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On Jan. 30, 600,000 gallons (14,285 barrels) of oil spewed out of Enbridge's Seaway Pipeline in Blue Ridge, Texas, the second spill since the pipeline opened for business in mid-2016. Seaway is half owned by Enbridge and serves as the final leg of a pipeline system DeSmogBlog has called the "Keystone XLClone," which carries mostly tar sands extracted from Alberta, Canada, across the U.S. at a rate of 400,000 barrels per day down to the Gulf of Mexico. Enbridge is an equity co-owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which received its final permit...
SHERIDAN — Eighth-grade students at Faulconer-Chapman School have a much more realistic view of local Native American history now that they are learning the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s new history curriculum in their classroom. Grand Ronde Tribal member and Curriculum/Academic Adviser Mercedes Reeves has been working with Faulconer-Chapman eighth-grade teacher Tim Hart on introducing the Tribal curriculum into local schools. http://www.nrtoday.com/news/education/eighth-grade-teacher-embraces-tribal-history-curriculu...
LINCOLN — A new effort was announced Saturday to try to end the alcohol-related woes associated with Whiteclay, Nebraska: buy out the liquor stores. Bruce BonFleur, the head of a Whiteclay street ministry called Lakota Hope, said he is launching an effort to raise at least $6.3 million to buy the four beer-only liquor stores. http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/whiteclay-street-ministry-team-proposes-new-effort-to-end-fix/article_ef99fab2-f09f-11e6-8aac-b7b607970d02.html...
BEREA, Ohio — A painful family mystery has been solved after authorities in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County recently identified a man killed by a train outside a Cleveland suburb nearly four decades ago using new technology. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office last week identified Michigan native Jim Williams as the man who was fatally struck in Berea on Nov. 14, 1980, Cleveland.com reported. http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2017/02/11/Cuyahoga-Co-authorities-ID-man-killed-nearly-four-decades-ago.html...
PHOENIX — A group of Native American basketball fans say they were asked to move at a high school basketball game because of their race. Globe High School fans traveled to American Leadership Academy’s Queen Creek campus Tuesday for girls and boys basketball games. School officials say some Globe fans became unruly in the stands and were asked to move to the visitors’ side of the gym. Eventually the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was called to move them. http://www.dcourier.com/news/2017/feb/11/basketball-fans-say-they-wer...
The All Native Basketball Tournament begins in Prince Rupert, B.C. on Feb. 12, and for the second year in a row a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation won't be allowed to play because he doesn't have Indigenous blood. Josiah Wilson, 21, was adopted from Haiti when he was five months old and raised by a Heiltsuk family in western Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/haiti-born-heiltsuk-raised-basketball-player-still-barred-from-all-native-event-over-blood-quantum-rule-1.3974973...
Another Indigenous leader and activist was killed in Colombia as authorities refuse to acknowledge the return or existence of paramilitaries in native communities. Yoryanis Isabel Bernal Varela of the Wiwa tribe in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a strong spiritual Indigenous territory, fought to protect Indigenous and women’s rights in her community. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Indigenous-Woman-Shot-Dead-in-Colombia-as-Activists-Targeted-20170211-0022.html...
About a 15-minute drive east of St. Louis is a complex of earthen mounds that once supported a prehistoric city of thousands. For a couple of hundred years, the city, called Cahokia, and several smaller city-states like it flourished in the Mississippi River Valley. But by the time European colonizers set foot on American soil in the 15th century, these cities were already empty. Scientists cannot seem to agree on what exactly led to the rise or the fall of this Mississippian American Indian culture, a group of farming societies that ranged...
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline has resumed construction of the long-delayed project that would route oil under a North Dakota reservoir, even as American Indian activists vowed to take legal action to protect their water supply. The Army granted Energy Transfer Partners formal permission Wednesday to lay pipe under Lake Oahe, clearing the way for completion of the 1,200-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline. http://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/work-to-complete-disputed-dakota-access-pipeline-under...
KESHENA (WLUK) -- Gary Besaw was elected the new chair for the Menominee Indian Tribe Thursday. Besaw replaces 2016 chairwoman, Joan Delabreau. She will continue to serve as a legislator for the remainder of her term. Besaw has previously served as tribal chairman in 2015, vice chairman in 2003 and tribal secretary in 2008. He was first elected to the tribal legislature in 2002. Eugene Caldwell, Ronald Corn Sr. and incumbent, Craig Corn, were also elected to serve three-year terms. Craig Corn will serve as vice chair and Caldwell as tribal...
William C. Wilber IV, 35, of Suring, with child sex offenses on the Menominee Indian Reservation. If convicted, Wilber faces a maximum sentence of up to 15 years’ imprisonment, up to a $250,000 fine, at least five years of supervised release, and a $5,000 special assessment, on each of the three counts. http://www.nbc26.com/news/shawano-county-man-indicted-for-child-sex-offenses-on-menominee-indian-reservation...
Robert Kentta, Loraine Butler and Gloria Ingle were re-elected to the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in elections held on Feb. 4. Kentta, from Logsden, Ore., was re-elected with 397 votes; Butler, from Siletz, Ore., was re-elected with 360 votes; and Ingle, from Lincoln City, Ore., was re-elected with 349 votes. Seven candidates ran for the three open positions and the three who received the most votes were elected. http://www.thenewsguard.com/news/siletz-tribe-elects-council/article_1eb50076-ee2...
A federal grand jury has issued a second round of indictments alleging an international scheme to market Filipino-made jewelry as authentic Native American art, including in shops in Santa Fe. The three-count indictment filed this week in the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque accuses a former Gallup resident of manufacturing Native American-style jewelry in the Philippines and shipping it to the U.S. An Albuquerque gallery owner and three other co-defendants are accused of fraudulently selling the pieces as authentic works made by Native...
BROWNING – Residents of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation were digging out Wednesday from at least 3 feet of snow while bracing for high winds expected to send the snow drifting. Meanwhile, freight trains have resumed travel through the Glacier National Park area after BNSF Railway completed avalanche mitigation work. Amtrak Empire Builder trains were scheduled to leave Seattle, Portland, Oregon and Chicago on time Wednesday and move through Montana on Thursday. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-s-blackfee...
Tribal Wildlife Biologists have witnessed a decline in porcupine numbers in recent years and ask for public volunteers to assist in reporting sightings of porcupines in the field. When reporting a porcupine sighting be sure to include the location of sighting, with GPS coordinates, habitat and a photograph of the porcupine. http://www.leaderadvertiser.com/article/20170209/ARTICLE/170209964...
