 Another Native News Update with anchor Kimberlie Acosta from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com.
This weekends stories: NCIA delivers the State of Indian Nations; More First Nations sign the Save the Fraser Declaration; SD Rep. Larry Lucas co-sponsors legislation that would reverse a law he supported a year ago regarding uranium mining; Wisconsin Assembly passes AB 426, Open-Pit Mining Bill despite public opposition; Navajo Nation Council votes in favor of the Doris Act; A new agreement to reform First Nations education in British Columbia is signed; Gray wolves off endangered species list in the Upper Great Lakes region; Passamaquoddy form partnership with Exergy Development Group to launch a wind farm.
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 Click here for Digital video players with 15hrs of AB 426 information and testimony, Peoples State of the State testimony, AB 426WI Open Pit Mining Bill Tribunal, Legislators in Opposition to AB 426 Press Conference, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Capital Press Conference, and the testimonials of over 100 individuals in opposition to the Mining Bill and the Process used to pass it.
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 Another Native News Update with anchor Paul DeMain from the studios of IndianCountryTV.com.
Today's Stories: Canadian on death row seeks clemency - SD Tribal official hails Keystone XL decision - Interview with Mark Trahant about the South Carolina Republican Primary - ICTV to cover Madison, Wisconsin anti-mining protests.
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By Zach White
Havre Daily News January 2012
The following is an extended version of the article that ran in the Dec. 29 issue of the Havre Daily News, including more information we didn't have room for, an additional section that ran separately on Dec. 30 and supplemental materials.
Standing near the back of his corrugated steel workshop on a cold December morning on his family’s ranch, just outside the thick woods around the town of Landusky, Harold Heppner recalls his childhood in the Little Rockies, before the cyanide heap leach mines came and went, when there were still brooke trout in the streams coming down the mountains.
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 NOTICE OF HEARING -- Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Executive Session Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:00 AM, 412 East State Capitol in Madison, Assembly Bill 426 - relating to regulation of ferrous metallic mining and waiving many current laws and regulations -- MORE
Left - Bad River Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins says there can not be a mine if it potentially endangers the water, the watershed, the wild rice or any other treaty protected resources. Wiggins was told not to ask questions, like "who sponsored this Bill" during public hearings on the proposed roll back in administratrative regulations and environmental laws to allow a fast track Open Pit Mine, now called the "Mining Bill" or AB-426. Wiggins called on the state for some tribal-state consultation on the issue before any legislation was passed.
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