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Rural America Initiatives (RAI) plans to build a new Head Start/Early Childhood Development/Community Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, with the help of a $250,000 Challenge match grant the nonprofit was awarded by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Prior Lake, Minnesota. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/24/rural-american-initiatives-receives-250000-grant-shakopee-mdewakanton-sioux-153260...
(WNN/IRIN) United Nations, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting health experts and indigenous activists to highlight a need to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients. This would also assist in improving society’s relationship with the earth, and to restoring both human and environmental health....
An overflow crowd at the NOVA Center for the Performing Arts was treated to three short, powerful plays Friday night performed and written by youth dealing honestly and thoughtfully with the scourge of youth suicide. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/education/students-put-on-plays-addressing-suicide/article_48894878-5064-57fd-a198-389d161b97c8.html#ixzz2rb0GhdkM...
PORTLAND, ORE. — A study shows many tribal children do poorly in Oregon public schools, in part because they’re frequently absent and their schools often show up at the bottom of state rankings....
PORTLAND, ORE. — A study shows many tribal children do poorly in Oregon public schools, in part because they’re frequently absent and their schools often show up at the bottom of state rankings....
As authorities searched the icy rubble of an old-age home that burned nearly to the ground early January 23, looking for as many as 30 missing people, evidence began pointing to an illicit cigarette as the cause of the blaze. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/25/fiery-death-icy-tomb-toll-rises-after-old-age-home-burns-quebec-town-153270...
A prayer service was held Friday in Prince Albert prior to a Saturday funeral in Pelican Narrows for two brothers who died in a house fire....
Thousands of people from across the north are now eligible to receive an education credit from the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement....
The late Lakota activist Russell Means was also a film actor, so this won't be the first time his face has loomed large on the silver screen. But this is different from Natural Born Killers and Last of the Mohicans, two of Means' better known films -- this time, Means isn't playing a character in a story. This time, in Conspiracy to Be Free, Russell Means is the story. The documentary is being executive-produced by Pearl Daniel-Means, Russell's widow, and directed by Colter Johnson. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedi...
News broke January 14, of a suspected murder for hire plan in Spokane, Washington that allegedly involved James T. Henrikson of North Dakota. The story by kxly.com presents the story of a business deal gone bad involving the potential extraction of oil from a plot of land. Henrikson’s business partner, who lived in Spokane, was shot and killed in December, and Spokane police detectives just announced the arrest of an area man and released information that connected him to Henrikson. Henrikson is currently under federal investigation, along w...
There are concerns that Mi’kmaq inmates in a New Brunswick jail are being denied access to spiritual services....
From the time of first contact with Europeans, American Indian women have born a special part of the burden of colonization and genocide. Commonly traveling without female companions, Native women were often the only hope settlers had for sex, partnership, or marriage. Often times Indigenous women were married off to white men in the hopes of keeping peace....
Briana Ireland, a member of Skatin' First Nation in British Columbia, had her references cleared and was about to rent a new home. But when she disclosed her spiritual practice of smudging, her rental application was scrapped....
Heather Abbey did a double-take when she first came across photos on Pinterest of miniature teepees decorating children’s bedrooms....
Children lost to fires on reserves. It’ a story APTN brought you far too many times....
APTN has more details about that fatal house fire that took the lives of two young children on the Pelican Narrows First Nation in north eastern Saskatchewan....
First Nations family from Northern Saskatchewan says they’re in shock after the man responsible for killing their daughter was only found guilty of one charge: Lying to the police...
The family of a Terrace B.C. man is launching a class action lawsuit against the RCMP in what is being described as a case of excessive use of force....
It has been a month of sweat lodges, job searching and spending time with his wife for Brandon Olebar as the Nuu-chah-nulth/Sto:lo man eases back into normal life after a decade of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/23/wrongfully-imprisoned-native-brandon-olebar-adjusts-freedom-153220...
The search for a Metis Woman in the Montreal area is over, but the investigation continues....