Omaha Nation in the News

...'All the news that is fit to print...and some that isn't.'

Archive of articles about Omaha Nation.

About the Water...

KTIV Television  December 11, 2008

KMTV 3  December 15, 2008

KMEG Television

Omaha World Herald December 16, 2008

KTIV December 17, 2008

Article from Public Works Magazine (mostly from World-Herald reports).

EPA pronounces a boil order for the Macy water system.

CNN story (2000) indicates nothing is new about water issues on the Reservation

About the 'Banishment'...

Sioux City Journal  May 17, 2008

RezNetNews


Other Interesting Stuff

Omaha World Herald Micheal Kelly Column March 12, 2009
'Rez ball' returns to state tourney

Lincoln Journal Star   August 28, 2008   Power Outage

About John Mangan, band director   from the NIEA website

About John Mangan, band director  from Omaha.com

Continental Harmony Premiere at Omaha Nation (Stacy Fox)

Very old link about the 1999 Buffalo Hunt (photos)

Umonhon PowWow 2008

Title VII and the Umonhon Language and Culture Center (ULCC)

Nice story by Wynema Morris, who did an inservice for teachers this year


Tribal News

Indian Health Services Funding

Omaha Tribal EPA

Brief Historical Timeline and Dozens of Links

Collaboration with Nebraska Government Authority

Casino and National Gaming Commission

Casino Expansion

Casino Expansion Sioux City Journal, February 7, 2008

Taxation of Liquor in Pender, Nebraska

Tribal Boundaries

An interesting map that shows the Omaha Tribe might have a future in wind generation of electricity. (A great economic development strategy yet untapped.)

National Public Radio story about the former Omaha Tobacco Plant

Return of the Sacred Staff in 1989.

Wehonna St. Cyr was CEO of the Carl T. Curtis Health Center for many years until she was removed during the summer of 2008. She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson award for her leadership.

New World Encyclopedia entry for the Omaha Tribe.

Wikipedia entry about the Omaha Tribe.

Taking the Jesus Road: The Ministry of the Reformed Church of America Among Native Americans.  An on-line book summary, only a few of the 50 pages about the Omaha Tribe in the book. (A review meant to provide a potential buyer with enough information to make a decision.)

Other Interesting Webstuff about School

'Rez Ball Returns to State' by Micheal Kelly, Omaha World Herald

Omaha World Herald article about the amazing John Mangan, band instructor at Umonhon Nation.

Some kind of school webpage from 1998-1999

Mark J. Akakuni Swetland receives funding for language preservation in 2000.

The New York Times picked up on a series of articles the Omaha World Herald did in 2000 about the condition of education and the problems facing Macy.

Something called the Massey Ratings for high school sports lists both the Chiefs and Lady Chiefs.

News release announcing Macy/Umonhon Nation School being chosen for the Continental Harmony composition opportunity.

News release about the Continental Harmony premiere at Macy, Nebraska.  An original composition by Stacey Fox.

Transcript from NETV Statewide Perspective on the story of Stacey Fox and the Continental Harmony composition.

StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one anothers lives through listening. They did some recording in Macy, Nebraska in the Umonhon Language and Culture Center huthaga.

Great story by Tim Gallagher about Oliver Parish Saunsoci and Justin Saunsoci who go through football warmups, then play in the band, then sing the Omaha Flag Song before football games.

Umonhon Nation returns to the Lakota Nation Invitational Basketball Tournament in Rapid City, SD in December, 2008. One of the original members of the 16-team tournament (as Macy Public School), the team had not been there for 30 years.

Students attend the rededication of the Chief Big Elk gravesite in Bellevue, Nebraska in May, 2007.

The Shonga Ska horse program at Omaha Nation helps students control emotions and anger.

'Uncle' Oliver Cayou Sr. was a tremendous influence on the school through the Umonhon Language and Culture Center.  A remembrance of his life is given here at Renee Saunsoci's blog, From the Horse's Mouth.

This Page was last update: Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 10:59:10 PM
This page was originally posted: 12/22/08; 7:21:01 PM.
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