Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Clobbered by coal mining cuts, the Crow Tribe has notified furloughed employees they might not be able to return to work for five months. In letters issued Jan. 14, workers were told to be prepared for furloughs through May 16, though workers may be recalled earlier based on need and better than expected revenue. Earlier this month, the Crow Tribe indicated it would furlough a quarter of its workers because of revenue shortfalls resulting from a tanking coal economy. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana...
Native American advocates are protesting against the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Canada that they say violates the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Dana Wilson and Troy Olsen from the Lummi Indian Nation, who according to their website are “the original inhabitants of Washington’s northernmost coast and southern British Columbia,” tried to enter Canada’s National Energy Board proceedings on the project, but as only one was allowed in they decided to mount their objection from their W...
MONTVILLE — The Town Council declined to put more than $200,000 of surplus money from the education budget into a special account for capital expenses, citing the cloudy future of state and tribal funding to the town as the main reason. All but one member of the council, Joseph Rogulski, voted against committing $236,956 to the Education Reserve Fund. Superintendent of Schools Brian Levesque said the surplus came from a significant number of teacher retirements. http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20160125/NEWS/160129667...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its first Indian law decision of its current term on Monday, ruling against the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin in a contract support costs case. By a unanimous vote, the justices held that the tribe waited too long to pursue certain Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDA) claims against the Indian Health Service. The court determined there were no "extraordinary circumstances" that warranted an extension of a six-year deadline established by the Contract Disputes Act (CDA). "The ISDA and CDA...
Winston-Salem, N.C. — The requirement to present photo identification to cast a ballot went on trial Monday in a closely watched case that will have legal ramifications for voting across the country this presidential election year. Inside a federal courthouse here, attorneys for the Justice Department and the NAACP argued that the law passed by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly intentionally discriminates against African Americans and Latinos, who disproportionately lack one of the required forms of photo identification. h...
WHITECLAY — When Martin Pilcher was a boy growing up in the New Crazy Horse community a couple of miles south of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on the road to Whiteclay, he and his young friends would do their best to avoid Nebraska 407. Whether on horseback or on foot, the youngsters were leery of the road and would reluctantly sneak across the tarmac only to reach the cool creek on the other side. "We would stay away from it as much as possible," Pilcher said. "So many people drove to Whiteclay to get beer and there were a lot of a...
Hope for a better La Loche has helped keep Perry Herman alive. The 27-year-old resident of the village with Saskatchewan's highest suicide rate — three times the national average — admits he has thought about taking his own life. But faith, family, friends and hope have helped him survive. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/la-loche-monday-matthew-kruchak-youth-suicide-mental-health-resources-1.3418191...
Community workers in the village of La Loche, Sask. say their young people desperately need a place they can call their own. While the northern Saskatchewan community has recently gained international attention as the site of a school shooting that killed four people, La Loche has been plagued by youth suicide, violence and addiction for decades. "For far too long, we've been a forgotten people," said Connie Cheecham, human resources co-ordinator for the community of La Loche. "And the only way government pays attention is if they discover...
LINCOLN — A Dollar General store that opened a decade ago in Winnebago ushered in a new era of business on the northeast Nebraska reservation. Before the store opened, no business owned by a non-Native American had located there in some 30 years, said businessman Lance Morgan, who leads the tribe’s economic development arm. Some such businesses had left the reservation for economic reasons. Others went because of confusion over taxes. http://www.omaha.com/news/legislature/tax-breaks-for-businesses-owned-by-non-native-america...
The territories had the highest rates of police-reported family violence in Canada in 2014, according to newly released data from Statistics Canada. In Nunavut the rates were over 10 times higher than the Canadian average although overall rates are decreasing. In 2014, there were an average of about 243 incidents of police-reported family violence in Canada per 100,000 people. The numbers in the territories came in much higher with Nunavut at 2,491, the Northwest Territories at 1,897 and Yukon at 912. http://www.cbc.ca/news/...
B.C.’s First Nations are struggling with an innocuous-sounding accounting issue that is described as an “elephant in the room” and a “silent killer” of on-reserve communities, according to reports and interviews with Aboriginal leaders. It’s the inability and sometimes outright refusal of community members, including a number of chiefs and councillors, to pay rent while living in band-owned housing. And while many don’t pay simply because they can’t afford it due to inadequate federal housing allowances, others – including salary-collecting...
An Oklahoma town with a population of just 6,700 is searching for answers after the suicides of four young people in the past two months. The first suicide in Anadarko, Oklahoma happened on December 1, when 16-year-old high school sophomore Jaidon DuBois shot himself. Not long after DuBois' untimely death, a 21-year-old young man killed himself, followed by a 22 year old. The most recent death involved an 11-year-old girl. All four committed suicide using guns. In the wake of the back-to-back tragedies, town officials are working to prevent...
Grit, humility and heart are values Cera Swiftwater spoke of in her student address during fall graduation’s December commencement ceremony. Swiftwater has internalized these through her own experience, struggle and time at MSUM. Swiftwater credits her grit to being raised by a single mother of five on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “When you come from a place that has 90 percent of the population living below the poverty line, you have a bit of an uphill climb,” Swiftwater said during her speech. http://...
Many scholars claim that disease struck the native population shortly after their first contact with Europeans, and spread with such ferocity that it left tell-tale fingerprints on the global climate. Others, however, argue that — though still devastating — the process was far more gradual, and took place over many years. A new Harvard study, however, suggests both theories are wrong. Led by Matt Liebmann, the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology, a team of researchers was able to sho...
The Sioux Falls Police Department has found a missing person who had been considered endangered. Officers made contact with Dustin Lee Dog Eagle, 18, in the downtown area after being notified of his whereabouts at 5:56 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from Sgt. T. Ward. Numerous updates were received from alert citizens throughout the night and were verified by officers, Ward said. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/01/25/sioux-falls-police-searching-endangered-missing-man/79329766/...
HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A former pharmacist at the Rocky Boy Health Clinic has been sentenced to nine months in jail and must pay $163,000 in fines and restitution for filing false income tax returns. The Havre Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1S6RpsH ) that Darin Lee Miller, of Havre, previously pleaded guilty to the charges under a plea agreement. Federal prosecutors alleged Miller failed to report more than $100,000 in interest from 2009-2011 that he earned by investing in the JE Loan Program, which loaned money to the tribe and individual t...
A member of the Ute Indian Tribe has pleaded guilty to killing another member on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. Grant Hurbert Checora pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a man identified in documents only as E.C. In a plea agreement, Checora admitted that he "acted recklessly with extreme disregard for human life by killing E.C. while in a sudden quarrel." The agreement calls for a five-year prison sentence. Checora was first charged with second-degree murder,...
A man accused of killing another man by running him over with a car on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation faces two additional charges. Lance Robertson, who is either 27 or 28 and a member of the Spirit Lake Nation, was initially charged with murder in the death of Larse Azure Jr., 18, of Fort Totten, N.D. Robertson is accused of killing Azure on Dec. 19. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/3932576-spirit-lake-man-faces-more-charges...
A man was shot Monday while on a homeowner's property in the Hollywood Seminole Reservation, a Seminole Police spokesman said. A woman who is a member of the tribe called 911 about 8 a.m. from her residence on Donna Drive to say there was an intruder in her backyard who was looking into her home, police spokesman Gary Bitner said. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-hollywood-seminole-reservation-shooting-20160125-story.html...
A man was in critical but stable condition Monday after being shot on the Seminole Tribe’s reservation near Hollywood, a tribe spokesman said. A 911 call at 8 a.m. reported an intruder in the backyard of a home on Donna Street, said Tribe spokesman Gary Bitner. The next few calls reported gunshots. Bitner said the intruder, identified as Ricky Odel, climbed the six-foot concrete wall dividing the city of Hollywood from the reservation. He was unarmed. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/ar...
A 17-year-old Cameron girl is the first victim of the Hantavirus on the Navajo Nation in 2016. The death was confirmed by the Navajo Department of Health and the Navajo Epidemiology Center on January 19. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome is a rare – but potentially fatal – disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control. “The disease is not known to be passed from person to person,” said Del Yazzie, an epidemiologist with the Navajo Epidemiology Center. “It’s only through rodent droppings, urine.” http://www.lakepowelllife...
