Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Is the federal government discriminating against First Nations children on reserve by giving them less money for education, health and child-welfare services than their fellow Canadians? Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/First+Nations+child+welfare+line+Federal+Court/6136446/story.html#ixzz1mGXGPZFE...
Native Americans of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Whiteclay, Nebraska, have filed a $500-million lawsuit against beer manufacturers for the devastation that alcohol has wreaked on their community for decades....
SHAWANO, WISCONSIN - Tanaes Washinawatok, the mother of Miranda, wants something more from the Sacred Heart Catholic Academy than an apology. She is not happy on how the matter has been handled this far....
Tanaes Washinawatok, the mother of Miranda Washinawatok, the 12-year-old Menominee seventh-grader who was benched during a basketball game for speaking her Native language in class, says an apology from the school wasn’t enough. Tanaes recently told Native News Network that school staff should be disciplined for their actions. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/11/support-pours-in-for-suspended-menominee-student-97104 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/11/support-pours-in-for-suspended...
For years, Judge Donald Costello sentenced offenders to jail and prison terms, only to see them back in his courtroom with nothing to show for their time served. Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/local/giving-peace-a-chance/article_d26ccb11-c359-57e0-aeb5-6d08946f9dee.html#ixzz1mGYfSJIZ...
The year 2012 is a big one for the country. Not only will we be voting to re-elect a President, we will also be voting on key political positions throughout the country that affect and influence a range of Indian issues, including education, health, natural resources, and economic development. For example, Denise Juneau, (Three Affiliated Tribes/Blackfeet) who is the current State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Montana, has announced her re-election campaign. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012...
Kateri Tekakwitha was a Mohawk-Algonquin woman who lived in the 17th Century in what’s now Auriesville, New York, and Quebec, Canada. Disfigured and partially blinded by smallpox, she embraced Catholicism and eventually left her tribe for a Catholic mission. She was revered for her kindess and work with the elderly and sick. She died in 1680, when she was just 24. Accounts say after death, her blemishes miraculously disappeared and followers later saw her in visions....
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Professor James Anaya, will carry out an official visit to the United States of America from 23 April to 4 May 2012....
Not everyone in Canada knows what it's like to live on a reservation. Due to a lack of education on modern aboriginal issues and the unfortunate pervasiveness of negative stereotypes of First Nations peoples, most citizens are unaware of the internal strife and conflict present in some aboriginal communities. Blackstone, an Albertan television show created by Gil Cardinal and Ron E. Scott, hopes to address this by telling a story of corruption and community politics from a First Nations point of view....
The first two of 22 modular homes promised by the federal government to Attawapiskat are on their way to the remote northern Ontario First Nations community, but the minister handling the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio is expressing concern over the "readiness" of the lots....
WHITECLAY, NE - A lawsuit has been filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation....
YAKIMA — State wildlife authorities had no right to cite a Yakama Nation fisherman for catching undersized fish at a Columbia River tribal fishing site, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a split decision....
When Leonard Peltier was arrested in connection with the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975, the American Indian activist wasn’t alone....
(DAILY MAIL) A 12-year-old stopped his grandmother from becoming homeless by appealing to strangers to donate money to help save her home from foreclosure....
As North Carolina finally nears the point of compensating the victims of its forced sterilization program, it must do better at finding those victims. It must be as efficient at helping them as it was at hurting them....
A n investigation by the U.S. attorney' office has closed the book on the investigation into a claim that John Billison, director of the Navajo Nation's Division of Public Safety, misused his service weapon....
concussion and a badly bruised nose, and summed up how she felt late Friday as two women pummeled her on the floor of a casino bar....
A state senator and his wife were jumped by a pair of Seneca Nation businessmen and two women during a wild brawl in a Niagara Falls Indian casino when the lawmaker tried to break up a fight following a black tie gala. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/indian_whomp_em_1zqQXTijIEiiSQI6TM7waK#ixzz1mGnbbU8Y...
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up an argument between two men, one of whom accused him of hating the Indian tribe that owned the resort....
