Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The votes have been tallied and a new monument, honouring missing and murdered indigenous women, has been chosen. People voted on several different options for the Saskatoon Police Service monument, ultimately settling on three finalists. On Wednesday afternoon police tweeted a photo of the winning piece. The work, created by Lionel Peyachew, will be built in front of police headquarters. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/police-in-saskatoon-unveil-new-monument-honouring-missing-and-murdered-women-1.3126578...
TULALIP — When the Tulalip Tribes opened the Quil Ceda Village retail area on tribal land along I-5, they hoped to share in sales tax dollars that shoppers racked up by the millions. Instead, tribal leaders say, they've watched money flow to Olympia for the past 15 years, with few benefits in return. The tribes filed a federal lawsuit this month seeking control of more than $40 million in taxes that go each year to the state of Washington and Snohomish County. http://www.heraldnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20150626/NEWS...
Since December, 14 members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe between the ages of 12 and 24 have committed suicide. During the same time period, 176 youth living on the tribe’s sprawling Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota attempted suicide and 229 more had suicidal ideations and were treated by the Indian Health Service. Tribal council member C.J. Clifford shared the devastating statistics with members of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday during a hearing focused on ways to end the recent crisis of Native youth suicides and...
One thing is clear after the arrival of the Rainbow Family of Living Light’s advance contingent to the Black Hills. The hippie lifestyle group planning a massive July 1-7 gathering near here in the Black Hills National Forest did not count on the welcome mat being pulled out from under them by members of the Lakota Sioux Tribe. The counter-culture lifestyle group has had confrontational encounters with local law enforcement and Forest Service personnel in whatever national forest they have chosen to hold their annual gathering. But they have n...
With a summer heat wave building on central Montana’s doorstep, and the Fourth of July weekend only a week away, many people are likely planning a trip the cool mountain oasis of Glacier National Park. No matter where you are coming from or what route you chose to get there, any motorist wishing to access Glacier National Park from the east side of the Continental Divide must at some point pass through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2015/06/25/traffic-laws-may-different-in...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A Sandia Pueblo man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for assaulting a tribal police officer with a handgun. Prosecutors say 21-year-old Ricardo Lamagna also was sentenced Thursday to three years of supervised release after serving his prison term. Lamagna was arrested in August 2014 on a criminal complaint. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3836470.shtml?cat=500#.VY07t1Ieroj...
