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DES MOINES, Iowa — In a high-stakes test of enthusiasm versus organization, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders hope to ride voter energy into victories in Monday's Iowa caucuses, as Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton bank on sophisticated get-out-the vote operations months in the making. The caucuses kick off the 2016 presidential nominating contests, marking a new phase in a tumultuous election that has exposed Americans' deep frustration with Washington and given rise to candidates few expected to challenge for their party's n...
The woman killed by her husband in what is being called a murder-suicide in their home near Mankato was on her town's City Council at the time of her death. Autopsies revealed that Charles A. Hernandez, 60, of Good Thunder, strangled his wife, Kimberly K. Hernandez, 48, before he killed himself by suffocation, the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office said Sunday. The Sheriff's Office has yet to offer a possible motive for the deaths. The bodies were found Friday in a bedroom in their home in the 800 block of Chapel Street. A relative called...
Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the early morning chill and peered through the half-light, searching for a sign of his son. “I looked over and there was Justin laying there,” Smith told Pennsylvania TV station WNEP. “He was blue. His face — he was lifeless. I checked for a pulse. I checked for a heartbeat. There was nothing.” http://www.startribune.com/pennsylvania-man-was-brought-back-after-being...
Star Tribune journalists, previous award winners, and the state poet laureate are among the finalists for Minnesota Book Awards, chosen by 24 judges from around the state and announced Saturday afternoon. Also among the finalists are six books published by the University of Minnesota Press. The winners will be announced April 16 at the Minnesota Book Awards gala in St. Paul. Between then and now there will be many events around the metro to allow the public to meet the authors and hear them read from their works. Here are the finalists....
It's getting harder to build an oil pipeline in Canada. In 2013, when TransCanada Corp. proposed a cross-country pipeline that would be among the longest in the world, the Conservative Party was in power and the project's approval seemed a given. But the new Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now requiring pipeline projects to pass a more stringent environmental review, including a climate test to determine how it would affect greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-ca...
The Inuits are indigenous people that inhabit the arctic regions of Canada, the United States and Greenland and throughout history their very lives have been dependent on being able to correctly forecast weather.... and they are warning NASA and the world that global warming isn't the cause of what we are seeing with extreme weather, earthquakes and other events. The earth has shifted, tilted or as they put it, "wobbled" to the north and they all agree "Their sky has changed!" The elders maintain the Sun doesn't rise where it used to, they...
Tragedy and human rights victory in Canada, a major golf win in Saudi Arabia, and the continued saga of the militia group occupying Burns Paiute land in Oregon marked the past week in Indian country. First, the good news. HOLE IN ONE: Navajo pro-golfer Rickie Fowler recovered from a disheartening double-bogey on his final round 7th hole by with a 30-yard eagle at hole 8 and a birdie at hole 17 to win the Abu Dhabi Championship on Sunday January 24. This put him in the top five worldwide, moving him from number six to number four in the...
Recently, Sam Tenakhongva, a teacher living on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, bought a Chevrolet pickup truck equipped with integrated 4G LTE. As the company’s advertising boasts, the feature was novel for a commercial vehicle and unprecedented for a truck. Intrigued, Tenakhongva decided to take advantage of a free trial. It didn’t take long for him to eschew the service. The truck only connected when Tenakhongva was in a 4G network and, given the region’s limited broadband access, Tenakhongva knew such an occurrence would be too r...
The media surrounding the Iowa caucuses reduces the story to one basic theme: Who’s winning and what does that win (or loss) mean for the New Hampshire primary? Lost in that coverage is a thoughtful discussion about issues and policies. So we get political promises that might fit better in cartoons than in governing papers. My ideal? Presidential campaigns would focus on policy, not the politicians, and the first votes would be cast in states like Arizona, New Mexico, or even Montana, where issues that impact First Americans would get a full a...
Significant differences in cancer rates were found between Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs), according to a special report within Cancer Facts & Figures 2016, which also appeared in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (doi:10.3322/caac.21335). These differences in cancer burden reflect the vast differences in cancer risk factors. Among the total US population, Asian Americans comprise 6.3% (20 million of 318.7 million), and they are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States. In addition,...
Until the 1960s, Catholic boarding schools forcibly took Native American children from their families. And often at those boarding schools were priests and nuns with histories of sexually abusing children – they were sent to those boarding schools because of their remoteness and isolation. That’s according to attorney Vito de la Cruz who has represented some of these former students. http://kuow.org/post/abusive-priests-indian-reservations-leave-profound-wound...
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A man and a woman have pleaded not guilty to federal charges in the death of a woman on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Elizabeth LeBeau is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Emily Blue Bird, whose body was found Jan. 21 in a creek near Pine Ridge. Fred Quiver, who also goes by the name Fred Brings Plenty, is charged with being an accessory. The two entered their pleas in U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daneta Wollmann on Friday. They were indicted by a federal grand jury. h...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A member of the Navajo Nation has pleaded guilty in the 2014 stabbing death of a Navajo man on the reservation. The U.S. Attorneys' Office for New Mexico says 53-year-old Bufred Denetclaw gave his plea Thursday in federal court in Albuquerque. Denetclaw was charged with voluntary manslaughter. Denetclaw admitted to stabbing the victim three times in the back following an alcohol-fueled argument in June 2014 on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San Juan County. Under the agreement, Denetclaw, of Sheep Springs, must s...
WINDOW ROCK, ARIZONA — Being a firefighter on the Navajo Reservation is not like being a firefighter in a city or in most smaller communities off the reservation. This was brought up several times during special graduation ceremony held at the Navajo Nation Museum for 11 men and women who were being sworn in as full-time firefighters for the Navajo Nation Fire Department. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/the-few-and-the-proud/...
Legislation has been passed in the Iowa Senate to change the way criminal law is enforced on the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County. The bill - S.F. 2022 - passed on a 41-6 vote and has been sent on to the Iowa House. Along similar lines to a resolution passed by the Iowa Senate and House last year, this time the action is law and would turn over to the federal government full responsibility for jurisdiction over crimes "committed by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian Settlement." http://www.tamatoledonews.com/page...
Cat Lake First Nation wants a judicial review of a coroner's decision not to hold an inquest in the remote community in northwestern Ontario. In December, Ontario coroner Dr. David Cameron denied the First Nation's request for a change in venue for the inquest into the death of Romeo Wesley. Wesley died in 2010 after repeated attempts to get medical attention at the Health Canada nursing station in Cat Lake, according to Chief Russell Wesley. Staff at the nursing station called Nishnawbe Aski Police, who had Romeo Wesley in their custody when...
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 the recent 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-loche-duncan-mccue-1.34222...
For more than a week, the community of La Loche, Sask., has been under a national microscrope. On Jan., 22, a long gunman killed four people and wounded seven others. A 17-year old has since been charged. Media and politicians all of a sudden were paying particular attention to La Loche. But now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come and gone, people are wondering, what now? http://aptn.ca/news/2016/01/30/la-loche-ready-to-find-its-way-once-media-goes-home/...
Colorado became the first state in the country to recognize Columbus Day as an annual holiday, but now, over 100 years later, Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar is offering legislation to change the name of the holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Colorado is following a number of cities throughout the nation that have decided to celebrate the Indigenous people of this land and NOT the colonization of this country,” Irene Vernon, chair of CSU’s ethnic studies department, wrote in an email to the Collegian. Denver became the ninth city to make that ch...
“In November, [2014] a [Las Vegas] Review-Journal reporter and photographer encountered one of the disenrolled, 52-year-old Darla Hatcher, sleeping with her meager belongings in front of an upholstery shop in the homeless corridor. By way of introduction, she gestured toward nearby tribal land and said: “I am a disenrolled Paiute.’” http://lastrealindians.com/tribal-per-capita-poverty-how-about-disenrollment-bankruptcy-by-gabe-galanda/...
A little over a year ago, the Department of Justice released the infamous “Wilkinson Memo” containing DOJ policy guidance to U.S. District Attorneys on Marijuana in Indian Country. Chaos ensued. Media and industry began shouting “Marijuana is legal in Indian Country!” from the rooftops. Tribal leaders were swarmed by tribal members demanding that marijuana be immediately legalized. State and local jurisdictions were worried about the impact of legalization on their jurisdictions. Some tribes immediately announced their intent to open large m...
Two were arrested yesterday in connection with the death of Emily Blue Bird, 24 of Pine Ridge Village, who went missing at the beginning of January. According to KEVN Black Hills Fox, Elizabeth Ann LeBeau, 23, and Fred Quiver, also known as Fred Brings Plenty, 29, both from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, were indicted by a federal grand jury. LeBeau was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder by strangulation, occurring sometime between January 1 and January 3, and Brings Plenty on accessory to first-degree murder, occurring between...
Members of a Manitoba family who thought they were flying from Winnipeg to Red Sucker Lake First Nation with the body of a relative were shocked to find out they made the trip with an empty casket. "They put the wrong casket in [the plane] ," Allan Harper said. "An empty casket on that charter plane." Harper said family members were to travel with the body of his niece, Helena Margo McDougall, on a Perimeter Aviation flight Jan. 26. But when they got to their destination, they realized her body had been left behind. http://w...
Earlier this week, the U.S. Mint began selling rolls, bags, and boxes of the 2016 Native American $1 coins. They can be purchased in varying quantities through the following product options: 25-coin rolls for $32.95 each, 100-coin bags for $111.95, and 250-coin boxes for $275.95. For each option, customers can choose coins minted at either the Philadelphia Mint or the Denver Mint. This year’s issue is the eighth release in the annual Native American $1 coin series and features a design celebrating the contributions of Code Talkers to United S...
When Vaughn Bull Lodge makes the rounds at Little Earth, a Native American housing complex in south Minneapolis, he hears stories of daughters who were attacked, granddaughters who go missing. Prostitution and trafficking are persistent problems, Lodge says, but the solutions require daunting policy changes like a minimum wage increase and a psychological shift among the youth. “After 500 years of genocide and oppression, they’re not led to believe that we can be better than we are, that we can be successful,” he says. Lodge, 38, opened up Do...
