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BEMIDJI—The Beltrami County Veterans Task Force convened for a meeting Wednesday night to primarily renew the call for a living facility to serve northwest Minnesota. The meeting, held in the Beltrami County Administration Building with a crowd of veterans and legislators listening in, was the latest in the push for an area veterans home that has lasted about a decade. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4206006-plenty-progress-be-made-need-remains-beltrami-county-officials-renew-efforts...
ST. PAUL -- Minnesota lawmakers are about to approve relief for 120,000 Minnesotans facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums. Both chambers of the state Legislature are likely to pass the relief bill Thursday, after a joint committee of lawmakers approved a compromise Wednesday afternoon. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/4205963-compromise-reached-provide-health-insurance-premium-relief-minnesota...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." As early as Thursday, he is expected to pause the flow of all refugees to the U.S. and indefinitely bar those fleeing war-torn Syria. "Beginning today the United States of America gets back control of its borders," Trump declared during a visit to the Department of Homeland S...
About 125,000 Minnesotans who face surging health insurance premiums can expect rebates funded by the state soon, thanks to a compromise finalized Wednesday between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republicans who control the Legislature. The $326 million rebate plan has been the chief focus of activity at the State Capitol since lawmakers convened at the beginning of January. If the House and Senate pass it on Thursday as expected, Gov. Mark Dayton said he will sign it — giving both the DFL governor and Republican legislative majorities a bipartisan a...
A 20-year-old man imprisoned for robbery and suspected in a sexual assault in St. Paul has been charged with an ambush rape on a street in a Minneapolis neighborhood east of Lake of the Isles. Mika Dalbec, of Minneapolis, was charged in Hennepin County District Court last week with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in an August 2015 attack on a 26-year-old woman in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood. http://www.startribune.com/man-charged-in-2015-rape-of-woman-who-walked-in-south-mpls-neighborhood/411797956/...
Neighbors and firefighters who rushed to the aid of a St. Paul family overcome by fire and smoke Wednesday morning said they were perplexed that no one was able to escape the blaze that killed one and badly injured three others, including two young children. "I don't know why the people couldn't get out on their own," said St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard. "9:20 in the morning is when we got the call, I don't know why they couldn't escape and what happened here." http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-duplex-fire-kills-1-burn...
Long-struggling Minneapolis-based Arctic Cat is being purchased by Textron Inc. for $247 million in cash, a consolidation coming at a time when sales of all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles have been under pressure, company officials announced Wednesday. The sale to Rhode Island-based Textron, a conglomerate whose products include helicopters and golf carts, follows extended turnaround efforts by the Minnesota company that failed to yield consistent profits or greatly excite consumers with new models. http://www.startribune....
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president is "considering" canceling next week's visit to Washington following President Donald Trump's order to begin construction of a wall between the two countries, a senior official said. In a nationally televised speech late Wednesday, President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the U.S. decision and repeated that Mexico would not pay for the wall despite Trump's avowals that it would. http://www.startribune.com/official-mexico-s-president-considering-scrapping-us-trip/411800416/...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 11 were killed and 50 injured Wednesday as Somali security forces ended a siege by extremist fighters who stormed a hotel in the capital, police said. Four al-Shabab attackers were also killed in the attack on Dayah hotel, which is often frequented by government officials, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior police officer. The death toll may rise, he said. http://www.startribune.com/somalia-gunmen-storm-hotel-in-capital-after-car-bomb/411724246/...
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Most of the demonstrators who gathered on the North Dakota plains to oppose the Dakota Access oil pipeline declared victory and departed their snowy protest camp last month after the Army announced it would halt the project. Now that President Donald Trump's administration is pushing to complete the pipeline, the few hundred protesters still living on the wind-whipped prairie must decide what to do — accept the likely defeat and leave, or stay and keep fighting. http://www.startribune.com/last-pipeline-pr...
NEW YORK -- Opponents of two controversial oil pipelines face a long and difficult legal path if the U.S. government approves their construction, experts said after the Trump administration issued orders on Tuesday, Jan. 24, intended to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access projects. U.S. President Donald Trump issued a pair of memoranda to several agencies paving the way to revive Keystone XL, which would bring oil from Canada, and Dakota Access, a nearly completed pipeline which had sought to build under a lake near a Native American...
Moments after signing an executive order to push forward the intensely disputed Dakota Access pipeline, President Donald Trump ignored a reporter's question about Native American protesters who have fiercely opposed the project. "Mr. Trump, any comment to the Standing Rock community and the protesters out there?" a reporter in the Oval Office asked after the president finished signing five executive orders. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/24/trump-ignores-standing-rock-sioux-question-after-dakota-access-order.html...
While ringing in the new year on a northern Manitoba reserve, a woman says she was brutally attacked for being transgender. Aalayna Spence, 22, said she was at a house party in Nelson House, Man., when transphobic slurs turned into physical violence. "I never thought this type of violence would ever happen to me," she said. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/transgender-woman-from-nelson-house-attacked-1.3951040...
Tribal leaders across the nation are standing united as they push back against unwanted infrastructure projects on their homelands. The battle is unfortunately a familiar one. For decades, and even centuries, massive dams, sprawling highways, poisonous mines, radioactive nuclear facilities, dangerous military ranges and similar developments have been imposed on tribes by officials in Washington, D.C., often without a full consideration of the impacts on the affected communities. http://www.indianz.com/News/2017/01/25/tribes-...
An anonymous donor is pledging $380,000 for a plan to prevent more young people from dying by suicide on Wapekeka First Nation in northern Ontario, after Health Canada denied funding last summer. Difficulty in obtaining government funding was made public last week after the death of two 12-year-olds, Jolynn Winter and Chantel Fox, in the remote community, about 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/anonymous-donor-wapekeka-1.3951372...
President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders to expedite the review of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, two oil pipelines encroaching on Native American land. In a press conference Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump would continue pursuing these projects to "increase jobs, increase economic growth and tap into America's energy supply." https://mic.com/articles/166685/in-wake-of-dapl-executive-order-trump-hangs-andrew-jackson-painting-in-oval-office#.Rot3ejcj0...
Allegations that employees at a First Nation-owned gas station north of Winnipeg are offering non-Indigenous customers tax-free cigarettes and gas have some members of Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation concerned. The Red Sun Gas Bar is located on Highway 6, north of the Perimeter Highway, on Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation land. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/red-sun-gas-bar-tax-free-sales-1.3950706...
Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of the overall population, but comprise 1.9 percent of those fatally shot by police. That's according to a report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, which found that Native Americans are the racial group most likely have a police encounter turn fatal. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/24/criminal-justice-for-native-americans...
A Wichita school board member has apologized for a comment she made this week about “Indians running loose” in schools, saying she did not intend to offend Native Americans. “Sometimes you wish you could take something back that you said, and unfortunately that’s not possible,” Sheril Logan said. “But you certainly can say you’re sorry to everybody that heard it, and that’s exactly what I’m doing.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article128793334.html#storylink=cpy...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada high school basketball coach has been suspended for three games after he sent an offensive text to one of his player preparing for a game against a team from an Indian reservation. Virginia City girls basketball coach Ken Fujii texted his player to "get ready to scalp or be scalped" before the Jan. 13 game against Pyramid Lake High School. http://www.heraldcourier.com/sports/nevada-coach-who-sent-scalping-text-suspended-games/article_0cd42c96-ad9a-54e8-9f68-587b20e2368f.html...
BLYN — A memorial service is planned Saturday for the last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member, a former tribal chairman and council member who helped the tribe gain federal recognition. Lyle Prince, 89, died Jan. 15. The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Red Cedar Hall on the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Campus, 1033 Old Blyn Highway. http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/memorial-service-set-for-last-full-blooded-jamestown-sklallam-tribal-member/...
Native Americans have served in every major U.S. military encounter from the Revolutionary War to today’s conflicts in the Middle East in higher numbers per capita than any other ethnic group. “Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation’s Armed Forces” reveals the remarkable history of Native American veterans through art, photography and essay. The 16-panel exhibition documents 250 years of Native peoples’ contributions in U.S. military history and remains on view from Jan. 21, through January 2018 in the Sealaska Gallery of the Smith...
