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The state’s top political leaders continued private negotiations Thursday over tens of billions of dollars in state spending, finally showing progress by cutting a deal on higher education spending, but not bridging enough major outstanding disagreements to rule out the growing likelihood of a special legislative session. After several days of talks, Gov. Mark Dayton and leaders of the Senate DFL and House GOP struck deals on several slices of state spending Thursday. They decided that the public higher education system would get a spending i...
Indictments were made public Thursday in a multimillion-dollar cellphone trafficking conspiracy that recruited homeless people to buy smartphones that were shipped to Hong Kong and sold on the street for as much as $2,000. Federal authorities in Minneapolis said the nine people indicted engaged in identity theft to create the false identifications for their buyers, then used an employee in a Target store to make sure the stolen identity would clear a credit check when the cellphones and contracts were purchased. http://www.s...
Dairy Queen is removing soda pop from its kids’ menu, bowing to pressure from interest groups and following similar steps at other fast-food chains. The change will be made at all of its approximately 4,300 franchise locations by Sept. 1, the Edina-based company said Thursday. By taking the fizz out of its kids’ menu, Dairy Queen is removing a prime source of consumer controversy. http://www.startribune.com/milk-or-water-dairy-queen-to-remove-soda-pop-from-kids-menu/303788831/...
The state’s top political leaders continued private negotiations Thursday over tens of billions of dollars in state spending, finally showing progress by cutting a deal on higher education spending, but not bridging enough major outstanding disagreements to rule out the growing likelihood of a special legislative session. After several days of talks, Gov. Mark Dayton and leaders of the Senate DFL and House GOP struck deals on several slices of state spending Thursday. They decided that the public higher education system would get a spending i...
My fellow Your Voices blogger Nekima Levy-Pounds wrote a post this morning about a 10-year-old boy who was pepper sprayed by a Minneapolis police officer during a street protest in downtown Minneapolis last evening. Levy-Pounds wrote: "Last night, I received some startling news that a ten year old boy was pepper sprayed by a Minneapolis police officer during a march through downtown. Please let that sink in for a moment ... a 10-year-old kid….pepper sprayed." I took Levy-Pounds' advice and thought about 10-year-old Taye Clinton getting p...
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people says the Canadian government has repeatedly failed to stop decades of violence against First Nations women, and has called for a national inquiry. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz said the Canadian government had taken some steps to protect aboriginal women, including funding 30 organizations with the aim of reducing violence against them, but that more must be done. “That’s not enough. That’s not an adequate response,” she told The Guardian in New York. http://rt.com/news/25...
Whatever unimaginable horrors could happen to a child, Leslie Pierre says happened to her. Pierre, 34, was a participant in a recent study that revealed children of Indian residential school survivors, and victims of childhood sexual abuse, were significantly more likely to be sexually assaulted themselves. The Cedar Project examined drug use in young indigenous women and girls (age 14-30) over a seven-year period in British Columbia. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/study-shows-residential-school-sex-abuse-has-generational-im...
When I was at the United Nations conference last week, we held a meeting on indigenous issues. I brought up the mascot issue in one of the three questions allotted during the panel, and we discussed current work happening to resolve it. One guest in the room made the comment, “What about Chicago Blackhawks? I don’t ever hear anyone talking about them…” I replied to her that they are talking, but that doesn’t mean you’ve heard much about it yet. When it comes to these kinds of issues, it’s mostly going to be our voices on social media until i...
The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty. The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country’s second universal periodic review (UPR). Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of f...
The Department of Justice is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant a petition in Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a tribal court jurisdiction case. A brief filed on Tuesday backed the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Government attorneys said the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rightly concluded that Dollar General must submit to the tribal court's authority. http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/017484.asp...
Tribal Court hearing a lawsuit against Utah and local law officers related to the death of a tribal member after a high-speed chase. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins said the dispute was best resolved in the courtroom of another federal judge, Tena Campbell, who had dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of Todd R. Murray, who died after the April 1, 2007, chase of a vehicle in which he was a passenger. Or, Jenkins said, it was a matter for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. http://www.sltrib.com/news/2510060-155/federal...
Sightings of religion-related stories among members of Sioux tribes in South Dakota, one would think, could be beyond the scope of the national media, yet two independent stories win space this week on the front pages of, e.g., the New York Times. One with immediate national political implications is headlined "Grass-Roots Push in the Plains to Block the Keystone Pipeline's Path." Ms. Faith Spotted Eagle, a Yankton Sioux leader, speaks for her tribe. South Dakota had given a Canadian company authority to build the Keystone Pipeline. Spotted...
After an Oklahoma School District told Native senior Hayden Layne Griffith that she couldn’t wear an eagle feather in her graduation cap during this month’s ceremony, the school district received a letter requesting she be permitted to wear her “eagle feather at graduation as a religious expression in accordance with her Native American heritage.” The letter, which is addressed to Superintendent Rick Peters of the Caney Valley School District and Sue Woods of the Caney Valley Schools Board of Education, came from a Tulsa, Oklahoma Law Firm, C...
WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn today announced that grants ranging from $25,000 to $150,000 per fiscal year are available for federally recognized tribes and their education departments. The grants are designed to help tribes assume control of Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-funded schools in their communities, promote tribal education capacity, and provide academically rigorous and culturally appropriate education to Indian students on their reservations and trust lands. Eligible tribal governments may...
Native high school student Waverly Wilson, who will be graduating soon from Lakes High School in Lakewood, Washington has been told by an advisor and principal Karen Mauer-Smith that she would not be allowed to wear a gifted eagle feather on her tassel. Mauer-Smith instructed Wilson she could only wear an eagle feather is if she hid it under her graduation gown when walking to receive her diploma. Wilson says the school has made her feel like she has to hide that she is Native American. “They said I have to have it inside my gown, and I c...
MINNEAPOLIS - Kayara Marie Kegg, the 8-year-old American Indian girl who was reported missing last night by the Minneapolis Police Department is home and safe. Reportedly she returned home this morning unharmed and in good health. Details are yet emerging as to where she was during the time she was reported missing, but Native News Online has learned she is safe and unharmed. No further details are available at this time....
MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minneapolis, Minnesota are asking the public to assist its department to find an 8-year-old American Indian girl named Kayara Marie Kegg, who was last seen after school at Anishinabe Academy at 3100 East 28th Street in south Minneapolis. Police said she may not have gotten onto the school bus at the end of the school day. She would have been brought to the area of 17th and Glenwood Avenue North. She is described as American Indian, 4-foot-5, about 90 pounds, with long...