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After years of silence surrounding the failed attempt to put up her biological child for adoption, Christy Maldonado finally went public with an editorial on custodial placement in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl in Friday's Washington Post. By rehashing outdated talking points, Maldonado has reanimated her position as the central figure in a case that has pitted Veronica's biological father, Dusten Brown, against a pre-adoptive couple in an epic crucible over race, class, tribal membership and father's rights. Read more at htt...
Debate over a proposed open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin went from heated to outright bizarre last week when masked guards brandishing assault rifles showed up at the site in the remote and scenic wilderness of Penokee Hills....
Roger Yankton is back as the Spirit Lake Nation's chairman after winning an appeal at tribal court, tribal Secretary Nancy Green Robertson confirmed Tuesday....
In Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978), the Supreme Court held that tribes do not have inherent authority to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians in Indian Country. Oliphant is a judge-made, non-constitutional law and generally remains the current law....
Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats, including at a residential school in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island....
The Canadian government says it's appalled to hear hungry aboriginal children and adults may have been used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by federal bureaucrats....
A class-action lawsuit which claims a loss of cultural identity was suffered by aboriginal children adopted into non-indigenous homes during the so-called Sixties Scoop was given the green light to proceed by an Ontario court on Tuesday....
KALISPELL – Blackfeet authorities have arrested a tribal member who has been critical of the tribe’s governing council, accusing him of violating a law that protects council members from threats, slanderous material or misleading information....
A Great Falls man has been jailed for comments he made on Facebook about the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council. According to witnesses, Bryon Scott Farmer was arrested on Friday, July 12 for violating Tribal Ordinance 67. The law protects members of the tribal council from “allegations of threats, slanderous material and misleading information,” according to court documents....
A special election will take place later this month to fill a vacant chairman position for the Chippewa Cree Tribe....
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — School officials from the Wind River Reservation say they are slowly making progress in trying to improve graduation rates and educating students....
FORT HALL — A lightning-caused wildfire burning east of Fort Hall city led to the evacuation of four houses on Tuesday....
Justice caught up with the former head of the Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce (RMICC) July 12 in Denver District Court when, despite his earlier assertions of innocence, he pleaded guilty to charges of theft from RMICC, including felony theft of more than $20,000, and avoided a jury trial. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/16/lies-betrayal-embezzlement-chamber-commerce-head-pleads-guilty-150440...