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He was a muscular guy with “kind of a nerdy kind of charm,” Marianna Taschinger recalled, a combination that proved irresistible to an 18-year-old girl in a small Texas town. He asked her to pick out a wedding ring. He also made another request — that she take nude pictures of herself and send them to him....
A recent New York Times article "The Evangelical Orphan Boom" sheds light on how adoption has become a key component of the conservative Christian agenda, whether driven by good intentions and naïveté or zeal to promote pro-life ideology and spread the Christian faith. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/23/serial-adopter-how-evangelicals-are-perpetuating-orphan-market-151406...
CALERA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - When a four-year-old Cherokee girl was reunited with her adoptive parents on Monday night, it potentially signaled the conclusion of a custody battle that entangled governors from two states and worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court....
In the end, it came down to one simple strategy: Waiting. As Dusten Brown faced the Damocles Sword of jail time and a felony warrant, Matt and Melanie Capobianco only had to wait. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/24/cherokee-nation-mourns-veronica-returned-adoptive-family-151418...
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA – Veronica Brown has been taken from her biological father. This happened within the hour from the Jack Brown House on the tribal land near Tahlequah, Oklahoma....
Western Sky, a private online payday lender based on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, suspended its operations in early September after New York’s attorney general filed suit against it for violating state usury laws. This was the latest blow to a company already facing a number of state and federal suits for its allegedly illegal and abusive practices. Finally, the company said it stopped operating to deal with its legal problems. It would be easy to simply say good riddance to Western Sky. But the situation is more c...
U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch dispatched her prescription drug task force to the Shinnecock Indian Nation reservation Monday to educate tribal members on the dangers of prescription drugs as part of a "wholistic" approach to checking the illegal spread of opioid painkillers....
The Ute Indian Tribe’s (Northern Utes) economic boycott in an adjoining town continues in an effort to halt civil rights offenses the tribe says have occurred over decades despite requests to “treat tribal members with dignity and respect reservation boundaries.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/24/latest-ute-boycott-similar-first-one-15-years-ago-151413...
PEMBROKE — A last-ditch effort to come up with money to hold the Lumbee Tribal Council election on Nov. 12 failed Monday, and the elections are now “suspended until further notice,” according to the chairwoman of the tribe’s elections board....
CAMP VERDE - The Yavapai-Apache Nation held its General Election for Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Tribal Council on Sept. 21....
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court Thursday overturned multiple shooting convictions of a Tohono O'odham man, saying prosecutors had not proved that the man was a member of a federally recognized tribe....
The Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on student achievement gaps, has released a new report, “The State of Education for Native Students,” and the state is not good—to say the least. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/24/native-education-situation-dire-says-report-sequestration-not-helping-151426...
DULUTH, MINNESOTA – Ramona Marozas is a tribal citizen of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians Reservation in Wisconsin....
When Micah Highwalking tossed her hat in the air at West Point graduation ceremonies May 22, she was celebrating her mother and her Northern Cheyenne people as much as her own accomplishment. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/west-point-grad-a-st-for-northern-cheyenne/article_04616d4e-8631-11df-8e94-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz2fu1P7R5y...
Opponents of Michigan’s upcoming wolf hunt say data used to justify the program are skewed by events at one cattle farm in Ontonagon County. From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130924/POLITICS02/309240094#ixzz2fu1hAbPV...
BARTLESVILLE - Trial preparations are underway in Bartlesville as the prosecution and defense gear up to begin Monday presenting to a Washington County jury evidence in a charge against a 19-year-old accused of plotting a mass school shooting and bombing at Bartlesville High School....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A Bartlesville teenager accused of hatching a plot last year to murder classmates and police officers at his local high school faces a jury trial on Sept. 23....
