By Joe Biesk
Frankfort, Kentucky (AP)
Nearly nine months after the boulder known as Indian Head Rock was abruptly removed from the Ohio River, a group of Kentucky officials is calling for its return.
The 8-ton sandstone rock had been submerged since about the 1920s....
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by Joe Biesk
Frankfort, Kentucky (AP)
When an Ohio historian helped pull a massive sandstone boulder from the bottom of the Ohio River this summer, he didn’t think it would set off a charged dispute between Kentucky and Ohio.
It did. One Kentucky legislator is...02-07-2008, 07:07 PM -
Innovative plan includes meditation, renewable energy,
organic agriculture, cultural preservation
Top leaders of Indian Country will assemble to explore how modern organic agriculture and renewable energy technologies combined with ancient meditation practices can be used...09-16-2009, 03:08 PM -
Washinton, D.C. (AP)
Two Michigan-based Indian tribes will receive more than $62,000 in federal stimulus funds to provide food assistance to low-income families on and near Indian reservations.
The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations program will provide $53,235...04-20-2010, 03:17 PM -
By Joe Biesk
Frankfort, Kentucky (AP)
A Kentucky prosecutor filed papers July 24 asking a judge to dismiss criminal charges against an Ohio man who led efforts to remove an 8-ton rock from the Ohio River.
Historian Steve Shaffer sparked an interstate squabble between...07-31-2009, 12:28 PM