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WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced today it is taking the final steps in its efforts to identify the whereabouts of approximately 17,000 Native Americans to provide compensation as part of the Cobell settlement. The settlement of the Cobell lawsuit has reached an important deadline and the Department needs Class Members, or the heirs of Class Members, to provide documentation of their status to the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) and/or the Garden C...
Bradley Dale Lajeunesse June 15, 1974 ~ November 15, 2017 (age 43) Bradley Dale Lajeunesse, 43 years old, of the Bear Clan passed away from the Red Lake IHS in Red Lake, Minnesota on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Bradley was born in Red Lake, Minnesota on June 15, 1974 to Lawrence and Judith (Johnson) Lajeunesse. Bradley graduated from Red Lake High School in 1992 and attended Northwest Technical College where he received his Forestry Technician Certificate. At one-time Bradley was employed as...
Gloria Marie Headbird-Wind December 12, 1950 ~ November 17, 2017 (age 66) Gloria Marie Headbird-Wind, 66 years young, Bear Clan, journeyed into the spirit world from the Sanford Hospital, Bemidji, Minnesota on Friday, November 17, 2017. Gloria was born in Cass Lake, Minnesota on December 12, 1950 to Leonard and Catherine (Bellcourt) Headbird. Gloria enjoyed spending time with her family, brothers, grandkids and sons. She enjoyed making blankets, playing Keno, going to rummage and garage sales,...
Nov. 19 (UPI) — California authorities this month are moving to close several churches that have been selling marijuana. At the Citadel Church of La Puente in La Puente, Calif., Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested two individuals and seized between $20,000 and $30,000 in marijuana on Nov. 15. In a press release, the LACSD said it conducted a three-week surveillance operation and found the church was actually a “dispensary selling marijuana, concentrated cannabis such as marijuana wax, various marijuana packaging and edibles such...
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal leaders say that since a joint powers law enforcement agreement with the county went unsigned a year-and-a-half ago, drug overdoses have skyrocketed and crime has increased after tribal police lost enforcement power. They've now filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to restore that agreement, which they say would again allow tribal police to make arrests on the reservation. http://kstp.com/news/mille-lacs-band-of-ojibwe-tribal-leaders-say-restoration-of-joint-powers-law-enforcement-necessary-...
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Friday announced it will host an "Un-Cuff Our Cops" rally from 2-4 p.m. Monday on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol building. The band reported the effort is aimed at drawing attention to the public safety crisis the band is facing as a result of Mille Lacs County's July 2016 decision to terminate a long-standing cooperative law enforcement agreement between the county and the band. http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/government-and-politics/4361735-mille-lacs-band-host-rally-state-capit...
FARMINGTON — To increase public safety on the Navajo Nation, the tribe has joined a federal program to increase direct access to national crime information systems. The move will also help departments and offices under the tribe's divisions of public safety and social services and judicial branch increase their abilities to conduct background checks. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2017/11/20/program-helps-tribe-expand-access-criminal-databases/876671001/...
Rural South Dakota still has a teacher shortage despite a new funding formula intended to raise salaries, the top administrator for the McLaughlin district said Friday. Superintendent Scott Lepke told members of state government’s School Finance Accountability Board that many students in his school system on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation face alcohol, drug and sexual abuse at home every day. http://www.capjournal.com/news/state-board-faces-on-second-day-more-tough-cases-on/article_8089c056-cdb4-11e7-a6d1-3f4ac6d35f4c....
Nearly 2 out of 3 cases of sexual assault in the U.S. go unreported. A recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that fears of discrimination and unfair treatment by courts prevent Native Americans from reporting these crimes. Wyoming Public Radio reporter Melodie Edwards joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype to discuss the issue. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/for-native-americans-sexual-assault-cases-are-falling-through-the-cracks...
The number of sexually exploited children and young adults receiving help in Minnesota is rising significantly. According to new data released Friday, 1,423 children and young adults received housing or other services over a two-year period — from 2015 to 2017 — under the state's Safe Harbor program, which helps at-risk and sexually exploited victims. That's up from 359 teens and kids over a one-year period in 2014 and 2015, when the program was first evaluated. http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2017/11/18/more-sex-tra...
An international summary of five year's worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought. And if it all sounds interesting but a little far removed from southern concerns, David Barber has news for you. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/arctic-warming-happening-faster-than-previously-thought-report-says/article37024293/...
Six weeks after his sentence to 30 years in federal prison, Robert Fool Bear Sr. has filed his appeal. The former Cannon Ball district chairman was convicted in April of four charges related to child sexual abuse. In a brief filed Tuesday, appellant attorney Kent Morrow argues insufficient evidence, multiplicity of charges and an erred jury instruction related to various charges of Fool Bear's conviction. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fool-bear-appeals-from-federal-prison/article_7e7c3c0f-0cd5-5773-a...
When he started working as a bartender a few years ago in Seattle, Howie Echo-Hawk says he began experiencing discrimination. First, a bar manager told him to get a respectable haircut. "I had a Mohawk, which is the traditional style of my people and I wore it because of that," he said. Echo-Hawk is a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. https://www.npr.org/2017/11/18/564807229/as-native-americans-face-job-discrimination-a-tribe-works-to-employ-its-own...
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) — A cellmate has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a Choctaw tribal member. A Neshoba County jury convicted Justyn Schlegel, 36, in the July 2015 death of Rexdale Henry. The 53-year-old member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was found dead in the Neshoba County jail in July 2015 from blunt force trauma. http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Cellmate-convicted-in-2015-death-of-Choctaw-12367917.php...
New Yorkers got their first chance Friday to sound off on Christopher Columbus — and they split nearly evenly over whether statues honoring the famed explorer should be removed from city property. The occasion was the first hearing of Mayor de Blasio’s Commission on City Art, Monuments at Queens Borough Hall, which is supposed to recommend whether statues of controversial figures should be yanked or modified. https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/new-yorkers-split-over-whether-to-nix-christopher-columbus/...
The leader of an independent federal agency that has targeted the tribal lending industry will be stepping down, opening the door for President Donald Trump to reshape its efforts. As director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray has overseen lawsuits against tribal lenders and announced new limits on loans issued by tribal lenders. He's due to leave by the end of the month and whomever Trump picks as his replacement is bound to shift course. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/11/17/head-of-federal-age...
The screening of More Than a Word on Nov. 8 in the Pfau Library, examined the modern-day racial slur, “red skin”. The film notes that many dictionaries refer to the word as “disparaging and offensive.” It then references an 1863 article from The Winona Daily Republican in Minnesota which stated that “the state reward for dead Indians has been increased to 200 dollars for every red-skin sent to purgatory.” Though a bloody history does not necessarily make the word derogatory to Native Americans, one Native American, Tara Houska, regards it...
A 21-year-old man who was accused of firing a shotgun at a car while someone was sitting in it on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation earlier this month was arrested by State Police on Friday. State Police said patrols responded to a call of shots being fired on the reservation on November 4, and with the help of the Southampton town and village police departments, they were able to locate a 2010 Nissan Altima that had been shot several times. http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/General-Interest-Southampton/540209/Shinnecoc...
Alaska has one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the country, and Alaska Native women are more likely to be attacked than anyone else, according to the Department of Public Safety, which quietly released a report on Alaskan sex crimes last month. Fifty-four percent of Alaska’s sexual assault victims are Alaska Native, the report says, even though Alaska Native people comprise only 20 percent of the state’s population. https://www.ktoo.org/2017/11/17/alaska-natives-account-half-sexual-assault-victims-state-study-says/...
Chief Executive says, “County officials have been holding the safety of tribal members hostage for 16 months..” Mille Lacs Band Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin announced today that the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLB) has filed a complaint in federal district court against Mille Lacs County, County Attorney Joseph Walsh and County Sheriff Brent Lindgren. The complaint alleges that the County, Mr. Walsh and Sheriff Lindgren have prevented Band police officers from exercising police powers within the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, violating fed...
Federal regulators approved major changes Thursday to a program that discounts phone service for low-income residents on tribal land. About 12.5 million people nationwide use Lifeline, a program created more than 30 years ago to improve access to phone service. It gives subscribers a $9.25 monthly discount. About 500,000 of those subscribers on tribal lands get an extra $25 off per month. In South Dakota, nearly 9,000 people use the Lifeline program. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/fcc-drops-some-phone-subsidies-on-tr...
Alcohol sales are drying up on an American Indian reservation in the heart of North Dakota's oil patch after tribal officials imposed new rules for retailers and wholesalers, including doubling the taxes on non-American Indian retail businesses that sell booze. Bar and liquor store owners on the Fort Berthold Reservation report they received their last shipment of alcohol this week from distributors. The distributors are also subjected to the Three Affiliated Tribes' new rules that require permits and require records and businesses to be open...
Half of American Indians living in native majority areas say they or a family member feel they’ve been treated unfairly by the courts, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It’s a lack of justice that Wind River Reservation residents say they live with every day. Now the tribes are working together to solve the problem. One morning, Northern Arapaho member Rose was sitting at the table with her 14-year-old daughter, Latoya. http://wyomingpublicme...
Broadcaster Leeann Tweeden said Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) “forcibly kissed” and groped her during a USO tour in 2006. (Reuters) As a feminist and the author of a book on rape culture, I could reasonably be expected to lead the calls for Al Franken to step down, following allegations that he forced his tongue down a woman’s throat, accompanied by a photo of him grinning as he moves in to grope her breasts while she sleeps. It’s disgusting. He treated a sleeping woman as a comedy prop, no more human than the contents of Carrot Top’s trunk, an...
WASHINGTON — A half-dozen Democrats on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses, in a long-shot effort that stands little chance in the Republican-led House. Indeed, the large majority of Democrats seem intent on having nothing to do with the effort either as lawmakers await the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Democratic leaders have argued that the impeachment campaign ril...