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A state appeals court Tuesday sided with the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe in a personal injury lawsuit, affirming a lower court that ruled the tribe cannot be sued because of its sovereignty....
WASHINGTON – The Indian Health Service (IHS) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) fare well under President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for 2013. In fact, funding for IHS under the plan appears to be the most ever, not accounting for inflation. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/13/indian-health-service-gets-record-request-in-obama-2013-budget-bia-level-97463 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/13/indian-health-service-gets-record-request-in-obama-2013-budget-bia-level-97463#ixzz1mS9tu...
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has been in the news lately. A National Public Radio (NPR) series exposed horrific child-welfare injustices in South Dakota, while two CNN stories—one on the return of an infant boy to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and another on the return of a baby girl to her Cherokee father—criticized the law, and then-CNN anchor Campbell Brown added some scathing commentary. We went to Frank LaMere, member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and executive director of the Four Directions Community Center, in Sioux Cit...
Too many Native parents face extraordinary hurdles in keeping their children—including cultural misunderstandings and legal barriers that are unimaginable to many non-Native people. In this second decade of the 21st century, American Indian children in states across the country are still taken from their families and placed in foster care or adoptive homes at a much higher rate than those for other kids—just as they were before the passage of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a federal statute intended to help keep Native families int...
South Dakota is one of the poorest states in the country. More specifically, the Native Americans Reservations in South Dakota are some of the poorest in the country. Jobs are few and far between, leading to some of the highest unemployment and poverty rates the state has seen. The people have trouble holding jobs due to lack of experience. Alcoholism takes a toll on reservation residents. Gang violence, escalating teen suicide rates… the Native American reservations in South Dakota are in dire need of help....
A Fort Duchesne woman died and another woman was injured in a traffic accident Friday in Uintah County....
The RCMP's serious crimes section is investigating a shot that was fired at the child protection office on the Sto:lo Nation in Chilliwack on Monday afternoon....
The former chair of the Métis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan has been sentenced to a year in jail for defrauding the organization....
Darrick DeWayne Williams, (also known as Derrick Dewayne Williams), who was named in a recent federal indictment against 24 Native Mob members, appealed a banishment case last month in Mille Lacs Band Tribal Court....
AZTEC — The final two men who branded a swastika on the arm of a Navajo man with mental disabilities were sentenced Tuesday in district court, bringing closure to a case nearly two years in the making....
GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls woman was cited for felony drunken driving after her frightened 9-year-old daughter jumped out of the car, ran into a convenience store and told a cashier her mother was extremely drunk. Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/mom-cited-for-th-dui-child-jumps-from-car-to/article_db92f93e-5733-11e1-bb26-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1mSCf9FwO...
FARMINGTON — A Central Consolidated School District employee pleaded not guilty in federal court in Albuquerque to charges of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl....
BRANT, N.Y. (WIVB) - A mother and son are facing charges in an unusual incident on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation....