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A report recently issued by First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) examines gender and leadership within the Native American nonprofit sector. Overall, it finds that the leadership ranks of Native American nonprofits look very different from the national or mainstream nonprofit sector, with Native American nonprofits largely headed by women. The new research report is one of few that exist that attempts to examine leadership trends within a specific nonprofit subsector, namely looking at gendered leadership within mostly rural and...
NEW YORK—Americans want a federal infrastructure program to focus on rebuilding aging roads and bridges, but are reluctant to use federal dollars for such projects, according to a Reuters polls released on Thursday, Dec. 19. The findings highlight a major challenge for a 10-year, $1 trillion infrastructure program incoming President Donald Trump has promised: Everyone wants infrastructure, but almost no one wants to pay for it. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4202189-poll-americans-want-rebuild-roads-bridges-not-cost-taxe...
When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, his administration hit the reset button on the Whitehouse.gov website, replacing former President Barack Obama’s policy goals with new priorities. But one page remains: the petition feature that allows the president’s administration to respond to issues raised directly by the people. http://www.startribune.com/trump-stands-firm-he-will-not-release-his-tax-returns/411481415/...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota officials responded to months of unrest last year after the death of a black man shot by police officers with funding meant to reduce the state's widespread racial disparities. This year, a new Republican-controlled Legislature is plotting a crackdown on protests, with tougher penalties for highway marchers and potentially putting some demonstrators on the hook for the enforcement costs at unruly protests. It's a marked shift in reaction to the protests that simmered for weeks after the death of 24-year-old Jamar C...
For years, some of the most seriously abused or neglected children in Minnesota couldn’t get help from a social worker for days. Across the state, child protection agencies would shut down on holidays, weekends and late at night. Calls for help would be forwarded to the police or a nonprofit under contract with the county, and information taken down to relay later to a social worker. http://www.startribune.com/hennepin-county-leads-minnesota-in-24-7-child-protection-response-as-abuse-neglect-reports-rise/411477165/...
LOS ANGELES – Hi is a cannabis brand. Its logo — “hi” in white letters inside an orange circle — can be found above the front door of a Portland, Ore., marijuana shop and on a handful of cannabis products, including massage oil and Hi Releaf pain-relief balm. But you wouldn’t guess any of that from Hi’s trademark filings. In 2015, the brand’s parent company, Cannabis Sativa Inc., filed a trademark application — not for any of Hi’s core products, but for hats, T-shirts and a wide array of other apparel. http://www.startribune...
ADEL, Ga. — A severe storm system that spun off apparent tornadoes, pulverized mobile homes and scattered other destruction around the Southeast has claimed at least 18 lives on a two-day assault on the region, authorities said. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that destroyed homes, downed trees and caused other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. The severe weather threat was still continuing Sunday night in some parts, extending into South C...
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline fell just over 1 cent nationally during the past two weeks, to $2.36. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the drop mostly results from a dip in crude oil costs. Lundberg says the current price is 46 cents a gallon above what it was a year ago. Gas in San Diego was the highest in the continental United States at an average of $2.82 a gallon Friday. The lowest average was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $2.05 a gallon. The U.S. average diesel price is $2.57, up a p...
ROCK HILL - The Rock Hill school district’s latest attempt to collect a decades-long $4.5 million debt from the Catawba Indian Nation would hurt the tribe’s future, says Chief Bill Harris. After failed attempts to have the tribe pay a debt it owes from an agreement in the 1990s, the Rock Hill school board is moving through the legal process to have tribal property sold at public auction, said Mychal Frost, director of communications for Rock Hill schools. Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/education/artic...
A report by the Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group says racism and discrimination “is a systemic issue” within Canadian Armed Forces that is “rampant throughout all ranks of elements of Land, Air Force and Navy” and the issue is serious enough that an external review is imminent. APTN National News obtained a copy of the draft report through an Access to Information and Privacy request. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/01/19/racism-and-discrimination-rampant-throughout-ranks-and-elements-of-canadian-armed-forces-says-report/...
Annette Montgrand begged for a miracle. Montgrand's 14-year-old granddaughter, Taylor Haineault, had starred for the La Loche Lakers volleyball squad. Now, Montgrand's "baby" languished in a medically-induced coma following a shooting that killed two people and injured several others at La Loche Community School in northern Saskatchewan. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/wounded-la-loche-student-strength-shooting-1.3940865...
An after-school program in Saskatoon is combining Indigenous culture with theatre and performance, and for some participants, giving them a sense of pride and changing their lives. When Bluejay Linklater was in Grade 8, he was repeatedly sent to the principal's office and getting into arguments. "I use to struggle in school, in Grade 8, a lot because I didn't get along with my teacher at all," said Linklater from Saskatoon. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-youth-ensemble-1.3941402...
ial media collapsed in on itself like a dying star last week — not because of something that was said by our president-elect, but because Blake Lively, an actress with blond hair and blue eyes, claimed in a makeup commercial that she was part Native American. Sure, the actress experiences the distinct misfortune of “Anne Hathaway syndrome” — when a perfectly nice, reasonably talented person elicits teeth-gnashing hatred — but she has made some cultural gaffes in the past. (Remember “L.A. face but an Oakland booty”?) When she starred in a...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in south central North Dakota has formally asked protesters to leave their camp near a pipeline project. In a message posted on Facebook the tribe says its governing council has passed a unanimous resolution asking protesters to leave their camp along the Cannon Ball River. The tribe's request thanks protesters for calling attention to the tribe's opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline running under the Missouri River near their reservation. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/21/standing-roc...
Protesters attempting to stop the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline received bad news on Saturday. The Sioux Tribal council officially called on all protesters encamped in its North Dakota reservation to clear out, Reuters reported. The tribal council’s resolution, which called to dismantle the three protest camps, did not include a measure on where to move the 600 protesters. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/22/sioux-tribal-council-decides-to-dismantle-protest-camps-around-standing-rock-reservation/#ixzz4WaL...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KOTA TV) - The dispute over the oil pipeline slated to run under the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is coming to Pierre. Sen. Troy Heinert (D-Mission) plans to introduce a resolution against construction of the pipeline, according to Scott Weston, the Oglala Lakota president. http://www.kotatv.com/content/news/Tribes-taking-anti-pipeline-protest-to-Pierre-411358415.html...
The Windsor Town Council has declined to take a stand against a proposed reservation and tribal housing project on the edge of town, disappointing opponents who said council members are ignoring the overwhelming sentiment of residents against the plan. Opponents of the Lytton Rancheria project on Wednesday urged the council to oppose the tribe’s application to take 124 acres off Windsor River Road into federal trust, a position the Windsor Council had taken in 2009 when it adopted a resolution saying the development did not support c...
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Navajo Nation leaders are considering changing the name of the tribal government from Navajo to Dine. Legislation proposing the official name change went before the Navajo Nation Council's Budget and Finance Committee and was unanimously supported, The Gallup Independent reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/1hoDjlp). http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Navajo-leaders-consider-switching-name-to-Dine-10871399.php...
A federal appeals court says lending companies operated by Native American tribes are subject to investigation by a government regulator. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday rejected a claim by three tribes that their lending companies were protected by tribal sovereignty from investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-indian-lending-companies-subject-federal-probe-44931432...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KOTA TV) A new year and a new tribal president but -- on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- some of the same nagging problems remain. Not the least of them is a lack of adequate policing. The tribe has funding for 44 officers but recruitment, training and retention issues plague the Tribe's Office of public safety. The tribal police force dipped as low as 27 active duty officers at times during 2016. http://www.kotatv.com/content/news/BIA-cops-on-temporary-assignment-slated-to-leave-Pine-Ridge-411262875.h...
A remote northern Ontario First Nation where two young girls ended their lives last week warned the federal government in July about a developing “suicide pact,” but their pleas for help went unheeded, indigenous leaders said Thursday. Last summer’s emergency funding proposal from Wapekeka First Nation, a tiny fly-in community 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, described a number of suicide attempts and fears that a group of young people planned to take their own lives, documents show. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/n...
America's journalists are truly and deeply sorry for their behaviour during the election. They are sorry they failed to see the simmering animosity and racism that helped Donald J Trump take the White House. They are apologetic for staying within their own social circles and ignoring disparate points of view. They have asked forgiveness for misleading the public into thinking that Mr Trump could never hold office and pledged that when he takes office on Friday, they will hold him accountable, come hell or high water. Please … This behaviour i...
