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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Twin Cities-based American Indian Movement has joined the chorus of protests from Native-American organizations around the country denouncing President Donald Trump after he called a Massachusetts senator “Pocahontas.” The president made the statement while honoring Native Americans who served as code talkers during World War II. Three surviving code talkers attended the ceremony honoring their work for sending military orders in the Navajo language. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/11/28/american-...
SOUTH BEND (WTHR) — Some University of Notre Dame students, employees and staff are calling for the removal of large murals in the main building. The murals, depict life of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, have been criticized for its depictions of Native American and black stereotypes. https://www.wthr.com/article/notre-dame-students-staff-call-for-removal-of-christopher-columbus-murals...
GREEN BAY (WLUK) – The former Menominee Tribe police officer accused of having inappropriate social media contact with a teenage girl pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday. Basil O’Kimosh Jr., 39, faces three charges for the contact earlier this year with the 15-year-old. Trial was scheduled for Jan. 29, according to court records. http://fox11online.com/news/local/former-menominee-tribal-officer-indicted...
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has resumed looking for a new police chief after the woman who got the job didn’t report for work last week. Grace Her Many Horses, police captain on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota, was supposed to start her term as Pine Ridge police chief on Nov. 20 but didn’t appear. The Oglala Sioux tribal council voted to award her the job this summer. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/new-ost-police-chief-fails-to-report-for-work-search/article_df27a5f8-e740-500c-8c01-37aefa3eaeb3.html...
The tax plan has been marketed by President Trump and Republican leaders as a straightforward if enormous rebate for the masses, a $1.5 trillion package of cuts to spur hiring and economic growth. But as the bill has been rushed through Congress with scant debate, its far broader ramifications have come into focus, revealing a catchall legislative creation that could reshape major areas of American life, from education to health care. Some of this re-engineering is straight out of the traditional Republican playbook. Corporate taxes, along...
Step-N-Strut Trail Ride promoters claim Tunica-Biloxi Tribal Police Chief Harold Pierite Sr. and others demanded payoffs to ensure the three-day trail ride/music festival would be held on tribal land between Marksville and Mansura. Pierite and Tribe Vice Chairman Marshall Sampson Sr. deny the claims and say an online news article on the issue is “incorrect and misleading.” https://www.avoyellestoday.com/news/tribe-says-step-n-strut-claims-are-false...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY (WTVD) -- A future high school graduation is causing controversy in Cumberland County. The school system recently banned stoles at graduation after nearly a dozen students in the Black History Club at Seventy-First High School tried to wear their stoles last year. http://abc11.com/education/native-american-students-upset-after-non-academic-grad-stoles-ban/2714308/...
Maine State Police say they are investigating claims made by the nephew of a Mi'kmaw woman who vanished in the state more than 20 years ago that he knows she was killed and the people who did it. Virginia Pictou Noyes, a 26-year-old mother of seven, vanished at about 1 a.m. on April 24, 1993, from a hospital in Bangor, Maine. There was a reported sighting of her later in the early morning hours using a pay phone and then walking north across the parking lot of a truck stop near Houlton, Maine, which is 200 km north of Bangor....
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced a five-year, $50 million commitment to American Indian/Alaska Native communities to help address their unique economic, social and environmental needs. The company will expand philanthropy programs, work to improve products and services to meet the financial and banking requirements of the American Indian/Alaska Native community, and help create a greater awareness of American Indian/Alaska Native culture, history and contributions. “We are only as successful a...
Bottom Line: Compared with the non-Hispanic white (NHW) population, the urban American-Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) community was more likely to have lower survival rates following invasive prostate and breast cancer. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/aafc-uaa112717.php...
(KMSP) - Two families are mourning the loss of their children after divers pulled the bodies of a young man and woman who were ice fishing on Red Lake. Now, family members say the resort should be held partly responsible for their son's death. http://www.fox9.com/news/family-blames-red-lake-resort-for-death-of-2-anglers...
