Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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OTTAWA–The subsidiary of a Manitoba chiefs organization currently under a forensic investigation has been awarded a Health Canada contract to distribute prescription medicine. The federal Public Works department awarded the $328, 750 contract, which includes provisions for two one-year options, to Muskehki Distributors Inc. Muskehki is majority owned by Manitoba Keewatinow Okimakanak Inc. (MKO) and North West Company in a 60-40 partnership. The windfall from the contract could hit the millions of dollars as a result of profits from fees from p...
An Algonquin First Nation has launched a $30 million court action alleging the third-party managers appointed by Aboriginal Affairs to handle its books treated the community with “disdain,” kept the band in the dark about its finances and even issued bad cheques. The Algonquins of Barriere Lake are also seeking to terminate the current third-party manager contract with Aboriginal Affairs....
The Keystone XL pipeline would lead to a “significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,” the EPA said in comments released Tuesday. The comments challenge the State Department’s finding that the project would have “little impact on climate change,” and they just might be what President Obama needs to finally reject the pipeline. In a letter to the State Department, the EPA challenged the assertion, made in the State’s environmental impact assessment, that Alberta’s tar sands oil will be developed with or without the Keystone pipeline. Com...
More than 100 Native American tribes have reached out to FoxBarry Farms, a management firm building the nation's first marijuana facility on tribal land, over the past month to express interest in the cannabis industry. FoxBarry CEO Barry Brautman, whose company also works with tribes to build and operate casinos, told The Huffington Post there has been a surge of interest since the Department of Justice's announcement late last year that tribes are free to grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they adhere to specific...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A decision last month in Washington could lead to legal marijuana sales on Native Americans reservations here in Western New York. The U.S. Justice Department announced in December it wouldn't enforce marijuana laws on Indian territories as long as certain rules were followed like keeping the plant away from kids and not selling it to drug cartels....
The head of the Assembly of First Nations is imploring native men who have “lost their way” to help prevent the deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women – a tragic reality he says all Canadians must confront, no matter how uncomfortable. Aboriginal men must address deep-seated issues stemming from the Indian Residential School system, including addiction and cycles of violence, National Chief Perry Bellegarde told The Globe and Mail on Monday....
Violence against aboriginal women remains a problem that police and governments aren't addressing well enough, say women's advocates, two years after the B.C.'s missing women inquiry released 63 recommendations for major change. Commissioner Wally Oppal's inquiry into missing and murdered women slammed police for botching their investigations into serial killer Robert Pickton, who preyed on Vancouver sex workers from 1997 to 2002....
The Seminole Tribe of Florida has decided not to acquire Mackinac Savings Bank of Boynton Beach as planned. It is the second bank deal the tribe has rejected. Instead, the tribe now plans to explore creating a credit union while adding a broader range of loans to what the tribe currently offers members....
The Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City is looking at policy changes after some students reported having beer poured on them. The incident happened Jan. 24 at a Rapid City Rush hockey game. A chaperone said students from the American Horse School in Allen were subjected to racial slurs and had beer sprayed on them....
Officials with the Rapid City Police Department say an investigation into possible hate crimes at a Rapid City Rush hockey game could take several weeks. Police spokesman Brendyn Medina says detectives are trying to interview as many witnesses at the game as possible to get all the facts....
Rapid City Police have opened a probe into a second possible racist incident at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Friday night during the PRCA Xtreme Bulls Tour event, three Native American women, two Lakota elders and an older white couple were twice doused with beer....
In a dramatic change of policy that is likely to be welcomed by tribes, the White House is seeking to turn the money tribes annually spend on federally mandated health and social services for tribal citizens into a temporary entitlement. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/03/obama-wants-tribal-contract-support-cost-payments-be-non-discretionary-158999...
Construction of new schools in Indian Country is back on track after more than a decade of neglect and mixed signals. The fiscal year 2016 budget unveiled by President Barack Obama on Monday provides $25.3 million for the Little Singer Community School and Cove Day School, both on the Navajo Nation. The two schools have been waiting for replacement facilities since 2004, the last year the Bureau of Indian Affairs published a school construction priority list....
Lowicha Lake Falls-Rock says he was a troubled young man with a drinking problem, but he found the path to sobriety when he met spiritual leaders who took him to Sundances and Native American Church ceremonies. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/03/former-nez-perce-police-officer-says-he-was-fired-traditional-practices-158983...
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