Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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After hours of emotional testimony from law enforcement officials and people on and off the reservation, the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council voted unanimously Monday to declare a state of emergency against methamphetamine and other drugs on the reservation. The vote was taken during a meeting attended by law enforcement officers, representatives from social service agencies from both the reservation and surrounding towns, and people from nearby communities. The crowd at Monday's meeting was so large that the council's chamber was filled...
The press conferences were spaced two hours apart on Wednesday – one by armed militia leader Ammon Bundy, the other by a local Paiute Indian tribal leader. They expressed competing visions for the future of a swath of federally managed land in rural south-eastern Oregon. At issue: who has more of a say over the contested Malheur national wildlife refuge? A band of mostly out-of-state commandos who have seized control of the property to make a point with the federal government, or Native Americans whose ancestors have lived on the land for t...
There are more than a few eyebrow-raising ideas -- Manifest Destiny, ownership, group entitlement and superiority -- deeply embedded in conversations about the Oregon occupiers and their political goals. Wait. What? Manifest Destiny? Let us explain. The Citizens for Constitutional Freedom-- that's the name the armed individuals occupying federal buildings in Oregon have given themselves -- have identified their core demands. Most people know that the group wanted to see father and son Oregon ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond avoid...
BURNS, Ore. -- The armed protesters who seized remote federal property in Oregon should leave, the Burns Paiute Tribal Council urged Wednesday. The occupiers claim the federal land rightfully belongs to the mostly white population of eastern Oregon, but Harney County was largely Paiute territory prior to white settlement. On a foggy Wednesday morning, some of the tribe's nearly 420 members gathered at the top of a snow-packed hill on the Paiute reservation to discuss their concerns about the outsiders. The doors of the meeting center were...
A Manitoba mother is suing the province after her toddler died due to complications from cancer that went undiagnosed despite at least 40 visits to a northern nursing station. Alexandria Harper's daughter Violet was almost three when she died in December 2013. At the time of her death, she had a cancerous tumour larger than a softball in her 30-pound body. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/toddler-taken-to-nursing-station-40-times-gets-cancer-diagnosis-days-before-death-lawsuit-says-1.3390846...
Metro Transit is now looking at how to improve its policing in light of a recent report that showed Blacks and other people of color overwhelming cited for violations rather than warned, especially for “first-time fare evasion” incidents. A new Metro Transit study released last month was undertaken in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Minneapolis chapter request early last year for 2014-15 police incident data on arrests, citations, or warnings for both juveniles and adults. The ACLU as a result learned that Blacks (4,...
"This is our tribe and our children should be protected." Serious accusations tonight about a Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe school. The school suspended one teacher who is claiming they're hurting the kids and trying to cover it up. The Sasiwaans Immersion School is on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation in Mount Pleasant. A spokesman for the tribe tells Northern Michigan's News Leaders there is an ongoing investigation into these allegations but there's nothing they're willing to comment on yet. http://www.9and10news.co...
Indigenous hunters in Manitoba say they are being harassed and bullied by Saskatchewan authorities who don't understand their treaty right to provide food for their families. The chief of Pine Creek First Nation said Wednesday that conservation officers raided two homes last month and confiscated moose meat harvested from Pine Creek's traditional territory, which crosses the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary. Charlie Boucher said no charges have been laid, but his people are being denied their inherent right to feed their families. Indigenous...
A Calgary judge ordered an Edmonton man into custody on Wednesday to start his sentence for defrauding the federal government of $193,500 through kickbacks on business incentive opportunities while employed as a development officer by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. “You have given this program a real black eye,” provincial court Judge Mike Dinkel told Gerald Eugene Crick, 47, before adjourning sentencing to Jan. 14. “That money directed by you is money that couldn’t go to programs involving native people. “This accused c...
