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The man charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering 5-year-old Alayna Ertl of Watkins has pleaded not guilty to 19 charges. Zachary Todd Anderson, 26, formerly of Monticello, entered not guilty pleas Wednesday in Cass County District Court in Walker to all of the charges he faces, according to court records. The case is scheduled for trial in April. http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/27/suspect-in-kidnapping-rape-slaying-of-5-year-old-girl-pleads-not-guilty/...
Minnesota officials want your unneeded prescription drugs, and they’re hosting an event to collect them this weekend. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration are asking Minnesotans to discard their unneeded prescription drugs on Saturday, the 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/26/minnesota-to-collect-unneeded-prescription-drugs-this-weekend/...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Cherokee Nation Tribal Council Speaker Joe Byrd was recently re-elected to serve his second term as vice president of the eastern Oklahoma region of the National Congress of American Indians during the annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The National Congress of American Indians is a collection of native leaders from all across Indian Country who are elected to work together on native issues regarding tribal sovereignty. The group of 28 elected officials representing more than 10 tribes meets annually to discuss p...
We are the Tribal Council of the Prairie Island Indian Community, which is a sovereign nation and a federally recognized Indian tribe. Our people, the Mdewakanton Dakota Oyate, have lived in the area now known as Minnesota for centuries. Our Dakota ancestors survived here, even when our land was taken away, the leagues of non-Natives arrived, and the cities amassed around us. We have strived for centuries to make life better for the next seven generations of our Oyate. http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/26/taking-exception-th...
When mainland US cities like Houston and Miami get hit by hurricanes, they rely on mutual aid deals with out-of-state and Canadian power authorities to rebuild, as hundreds of skilled maintenance workers flood in and work for free to get their grid up and running; but debt-crushed Puerto Rico is paying $300 million to Whitefish Energy, a two-person company from Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown of Whitefish, Montana. Zinke says the fact that he is pals with the owners of Whitefish Energy has nothing to do with the company winning...
Attorney General issues AG Opinion on Tribal Sovereignty Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth issued a formal Attorney General Opinion today (Oct. 20th, 2017) on the topic of tribal sovereignty. The Opinion outlines the laws and cases addressing tribal sovereignty and tribes’ inherent governmental authority over certain matters. http://deltadiscovery.com/state-declares-alaskas-tribes-as-sovereign-entities/...
Residents of a Native American reservation in North Dakota are seeking to change their alcohol sales laws. Alcohol sales haven’t been allowed on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation since the 1960s, The Devils Lake Journal reported. http://www.crookstontimes.com/news/20171026/north-dakota-spirit-lake-nation-petitioners-seek-to-amend-alcohol-laws...
On Wednesday, Oct. 11, Ramona Kitto Stately gave a lecture in Viking Theater on the violence perpetrated against Minnesota’s indigenous communities. Titled “Seeing Minnesota’s Indigenous Histories,” her lecture focused on forgotten stories of oppression against the Dakota people after the U.S.-Dakota War and how that persecution affected the surviving families and future generations. Stately has special reason to be incensed over Minnesota’s treatment of the Dakota people. Not only is she a member of the Santee-Sioux Dakota Nation that live...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In March 1996, when Tommy Littlecloud was in the fifth grade, an evaluation of how he was doing as an adopted child found positive results, except for a severe impairment for being “overly demanding of attention.” Who could blame him? Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article181115951.html#storylink=cpy...
The 17th Annual Native American Music Awards has honored some of the biggest celebrities, musicians and actors in the fields of music and entertainment. Highly dynamic and energetic music along with encouraging words of inspiration dominated the Annual Awards including; WWE Superstar and SMG Recording artist, Mickie James, Multiple Award winner and The Voice finalist, Josh Halverson, to Nahko Bear who kicked off his international tour this week, among others. The powerful vocal and hand drum group Northern Cree took two awards; Best Pow Wow...
Two civilian mariners were rescued at sea by a U.S. Navy ship after being stranded in the Pacific Ocean for almost five months. The two mariners were well off course: They left Honolulu on their sailboat in the spring, bound for Tahiti, 2,600 miles away in the South Pacific, but were rescued in the western Pacific 900 miles southeast of Japan. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/us-navy-rescues-sailors-2-dogs-lost-sea-182010825--abc-news-topstories.html...
Seventeen people were struck by gunfire, two fatally, in a five-day spasm of violence that swept the Twin Cities last week. The two killings occurred over the weekend in St. Paul, where police on Monday made a plea for the public’s help in finding those responsible for the separate attacks. http://m.startribune.com/17-people-shot-two-fatally-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul-since-last-week/452630183/...
