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WASHINGTON – If President Donald Trump follows through on a proposal to slap a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports, it could lead to severe consequences for Minnesota's agriculture sector and some of its manufacturers. A trade war with Mexico could slow the flow of goods from Minnesota south of the border, a revenue stream that brought $2.4 billion to the state in 2015. http://www.startribune.com/mexican-import-tax-would-be-dire-for-minnesota-industry-trade-experts-say/411934936/...
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, signaling a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and one of its most important international partners just days into the new administration. The rift capped days of increasingly confrontational remarks — on Twitter and in dueling public appearances — between the two men, whose countries conduct some $1.6 billion a day in cross-border trade, and cooperate on everything from migration to anti-drug enfor...
It is getting closer to midnight. On Thursday, the group of scientists that orchestrates the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic instrument informing the public when Earth is facing imminent disaster, moved its minute hand to 2½ minutes before the final hour. It’s the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953, the year after the United States and the Soviet Union conducted competing tests of the hydrogen bomb. http://www.startribune.com/doomsday-clock-is-closest-to-midnight-since-1953/411902776/...
Education Minnesota has named 132 teachers from all around the state as candidates for the 2017 Minnesota Teacher of the Year. The 53rd Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be narrowed down from the list of 132 names and one lucky teacher will be chosen to receive the honor on May 7 at the Radisson Blu Mall of America. A selection committee comprised of 25 education, business and government leaders will hand pick a group of semifinalists and finalists. http://www.startribune.com/education-minnesota-names-132-candidates-for-tea...
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will begin expanding its reservation in the Santa Ynez Valley after it acquired a 1,390-acre portion of land, reports the Pacific Coast Business Times. The Bureau of Indian Affairs placed the parcel of land known as Camp 4 into federal trust, which will allow the Chumash to self-govern it all the while removing it from county legislation and taxation. http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=180709...
On Wednesday, a federal government website and phone line designed to take public comments—as part of an Environmental Impact Statement process ordered for the Dakota Access pipeline—stopped accepting comments, adding to speculation that the Trump administration was halting the process. But today the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the public input period is open, and will be through Feb. 20. The public is instructed to mail, hand deliver, or email comments. (Send email to gib.a.owen.civ@mail.mil with subject line “NOI Comments, Dakota Acces...
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has called Donald Trump’s decision to push forward the controversial Dakota Access pipeline “utterly alarming”, and warned the president that rushing through the project would break federal law. On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order instructing the army corps of engineers to “review and approve in an expedited manner” the Dakota Access project, an 1,100-mile pipeline that would take oil from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/...
Indian Country isn't the only one paying close attention to the new directives coming out of the White House. Judge James E. Boasberg scheduled a hearing next week to address the latest developments regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline. The move was unexpected because the parties weren't due to appear in court until sometime in February. http://www.indianz.com/News/2017/01/26/judge-calls-unexpected-hearing-after-pre.asp...
(KUTV) Protesters in North Dakota say they're not going anywhere after President Trump green-lighted a controversial oil pipeline. 2News visited Sacred Stone, a camp some have called home now for months. "I'm so comfortable and happy here that sometimes I forget what's going on outside," said Matthew Fisher Keller. "And I step outside and I see the lights and I go, yeah, we're at war." http://kutv.com/news/nation-world/protesters-refuse-to-leave-standing-rock-despite-tribes-request...
President Donald Trump may have revived prospects for the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, but the path to their completion still contains hurdles. While Trump moved to reverse former President Barack Obama’s measures that stalled the projects, the companies still have court battles ahead and, for Keystone, an application process that invited litigation and fierce opposition the first time around. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/keystone-and-dakota-access-face-hurdles-despite-trum...
Prior Lake City Council members this week discussed details of a joint water treatment facility agreement with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. If approved this spring by both groups, construction on a nearly $20 million joint treatment plant could start already this summer, with the facility opening by spring 2019. http://www.swnewsmedia.com/prior_lake_american/news/local/prior-lake-tribe-near-agreement-on-joint-water-treatment-facility/article_0a01cad7-0ac7-5627-ab4d-93586d9083e8.html...
Donald Trump’s proposed border wall could face a major obstacle in Arizona, where an indigenous tribe has vowed to oppose construction on its land, paving the way for potential mass resistance following the model of Standing Rock. The Tohono O’odham Nation, a federally recognized tribe with a reservation that spans 75 miles of the US-Mexico border, announced on Thursday that it does not support the wall and criticized the White House for signing an executive order without consulting the tribe. https://www.theguardian.com/us-...
President Trump has claimed repeatedly and falsely that voter fraud, rather than voter preference, robbed him of the popular vote last fall. And even though experts have debunked his claims, he’s now calling for a major investigation of November’s elections. The kind of investigation Trump is calling for already happened: In 2002, George W. Bush’s administration conducted a comprehensive five-year study and found little to no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Recent examinations have come to similar conclusions, with a 2016 study findi...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In early January, Murphy Becenti frantically called police again and again, crying and tripping over his words to say he was afraid his girlfriend Vanessa George was going to hurt herself and their two young daughters. A few days later, on Jan. 8, investigators began discovering their bodies, along with those of Vanessa’s sister Leticia George and her young daughter, in a rugged area of the Santa Ana Pueblo. https://www.abqjournal.com/936153/calls-deepen-riddle-in-deaths.html...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A fifth person has filed a lawsuit against the Mormon church accusing religious officials of not doing enough to protect Navajo children from sexual abuse in a now defunct church-run foster program that placed thousands of American Indian children with Mormon families. The new lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Navajo Nation court by a woman who says was sexually abused as a teenager over a three-year period from 1968-1971 by her foster father at a house in Spanish Fork, Utah. She says was 15-years-old when the abuse began. h...
A Saskatchewan First Nation is the latest community to turn to banishment as a way to deal with drugs and violent crime. The chief and council at Beardy's and Okemasis are fine-tuning a bylaw that would allow them to recommend banishment as part of an individual's sentencing. Chief Rick Gamble said it's a response to a troubling trend on the First Nation 85 kilometres north of Saskatoon. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/banishment-saskatchewan-beardys-okemasis-first-nation-1.3951485...
The Saulteaux First Nation, Sask., has extended the suspension of a bus driver who accidentally left a five-year-old boy in a locked garage for seven hours. Last week, Luke Keshane fell asleep on his way to school on the First Nation. When he woke up, he was locked in an unheated garage and wasn't discovered until bus drivers came to drive children home from school. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/bus-driver-suspended-saulteaux-first-nation-1.3953463...
A day after a car was found burning on the Soboba Indian Reservation and two people were declared "at risk missing persons," one of them was found dead nearby and determined to be the victim of a homicide, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said. The body of Kyle Nathan Cagey, 27, of Pala, was found Tuesday, Jan. 24, in a riverbed east of Castille Canyon, a news release said. The whereabouts of the other missing person, Kathleen Ann Haney, 56, of Hemet, are unknown. The Sheriff's Department reported the discovery Thursday afternoon....
SANTA FE – A Pojoaque Pueblo man who was convicted of assault and firearms charges for threatening to kill his children and their mother for losing keys in 2010 was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Albuquerque federal court Thursday. Gerald James Viarrial, who also must serve five years of supervised release after his prison term, was arrested in January 2015 after one of his children reported verbal abuse to a social service provider and said he wanted to keep his siblings and his mother safe from Viarrial. Pojoaque Pueblo tribal police a...
PORTLAND - A veteran who threatened police during a seven-hour standoff outside his home on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation will serve no prison time after a federal judge agreed with concerns Wednesday that the isolation and inactivity would jeopardize the man's recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder. U.S. District Judge Robert Jones instead sentenced Johnathan Courtney to probation and warned him never to drink alcohol. http://www.mailtribune.com/news/20170125/veteran-who-threatened-police-on-oregon-reservation-g...
MADISON, Wis. — Google Maps told the Koenig brothers the trip to Standing Rock would take nine hours. But Google didn’t know how how many donated items — warm clothing, camping supplies and dry food — filled the 18-foot trailer they drove, slowing them down for all the right reasons. They put a flag for their Ho-Chunk tribe on the trailer, so it could fly alongside them as they drove. It took the brothers 14 hours on that September weekend to get from Madison to the camp in North Dakota, to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that had filled...
