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By Ben Neary
Cheyenne, Wyoming (AP) 5-08
An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver during May reversed a 2006 lower court ruling that dismissed a criminal charge against Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho Indian who has acknowledged shooting a bald eagle in 2005 during the tribe’s Sun Dance.
The appeals court ruled that American Indians’ religious freedoms are not violated by federal law protecting eagles or the government’s policy requiring American Indians to get permits to kill the birds, a national symbol.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota (AP) 5-08
A former chairman of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has pleaded guilty to two counts of accepting bribes from a man who operated a check-cashing service in the tribe’s casinos.
Peter D. White was chairman of the tribe between February 2003 and June 2004.
He pleaded guilty during May to accepting one $1,500 cash payment on August 1, 2003, and to accepting another $1,500 cash payment on November 11, 2003.
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By Ron Jenkins
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (AP) 5-08
A parliamentary move by a Democratic leader during May blocked a Senate vote on the House-passed bill to make English the official language of Oklahoma.
Instead, the measure is headed to a joint House-Senate conference committee, where Republicans said it will likely die.
Senate President Pro Tem Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater, said the bill is not dead, but acknowledged “it will probably be difficult now to bring the bill out” for another vote.
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by Nick Vander Puy
Reserve, Wisconsin (NFIC/SBN) 5/08
As energy prices catapult, a Lac Coute Oreilles Ojibwe member smiles about building an energy efficient, solar powered log cabin. Danny "Boom" Sullivan built a comfortable home three years ago for less than $15,000 and he's not worried about hikes in energy costs like many other people around the world.
Sullivan uses the earth to cool his food in a small, insulated room under his house. Thus, he avoids the need for a refrigerator.
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Billings, Montana (AP) 5-08
Crow tribal elder Alma Hogan Snell, a tribal historian, educator and herbalist, has passed away. She was 85.
“She was an educator of the highest regard among the Crow people,” said Lanny Real Bird, business instructor and teacher of Crow Indian studies at Little Bighorn College. “She was a living library of information and knowledge of Crow protocols and foundations.”
Snell, of Fort Smith, passed away May 5 in Billings.
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