disk (CD) release party
on July 9, 2004 at the Mrs. E & Me Restaurant in Breckenridge,
Colorado at 6:00 p.m. to benefit the Native American Rights
Fund (NARF). Mrs. E & Me is located at Ridge Street
and Washington in the Historic District of Breckenridge.
"Passage" is the new Native Flute CD title that
will be sold at the benefit for $15.00 each. A portion
of the CD sale proceeds will be donated to the Native
American Rights Fund; a national nonprofit legal defense
fund that is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Alliance
Hopes to Preserve American Indian Languages
KARE
11, www.kare.com, MN
Fewer
than 30 people in Minnesota can speak the Dakota language
fluently, even though the state gets its name from a Dakota
word meaning "sky-tinted waters.
Meanwhile, a 1995 survey of reservations in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan found only 418 fluent speakers
of the Ojibwe language. The Twin Cities-based Dakota Ojibwe
Language Revitalization Alliance is working to change
that...
More information on the Dakota
Ojibwe Language Revitalization Alliance from "The
People's Paths" at www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net
Jun
27 04
The
Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation
The Award is given
each November to three non-profit organizations in recognition
of an innovative, existing program that has made a difference
in the lives of the people it serves. Peter Drucker's
definition of innovation - change that creates a new dimension
of performance - is key to consideration for the Award.
The Award has been given annually since 1991 and is accompanied
by a first place prize of $20,000 and two runners up prizes
of $2,500 each. The cash prizes are unrestricted and designed
to celebrate and further the work of innovative non-profit
organizations in the United States. The Peter F. Drucker
and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont
Graduate University, Claremont, CA, administer the Award.
Deadline Tuesday, August 3, 2004.
Free
festival to celebrate tribes' cultural heritage
Press
Herald, ME
BAR HARBOR — The Native American Festival and Maine
Indian Basketmakers Market will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
July 10 at the College of the Atlantic. The free event
celebrates Native American cultures...
Jun
26 04
PPL'S PLAN TO SELL DAMS IN MAINE NEARS COMPLETION
The Morning Call Online, mcall.com, PA
Allentown
energy company PPL Corp. said Friday it reached a final
agreement to sell three dams in Maine to an environmental
group.
The agreement grants a five-year option to the Penobscot
River Restoration Trust to buy three of PPL's nine hydroelectric
dams for about $25 million. Conservation groups and the
Penobscot
Indian Nation plan to remove two dams and bypass a
third, giving salmon and other fish access to more than
500 miles of the river. It would be one of the biggest
river restoration projects on the East Coast...
Citizens groups fight back after American Indian historic
sites looted
Picayune
Item, NV
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Mysterious petroglyphs etched in hundreds
of volcanic boulders east of Reno have survived the elements
for centuries. Volunteers are now hoping the artifacts
will survive the ravages of modern man...
American
Indian Journalism Institute Graduates More 'Family'
by
Randy Dockendorf, Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan, SD
VERMILLION -- They came together as strangers, but the
24 members of the American
Indian Journalism Institute left three weeks later
as family.The AIJI members graduated Friday from the intensive
experience at the Neuharth Center on the University of
South Dakota campus. They were chosen from about 80 applicants
and represent 19 tribes from 12 states and one Canadian
province.A dozen of the students will continue with internships
this summer on newspapers in South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The AIJI seeks to train
a new generation of American Indian journalists, who are
the most under-represented minority in the profession.
Only 313 Indians are currently working as journalists
at daily newspapers out of a total newsroom workforce
of 54,000.
Jun
25 04
Donation
will buy computers
billingsgazette.com,
MT
HAYS
- Focal Communications of New York has
donated the start of a computer laboratory at the Hays
Recreation and Education Center on the Fort Belknap Reservation.
The 10 keyboards and monitors will help bring young people
and elders together "to create more self-sufficient individuals,"
said Brandi Horn, the center's recreation manager...
ThreeHoops
note: Grantmaking
Direct (Nonnative Corporation to Native Nonprofit) Benefit
Direct
American
Indian Health: A New National Library of Medicine Website
The
National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes
of Health, announces a new Web site to address the health
concerns of the 4 million Americans who claim American
Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. The site, "American
Indian Health," is at http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov
.
Because special populations have different health needs,
the Library has created several specialized sites, for
example, for Asian Americans, those living in the Arctic
and far north, senior citizens, and Spanish-speaking Americans.
(These are all available from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases
.)
American Indian Health addresses the special needs of
this population. Research shows that Native Americans
are 2.6 times more likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic
whites of a similar age. American Indians also have a
greater mortality risk for tuberculosis, suicide, pneumonia,
alcoholism, and influenza than the average population.
American Indian Health brings together pertinent health
and medical resources, including consumer health information,
the results of research, traditional healing resources,
and links to other Web sites. Much of the information
has been assembled from other National Library of Medicine
resources such as PubMed and MedlinePlus.
"The National Library of Medicine is interested in reaching
out to populations with special needs," said Donald A.B.
Lindberg, M.D., Library director. He notes that, for Native
Americans, the NLM has a history of attending local powwows
and making health information available during those events.
The
National Library of Medicine, the world's largest library
of the health sciences, is a component of the National
Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services
IPFW
gets grant to research two ancient Indian cultures
The money will enable archaeologists to stay at one site
and also study Paleoindians.
By
Kevin Kilbane of The News-Sentinel, FortWayne.com, IN
Two
National Park Service grants totaling more than $61,000
will help IPFW archaeology faculty and students discover
more about ancient Native Americans who once lived in
Indiana. "Basically, we are trying to fill in the
big black hole in our knowledge in this part of the state,"
said archaeologist Andrew White, who is studying Native
Americans who moved into this area when glaciers melted
10,000-12,000 years ago.
The grants to the Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne archaeological survey will fund research into
two rare Native American cultures.
ThreeHoops
note: Grantmaking
Indirect (Federal Funding to NonNative Entities) Benefit
Indirect
Jun
23 04
American
Indian Prison Probe Reports 16 Deaths Since 2001
by
Amanda Luker, The NewStandard, http://newstandardnew.net
A senior
federal official told USA Today on condition
of anonymity that 16 prisoners have died in Native
American detention centers since 2001. For several weeks
the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs has
been collecting information to review allegations of neglect
and abuse within the 74-prison system.
According
to the unnamed official, while the causes of the deaths
are not all known, some have been attributed to alcohol
or other substances consumed prior to the arrests of the
prisoners. The official also blamed the detention centers'
poor management and lack of automated records for the
lack of information on the cause of prisoner deaths. In
2002, according to the Great Falls Tribune ,
the facilities held 2,080 inmates. ..
Jun
21 04
U.S.
Foundations Bounce Back in Fiscal Year 2003:
Average Annual Total Return Rises to 17 Percent
Commonfund
Benchmarks Study™- Foundations 2004 Study Shows
Largest Foundations Returned 20.5 Percent; Independent
Foundations 17.8 Percent, Community Foundations 17.0 Percent
and Public Foundations 11.7 Percent; Diversification and
Rebalancing Helped Performance
Cobell
vs. Norton Mediation Update
"Many
call me naïve for hoping that the government would
finally agree to a just resolution through mediation for
the over 500,000 individual Indian trust beneficiaries.
Well, I’d rather be naïve than wrong. Every
day more of our beneficiary-friends die without seeing
justice or a complete and accurate accounting of their
trust assets. If there is a chance that mediation may
bring a fair and just resolution of this case to Indian
Country faster than the court system, I owe it to you
to try.
What is a “fair and just resolution?” The
government would try and resolve this case for a couple
billion dollars. And why not, from their perspective,
when we are owed so much more? But a token settlement
like this would be an insult to our people and a continuation
of decades of injustice.
We know what is fair. We have retained the most sophisticated
resources and financial experts to tell us what a “fair
and just resolution” would be. Here’s what
they tell me:
• At one time more than 50 million acres of land
was allotted and held in trust for you. That equals land
mass could swallow the states of Maine, Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware,
Maryland and Washington, D.C. with room to spare.
• Today, there’s less than 11 million acres
held in trust for you and the government can’t explain
where 39 million acres went.
• Much of the 50 million acres was and is among
the most fertile and mineral rich lands west of the Mississippi
(and that is why it is gone today).
• In the early-1900’s almost the entire state
of Oklahoma (the then-oil capital of the world) was made
up of individual Indian trust allotments.
Remember this: the government is not doing us any favors
by resolving this case. They have taken our property and
our money and mismanaged it for more than a century. We
are not asking for an entitlement, for reparations or
for special treatment. We only want what is ours –
money generated from our land."
-- Elouise Cobell, Blackfeet Reservation
Development Fund
For the whole text of Elouise Cobell's update see http://www.indiantrust.com/
Ho-Chunk
nets business grant
American Indian nation to match funds that help entrepreneuers
By
COLIN ATAGI, Daily Tribune Staff, WI
A
local American Indian nation was among five tribal groups
around Wisconsin to receive rural business enterprise
grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural
Development division.
The Ho-Chunk
Nation will match its $52,306 grant, using $104,612
toward supporting entrepreneurs, said Karen WhiteEagle,
the tribe's small business program manager.
"We saw there was a need for technical assistance to
be able to help support and sustain these businesses,"
she said. "We don't want them failing."
The USDA selected 84 applicants in 30 states to receive
a total of $11.8 million in grants for business development
and job creation. The grant can be used for such purposes
as technical assistance, equipment purchases, revolving
loan fund creation and building construction. For three
years, Ho-Chunk
Nation Small Business Wogi jere Services has assisted
local entrepreneurs in beginning their businesses and
keeping them alive.
About 100 people use the program each year, WhiteEagle
said. Last year, about 70 percent were successful, she
said...
The other American Indian tribes to receive the grants
include the Northwoods
NiiJii Enterprise Community, the Lac du Flambeau
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin,
the American
Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin and the
Stockbridge
Munsee Community...
Jun
20 04
Tribal elder keeps salmon ceremony going strong
By
Karen McCowan, The Register-Guard, OR
RUCH
- "Grandma Aggie" is in her element: a meadow along
the Applegate River where her ancestors once lived,
presiding over a rite once common among Western Oregon
Indian tribes. At 79, Agnes Pilgrim still leads the
annual sacred salmon ceremony she helped revive a decade
ago. An honored elder with the Confederated
Tribes of Siletz ...
American Indian Teens Get Medical Experience
Programs Encourage Native Teens To Pursue Health Careers
ChannelOklahoma.com,
OK
OKLAHOMA
CITY -- Sixty-six American Indian teens from Oklahoma
are dissecting cow eyeballs and diving into health-related
curriculum this summer in programs designed to recruit
them into medical professions.
Programs affiliated with the University of Oklahoma
and the Oklahoma City-based Association
of American Indian Physicians want to raise the
number of American Indian medical doctors. Jerry Tahsequah
estimates 400 American Indians nationwide are doctors.
Tahsequah is the associate director of the Native American
Center of Excellence at the University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center...
Native
American carries on buckskin tradition
Becky Bosshart, Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle
Standard, NV
Wesley Dick can skin a deer in seven minutes.
He makes three cuts with a buck knife in a T-shape across
the belly and uses his hands to scrape out the innards.
Dick, whose Paiute name Kwassuba-tue means "someone
who tans hides," is an advocate for traditional practices
and Indian rights. He can talk for a long time, and
he cautions that he will, about how much has been taken
away from the native peoples and how they need to respect
the tribal elders and teach children their customs...
Dick was awarded a grant earlier this month to teach
his craft to another Fallon resident ... The Folklife
Apprenticeship Program supports traditional artists
by awarding up to 12 grants each year to master folk
artists to teach their skills to dedicated apprentices
from their own cultures, according to the Nevada Arts
Council. Each folk art apprenticeship award includes
$1,700 for the master artist and a budget up to $2,500
for supplies, tools, materials and related travel costs...
ThreeHoops
note:
Grantmaking Direct (State grant to Native Individual)
Benefit Direct
Competition
keen for Shore's philanthropic dollars
By
Deborah Gates, Daily Times Staff Writer, DE
...The
Accohannock
tribe of Native Americans is hosting projects from selling
oyster sandwiches every second and fourth Saturday to
powwows to help raise $2 million for an Indian village
that the group wants to build at Bending Water Park
in Marion Station.
The nonprofit group hopes $700,000 will come through
grants, said Rudy Hall, who heads Bending Water Inc.
The balance would come from projects such as a powwow
and music festival Aug. 7 at the site -- and charitable
contributions, he said.
"Raising money is never an easy task," Hall said...
Jun
19 04
Tribe
details housing plan
By
Mark Locklear - Staff writer, Robesonian, NC
PEMBROKE
- Tribal Council officials say that within the next
12 months they hope to move about 30 American Indian
families into new homes. According to the tribe's 2004-2005
Tribal Indian Housing Plan approved by the Tribal Council
on Thursday night, the tribe will allocate $2.5 million
from nearly $15 million in federal housing grants to
build homes for eligible tribal members in Robeson,
Hoke, Cumberland and Scotland counties. The grants were
awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development through the Native American Housing Assistance
and Self Determination Act. The plan must be sent to
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
by July 1. "We are currently in the process of trying
to qualify 30 families for the home ownership program,"
said Patsy Locklear, housing counselor. "Construction
for these homes should begin by mid- to late summer."
Jun
18 04
Tribal
status is not just about casinos
By
Walter Vickers, Opinion-Editorial, The Boston Globe,
MA
NEARLY 25
YEARS have passed since our tribe, the Nipmuc Nation,
began the arduous process of gaining federal recognition
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Jun
17 04
National
Museum of the American Indian Extends Deadline for Sept.
21 Procession Registration
Contact:
Suzette Brewer, 202-357-3164 ext. 179, or Leonda Levchuk,
202-357-3164 ext. 155, both of the Smithsonian Institution
WASHINGTON, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian today announced
that it will extend the deadline to Sept. 1 for registration
to the Native Nations Procession on Sept. 21, the day
the museum opens its doors to the public. Beginning
at the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington,
D.C., the procession will mark a highly symbolic journey
eastward to the site of the opening ceremony on Third
Street in front of the Capitol. Thousands of people,
many in Native dress and regalia, will walk in unison
to the grand opening of the National Museum of the American
Indian. Native communities and non-Native supporters
are being encouraged to visit the museum's web site
at http://www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
to register as early as possible to receive information
packets regarding the museum's opening and the six-day
First Americans Festival.
Jun
14 04
Other
Views: American Indian graduates overcome many obstacles
George Benge, Opinion, The Olympian, WA
WASHINGTON
-- This is for Indian children and Indian youths, especially
young Indians who have graduated or are about to graduate
from schools from junior high to college. It's
also for all other kids who for reasons of race, poverty,
discrimination or unequal opportunity have faced a tough
and challenging climb in their young lives...
AMERICAN
INDIAN EDUCATION: Speaking of the past
History
provides modern lesson
By
Brenden Timpe, Herald Staff Writer, Grand Forks Herald,
MN
HUOT, Minn. - It was 141 years ago here that negotiators
for the United States persuaded the Red Lake and Pembina
bands of Chippewa to give up most of northwestern North
Dakota and northeastern Minnesota. Today, a UND program
uses this history as an educational tool in negotiation
for young American Indian students.
About 90 students in the INMED Summer Institute visited
the Old Crossing Treaty Park on Sunday for a lesson
in the art of communication from UND professor Virgil
Benoit. The Summer Institute's main goal is to give
students a boost in their knowledge of math and science,
as well as a taste of college life. But the moral of
the Old Crossing history lesson focused on the importance
of diversity of thought.
"As much as you think that life is determined ...
don't forget that some of you are going to be given
the responsibility to voice, talk about and defend alternative
ways of thinking," Benoit told the students...
Jun
13 04
Crow
tribe celebrates opening of center
By
CHELSI MOY, Of The Gazette Staff, The Billings Gazette,
MT
GARRYOWEN
- Children on the Crow Indian Reservation will now have
computer access and can learn the skills of handling
money and seek information on businesses, housing and
education thanks to the new entrepreneurship and resource
center in Garryowen.
Billy Mills, the 1964 10,000-meter gold medalist and
a member of the Lakota tribe, was the guest of honor
at the center's grand opening celebration Saturday.
Mills, an advocate of Native American youth, spoke to
the crowd of approximately 400 people, referring back
to his childhood years. "My dad empowered me," said
the 65-year-old. "He had the ability to take complex
issues and put them in simpler terms" - including Native
American virtues such as bravery, fortitude, wisdom
and generosity. Knowing how to embrace these virtues
and share them with others is what empowers Native American
culture, he said...
ThreeHoops
note:
Grantmaking Direct (Native Nonprofit to Native Nonprofit)
Benefit Direct
Jun
12 04
Kansas
Town Honors American Indian
AP,
13NEWS, KS
The
city of LeRoy plans to honor an American Indian who
led thousands of slaves and Indians out of Confederate
territory in the 1860s. His name was Opothleyahola,
but is commonly shortened to Yahola. The Creek medicine
man led thousands of Indians and black slaves out of
Confederate territory into Kansas in 1861...
Jun
8 04
Official
U.S. "sorry" urged to nation's "Native Peoples"
By
Scott Canon, Knight
Ridder Newspapers, Seattle Times, WA
...
"We
appreciate it. ... It's a recognition of the issue,
of the past injustices," said Steve Cadue, tribal chairman
of the Kickapoo in Kansas.
But others noted disputes over land, water and money
and pointed out that an apology underlined with a disclaimer
doesn't help resolve those disagreements.
"An apology is just where you start," said Deana Jackson,
a spokeswoman for The Navajo Nation. "Now let's see
you step to the plate and do what you promised you would
do."
She cited recent funding cuts to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and the Indian Health Service, saying they amounted
to an abandonment of treaty obligations to provide for
tribes' needs in return for concessions made over generations...
Jun
3 04
Oldest
area home, Richardville's, to open for tours
The house built in 1827 on Bluffton Road will give
visitors a chance to see how the Miami chief lived.
By Kevin Kilbane of The News-Sentinel,
FortWayne.com, IN
By historical
standards, the house is a jewel.
Built in 1827, it is the oldest surviving house in northeast
Indiana. Staff at the History Center also believes the
Richardville House is the oldest Greek Revival-style
home in the state and the oldest surviving home in the
Midwest once owned by a Native American.
That owner, Jean Baptiste de Richardville, was a Miami
Indian chief and reportedly the richest man in Indiana
when he died in 1841...
Jun
2 04
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of University
of Illinois of Students and Faculty in Chief Illiniwek
Debate
Download
the full ACLU Press Release by clicking the link above.
Trial rescheduled for looter of Indian graves
 The
Associated Press, StatesmanJournal.com, Salem OR
MEDFORD -
The trial for a convicted looter of American Indian
graves charged with orchestrating murderous plots was
to begin Tuesday but will open Oct. 9 instead...
Tribal
employment is growing
By Lou Hirsh and Jim Sams,
The Desert Sun, CA (via link/listing on www.pechanga.net)
...Jacob
Coin, executive director of the Sacramento-based California
Nations Indian Gaming Association, said not all
of the new jobs are related to gaming. He said tribes
are building a shopping center in rural Alpine, for
example, and San Diego-area tribes with casinos are
building hotels and golf courses. Coin said 54 tribes
operate casinos in California, and 90 percent of the
people working for the tribes are not Indian.
"It means fewer people on welfare and ultimately more
people paying taxes," Coin said. "It seems to me that
the state can use a good dose of new taxpayers, given
our financial climate in the state." Tribes in the Coachella
Valley are creating new jobs even if they aren't expanding
their casinos...
Tribes
Seek Support For Health Care Services
Several Hundred Indians Protest Schwarzenegger's
Budget
http://www.thekcrachannel.com, CA, (via
link/listing on www.pechanga.net)
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. -- California tribal casinos have been enormously
lucrative, with more slot machines and gaming halls
likely on the way as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger negotiates
with suddenly wealthy tribes to help trim a massive
budget deficit.
Yet of the state's 325,000 American Indians, about 30,000
belong to gambling tribes, while the remainder are in
danger from other proposed budget cuts, tribal members
said Wednesday as they rallied to drum beats, traditional
songs and prayers outside the state Capitol. "There's
a misconception that all the tribes are gaming rich
and all the Indian communities are no longer in need
of health and social services. That's just not true,"
said James Crouch, who has spent 17 years as executive
director of the California
Rural Indian Health Board Inc...
Jun
1 04
Tulsa
Komen Affiliate Announces Call for Grant Applications
TULSA,
Okla., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Grant applications for
the Tulsa Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation are being accepted for the year 2005 from
Tulsa County non-profit organizations, government agencies,
and educational institutions and must be postmarked
or received by August 13, 2004.
The grants are being offered to organizations that can
demonstrate innovative projects in the areas of breast
health and/or breast cancer education, outreach, screening
or treatment support. This includes projects targeting
services not otherwise available to the medically underserved
populations of the Tulsa Metropolitan area.
Grants totaling $250,000 were awarded during 2004 to
a variety of qualified Tulsa-area organizations to aid
the Foundation in its mission to eradicate breast cancer
as a life-threatening disease by advancing research,
education, screening and treatment. Current grant recipients
include Community Action Project of Tulsa County; Y-ME
of Northeastern Oklahoma, Inc.; Indian Health Care Resource
Center of Tulsa; Domestic Violence Intervention Services,
Inc., and Tulsa Project Woman, Inc.
Additionally, a community needs assessment of Tulsa
has determined that there is a significant need for
projects focusing on the provision of culturally-appropriate
breast cancer education, screening, and treatment services
to African American, Hispanic, Asian American and Native
American women residing in the Tulsa Metropolitan area.
Funding priority will be given to those projects that
specifically address these needs. The grants are available
for up to one year. Applications must comply with
Komen Foundation format requirements. Guidelines and
instructions can be obtained at http://www.rfctulsa.org
or by writing: Tulsa Affiliate of Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation; Attention: Mary Hrbek; 5421
Oak Forest Lane; Tulsa, OK 74131.
Announcements/Info
from The Finance Project
INTERNET
IN INDIAN COUNTRY - Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided
a $4.2 million loan to the tribe. The loan is part of
a USDA initiative to improve telecommunications in rural
areas. It will span 14 years, during which the tribe
can build or improve facilities for high-speed service.
The authority already has fiberoptic lines throughout
the reservation. Contact: Cheyenne
River Sioux Telephone Authority (605) 964-2600
Microsoft
Corporation's Unlimited
Potential (UP) ... The application deadline is open.
SBC
Excelerator technology grants program... Applications
are due Aug. 13, 2004
Jun:
Opportunities to Receive
Foundations
Nationally,
Foundation funding to Native Americans has remained
at approximately 1/20th of 1% of all grants made over
$10,000 for the last two decades. Meanwhile, American
Indian people have grown to 1.4% of the population.
Deadlines
Oct 1
Starbucks
Foundation
Dec 1
Taproot
Foundation
Deadlines
Multiple
Bank
of America Foundation
CASA
- Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
PNC
Charitable Trusts Committee, PA
Sparkplug
Foundation, NY
The
Daniels Fund
The
Recording Academy(R)
Verizon
Foundation
Deadlines
(Does not fund unsolicited proposals)
Hewlett
Packard U.S. Philanthropy
For
more information on Foundation grantmaking to Native
American issues check out
HOOPower
Federal
Federal
funding to Native Americans has diminished from 1980
- 2000;
Over
24% of Native Americans in the United States live in
poverty, the highest % in the U.S.
In
Jun 04 at least 15/40 Fed Grants Notices do not list
federally recognized Tribal governments as
eligible to apply for grants from a variety of US Funding
Agencies:
Jun
Announcements - Possible Funding Opportunities for Tribal
Nations
25/40
Application Opportunities (based on notices reviewed)
4
Targeted toward Tribal Nations (Federally Recognized)
0
Targeted toward Tribal Nations along with Hispanic and/or
Historically Black Institutions and other educational
institutions
0
Targeted toward Tribal Colleges
17 Targeted toward states and/or others for which
Tribes, or Tribal Colleges, and/or NA Nonprofits may
apply
1
Targeted either states, and other units of government
including Tribal Nations (federally recognized)
0
Targeted toward Native American organization(s)
0
Targeted toward Small Businesses
3 Targeted as "Unrestricted"
0 Targeted toward "Others"
Deadline
Multiple
Deadlines
US
HHS: UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING HEALTH LITERACY (R01)
US
HHS: UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING HEALTH LITERACY (R03)
US
HHS: RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND HIV
US
HHS: REDUCING MENTAL ILLNESS STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION
US
HHS: THE SCIENCE AND ECOLOGY OF EARLY DEVELOPMENT (SEED)
Multiple Deadlines beginning Jun 17 04
US
DoD: Community Economic Adjustment Assistance for Advance
Planning
Jul 5 US
HHS: Previous Abandoned Infant Comprehensive Service
Demonstration Projects
Jul 12
US
HHS: Family Support Services for Grandparents and Other
Relatives Providing Caregiving for Children of Substance
Abusing and/or HIV-Positive Women
Jul 14
US
CNCS: AmeriCorps Indian Tribe FY 2004 (Continuation
and New)
US
CNCS: AmeriCorps Tribal Residential Grants for FY 2004
Jul 19 US
HHS: FY 2004 Discretionary Grants for the Family Violence
Prevention and Services Program
Jul 26 US
HHS: Field Initiated Child Care Research Projects
Jul 27
US HHS: Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
US
HHS: Early Learning Opportunities Act (ELOA)Discretionary
Grants
Jul 30
US DoED: Technology and Media Services for Individuals
With Disabilities -- Cultural Experiences for Deaf or
Hard of Hearing Individuals
Technology
and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities--Technology
Implementation Center
Aug 14 US
HHS: Special Diabetes Program for Indians Competitive
Grant Program
Aug 17 US
EPA: Food Quality Protection Act/Strategic Agricultural
Initiative
Aug 20 US
HHS: Tribal Management Grants Program
Aug 24 US
EPA: Smart Growth and Brownfield Redevelopment, Request
for Initial Proposals (RFIP)
Sep 14 US
NSF: Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation
Sep 15 US
NSF: Developing Global Scientists and Engineers
Sep 28 US
EPA: VALUATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Sep 22 US
NSF: NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Scholars
Dec 16 US
HHS: ALCOHOL RESEARCH CENTER GRANTS
Last Updated Feb 04 07
Mar:
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