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CHARLESTON, South Carolina - A legal battle over the custody of a 2-year-old girl born in Oklahoma is set to go before the South Carolina Supreme Court....
In a clarification of last Friday’s announcement of a list of Mexican-American studies books to “be cleared from all classrooms” in order to comply with a state ban on ethnic studies, the Tucson Unified School District declared Tuesday that it ”has not banned any books as has been widely and incorrectly reported....
First Nation leaders waiting for their meeting with the prime minister are preparing a grocery list of demands....
Three people are being banished this week from one of the six communities that make up the Lac La Ronge Indian Band — although the band isn't saying exactly why....
Kenny Slattery has lived on the Wind River Reservation for 51 years, and just across the street from the old Susquehanna-Western uranium mill tailings pile for that entire period of time. “They say there’s a cancer cluster in this area,” says Slattery. “I don’t know, but my mother died of lung cancer, and my father died of prostate cancer. My cousin’s husband died of esophageal cancer just a half-mile from here, and other people have died from cancer around this area too. Dogs have died of cancer. It’s strange.” Read more:http://ind...
Crookston defeats Red Lake Girls 94-58 last night...
TWO men who ripped off close to $1 million from two West Vancouver-based aboriginal organizations have been sent to jail. Read more: http://www.nsnews.com/Jail+fraudsters+stole+911K+from+aboriginal+groups/6021301/story.html#ixzz1k0jdxLnR...
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Wednesday joined Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan at the White House to meet with senior state, local and tribal law enforcement officials to discuss the Obama administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States – released in December – and engage them on the critical task of preventing violent extremism in their commun...
PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA –– Almost 37 years after the execution-style murders of two young FBI special agents on this sprawling reservation, the man convicted of pulling the trigger continues to proclaim his innocence....
With news reports of the recent deaths of a 13-year-old boy in Pennsylvania and a 19-year-old university basketball player in South Carolina linked to the use of synthetic marijuana, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council has banned fake pot from the reservation. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/19/st-regis-mohawk-council-bans-synthetic-marijuana-73049 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/19/st-regis-mohawk-council-bans-synthetic-marijuana-73049#ixzz1k0qE0Fhl...
In her new television commercials for L’Oreal’s TrueMatch line of cosmetics, pop star Beyonce says her face is “a mosaic of all the faces before it” while the words “African American … Native American … French” appear on screen. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/19/beyonce-touts-loreal-cosmetics-that-match-your-native-american-shade-73225 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/19/beyonce-touts-loreal-cosmetics-that-match-your-native-american-shade-73225#ixzz1k0qj9pFv...
1. Hipster headdress: From Ke$ha's stage garb to the designs of I am Howling Wolf, one really needs to know the difference between expression and appropriation....
NESPELEM -- With a wolf pack to the west, and three packs to the east, Colville tribal officials weren't too surprised to confirm that gray wolves are now also living on the Colville Indian Reservation. Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/01/19/1792846/colville-tribe-to-manage-gray.html#storylink=cpy...
In Manitoba, a 29 year-old man will serve only three months for taking the lives of two promising young teenagers....
Devils Lake, ND — United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 31, 2011, several Spirit Lake Tribe officers and employees were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged in three separate cases with embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization and false statements....
An idea to open a casino at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center suggests the city may have a double standard about gambling when it comes to taking slot machine quarters and blackjack bets itself, the chairwoman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa said Thursday....
SAINT REGIS — The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is poised to save significantly with a new agreement reducing New York state police assigned to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino....
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police will be a new presence at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/18/saint-regis-mohawk-tribal-police-take-over-casino-duties-73044 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/18/saint-regis-mohawk-tribal-police-take-over-casino-duties-73044#ixzz1k0uXdc4c...
RLHS Parent Involvement Activities: Saturday January 21, 2012 - 10:00 am-noon Tubing Family Event Buena Vista Monday January 23, 2012 Suicide Prevention Feast RLHS Cafeteria-Indian Tacos 4:30-5:45 pm Free Admission to Game...