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Harvey Godwin Jr., new chairman of the Lumbee Tribal Council, ushered in his term with promises of a more transparent government and better sense of community while encouraging the tribe to unify. Godwin, owner and CEO of Two Hawk Employment Services and Two Hawk Workforce Services, was sworn in Thursday during a ceremony at the Givens Performing Arts Center on the University of North Carolina at Pembroke's campus. http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/new-lumbee-tribal-chairman-promises-transparency-a-better-community/artic...
Federal cabinet ministers say they learned more about the specific safety concerns of indigenous women in northern Ontario — including reports that women have disappeared on ships on Lake Superior — during consultation meetings in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Wednesday. The consultations are taking place across the country to help shape a national public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. CBC News first reported on research that First Nations women were being sold into the sex trade on U.S. ships in Lake Superior in 2013. htt...
The largest tribe in the United States plans to exercise its authority over non-Indian domestic violence offenders The Violence Against Women Act recognizes tribal authority to arrest, prosecute and sentence certain non-Indians for certain offenses. Tribes must ensure their justice systems protect the rights of defendants in order to exercise their authority and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is very close to meeting the requirements of the landmark 2013 law, senior assistant attorney general Chrissi Ross Nimmo told Tulsa Business and Legal...
BURNS, Ore. — Ammon Bundy says he's ventured into Harney County to help the region get lands back from the federal government and thrive. So do the members of his band of anti-government protesters and armed self-styled militiamen, who are occupying a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon. But as the occupation enters its fifth day, calls are growing for Bundy and his group to peacefully leave the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which is about 32 miles south of Burns, a small city of about 2,800 people. The Burns P...
PABLO — The CSKT tribal council held a hearing last week at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal headquarters on an appeal by CSKT tribal member Lois Friedlander on the recent general election results. Friedlander’s appeal claimed the tribal electoral process included an ineligible candidate; ineligible voters; bribery including personal gain of the election results; and a flawed vote count. An appeal process is first the heard by the election board then heard before a full council hearing, said CSKT Chairman Vernon Finley at the Wed...
RAPID CITY –– According to the most recent census, 58.7 percent of grandparents living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are raising their grandchildren. In traditional times, the extended family was the accepted norm in communities as family elders contributed to the rearing of tribal youth. In today’s society, this can be a huge burden mentally, emotionally, physically and financially for these grandparents who are often living on a fixed income far below the Federal poverty level. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/01998...
Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state. And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier's experience appears not to be an isolated case. At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years. http:...
NIOBRARA, NE (KTIV) - A 25-year-old Santee, Nebraska man has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a standoff with federal authorities on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation Wednesday evening. FBI investigators have confirmed to KTIV's US92 Norfolk News Bureau that David Hoffman was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Yankton, South Dakota Hospital Wednesday evening. Authorities said Hoffman, who was sought after assaulting and disarming a police officer, shot himself as officers tried to arrest him on the Santee Sioux Indian...
James Q. McBee, 38, of Allison Street in Concord, was arrested at 11:10 p.m. on Dec. 30, 2015, for simple assault, domestic violence (simple assault), and criminal mischief (vandalism). The charges stem from alleged incidents on Allison Street on Oct. 29, 2015. An officer visited McBee’s residence but he wasn’t home. He turned himself in about an hour later and was arraigned on Dec. 31, 2015. Editor’s note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. Click this link to fi...
A female member of the Ute Indian Tribe has been indicted in federal court in connection with a June crash that killed the driver of a street sweeper on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. Wilda Annie Manning, 49, was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court with two counts of involuntary manslaughter while within Indian Country for the June 3 death of Steven Goodrich, 25. An arrest warrant issued last month by a Ute tribal judge alleges that Manning's GMC Yukon rear-ended the street sweeper on a Uintah County road running through the...
MISSION, S.D. -- A Mission woman has been placed in a residential program for assaulting a Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation police officer. Alvina Leader Charge, 30, admitted hitting the officer in the face and chest and telling her “you’re going to get killed” as she was being arrested last June 30 for contempt of court and making a false statement. She was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange earlier this week to four months in the residential re-entry program and two years of supervised release. She was convicted of assau...
