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Government authorities are homing in on a lucrative loophole that allows online lenders to offer short-term loans at interest rates that often exceed 500 percent annually, the latest front in a crackdown on the payday lending industry....
It's been eleven days since 16-year-old Eugene Lohnes was shot in the back on the Spirit Lake reservation. One man is still in custody, but as of now he's not facing any charges related to the shooting. See more at: http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/18841/#sthash.B0Em7pzF.dpuf...
South Dakota has devised an ingenious new way to curb minority voting. For decades, suppressing the Native American vote here has involved activities that might not surprise those who follow enfranchisement issues: last-minute changes to Indian-reservation polling places, asking Native voters for ID that isn't required, confronting them in precinct parking lots and tailing them from the polls and recording their license-plate numbers. The state and jurisdictions within it have fought and lost some 20 Native voting-rights lawsuits; a major suit...
Arizona's Monument Valley is known for its red sandstone buttes and spires, but now it's notorious for something else: crime. The Navajo Nation is one of the most violent reservations in the country. According to FBI reports, over the past five years, more rapes were reported on the Navajo Nation than in San Diego, Detroit or Denver, among other cities....
Testimony about a bill to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA) of 1996 topped the meeting of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 31. The committee also heard testimony from relevant federal agencies about two land bills, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2013 and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Chippewa Non-Intercourse Act of 2013. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/05/senate-hears-testimony-critical-housing-b...
SEMINOLE, Okla. – A group of Seminole Nation citizens is questioning its leadership’s decision on how to spend a multi-million dollar federal settlement without public input....
The South Dakota Indian Business Alliance has concluded its first year of operating the Native Entrepreneur Investment Fund. The fund distributed 11 loans totaling $100,000 to Native entrepreneurs throughout the state....
The Tanka Bar has been a hit since it was first introduced by Native American Natural Foods, of Kyle, at the Black Hills Pow Wow in 2006. The Lakota natural food company that makes the Tanka Bar is now being nationally recognized for having one of the top ten wholesome foods just for men....
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation’s legislative branch has been temporarily relocated to the W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex following the July 17 discovery of several mold species in the Council House....
A unique feature of our Native communities, and other communities like ours throughout Indian Country, is our connection to one another. This unity is more than just ethnicity, tribal affiliation, or even a spiritual one, it is also our ancestor’s collective historic experience, and more importantly, our hope for a better future for our tribes, and all Native peoples. To this end, this week’s highlighted opportunity for youth involvement is UNITY....
About 500 aboriginal athletes from across the province will compete in St. Albert, north of Edmonton, this week in the bi- annual Alberta Indigenous Games....
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a shooting that happened in the Oneida First Nation territory near London....
Thirty-year-old Justin Crouse is expected to be sentenced next month to between 20 and 25 years in prison, after pleading guilty in State Supreme Court on Friday to having killed his girlfriend’s son on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in March, court officials reported....
WASHINGTON — After bungling the management of Indian lands for generations, the federal government wants to make amends by spending nearly $2 billion to buy 10 million acres of land for 150 tribes across the nation. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/08/04/2655816/us-gears-up-for-huge-difficult.html#storylink=cpy...
The two incumbents in Saturday’s Poarch Creek Band of Indians runoffs will hold their seats....
The National Congress of American Indians passed a resolution recently urging Congress to recompense eligible Native American service members and veterans who were illegally taxed by the state in which their reservation was domiciled during their active service. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/04/recompense-illegally-taxed-native-american-veterans-says-ncai-150732...
HELENA, Mont. A federal investigation is underway into allegations of mismanagement and misspending by the managers of a now-defunct Blackfeet tribal program for troubled youth that received $9.6 million in federal grants over six years. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/04/4213023/feds-probe-9m-blackfeet-childrens.html#storylink=cpy...
Authorities Saturday identified a man fatally injured in a dirt bike crash on the Soboba Indian Reservation as a 26-year-old San Jacinto man....
PEMBROKE — The Lumbee Tribal Council is demanding that Chairman Paul Brooks provide its members with information they need to put together the tribe’s fiscal 2013-14 budget, saying if that doesn’t happen, it will shut down the tribal government....
WASHINGTON — The Dakota Nation Unity Riders will stop to rest their horses in Washington, Connecticut before they continue their journey to Washington, D.C....
A man riding a dirt bike on the Soboba Indian Reservation was killed Friday, Aug. 2, when he crashed, Cal Fire reported....
The American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC) acquired Ancient Traders Market from its most recent owner, the Twin Cities branch of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) on May 31. The $2.2 million purchase was part of a multi-year plan and partnership between the two organizations to reestablish Native ownership of the building and support further community and economic developments in Minneapolis’s Phillips Neighborhood....
BISMARCK, N.D. _ Charles Murphy is not seeking re-election as Standing Rock Sioux Tribal chairman....
Details of a long-delayed investigation into the police shooting of a Manitoba First Nation man could soon be revealed....
He was just 28 years old when he first took office as chairman of the Tunica Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana in 1978 and it’s a title Earl Barbry Sr. held until the day of his passing on July 31, 2013. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/02/longest-serving-chairman-indian-country-earl-barbry-walks-150689...