Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating....
ATTAWAPISKAT - Attawapiskat First Nations community has long been making headlines due to the piteous, Third World conditions under which its residents live....
Women from the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe went to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to meet with President Obama or his staff Monday. The trip was made in support of Theresa Spence, chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in far northern Ontario who has been on a hunger strike since Dec. 11 in Ottawa, demanding to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to talk about treaty issues, poverty in native communities and government policies toward them. Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan has offered to...
It would be a mistake to dismiss the aboriginal hunger strikes and demonstrations occurring now across Canada as merely the latest in a series of angry outbursts that will disappear as suddenly as they appeared, only to surface again in the future following the next complaint of injustice and violation of rights. It would also be a mistake, however, to presume that the issues are one-sided — that the national government must alone act before equity for Canada’s beleaguered First Nations can be achieved. Aboriginals, too, must also be pre...
The aboriginal movement known as Idle No More continued to gain strength beyond Canada's borders on Tuesday as activists embarked on a public relations blitz in the United States....
Sitting here at 1:00 AM just wondering what this year, 2013, will bring to Indian Country. Currently watching the Senate vote on the budget deal and it’s apparent that Indian Country will lose no matter what the outcome is....
NESHOBA COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) - A community mourns and prepares to bury five young siblings and one adult who were killed when their vehicle entered a creek near the Neshoba-Newton county line. The driver of the SUV has now been charged with multiple counts of DUI manslaughter....
A man from Seminole, Ala. found himself behind bars last week after officers with the Poarch Tribal Police took him into custody on charges of soliciting a child....
It was quite cold in Denver today where hundreds of people gathered just outside the Canadian consulate to stand in solidarity with indigenous groups in that country who are fighting with the government there over a wide range of issues. But organizers of the local protest said supporters of First Nations should have no problem enduring the cold, knowing that in Canada, a chief is suffering through a hunger strike to get officials' attention....
A New Year's Eve protest of beer sales in Whiteclay ended peacefully with three of the Nebraska town's four alcohol stores closing early and making very few late-night sales to Native Americans, activists said Tuesday....
ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — They dance for the dead. The foreman, the minister and the princess in the buckskin dress stomp and twirl and sing on a gymnasium floor protected by a tarp....
PINEHILL — The day after Christmas, 8-year-old Tomas Jay Henio spent the evening alone, sledding down a snowy hill near his mother’s house a few miles from the town market....
ALBQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Relatives of an 8-year-old boy fatally mauled by dogs in a small community in northwestern New Mexico says there were no screams or barks that would have alerted them to the attack....
