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Polaris Industries Inc. laid off about 100 workers, half at operations in the Twin Cities, executives said Tuesday as the company announced a drop in fourth-quarter profits and warned of a steeper dip in the first quarter of this year. The Medina-based manufacturer of off-road vehicles and motorcycles informed workers of the cuts on Monday. Polaris was aiming to reduce employment costs by 7 percent as it grapples with revenue and profit pressures. http://www.startribune.com/polaris-sees-4q-profit-fall-18-percent-warns-of-slo...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's health minister says the country is sending some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects — but he also says the war is already being lost. Marcelo Castro said that nearly 220,000 members of Brazil's Armed Forces would go door-to-door to help in mosquito eradication efforts ahead of the country's Carnival celebrations. Agency spokesman Nivaldo Coelho said Tuesday details of the deployment are still being worked out. http://www.startribune....
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis elementary school principal was seen pushing several students out of the way of an oncoming bus before the vehicle fatally struck her, authorities said Tuesday. Susan Jordan, the principal of Amy Beverland Elementary School on the city's far northeast side, was killed and two 10-year-old children were hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries when the bus suddenly lurched forward, authorities said. http://www.startribune.com/driver-principal-fatally-hit-by-bus-pushed-kids-out-...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — When Bernie Sanders rolled into Decorah, nearly 2,300 people were waiting for him. Chants of "Feel the Bern" filled the spirited hall from a crowd roughly equivalent to a quarter of the town's population. "If we have the kind of turnout that I hope we can," Sanders told the rally, "then we're going to win here in Iowa." Two days later, on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton received a far less raucous greeting in the same northeastern Iowa college town. A largely elderly crowd of 450 listened quietly, clapping politely at her a...
A Nooksack Tribal Court judge largely sided with people facing disenrollment Tuesday by denying the tribe’s request to prevent those members from voting in this year’s council elections. In a Tuesday, Jan. 26, order, Nooksack Tribal Court Judge Susan Alexander wrote that the tribe could not prevent members of three families facing disenrollment, who call themselves the “Nooksack 306,” from voting. Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article56734618.html#storylink=cpy...
Tribes conduct enrollment audits for a variety of reasons. Some conduct them for the right reasons: To clean up their records and to make sure that the errors of the past are not repeated. And to make sure that every tribal member has an updated membership file that is consistent with their governing documents and the wishes of their tribal membership. They do not do it for the sole purpose of disenrolling tribal members. Many tribes that I have worked with recognize that and do everything they can to avoid disenrolling any of their citizens...
One person died and eight others were taken into custody Tuesday when authorities confronted an armed protest group responsible for a nearly monthlong occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon, officials said. Killed in the confrontation was Arizona rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, who had acted as a spokesman for the group of self-styled defenders of the Constitution, according to Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who spoke with the wife of Ammon Bundy, the son of a renegade Nevada rancher and a leader...
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - An Oregon branch of the Native American Church claims the United States illegally seized its sacramental marijuana - but national church leaders disavow the validity of the branch's affiliation and say marijuana has never been a part of its rituals. Oklevueha Native American Church leaders James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney and Joy Graves sued the United States and the U.S. Postal Service on Jan. 15 in Federal Court. http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/01/26/church-fights-seizure-of-sacramental-pot.htm...
An Oklevueha Native American Church medicine woman from Oregon mailed a five-ounce package of pot—the sacrament of cannabis—to an ailing church member in Ohio on Dec. 10, 2015. The package never made it. It was seized by law enforcement, as Joy Graves discovered when she used UPS’s online tracking option to track her package. Graves and the church, founded by James “Flaming Eagle” Mooney, turned around and sued for the company and the federal government for their weed and the right to ship it wherever they please, citing federal religious...
The story of Dawn's death is one of the untold many that are meant to get a fuller reckoning now that the federal government is launching the long called-for inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Dawn's story is one that Ernie Crey, the chief of the Cheam First Nation in B.C., has told to the media many times before. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-26-2016-1.3419914/cheam-first-nation-chief-calls-for-murdered-men-to-be-included-in-inquiry-1.3419921...
OTTAWA – The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a landmark ruling on Tuesday, indicating the federal government has discriminated against First Nations children in its funding of child welfare services. Here are five things about the case: 1. The fight has been underway for nine years The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint in 2007 arguing the federal government failed to provide First Nations children the same level of welfare services that exist elsewhere, contrary t...
Native Americans were wiped out by plagues brought by European missionaries more than a hundred years after Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. Infectious diseases killed nearly nine out of ten causing vast areas to become depopulated, a new study estimated. And their fate could have implications for how human activities are changing the planet today, say scientists. Many scholars claim disease struck shortly after the explorer discovered the continent in 1492. Read more: http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/8203-Na...
In the 1500s, the ponderosa pine forests of Jemez province in New Mexico were home to between 5000 and 8000 people. But after Europeans arrived in the area, the native population plummeted by more than 80%, probably because of a series of devastating epidemics. A new study suggests the crash took place 100 years after the first contact with Europeans. It also suggests that the sudden drop in the local population had dramatic ecological effects, including an increase in forest fires. The authors of the paper used a "terrific combination" of...
To the outside world, South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Lakota people, is known as one of the most impoverished areas in the U.S. Historically, in 1890, it was the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre. In recent years, its population—up to 40,000, by some estimates—has faced a variety of problems, including a high youth suicide rate, drug and alcohol issues, vandalism, gang activity and high unemployment. Over the past five years, a non-profit organization called the Stronghold Society has been working to make reser...
The federal government discriminates against First Nation children on reserves by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services that exist elsewhere, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations and Family Caring Society, along with the Assembly of First Nations, filed a complaint against Ottawa with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in February 2007. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/canada-discriminates-against-children-on-reserves-tribunal-rules-1...
It's a one-man ride service for indigenous people in Winnipeg, and while Pernell Flett isn't asking for money, he is collecting passengers' stories. "Some of them tell how cab drivers try to touch them, feel them up and take them places they don't want to be," Flett said of the indigenous people he drives around the city. "A lot of them won't speak out about it; they're too scared to say anything about it." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cabs-neechi-rides-winnipeg-1.3419525...
There are approximately 326 Indian reservations in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, each deemed a sovereign nation with the inherent power of self-government. While there are more than 550 federally recognized tribes, not every tribe has their own reservation as many co-govern or live across multiple lands. While Native Americans are traditionally private and reclusive, today many embrace tourists, despite the hardships Native Americans have faced in the last two centuries, and graciously allow guests a rare...
PINE RIDGE | A federal official said today that two people have been arrested in connection with the death of Emily Blue Bird, the 24-year-old mother of two whose body was discovered Thursday afternoon in a creek near Pine Ridge. “Two suspects are currently in tribal custody at this time on tribal charges,” said Nedra Darling, a Washington, D.C.- based spokesperson for the Department of the Interior’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs. Darling declined to release the identities of the two suspects or the charges they face,...
Martin E. Red Bear has dabbled in art since the 1970s, and part of what drives him is a yearning to leave something behind for future generations. “Other people record history in writing, we do ours in pictures," Red Bear said. "I think that is just as important as a person who does it in writing." The rich histories and traditions of narrative art among people in the Great Plains are the subject of a new national art exhibit. Five Rapid City area artists, including Red Bear, will have their artwork featured in the Smithsonian's National M...
