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Colorado Springs, Colorado (AP) 11-09
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Don Coyhis, Founder
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A Colorado Springs group that helps Native Americans overcome alcoholism, drug abuse and other health issues has won a $100,000 prize from a San Francisco think tank.
White Bison Inc. won the Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures. The prize recognizes innovators and initiatives solving community problems.
White Bison’s founder, Don Coyhis, says he’ll use the money to
expand the nonprofit group he founded in 1988 and launch an institute
to promote wellness – or what he calls “Wellbriety” – among the
nation’s 564 tribes.
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By Paul Foy
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP) 11-09
 A few months ago, the family of Everett Ruess, an idealistic young artist who vanished on a wilderness journey in 1934, was ready to accept his grim fate – that he had been killed by Indians.
They prepared to cremate remains that were found in wild Utah redrock country, which would have forever sealed the legend of Ruess with ashes in the Pacific Ocean.
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Tahlequah, Oklahoma (NFIC)
 Continuing his outreach to Native Americans,
President Barack Obama is hosting a first-ever Nation-to-Nation
conference with hundreds of Indian tribal leaders Nov. 5 in
Washington, D.C.
Leaders of all 564 federally recognized tribes are invited to the
White House Tribal Nations Conference and will be given an opportunity
to speak with the president and other top administration officials,
according to a White House news release.
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By Mark Trahant
News From Indian Country 11-09
 The idea that American Indians should be exempted from any mandate to purchase health insurance has almost become a given in the debate about health care reform.
Recently Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote to the National Congress of American Indians and said: – “We cannot ask Indian people to be penalized for choosing to use the Indian health care system.
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This video is a compilation of public video material of investigators and members of the American Indian Movement discussing informants and the interrogation by members of AIM of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash in 1975. Portions of this clip are taken from "The Spirit of Annie Mae" by the National Film Board of Canada. The person identified as holding and/or putting a gun to the head or in the mouth of Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash is Leonard Peltier.
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