Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The behaviour of Indian leaders and the gestures of the Idle No More movement are expressions of the same pathologies found on so many reserves in Canada. Political pathology is more than the well-known corruption of so-called chiefs. Almost the entire discussion between Indians and the government is based on complaints, assumptions and assertions that have no basis in reality. They are projections of the imagination. Participants in the discussions, however, take them to be the self-evident structure of the common sense wor...
As part of a global day of action, Vancouver Idle No More protesters are planning to rally outside a downtown federal Aboriginal Affairs office Monday starting at noon. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Idle+More+rally+Vancouver+amid+global+action/7880524/story.html#ixzz2JGzAiJgI...
WINDOW ROCK – a highly debated taboo among the Navajo people is becoming more main stream as the ‘Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer’ or (LGBTQ) held a forum with Navajo leaders to discuss gay and lesbian interest, like same sex marriage on the reservation....
Officials on a South Dakota Indian Reservation say a campaign led by an 11-year-old California boy has resulted in the delivery of about 150 winter coats for kids....
Figures on aboriginal population from the 2011 census are not yet available, but the 2006 census showed nearly 1.2 million Canadians - about 4% of the population - claim to be aboriginal. Of these, fewer than a quarter (under 400,000) live on reserves....
Minority youths are arrested and in the Washington state’s court system more often than their white counterparts, a recent study commissioned by the state Supreme Court shows. But researchers said counties aren’t keeping complete data on ethnicity, and the gap between minority and white youth is larger. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/27/2451144/minority-youths-in-courts-more.html#storylink=cpy...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two sheriff's deputies were out of critical condition Sunday, while the man accused of shooting them and killing two other people was charged with arson and two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, Louisiana State Police said. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/2-Louisiana-deputies-out-of-critical-condition-4227168.php#ixzz2JH5c73L8...
A man shot three police officers - one fatally - in southern Louisiana Saturday with a shotgun after mysteriously torching a mobile home inside of which fire officials later discovered the charred remains of a 78-year-old local man. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268979/Wilbert-Thibodeaux-Gunman-slays-lawman-wounds-torching-mobile-home.html#ixzz2JH5te9Un...
A man has been arrested and accused of killing a Chitimacha Police Department officer and wounding two St. Mary deputies Saturday in Charenton. During the investigation, state police discovered the body of a civilian in the smoking debris of the mobile home that the suspect is believed to have set ablaze....
Last week, I spoke about child support issues with Samantha (Greendeer) Skenandore, a Ho-Chunk/Oneida who works Of-Counsel at Shanker & Kewenvoyouma, PLLC, a national firm headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, focused on the practice of federal Indian law. Samantha touched on the complexities involved in obtaining support orders within tribes, and the difficulties sometimes in enforcing them. This week, Samantha offers some advice to single parents about how to navigate your way through the whole child support process....
Many braving Sunday's treacherous roads for a history lesson at Gustavus Adolphus College, in particular looking back at the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862....
Heid E. Erdrich, Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa), lives her life wrapped up in language as a director of Wiigwaas Press, the Ojibwe-language publisher she started with her sister, award-winning author Louise Erdrich. To mark the publication of Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2012), Heid’s fourth poetry collection, ICTMN caught up with the writer for a chat....
With walleye populations on Mille Lacs Lake apparently falling more than biologists expected, Minnesota and American Indian officials have announced lower — by half — “safe harvest” levels for 2013....
In December, the U.S. District Court approved the distribution of $1.5 billion in Indian Trust Settlement funds into Individual Indian Money accounts, including about $4 million to Wind River Indian Reservation trips so far....
SALT LAKE CITY — About 100 protesters, most of them Native Americans, gathered at City Creek Center for a protest on Saturday that caught police and mall security off-guard....
Cooperstown Central School students will soon be polled about whether the school should retain the nickname “Redskins,” which dates to the mid-1920s....
Losing funding for Violence Against Women Act would greatly impact local programs that serve women, officials said....
FARMINGTON, N.M. — In a small, brightly decorated room at the Childhaven youth shelter, a group of Navajo children played a quiet game of Monopoly, their faces registering the occasional faint smile. Abandoned, neglected or worse, the children have been living here, on the edge of their tribe’s reservation, and most have been waiting for months until the state can find foster homes or relatives where it can send them....
SCOTTSDALE — Build it and they will come. The most attractive foreign investment tool to the United states is the EB-5 program, now the mammoth Native American Tribe is looking to create its own niche with foreigners....
There will be a meeting open to the public on Monday, Jan. 28, beginning at 5:30 p.m. to be held at the District No. 22 School Administration Center, 702 Lake Avenue, in Detroit Lakes. The purpose of this meeting is to provide opportunity to 1) review prior District No. 22 Title VII program, 2) review the current District No. 22 Title VII program services, 3) make ongoing recommendations pertaining to the unique academic needs of Native American students in the Detroit Lakes Public Schools. Everyone is welcome to attend and contribute his or...
The Minnewaukan Public School District recently celebrated the grand opening of its new K-12 building in Minnewaukan, North Dakota....
For the average sports fan, lacrosse could be nothing more than a time filler on ESPNU....
SLOAN, Iowa | Nine contestants sang their hearts out to the beat of a single drum Saturday afternoon....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing....
People living on a remote Indian reservation on Oregon have been waking up in fear to the eerie sounds of roars and screeches coming from a nearby swamp that have raised the specter of a Bigfoot in the area. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268362/Bigfoot-animals-Hair-raising-sounds-coming-swamp-Indian-reservation-Oregon--pinpoint-culprit.html#ixzz2JHCrUhvR...
