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There's a big dispute in federal court in Madison over whether American Indian tribes in Wisconsin should be allowed to use lights to kill deer at night outside the reservations....
MINTO, N.D. (AP) — A fund has been established for the family of three North Dakota children slain last month on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation....
GULFPORT -- Bird surveyors on Horn Island made a gruesome discovery Friday when they stumbled upon a severed dolphin head, officials said. Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/12/01/4333878/dead-dolphins-wash-ashore-on-horn.html#storylink=cpy...
South Dakota willfully has violated federal law by removing too many Native American children from their homes and placing them in foster care with non-Indian families, the state’s Indian Child Welfare Act directors said in a report they plan send to Congress....
President Barack Obama’s election celebration won’t last long. He only has until the end of the year to pressure Congress – the old Congress, not the one just elected – to solve several really thorny problems. Unless Congress acts, massive federal spending cuts begin in January and taxes go up for everybody. And, if those two problems aren’t difficult enough, the United States will also soon hit its debt limit....
A former Winnipeg child and family services supervisor concedes that not enough was done in the case of Phoenix Sinclair, a young girl who was killed after spending much of her life in and out of Manitoba's child welfare system....
Aboriginal AIDS activists in Canada say they are trying to lower the high rate of HIV infections among First Nations, Métis and Inuit people....
Rodney Brossart, the Lakota, N.D., farmer involved in a standoff with Nelson County law enforcement in 2011, is negotiating with prosecutors to forestall a criminal trial that could put him and family members behind bars....
While Nevada ranked lowest overall among states in the U.S. Department of Education’s latest report of graduation rates at 62 percent, there was one ranking below that—the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) had a graduation rate of only 61 percent....
FORT HOOD, Texas – After stepping off the firing range on the north side of this massive military base, Sgt. Serena Spotted Elk-O’Brien inverted her weapon and considered her heritage....
Federal officials are working to send out $1,000 checks in the next few weeks to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. The money stems from a settlement of the Cobell case, a landmark $3.4 billion settlement over mismanagement of federal lands held in trust for Native American people....
FARGO – A 2-month-old girl whose July death was seized upon as an example of endangered children on the Spirit Lake reservation died of natural causes....
As this column took shape, I learned Principal Chief Bill John Baker issued a proclamation declaring Nov. 15 as “Great American Smoke Out Day” in the Cherokee Nation....
CALLOWAY, Minn. – More people on the White Earth Indian Reservation and beyond are now waking up to a “Cup of Joe” – the morning show, that is, which is once again broadcasting from Niijii Radio. The Callaway station, located at 89.9 on the FM dial with the call letters KKWE, was shut down for several months after it was struck first by Mother Nature (a lightning strike), then by thieves who reportedly got away with expensive studio equipment. All summer and into the fall, the station...
Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations -- including British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans -- descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations, and one of these populations is related to Native Americans. This discovery helps fill gaps in scientific understanding of both Native American and Northern European ancestry, while providing an explanation for some genetic similarities among what would otherwise seem to be very divergent groups. This research was...
(This is the 11th in a planned series on doomsday prophecies. Information comes from "The Wild Frontier" by William N. Osborn, and "Fighting Indians of the West" and "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," both by Dee Brown.)...
DALLAS — Former Grand Ronde Tribal Councilor Valorie Sheker Robertson will spend the next 18 months on probation after pleading guilty in Polk County Circuit Court to one count of possession of a controlled substance/methamphetamine, a Class C felony....
Farmers have their "million-dollar rain," so for winter sports businesses this weekend might bring a "million-dollar snow."...