Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Halloween 2017 held all over the Red Lake Indian Reservation - P19...
Halloween 2017 held all over the Red Lake Indian Reservation - P20...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s oldest son on Monday released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicize its leaks. Donald Trump Jr.’s release of the messages on Twitter came hours after The Atlantic first reported them. In the exchanges — some of them around the time that the website was releasing the stolen emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman — WikiLeaks praises his father’s positive comments abou...
CASS LAKE -- Putting time and effort into three sports as a high school student, Cass Lake-Bena senior Michael Staples’ efforts were recently rewarded when he was named Minnesota American Indian Male Athlete of the Year. “My older brother, Daven, won it his senior year, too,” Staples said. “I remember back then, I just told myself if I work hard enough I can be in that spot, too. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/football/4359032-cl-b-senior-named-minnesota-american-indian-athlete-year...
On November 7, the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on IP took part in the “Sovereign Immunity and the Intellectual Property System” hearing. The committee called the hearing after Allergan announced a patent deal with a Native American tribe, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. https://www.lifesciencesipreview.com/news/five-testimonies-from-the-allergan-tribe-patent-hearing-2566...
Forced to lie on the ground with her hands tied and a gun pushed into her back, Virginia Littlewolfe-Hunter thought she was about to die. Kidnapped and attacked 50 years ago, her recollection was as vivid as if it happened yesterday. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/woman-recounts-horrific-gunpoint-kidnapping-at-mmiwg-inquiry-in-edmonton-1.4393632...
Thanksgiving Day is less than two weeks away (23 November) and while most families across North America are busy writing up their shopping lists and asking Google for the quickest ways to cook a turkey, a number of people are preparing once again to protest the holiday. The general theory is that the festivities originated in 1621, when the Wampanoag Native Americans shared a harvest with the Plymouth colonists who had spent the previous year facing severe famine. The Pilgrims, who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Britain, to try their luck...
Saskatchewan's education minister has responded to backlash against comments she made about treaty education in the legislature by saying she is sorry she discussed her son's homework in a public forum. On Sunday, CBC News obtained lesson notes of a Saskatoon Grade 8 student which don't match Bronwyn Eyre's account of that lesson. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/bronwyn-eyre-homework-speech-1.4399728...
On a riverbank in Arizona’s San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, residents take part in vibrant ceremonies practiced for generations, celebrating a woman’s coming of age or praying for a sick person’s recovery. But to do this, they must ignore sprawling piles of trash just feet away. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/11/10/cronkite-news-san-carlos-apache-tribe-st.asp...
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and the Northwest Area Foundation on Friday announced a collaboration to fund Native American-led community development initiatives across the United States. To launch the initiative, FHLB Des Moines awarded $5 million to the foundation to fund the work of Native Community Development Financial Institutions, the organizations said in a release. Based in St. Paul, Minn., the Northwest Area Foundation works with 75 Native American nations in an eight-state region, including Iowa. http:/...
President Donald Trump has picked a new leader for the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of the Indian Health Service. Alex Azar, a pharmaceutical executive, may be familiar to some in Indian Country, having served in top leadership posts at the department in the George W. Bush administration. During that era, HHS, the White House and their Republican allies in Congress mounted stiff resistance as tribes sought to reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/1...
BOSTON (AP) — The Native American tribe whose ancestors hosted the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims four centuries ago is hosting a Thanksgiving reception at the Massachusetts Statehouse. The Mashpee Wampanoag say the Monday morning gathering at the Capitol building's Great Hall is meant to promote peace and unity for all Americans. http://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Tribe-holds-State-House-gathering-to-mark-1st-12352898.php...
Would you survive a zombie apocalypse? How about if you were living on the rez? That's the topic of a panel discussion at this year's Indigenous Comic Con in Albuquerque, New Mexico hosted by Johnnie Jae and Jack Malstrom, the co-creators of the website A Tribe Called Geek. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/zombies-superheroes-and-stem-indiginerds-unite-1.4395796/could-you-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse-on-the-rez-1.4397801...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly half of U.S. adults. High pressure, which for decades has been a top reading of at least 140 or a bottom one of 90, drops to 130 over 80 in advice announced Monday by a dozen medical groups. https://www.yahoo.com/news/half-us-adults-high-blood-pressure-guidelines-204049684.html...
