WASHINGTON – After nearly a decade of struggling to get the Indian Health Care Improvement Act reauthorized, advocates not only got the job done in 2010, they also made it permanent.Read more @ ICT - National - Northeast.

WASHINGTON – After nearly a decade of struggling to get the Indian Health Care Improvement Act reauthorized, advocates not only got the job done in 2010, they also made it permanent.Read more @ ICT - National.

DENVER – Tribal leaders who cheered the long-awaited U.S. support of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples may end up with more questions than answers about its ultimate meaning, one critic suggests.Read more @ ICT - National.

WASHINGTON – After suffering big losses in the fall elections and with dwindling support from tribes, a first-of-its-kind Indian political action committee is shutting down.Read more @ ICT - National.

NEW YORK – Federal courts issued precedent-setting decisions in 2010 in which they ruled that Indian nations could not reclaim their illegally taken ancestral lands or receive compensation for their loss, because it would be too inconvenient to those who are currently occupying and benefiting from the lands.Read more @ ICT - National.

DENVER – Tribal leaders who cheered the long-awaited U.S. support of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples may end up with more questions than answers about its ultimate meaning, one critic suggests.Read more @ ICT - National - Midwest.

WHATCOM, Wash. – As part of a growing effort to deliver higher education and community outreach services to Pacific Northwest tribes, the Nisqually Indian Tribe recently approved and presented Northwest Indian College a $75,500 grant to support and bolster training and education services for the promotion and maintenance of the cultural integrity of Native tribes.Read more @ ICT - National - Northwest.

WASHINGTON – After suffering big losses in the fall elections and with dwindling support from tribes, a first-of-its-kind Indian political action committee is shutting down.Read more @ ICT - National - Northeast.

NEW YORK – Federal courts issued precedent-setting decisions in 2010 in which they ruled that Indian nations could not reclaim their illegally taken ancestral lands or receive compensation for their loss, because it would be too inconvenient to those who are currently occupying and benefiting from the lands.Read more @ ICT - National - Northeast.

WHATCOM, Wash. – As part of a growing effort to deliver higher education and community outreach services to Pacific Northwest tribes, the Nisqually Indian Tribe recently approved and presented Northwest Indian College a $75,500 grant to support and bolster training and education services for the promotion and maintenance of the cultural integrity of Native tribes.Read more @ ICT - Living - Education.