Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continue to use government equipment inside the complex. One militant, who refused to give his name, again plowed dirt with a refuge bulldozer Wednesday. He wouldn’t say why he was operating the machinery, but in several places, sagebrush and vegetation had been newly removed, leaving wide patches of bare mud within the complex. The new road connects a bunkhouse with another road. http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/milita...
Two First Nation chiefs say they were offered money as enticement to sign their communities up for Bank of Montreal loan agreements arranged by a Winnipeg-based financial firm that an internal document shows used “kickbacks” as a tool to secure clients. The chiefs, from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, said they were offered money by senior officials with The Usand Group, which bills itself as a firm dedicated to helping First Nation communities participate in the “global economy,” according to its website. They said Usand would arrange the loan ag...
Harold Frazier, Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, gave the first-ever State of the Tribes address to a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature on January 14. Frazier explained that South Dakota is the ancestral homeland of the Seven Council Fires of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota. He said, “It is time we learn to treat each other with the respect that is deserved, rather than with hatred and racism. Only then can we become nations working together for the health and welfare of our people. All men and women are created equal, and w...
MUSKRAT Magazine would like to acknowledge the following brave individuals who against many odds had the courage to create positive change and build a better future for Indigenous people in 2015. 1. Caleb Behn; Dunne-Za/Eh-Cho Dene Caleb Behn is the star of the documentary Fractured Land, which made its debut this year at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. The documentary focuses on the work he does as a lawyer and environmental activist that raises awareness about the impacts of hydraulic fracking in British Columbia. He studied law at...
BROCKVILLE, Ont. – Marlene Carter never stood a chance and everyone knew it. Carter was the first woman to take part in the long-awaited pilot project for female federal inmates with complex mental health problems announced by the former Stephen Harper government in May of 2014. Only the project was crippled before it began according to the doctor assigned to run it at the Brockville Mental Health Centre. That’s because the money never followed. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/01/20/how-the-federal-government-failed-marlene-carter-...
Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement, will be leading the Longest Walk 5 beginning February 13 at La Jolla Shores in San Diego, California. Banks has declared this walk to be a war on drugs. The first Longest Walk was organized in 1978 to bring attention to 11 bills pending in the U.S. Congress. The Native Americans Equal Opportunity Act would have eliminated all treaties between the U.S. government and tribal nations. This bill did not pass largely due to the attention brought by the walk from California to Washington...
Sioux Lookout, Ont. — Steve Dumonski's Grade 8 class at Sioux Mountain Public School seems normal enough: 25 or so kids busily doing their work. But it's actually pretty unique. Until recently, a lot of the kids just didn't come to class. "We have kids that you're happy that they showed up that morning," Dumonski said. "You're happy when they walk through the door, whether it's on time or it's at 10:30 in the morning. I know the students who are struggling to be here." Dumonski, whom the students call Mr. D, grew up in northwestern Ontario a...
Oscar diversity is more than a black and white issue. It's widely known that the Academy Awards failed to nominate a single nonwhite actor in 2016 (or 2015, for that matter). Though that discussion has largely focused on the exclusion of black actors, the Academy Awards' record has a serious dearth of any type of diversity. Conversations about inclusion can easily extend beyond the lack of black nominees to Latino, Asian, Native American and LGBT actors. http://mashable.com/2016/01/20/oscars-diversity-2016/#yzSGvSXtUaqw...
We are smack dab in the middle of a Native fashion renaissance," proclaims Karen Kramer, the Peabody Essex Museum's curator of Native American art and culture. "Native fashion increasingly permeates everyday life — across the internet, in stores, skate parks, runways, pretty much everywhere you go. Native Americans have always used clothing and personal adornment as key means for artistic expression and cultural survival. Today's Native designers are expanding on this creation, breaking creative boundaries left and right." Kramer is d...
Native actress, veteran television host, professional lawyer and mom of four Stacey Thunder has not shown any signs of slowing down since her starring role in the Jingle Dress, alongside Chaske Spencer. She will be traveling to the Sundance Film Festival with Heather Rae this Saturday to cover the festival and Sundance’s Native American and Indigenous Film program. In a conversation with ICTMN, Thunder talked about her experiences in the media industry, including her newest online news series, Indigenous With Stacey Thunder, and how a lawyer a...
A man was accused of murder Wednesday at the inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students in Thunder Bay, Ont., but the man denied the allegations when he was called to testify. The inquest is examining the deaths of seven young people who came to Thunder Bay from their remote First Nations to attend high school. Jordan Wabasse was last seen getting off a transit bus near his boarding home around 10 p.m. on February 7, 2011. His body was found on May 10, 2011, more than two kilomentres away in the Kaministiquia River near the James...
BISMARCK, North Dakota — A man is accused of shooting and injuring a man on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in a dispute over a drug debt. James Lowe is charged in federal court with assault with a dangerous weapon. The incident happened on Nov. 5 in Parshall. A federal affidavit says Lowe shot a man twice in the legs while he was in the shower and then hit him in the head with the gun. Lowe allegedly told the victim he would come back and kill him if he notified police. The affidavit says the victim told police he had been distributing m...
After more than three years of proceedings and an Alaska Court of Appeals decision, the family of a man who hanged himself in a Hooper Bay jail cell has been awarded just under $900,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit. The family’s attorney, Jim Valcarce, says the $1.04 million initially awarded by a local jury was reduced by 20 percent due to an error in the jury instructions. The case was settled after prolonged negotiations with an insurance adjuster, he said. http://www.adn.com/article/20160120/wrongful-death-lawsuit-against...
