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The Obama administration and Congress are finally putting more money into Indian schools and a bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday aims to build on that momentum. The Safe Academic Facilities and Environments for Tribal Youth Act, or SAFETY Act, is sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington). The two lawmakers, who sit on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, believe Native youth are entitled to learn in safe places. "We can’t prepare students for the 21st century economy in deteriorating 20th c...
THUNDER VALLEY –Oglala Sioux Tribal member Jordan “Slick” Phelps has been viewing the world from the topside of bull since he was 4 years old. Now at 19, that experience has transformed him into becoming a two time World Champion Bull Rider. “I grew up on a ranch raising cows. One day my dad put me on a calf and I was addicted,” Phelps said from his home in Thunder Valley on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. “I kept getting on after that. I knew I wanted to be a bull rider when I was little and I’ve been chasing my dr...
For the past three days, phones have been ringing off the hook at CHPN 89.9 FM — the Dene Voice of La Loche, as its sign proclaims proudly. Announcers at the little radio station on the top floor of the La Loche arena have been on the air tirelessly, hosting a fundraiser for the victims of last week's violent shootings. A steady stream of community members come and go, arms loaded with donated items for the auction: quilts, homemade pies, video games. I heard someone even donated an ATV. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/la-...
Bobby Montgrand moved to La Loche, Sask., from a small northern community so his kids could get a better education — now he wants them to live a better life. "There's a lack of everything," he said. "We don't have nothing. We're 50 years behind." He wants all levels of government to address the social issues that plague the community — from addiction to poverty and unemployment to the high number of suicides. On top of these struggles, the village made international headlines last week when four people were killed and seven injured in a sho...
Three children are expected to testify during the trial of Onion Lake Chief Wallace Fox who is facing multiple charges in relation to an alleged domestic assault incident which occurred in a home on the oil-rich Saskatchewan First Nation. Fox has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose related to the use of a knife, and uttering threats to damage property. A court official with the Lloydminster, Sask., provincial court said Fox’s trial is scheduled for two days beginning on June 29. h...
The chief of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation says he's shocked to learn the death of Haelin Taylor, a two-month-old girl in the community, is being investigated as a homicide. RCMP say Taylor was taken to hospital after police received a report about a seriously injured child near the First Nation, located in southwestern Manitoba, on Jan. 4. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/baby-homicide-sioux-valley-first-nation-1.3420953...
