Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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SPIRIT LAKE — There is little doubt that an upcoming PBS special, “Kind Hearted Woman” will cause controversy. For victims of sexual abuse, fear of repercussion arises when outing abuse by a family member. Victims worry they may break up their family. Should they protect the perpetrator? How does one deal with the shame of telling what happened? How can a victim ever trust again?...
ALBANY – New York’s attorney general is intensifying efforts to prevent the movement of tax-free cigarettes from Indian-owned companies in Canada to New York Indian reservations, The Buffalo News reports....
OKLAHOMA CITY – Under a new compact signed Monday with the state of Oklahoma, Kaw Nation smoke shops will no longer sell tobacco products at a reduced tax rate starting later this year....
Last Thursday, March 7, President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Nationwide, many celebrated the new provisions allowing tribal governments to prosecute non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence and sexual assault. It was a long overdue fix for a jurisdictional loophole. Absent from the press coverage however, was the fact that Alaska was left out....
Women living on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation have a new advocate to prosecute cases of violence against women in federal and tribal courts....
Klamath tribal members will face multiple choices when they vote for members of the Klamath Tribal Council, including chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer and six at-large members....
Molin Malicay, director of the Sonoma County Indian Health Project clinic, has read all 976 pages of the Affordable Care Act—the legislation that created what’s become known as Obamacare. His copy has 46 tabs, each marking a point where Native Americans are mentioned....
Federal budget cuts are causing schools on the Wind River Indian Reservation to tighten their belts....
CHERRY CREEK — Takini High School students playing an away basketball game at Harding County High School in Buffalo were allegedly subjected to racial slurs. “It was the adults, the fans,” Acting Superintendent of the Takini School, Francine Hall said. “Where the cheerleaders sat, the fans were making all kinds of comments, and then ‘prairie nigger’ came out. It was the fans who said it....
The 30th Annual Gathering of Nations, the world’s largest gathering of American Indian and indigenous people, has begun accepting applications for the 2013 Miss Indian World competition....
MINNEAPOLIS — Jurors are hearing closing arguments in the racketeering trial of three members of an American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest. Wakinyon Wakan McArthur — an alleged leader of the Twin Cities-based Native Mob — and two alleged Native Mob "soldiers," Anthony Francis Cree and William Earl Morris, are accused of being part of a criminal enterprise. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter told jurors Tuesday that the Native Mob dealt in drug trafficking, attempted murder, murder and witness retal...
Red Lake School Board Meeting - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4 PM - Administrative Office...
