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Here are three scenes from the history of slavery in North America. In 1637, a group of Pequot Indians, men and boys, having risen up against English colonists in Connecticut and been defeated, were sold to plantations in the West Indies in exchange for African slaves, allowing the colonists to remove a resistant element from their midst. (The tribe’s women were pressed into service in white homes in New England, where domestic workers were sorely lacking.) In 1741, an 800-foot-long coffle of recently enslaved Sioux Indians, procured by a g...
BROWNING, Mont. (AP) — A northwestern Montana town has cut back its operating hours and is considering filing for bankruptcy after running short on funds. Browning is a town of about 1,000 people on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Officials blame its financial problems on a dispute with the Blackfeet Nation over management of a water utility that serves the town. But Blackfeet leaders contend the town owes the tribe money and must accept responsibility for its poor fiscal management. http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/arti...
"Big questions" remain about how the body of a First Nations teenager turned up in river three months after the boy was last seen in 2011 in Thunder Bay, Ont., according to his family's lawyer. Christa Big Canoe represents the families of six of the seven First Nations students whose deaths in Thunder Bay are the subject of an inquest, including the parents of Jordan Wabasse. Friends of the 15-year-old testified at the inquest that they watched him get off a city transit bus a short distance from his boarding home on the night of Feb. 7, 2011....
BILLINGS - A main topic discussed at an energy briefing in Billings today: President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan. Enacted last August, the Clean Power Plan's goal is to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. Montana Senator Steve Daines said this act will kill 7,000 tribal and union jobs within the state. Additionally, he said it will affect $140 million of tax revenues every year that fund schools, teachers and infrastructure. "It's going to create a double-digit energy increase for Montanans. To...
After over two decades of working as a hunting guide, Roger Morris knows a thing or two about cooking moose meat. He got most of that experience cooking for hunters on guided trips in the Wrangell Mountains and Alaska Peninsula. But last week he prepared his "Bullwinkle's chili" for hundreds of needy Anchorage residents when a donation of road-killed moose meant an afternoon lunch at Anchorage's Downtown Soup Kitchen, where he volunteers. http://www.adn.com/article/20160109/roadkill-meal...
LAME DEER, Mont –– Winter is hard for many on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. As temperatures plummet, electrical bills sky rocket, especially for those who live in poorly insulated HUD homes, most heated by electricity. And, winter heating is especially challenging for tribal elders on fixed incomes when temperatures often fall to 20 and even 30 below zero. In the past, Northern Cheyenne tribal elders have found some relief from a subsidy provided by the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a program administered by local uti...
A dog rescuer who has visited a number of Manitoba First Nations is petitioning the provincial government to help remote communities manage stray dogs. Jasmine Colucci, who works for K-9 Advocates Manitoba, carried out dog rescue operations in Dakota Tipi First Nation, Sandy Bay First Nation, Norway House and Long Plain First Nation in January. She took photographs that show frozen dogs, animals lying in heaps with bullet holes in their heads and homeless dogs taking shelter in dumps. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/d...
FARMINGTON — When the Farmington girls basketball team played earlier this month in the Lady Bronco Tournament at Kirtland Central, the Lady Scorpions saw a new side of their senior point guard. On Jan. 9, Meeya Yazzie helped bring the Lady Scorps back from an early-game, 12-point deficit against Kirtland. She showed a lot of emotion while doing it, yelling out after consecutive FHS baskets during a third-quarter run. "I got super excited. I don't think my teammates (have seen) that side of me in a while," Yazzie said. "In that game, I saw t...
