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DALLAS – Tribal Solutions, Inc., a global manufacturer for the aerospace and aviation industries, recently launched a collaboration with a Tribal Nation, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, to support them in the establishment of a sustainable manufacturing business model to seed growth and jobs for the future of the Tribe....
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and the Division of Criminal Investigation announced Friday that the fatal shooting of a man by a Rapid City police officer was justified....
TULUKSAK -- The jail in this remote village in Western Alaska is a 6-by-8-foot mesh cage inside a shabby, one-room building smaller than the master suite in many a suburban American home. In this barren, dimly lit room, Mary Moses sits on the only chair next to the desk of village police officer Kim Lewis and asks a simple question:...
BEMIDJI, Minn. - Way up in northwestern Minnesota, progress is being made within the Ojibwe tribes. "It's been a long process," said Trisha Hansen, Bemidji District supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Corrections. "... It was a tough two years, let me tell you. Probation and social services have really worked together in the last two years." Since September, the traditional divisions between the systems of juvenile justice and child welfare have begun to be erased. With a tribal nation...
A mother and her seven children in Whati, N.W.T., are getting a home of their own after being evicted from a two-bedroom public housing unit for seniors on Tuesday....
The Cloquet American Indian Education Program announced Wendy Waha, Karen Hedman and Courtney Jackson received Minnesota Indian Education Association Awards on Oct. 16....
For centuries, treaties have defined the relationship between many Native American nations and the U.S. More than 370 ratified treaties have helped the U.S. expand its territory and led to many broken promises made to American Indians....
EAST COUNTY — A woman was arrested Friday after sheriff’s deputies found her boyfriend fatally shot in the chest and her 3-year-old son’s body hidden in the freezer at her home on the Barona Indian Reservation near Lakeside....
A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after sheriff's deputies found her boyfriend fatally shot and her 3-year-old son's body stuffed in the freezer at her home on an Indian reservation in Southern California, authorities said Saturday....
Authorities have identified a 32-year-old man who was shot and killed on the Barona Indian Reservation, where the body of a missing 3-year-old boy was later found in a garage, hidden under food in a freezer....
There will be 11 candidates vying for six open seats on the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council next month. The tribe has released the field of candidates for the four-year council terms. Each candidate has been certified by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Election Committee....
A mining company in British Columbia has launched a defamation lawsuit against an advocacy organization for its public remarks about the mining company’s controversial gold and copper mine plan....
SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA INDIAN COMMUNITY – As part of the Department of Interior’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor Friday announced that more than $20 million in purchase offers have been sent to almost 1,200 landowners with fractional interests at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona. Interested sellers will have until March 6, 2015, to return accepted offers....
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin had a main message in her vision for the future at the 31st annual State of the Band address – exercise cultural sovereignty. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/17/mille-lacs-band-state-nation-focuses-cultural-sovereignty-158735...
The incidence of 14 notifiable infectious diseases was higher among American Indian and Alaska Native populations compared with the white population, according to the most recent 5 years of data....
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- When Grand Forks Central High School student SaNoah LaRoque graduates this spring, she wants to wear an eagle feather....
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota is a state known for its large Native American population. But, can you name a single native restaurant? Not yet. A local chef who grew up on a Lakota Indian reservation is looking to change that....
LAWRENCE, KANSAS – An exclamation slam dunk with 3 seconds left in the game by senior guard Randy July, on a pass from newcomer Duelle Gore, summed up the night for the Haskell Indian Nations University men’s basketball team as the two combined for 54 points in a 94-87 win over the 12th ranked College of the Ozarks....
PHOENIX — A Pinetop man was sentenced to 10 years for assaulting a woman on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt sentenced Lloyd Tito Burnette Jr., 33, of Pinetop to 10 years’ imprisonment. Burnette pleaded guilty on Oct. 6 to assault resulting in serious bodily injury....
TULSA, Oklahoma - A multi-million dollar deal will mean better healthcare for Cherokee tribal members. The tribe announced a new $30 million partnership Thursday with Indian Health Services. Cherokee Nation Chief Bill John Baker called it, "another step toward world class healthcare for the Cherokee people."...
Our elders and spiritual leaders do not teach the practice of disenrollment. In fact, disenrollment is a wholly non-Indian construct. Indeed, when I recently asked Eric Bernando, a Grand Ronde descendant of his tribe’s Treaty Chief and fluent Chinook Wawa speaker, if there was a Chinook Wawa word or notion that means “disenrollment,” he unequivocally answered, “no.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/16/disenrollment-tool-colonizers...
According to regulations detailed in the 3-page memo, as long as the tribes observe and abide by federal rules currently in places for states that have legalized cannabis, they won’t face any sort of legal punishment or prosecution. Additionally, any sales made by the 556 nationally-recognized tribes in the U.S. will be exempt from state and local taxes, prompting analysts to estimate a “financial bonanza” for Natives who decide to take the government up on what appears to be a no-strings-attached offer....
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in northern Minnesota is exploring whether to grow and sell marijuana following a recent U.S. Department of Justice memo allowing the practice on reservations even in states where marijuana is illegal. The U.S. Department of Justice in December ruled that American Indian tribes can legalize marijuana on reservations as long as they follow conditions that also govern states like Colorado that have legalized marijuana. The requirements include preventing the drug's...
The Anishinabek Nation in Ontario is creating a blanket of hope using donated earrings to represent missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada....
For many on the Gila River Indian Community in central Arizona, getting clear a clear TV signal can sometimes be a challenge. But that’s about to change. In February, the tribe plans to launch its own low-power television station with repeaters across the reservation. The Gila River Indian Community joins a growing number of tribes launching their own media outlets....