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Red Lake Band Members Elder Monthly Meeting - January 25, 2017 - 11 AM to 1 PM All Nations Church - Minneapolis, MN - Lunch will be provided...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Administrative Officer COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES Open: January 17, 2017 - Until Filled. PRIMARY FUNCTION: To be responsible for assisting in the overall administration of the Comprehensive Health Program, i.e., program planning, budgeting, organizing, developing human resources, evaluating, supervising and consultation in accordance with federal and tribal standards, guidelines and regulations, must be willing to keep an open door policy and build staff morale, must be...
Can ugly campaign rhetoric and electoral bullying trickle down to students, leading to more bullying in schools? What about in North Carolina? That’s what Politico tried to discover with data mined from a handful of school systems across the country. Did students mimic Donald Trump’s aggressive attacks against his rivals with name calling, bullying and other questionable behavior in their classrooms? Anecdotal reports of such behavior have been called the “Trump effect” by teacher unions, advocacy groups and opponents of the preside...
The Minnesota parents behind a lawsuit against that state's teacher tenure laws have announced they will appeal an October trial court decision to throw out their case, reports the Star Tribune. As in the high profile Vergara case in California—in which the California Supreme Court ultimately ruled against parents seeking to upend teacher tenure protections—the plaintiffs in the Minnesota case are arguing that the state's tenure apparatus, particularly requirements that teachers are laid off based on seniority, makes it next to impossible for...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Public-school administrators are scrambling to find substitute teachers for as many as 600 Illinois classrooms a day, a survey finds. The review released Tuesday by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools revealed that teachers call in more than 16,500 absences each week. School officials have trouble finding replacements for nearly 20 percent of them. Association president Jeff Vose, who is regional school superintendent for Sangamon and Menard counties, said that a 2012 increase in s...
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday asked Colorado lawmakers for a 50 percent increase in sales taxes on recreational marijuana starting July 1 to send an additional $42 million to public schools. The Democrat wants to increase the recreation sales tax on pot to 12 percent effective July 1, the same day the levy is scheduled to fall to 8 percent. The current tax rate is 10 percent. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/17/hickenlooper-pot-sales-tax-hike-school-funding/...
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on a wreck that killed six Woodmore Elementary School students said the bus apparently was off its normal route. The brief report detailed how the tragic accident happened on curvy Talley Road in Brainerd on Nov. http://www.chattanoogan.com/2017/1/17/339949/Report-On-Tragic-School-Bus-Says-Driver.aspx...
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death of his 2-year-old foster child is expected to enter a plea Friday, Jan. 20. Nathan Daniel Jackson, 38, was originally scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for a contested omnibus hearing. During such hearings, a judge determines whether there is enough evidence for probable cause; law enforcement officials often testify. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4201010-plea-expected-bemidji-man-accused-manslaughter...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama granted clemency to Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the transgender Army intelligence officer convicted of leaking more than 700,000 U.S. documents to go free nearly three decades early. Embracing his clemency powers days before leaving office, Obama also pardoned 64 individuals including retired Gen. James Cartwright, charged with making false statements during another leak probe. Manning was one of 209 inmates with sentences commuted by Obama, who has now granted more commutations than any other p...
WASHINGTON — In a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing, education secretary pick Betsy DeVos pledged that she would not seek to dismantle public schools amid questions by Democrats about her qualifications, political donations and long-time work advocating for charter schools and school choice. DeVos said she would address "the needs of all parents and students" but that a one-size fits all model doesn't work in education. http://www.startribune.com/devos-to-push-for-school-choice-amid-opposition-from-unions/410952415/...
Thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive land in southwest Minnesota will be converted to native plants and grasses in an ambitious effort to protect local waters from polluted runoff, thanks to a major new infusion of cash for rural conservation. A highly anticipated state-federal deal, announced Tuesday by Gov. Mark Dayton, will provide $350 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and $150 million in state funds to the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) which pays farmers to idle vulnerable land near lakes,...
With the clock ticking down on the Obama administration, the Department of the Army has finally started the review process for the last portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. A notice being published in the Federal Register initiates a long-awaited environmental impact statement for the pipeline crossing at Lake Oahe in North Dakota. Public comments are being solicited in order to address concerns raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its many allies. http://www.indianz.com/News/2017/01/17/another-battle-opens-as-dakot...
FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA — Yesterday, attorneys representing the Dakota Access Pipeline filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) asking the Court to block the publication of the announcement about the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in the federal register, which the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is anticipating this week. DAPL is arguing that all parties must wait for the court to decide whether or not the necessary easements have already been granted; a different lawsuit that both the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the D...
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing to discuss an attempt by Dakota Access Pipeline to stop an environmental review of the controversial project. But the hearing will come hours after a critical notice appears in the Federal Register. The document is due to be published on Wednesday as anticipated, representing a setback to the wealthy backers of the pipeline. http://www.indianz.com/News/2017/01/17/judge-declines-to-block-publication-of-d.asp...
RAPID CITY -- In a case that has national implications for how state courts are supposed to conduct 48-hour custody hearings involving Native American children a federal judge has given one county in South Dakota very specific guidelines for how to conduct themselves. In March of 2013, a lawsuit was filed against Pennington County in South Dakota by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe alleging that the State Attorney's office, DSS workers, and the courts were systematically violating the Indian Child Welfare Act and the rights...
LINCOLN — A line spanning nearly 400 years connects Italian explorer Christopher Columbus to Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe. When Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, he touched off European colonization that resulted in centuries of displacement of indigenous peoples. In 1879, Standing Bear fought his own removal in an Omaha courtroom, resulting in a landmark decision that recognized Native Americans as people under the law. http://www.omaha.com/news/legislature/bill-would-replace-columbus-day-with-day-honorin...
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Two federally recognized tribes have been denied immunity protections from California payday lender regulations after a recent state Supreme Court decision. The court found Dec. 22 that payday loan businesses created by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Santee Sioux Nation tribes were not "arms of the tribe," and therefore are not protected under tribal sovereign immunity. http://legalnewsline.com/stories/511073184-calif-supreme-court-no-immunity-extension-for-tribal-payday-lenders...
PINE RIDGE — It would have been fairly easy to pick Red Cloud over Pine Ridge this year if the game is at Red Cloud and the starters are healthy. As it turns out, the Crusaders had to drive a couple miles south to Pine Ridge and their top notch floor general, Ale Rama, was out with a bad ankle, and their offensive sparkplug, Russell Leader Charge, was also hobbled with a bad ankle, one that would eventually force him from the game. That is why the game came down to a buzzer beater three-pointer from Pine Ridge’s Joe O’Rourke, a 6-2 sopho...
January 17, 2017 3:24 PM EST - President-elect Trump's nominee for secretary of the interior Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) answered a question from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about his attitude toward Native American communities. (Reuters) https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/zinke-as-bad-as-the-va-is-native-american-health-is-worse/2017/01/17/a69d6b92-dcf3-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_video.html...
Commercial and sport fishermen are demanding change when it comes to the annual process that determines who gets to fish how much salmon and when. It's called the North of Falcon process, and it involves several months of private meetings between federal, state, and tribal representatives. They typically start in February. The meetings are not open to the public, but a petition that's gained more than 1,000 signatures is just one sign of rising tides against the process, as non-treaty recreational and commercial fishermen rally for...
A government report recently released tied the poor health outcomes of Native Americans to a lack of consistent management at federal hospitals tasked with caring for indigenous people in the US. According to an analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Indian Health Service (IHS) has practiced only "limited and inconsistent" oversight of its network of hospitals. The lack of health care standards, the watchdog reported, is a contributing factor to the shorter life expectancy of many Native American populat...
PHOENIX (CN) — Havasupai families say in a federal lawsuit that the United States refuses to provide their children with basic education, assigns janitors to teach classes, but only math, reading and writing, because the school has “no science, history, social studies, foreign language, arts, or physical education curriculum.” The co-plaintiff/attorney Native American Disability Law Center describes Havasupai Elementary School as a disaster in its 103-page lawsuit of Jan. 12. https://courthousenews.com/havasupai-parents-dema...
The U.S. Mint’s product page for the 2017 Native American dollar has been updated with the first-ever photo of the coin’s reverse. This completes the design’s long journey from one of several competing concepts to the finished coin. This year’s design honors Cherokee scholar and statesman Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee language. As discussed in more detail in a Mint News Blog post, the Cherokee leader Sequoyah could neither read nor write English—but, understanding the value of written language, he devised a writing system for his people. T...
IDAHO FALLS — One man is dead and an Idaho Falls man is behind bars and charged with second-degree murder following a fight at an apartment complex Saturday. Justin C. Sarbaum, 36, is being held at the Bonneville County jail with a bond set at $200,000. The incident is the second shooting death in Idaho Falls in the past two weeks and the fourth violent death in Eastern Idaho in 2017. http://idahostatejournal.com/members/fourth-violent-of-reported-in-east-idaho/article_0f4a3211-9e61-5ae6-85af-606f055c133a.html...
