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MONTERREY, Mexico — A brawl between rival drug gangs at an overcrowded penitentiary in northern Mexico turned into a riot Thursday, leaving 49 inmates dead and 12 injured in the country's deadliest prison melee in years. No escapes were reported in the clash at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, said Nuevo Leon state Gov. Jaime Rodriguez. The riot took place on the eve of Pope Francis' arrival in Mexico, a visit that is scheduled to include a trip next week to another prison in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. http://www.s...
MILWAUKEE — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battled for the crucial backing of black and Hispanic voters in Thursday night's Democratic debate and clashed heatedly over their support for Barack Obama as the presidential race shifted toward states with more minority voters. Clinton, who has cast herself as the rightful heir to Obama's legacy, accused Sanders of diminishing the president's record and short-changing his leadership. http://www.startribune.com/clinton-sanders-to-debate-after-splitting-contests/368509211/...
Almost like clockwork, February rolls around and, one by one, my family catches a cold. This year, my husband brought the viral plague into the house, and I was next in line to catch it. Before my first sniffle, though, I got out my stock pot and started on a large batch of chicken stock, because I knew I’d be making plenty of soup in the next few days. I don’t know why soup seems so comforting when we’re sick. Perhaps it’s because soup is light, especially if it’s broth-based, and it’s generally easy to digest. The fact that it’s warm a...
A teenage driver has a chance to avoid prison for killing a motorist and his 10-year-old daughter when she ran a red light while texting — after defying the pleas of a passenger to pay attention — and rammed her pickup truck into a van in Sherburne County. Carlee R. Bollig, 17, of Little Falls, Minn., pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of criminal-vehicular homicide in the July 21 crash that killed Charles P. Maurer, 54, of Becker, and his daughter Cassy. http://www.startribune.com/little-falls-teen-admits-texting-at-time-o...
Our D/Lakota ancestors Vine Deloria, Jr., and Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman warned us of culture vultures. As Westerman sang: And the anthros keep on digging our sacred ceremonial sites As if there was nothing wrong, as if education gives them the right Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/02/10/when-it-right-disenroll-indians...
Editor’s Note: This commentary was originally published in Native Max magazine. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Tribal disenrollment has become a very contentious issue, but it’s not a new trend by any means. It’s a growing trend akin to a modern day genocide that has “legally” eliminated thousands of Native people across the United States. http://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/tribal-disenrollment-the-new-wave-of-genocide/...
WARRENTON — Rather than jump through the hoops to keep the Native American imagery, Warrenton-Hammond Superintendent Mark Jeffery is asking the community to look at another type of Warrior. The Native American mascot ban enacted in 2012 by the Oregon Board of Education becomes effective in 2017, affecting schools in 15 districts, including the Warrenton High School Warriors and Warrenton Grade School Braves. Jeffery recommended the district go K-12 with the Warrior name and purple and white color scheme. http://www.dailyasto...
Back in June 2014, Consumerist showed readers what might have been the scammiest payday loan we’d ever seen. Today, federal authorities arrested the man behind the company, AMG Services — along with his lawyer and another, unrelated, payday lender — for allegedly running online payday lending operations that exploited more than 5 million consumers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the arrests today of Scott Tucker, the man behind AMG Services, and his lawyer Timothy Muir for illegal actions related...
A Leawood payday lending mogul and his attorney were arrested Wednesday after being indicted on federal counts including racketeering and violations of the Truth in Lending Act. The criminal indictment, from the Southern District of New York, alleges that Scott Tucker ran a $2 billion nationwide payday lending operation that “systematically evaded state laws” to charge illegal interest of as much as 700 percent and collect hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed fees, according to a release. Tucker, who was arrested in Kansas City, Kan...
NEW YORK — Professional racecar driver Scott Tucker was arrested Wednesday on criminal charges accusing him of living the high life on the backs of millions of desperate people who used his payday lending operation to get quick cash over the Internet. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court charged him with conspiracy, collection of unlawful debts and understatement of interest rates to consumers who found themselves drowning in debt after sometimes paying Tucker and his companies 700 percent interest or more for their loans. h...
Two companies controlled by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma have agreed to pay $48 million to avoid federal prosecution for their involvement in a lending scheme that charged borrowers interest rates as high as 700 percent. As part of the Miami tribe's agreement with the federal government, the tribe acknowledged that a tribal representative filed false factual declarations in multiple state court actions. http://newsok.com/article/5478088...
Over the past 16 years, Nora Boesem and her husband, Randy, have taken in more than 150 foster children, nearly all of them from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and suffering from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The Newell, South Dakota, couple has adopted or taken permanent custody of 12 of those children, including Donovan, who hung himself at the age of 15. http://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/whiteclay-activists-take-concerns-to-liquor-regulators-state-leaders/article_83a59f45-c9a9-573a-9f8e-...
Melanie Mark has made history as the first indigenous woman ever elected to the British Columbia legislature, trouncing the competition with more than 60 percent of the vote in a February 2 by-election. The Nisga’a, Gitxsan, Ojibway and Cree mother of two knocked out Green Party candidate Pete Fry and the B.C. Liberals’ Gavin Dew in a race to replace Jenny Kwan, who was elected as a federal Member of Parliament last fall after 20 years serving as a provincial legislator. Mark will sit as the representative for Vancouver–Mount Pleasant, a New D...
A Cree member of the Royal Canadian Air Force says he is leaving the military after enduring years of racism that left him feeling ostracized and contemplating suicide. Master Cpl. Marc Frenette served under "poor, incompetent and often inconsistent leadership" that allowed the alleged harassment to continue for so long, according to a military report obtained by CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/racist-abuse-canadian-air-force-1.3443197...
The Indian Health Service would see a record $6.6 billion in funding under the fiscal year 2017 budget released by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. The request represents an increase of $402 million, or 6.5 percent, above the current level. If accepted by Congress, the IHS budget will have grown 53 percent since Obama came on board. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020338.asp...
Conditions that rise to the level of malpractice at Indian Health Services facilities in the Great Plains area are killing people, according to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyoming). The Dorgan Report issued in 2010 “found atrocious evidence showing the lack of quality of care” at IHS facilities and nothing has changed—in fact, in some instances conditions have worsened, Barrasso said, as he opened a February 3 oversight hearing “Reexamining the Substandard Quality of Indian Health Care in the Great Plain,...
Editor’s note: Voters this year will elect the 45th president of the United States. This is the sixth in a series of 44 stories exploring past presidents’ attitudes toward Native Americans, challenges and triumphs regarding tribes, and the federal laws and Indian policies enacted during their terms in office. A treaty was waiting on John Quincy Adams’ desk when he took the oath of office and became the sixth president of the United States. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/02/09/indian-policy-fraudu...
Organizers of an all First Nations sports event in B.C. are being accused of racism and discrimination for benching a status Indian player who is black. Organizers of the All Native Basketball Tournament say Josiah Wilson can't compete because he doesn't have First Nations ancestry or "bloodlines." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-status-indian-barred-from-event-over-bloodlines-1.3442490...
The Colville Confederated Tribes have issued a citation in connection with the killing of a Northern Hawk Owl. Birders were furious when the owl was found dead last month, hanging from a tree near Brewster. When the owl was first spotted, bird watchers flocked to see it, but it was on private property. The word among birders was that the landowner was unhappy about the attention. http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2016/02/10/tribes-issue-5000-citation-killing-owl/80202464/...
A Mescalero man has pleaded guilty to a federal methamphetamine distribution charge in a plea bargain obtained by prosecutors following up on a multi-agency investigation of a meth trafficking operation based on tribal lands that produced 34 arrests in coordinated raids in December. Wallace Rice, 23, a Mescalero Apache Nation member, entered the plea last Friday in U.S. District Court Las Cruces, Rice was one of 34 people charged with federal and tribal drug offenses at the end of an 18-month multi-agency investigation led by the Drug...
A district court judge on Friday sentenced Alex Rios to 67 and one-half years in prison for beating two homeless Navajo men to death with cinder blocks and other objects in July 2014. Rios, who was 18 at the time of the attack, is one of three teens accused of killing Alison Gorman and Kee Thompson as they slept in an open field in northwest Albuquerque. Rios was found guilty in December of two counts of second-degree murder – each of which carried a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. He was also convicted of aggravated assault, tampering w...
PINE RIDGE—Tragic news spread across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on January 21 with the discovery of a young woman’s body, who had been missing since January 2, 2016. The body of Emily Blue Bird, 24, of Pine Ridge Village, was found in a heavily wooded area on the east end of the community, according to Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement officials. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020352.asp...