The three affiliated tribes say President Barack Obama's budget includes $8.3
million to pay for 88 new staff members at the Elbowoods Memorial Health center
being built on the Fort Berthold reservation.
Supporters of UND's Fighting Sioux nickname from the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe have collected 850 signatures on a petition to have the tribe vote on the
issue, their spokesman, Archie Fool Bear, said Tuesday.
Educators from the state's four Indian reservations are among people
attending the North Dakota American Indian Dropout Prevention Summit held
Thursday and today at the Grand International in Minot.
More than $1 million in oil production income is being paid out every month
to members of the Three Affiliated Tribes and to its treasury.
The tribe hit the million-dollar benchmark late last fall and it appears
there won't be any looking back for a long time to come.
North Dakota`s Board of Higher Education is continuing a delay on whether to get
rid of the University of North Dakota`s Fighting Sioux nickname. During a board
meeting in Devils Lake today, board member Mike Haugen pushed for the board to
approve changing the nickname. But no board member supported Haugen`s move, and
the matter was dropp...
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa has received a $1 million grant to
complete funding for a $3.3 million water tower project.
The money for the 1 million gallon wa...
Supporters of UND's Fighting Sioux nickname at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
will be starting a petition drive today to get the issue on the ballot.
Tom Iron, one of...
The Three Affiliated Tribes Business Council plans informational meetings in
three North Dakota cities and the Minneapolis area for tribal members who live
off the Fort ...
North Dakota's Congressional Delegation of U.S. Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent
Conrad and Rep. Earl Pomeroy announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban ...
The chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes says he will seek a second
term.
Marcus Levings was elected chairman in November 2006, defeating Tex Hall.
Hall had soug...
In the corner of the room, Ian Pays sat back, watching the other students finish
plugging in a bundle of wires inside of the computers they're assembling.
When Three Affiliated Tribes council members found out Sen. Byron Dorgan,
D-N.D., would not run for re-election, they knew they were losing a powerful
ally.
In his 60 years on the farm, Milton Sovo Jr. has raised everything from peanuts
and wheat to cattle and horses in southwestern Oklahoma. At about 1,100 acres,
his spread...
Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Marcus Levings says he and Gov. John Hoeven are
signing a continuation of an oil and gas tax and regulatory agreement between
the state ...
