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The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is beginning work to address a land ownership challenge on the reservation. The Land Buyback Program for Tribal Nations is part of a $3.4 billion settlement. The class action lawsuit filed by Elouise Cobell claimed that the U.S. Department of Interior mismanaged trust money. This buyback program is an attempt to right that wrong. Thanks to the Dawes Act of 1887, many plots on the Fond du Lac reservation are divided among hundreds of land owners making it nearly impossible for anyone to actually...
1. Ten reasons why every American Indian and Alaska Native should vote Why vote? It takes planning, some time, and the rewards are not always visible. The same problems will surround American Indians and Alaska Natives before and after the election. Identifying reasons to vote. Examples big and small that show how we can make a difference. 2. What would democracy look like if Indian Country’s voices were included What if Indian Country had a say in electing the next president? What if candidates had to visit tribal communities and Native...
SEATTLE (AP) — The courtroom was divided Monday along the lines that have separated an American Indian tribe since one of their own killed four high school classmates and himself with a gun he took from his father. The families of the slain filled one side, many wiping away tears as federal prosecutors read the victims' names aloud. Raymond Fryberg's family and friends packed the other as he was sentenced for gun charges in a case that led to changes in the way tribal and local governments share criminal information. U.S. District Court...
Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for illegally purchasing and possessing six guns, including a pistol his son used to kill four classmates, wound a fifth and then kill himself at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in 2014. Fryberg, 42, remained defiant in his belief that he did not know he was breaking the law, although U.S. District Judge James Robart said he didn’t believe it, and a jury had convicted him of six felonies. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/father-of-marysville-...
A "swirling storm" of racism and discrimination is killing indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ont., says Patty Hajdu, an MP for the northwestern Ontario city and minister for the status of women. Hajdu said her experience running a homeless shelter in Thunder Bay, before becoming a Liberal cabinet minister last year, showed her the deadly consequences of racism. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-nations-racism-thunder-bay-patty-hadju-1.3396306...
SUQUAMISH — Leaders of Native Nations from Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Southeast Alaska, Northern California and Western Montana will meet at Suquamish’s Clearwater Casino Resort on Jan. 31 to Feb. 4 for the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians' Winter Convention. The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, or ATNI, was founded in 1953 and is a nonprofit organization representing 57 Northwest Tribal governments. According to ATNI’s website, the organization develops and pursues regional strategies “for the development, protection and...
Jeremy Newborn’s mother looked at the potential jurors in her son’s murder trial and something jumped out to her. None of them appeared to be Aboriginal like her son. The second-degree murder trial grinded to a halt, just days before beginning in October 2014. Newborn’s lawyer wanted to challenge Alberta’s jury selection process. \ http://aptn.ca/news/2016/01/11/aboriginal-man-accused-of-murder-loses-court-action-to-allow-criminals-on-alberta-juries/...
A woman who pleaded guilty to a child abuse incident on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison but is already mounting an appeal. Velnita Jolette Hairy Chin, 43, admitted that she did "abuse, expose, torture, torment, and cruelly punish" an Indian child under the age of seven. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota, she left her infant son strapped into a car seat in her home and acknowledged he suffered an injury in her care. "Initially Hairy Chin denied that anything was wrong with...
ABERDEEN, S.D. - A Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation mother who has had 12 previous convictions for child abuse or neglect will spend more than three years in custody for her most recent case after her seven children, including an injured baby in a car seat, were found in her home unsupervised. Velnita Jolette Hairy Chin, 43, of Bullhead was sentenced earlier last week by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Kornmann to 37 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release. South Dakota U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler said the...
After a year of homelessness, last month things began to come together for Annie Thrasher and her family. With help from N.W.T.'s Income Support program, the 49-year-old had enough money to rent a two-bedroom trailer in Yellowknife with her 19-year-old son. Thrasher's two other children — her 16-year-old daughter and 22-year-old son — were also homeless. Finally, she thought, they'd all be off the streets, a family together again under one roof. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-rental-support-overcrowding-1.339606...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about the Indian Student Placement Program, a foster-care and education program for Native youths administered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1947 and 2000. Veronica Wallace pressed her face against the bus window and stared into the darkness. At 13, Wallace was en route from her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Lakewood, Colorado, to live with a family she’d never met. The bus cut across the darkened countryside during the wee hours of the August morning as...
A Manitoba chief is speaking out after she says she was racially profiled in a Winnipeg store. Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) grand chief Sheila North Wilson said she's experienced racism while shopping before. But on a recent trip to a St. James pharmacy, North Wilson said she was treated like a potential thief. "I heard a lady on the intercom say, 'Security aisle five, security aisle five,' so I looked up and sure enough it says 'aisle five' and I'm the only one standing there," North Wilson said, adding she then approached...
The chief of a Manitoba First Nation that was evacuated in 2011 after being deliberately flooded by the province is asking the federal government to investigate whether “inappropriate” behaviour on the part of Indigenous Affairs officials has deprived his people of a suitable community. In letters to Carolyn Bennett, the Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Chief Adrian Sinclair of the Lake St. Martin First Nation urges Ms. Bennett to stop talking with staff in her department about efforts to create a new reserve, and to meet with him and his...
Bird enthusiasts are furious about the death of a rare, protected owl over the weekend. Now the Colville Tribe is investigating. "It was a superb bird, a very beautiful bird," Jon Houghton remembered. Houghton's seen a lot of birds in 70 years. Last week, he learned a unique Northern Hawk Owl was spotted in Okanagan County. Bird watchers sounded the call and a migration of people flocked to see it. http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2016/01/11/rare-owl-found-dead-hanging-tree/78659450/...
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