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The food served up to guests in two state-owned luxury suites at U.S. Bank Stadium cost taxpayers $32,120, according to a letter sent by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) to three GOP legislators who are investigating use of two suites. Many suite guests were friends and family of MSFA members. House Government Finance Committee Chairwoman Sarah Anderson, R-Plymouth, said Tuesday she will seek reimbursement for the food cost when her committee delves into the MSFA operation and use of the suites. http://www.st...
Snow expected to sweep across the state Wednesday morning may give drivers and public transit riders a bit of déjà vu a day after they slogged across icy, snow-covered roads on Tuesday. By the time the snow ended Tuesday afternoon, the State Patrol reported 376 crashes that led to three deaths and 37 injuries. Hundreds more cars spun out or landed in ditches. http://www.startribune.com/freezing-rain-snow-conspire-to-foul-up-morning-commute/410237255/...
Rooted in the recognition of the rich storytelling cultures and inherent sovereignty of Native American nations, Sundance Institute has held a commitment to Native artists since its founding. Mandated by our Founder Robert Redford, the Institute has nurtured and supported Native filmmakers going back to a time when almost none existed. Since then, the Institute has supported three generations of Native filmmakers, creating a global community and providing a space for that community with the Native Program and a gathering place at the Sundance...
For as long as they can remember, residents of the Navajo Nation’s Casamero Lake Chapter have wanted paved roads. But federal policy enacted 130 years ago stalled even the simplest improvements in this tiny community of about 500 people located in rural New Mexico. Here, individuals were granted 160-acre allotments of land under the Dawes Act of 1887, a law that aimed to turn Natives into subsistence farmers and landowners while opening “surplus” lands to white settlers. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/politics/la...
STANDING ROCK, ND—Jeff Kelly’s smartphone was inches away from his nose as he swiped and tapped at his screen in search of a certain photo. “Here it is,” Kelly said with a sense of satisfaction. The director of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Game and Fish department was sitting behind a large L-shaped desk cluttered with papers, notebooks and a red clock playing country music. He turned his phone horizontally and pointed out the area now known as the Rosebud Camp, one of several communities that grew from the spontaneous movement to try and s...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The cost of policing the Dakota Access pipeline protests in North Dakota has surpassed $22 million -- an amount that would fund the state Treasury Department for two decades and $5 million more than the state set aside last year. Protest-related funding decisions will be made by state lawmakers during the 2017 session. Leaders of the House and Senate appropriation committees say more funding will be approved, though the amount and method isn't known. Rep. Jeff Delzer says state officials also still hope the federal g...
Jamie Wounded Arrow was on the cusp of a better life. Though she faced addiction battles and run-ins with the court system, Wounded Arrow got out of a neighborhood plagued with poverty and substance abuse. Friends say she was proud of her recent sobriety and was close to finally becoming who she wanted to be. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2017/01/10/homicide-victim-looked-forward-starting-new-life-becoming-her/96420208/...
WOODLAND — A request by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation for a ban on outdoor commercial medical marijuana cultivation within 1,000 feet of tribal lands sparked disagreement among Yolo County supervisors Tuesday, with Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis calling the proposed setback a “taking” and Supervisor Matt Rexroad of Woodland asking why the tribe needed protection “from a plant.” Also speaking out against the request were several landowners, including one whose property borders tribal land and who believes the setback will cause her property...
On December 22, 2016, the California Supreme Court issued People ex rel. Owen v. Miami Nation Enterprises. The decision found that certain tribal business entities that provided loans in California are not "arms of the tribe" entitled to immunity from California state law regulating payday loans. In 2005, two federally recognized tribes, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux Nation, created business entities under tribal law for the purpose of offering online payday loans throughout the country. These tribal entities hired a series...
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) relentlessly pressed Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) about the decision to vote against the Violence Against Women Act during Sessions' attorney general hearing Tuesday. VAWA was signed into law in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, and faced opposition by 22 Republican senators during its 2012 renewal due in part to the fact that it proposed to extend protections to same-sex couples and Native Americans, and would allow battered illegal immigrants to obtain temporary visas. Sessions specified Tuesday that "he didn't like...
Four liquor stores which sell the equivalent of three-and-a-half million cans of beer a year on the doorstep of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota would retain their licenses under a recommendation made today by the Sheridan County Board of Commissioners. The board has voted 3-to-0 to recommend the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission renew their liquor licenses. Commissioner reached the decision a little less than a week after a four-hour public hearing on whether the stores should be allowed to retain their liquor licenses....
For many Americans, Barack Obama’s presidency embodies inspiration. A black man raised by a single mother, he made it to the highest office in the land on a message of hope and inclusiveness. A devoted husband and father, he will leave the White House without any notable scandal, either policy, political or personal. What his legacy will be, how history will judge America’s first black president, remains to be seen. His presidency was not without its stumbles and disappointments, but many who worked in his White House will remember the dig...
After days of searching, authorities on Tuesday found the bodies of a woman and young child – believed to be the last of the five missing members of the George family – in a rugged area of Santa Ana Pueblo. Sisters Vanessa and Leticia George, and their three young daughters, ages 1 through 4, had been reported missing from Albuquerque last week. At the time, police were concerned about foul play and that the group could be in danger. https://www.abqjournal.com/925116/fbi-finds-2-more-bodies-totaling-5-on-santa-ana-pueblo.htm...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Five bodies have been found on a Native American pueblo on the outskirts of Albuquerque, believed to be two missing sisters and their three children, but authorities said Tuesday that foul play wasn't suspected in the deaths. The bodies of a child and an adult woman were found Tuesday on the Santa Ana Pueblo, said Frank Fisher, a spokesman for the FBI in Albuquerque. http://www.westplainsdailyquill.net/national_news/article_b5e6a139-2901-5611-9449-0cdfaa983384.html...
The bodies of two women and three children have been found dead on a Native American pueblo in New Mexico. The FBI have confirmed that one of the five bodies found on Santa Ana Pueblo is missing Albuquerque woman Leticia George. The 20-year-old has been reported as missing since Friday along with her sister Vanessa George, 25, and their three young children, who are believed to be the other bodies found. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108140/Missing-Albuquerque-woman-dead-bodies-woman-three-children-Nati...
A scam artist posing as the chief of a northern Alberta First Nation is trying to defraud victims of thousands of dollars, Wood Buffalo RCMP say. Police say a fraud artist has been posing as Chief Jim Boucher of the Fort McKay First Nation, a small indigenous community about 50 km north of Fort McMurray. The scammer has been contacting individuals or businesses, usually by phone, making offers that involve land purchases, business acquisitions or bribes. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rcmp-warn-of-scammer-posing-as-n...
The application period for 2017 scholarships and loan repayments through the Indian Health Service opened Jan. 10. IHS estimates $13.7 million will be available for scholarships and $30 million available for loan repayments during this application period. The IHS Scholarship Program offers qualified American Indian and Alaska Native health professions students the opportunity to attend school and eventually go on to serve Indian health programs in need of trained professionals. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/loc...
A 43-year-old South Dakota father and his 25-year old daughter have been indicted by a federal grand jury after law enforcement officials charged them with incest for participating in consensual sex in November. According to a news release from U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler, Daniel and Santana Mexican, of Eagle Butte, have both pleaded not guilty to the charges in U.S. District Court in Pierre, Rapid City Journal reports. The act reportedly transpired on Nov. 20 on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, the Daily Mail reports. Members of the...
ATLANTA, Jan. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013. This remarkable decrease follows population-based approaches to diabetes management and improvements in clinical care begun by the Indian Health Service (IHS) in the mid-1980s. "The Indian Health Service has made tremendous progress by applying population health and team-based approaches to diabetes and kidney care," said CDC Director Tom...
