Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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FLOODWOOD, Minn. -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person or persons involved in killing three wolves in northeast Minnesota last month. Federal wardens said they are investigating the case with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officers, but need the public's help. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3951224-reward-offered-killing-three-wolves...
Clifford Charles Robertson September 13, 1966 - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Service Information Veblen District Center in Veblen, SD Saturday, February 20, 2016 1:00 P.M. Visitation Information Veblen District Center in Veblen, SD Friday, February 19, 2016 Beginning at 7:00 P.M. Clifford Charles Robertson, "Omani Tonka" (BigWalker), age 49, of Big Round Lake, Wisconsin Journeyed to the Spirit World on Wednesday, February 17th, 2016. He was born on September 13, 1966 to Lloyd and Lois (Williams)...
The Washington Post (2/19, Brown) report the White House announced on Friday “that it plans to tackle the problem of poor school attendance by connecting 1 million at-risk students with mentors over the next five years.” Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University, which is overseeing the initiative in partnership with the US Education Department, said, “This is a solvable problem. We have evidence that we can attack this and figure out how to help kids come to school.” Balfanz added, “By mobilizing all this person power we can make a huge diffe...
A Megabus heading to Minneapolis erupted in flames in Lake Forest, Ill., north of Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported, but a University of St. Thomas student who was on the bus said he lost most of his belongings in the fire. Alexei O'Brien, originally from Chicago, said that shortly after leaving the city he started smelling burned rubber. http://www.startribune.com/megabus-en-route-to-minneapolis-explodes-no-injuries/369602161/...
WASHINGTON — The county government that owned the iPhone in a high-profile legal battle between Apple Inc. and the Justice Department paid for but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily and immediately unlock the phone as part of the terrorism investigation into the shootings that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. If the technology, known as mobile device management, had been installed, San Bernardino officials would have been able to remotely unlock the iPhone for the FBI without the theatrics of a c...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A gunman who seemed to choose his victims at random opened fire outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant in Michigan, killing six people in a rampage that lasted nearly seven hours, police said. Authorities identified the shooter as Jason Dalton, a 45-year-old Uber driver and former insurance adjuster who police said had no criminal record. They could not say what motivated him to target victims with no apparent connection to him or to each other in the Saturday night shootings. http...
It is too expensive to require every school to have a pool for swimming lessons, a state group looking at the issue has concluded. The group reports that it would cost more than $550 million to provide pools and lessons for all public school students. Instead, it suggests that schools partner with existing community pools and work drowning prevention into physical education classes. http://www.startribune.com/pools-in-all-minnesota-schools-too-pricey-report-says/369601911/...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California's central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system. The missile blasted off at 11:34 p.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles. "There was a slight delay due to some instruments downrange but it went within the launch window," said Carla Pampe, chief of civic outreach for Air Force Global Strike Command. http://www.startribune.com/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-...
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, which is moving forward with its vertically integrated cannabis project in Oregon that it had previously suggested could yield sales of $26mm, has partnered with a joint venture formed last May by Sentinel Capital Partners LLC, based in Florida, and Strainwise Consulting (OTC: STWC), based in Denver. The Sentinel-Strainwise JV, which was announced last May, will provide both capital and expertise to help the tribe develop the project, which includes a cultivation facility on tribal land and three...
In the days after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13, conservative religious and political leaders lavished praise on the long-serving justice as a champion of religious freedom. Alan Spears, head of the Christian advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, hails Scalia as “the most vocal and passionate voice on the Supreme Court for religious freedom.” Sen. Ted Cruz warns, “We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of millions of Americans.” http://www.decaturdaily.co...
I know we aren’t even to March yet but is still hard not to mention updates about the Mille Lacs Lake situation when they start to occur. It is still amazing to me that the (once) world class walleye fishery is in the situation it is now. Not good! As you remember, the walleye season was closed at the beginning of August last summer after meeting a very modest angling harvest quota. The ice season has been open for business for walleye, but has a one-fish harvest limit of a walleye between 18 and 20 inches. With the summer shutdown, late ice s...
A decision by the Specific Claims Tribunal could be worth $4.2 million dollars for Beardy's Okemasis First Nation. The tribunal has ruled the government owes the band compensation for money lost during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. Bands labelled as disloyal by the government had their annuity money withheld. The federal government has 30 days to respond, and could appeal. http://panow.com/article/513293/tribunal-rules-favour-fn-case-connected-1885-rebellion...
Indigenous university students in Saskatoon and Regina are 1.6 times more likely to be stopped by police on the street compared to non-indigenous students, according to a new survey aimed at gathering data on racial profiling in the prairie provinces. Discourse Media surveyed 850 students in Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg about their experience with police as part of a larger collaboration with a Maclean’s magazine article published this week that investigates the incarceration rates of indigenous people. The researchers set out to i...
Ennismore, Ontario - Owners of cottages near Canada's Pigeon Lake have a bone to pick with James Whetung. For years, Whetung has been seeding the lake with wild rice. He harvests the crop and then sells packaged products through his company, Black Duck Wild Rice. But some cottage owners aren't happy. Pigeon Lake is one of the 250 lakes and waterways in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario, Canada. Located two hours east of Toronto, it is a popular destination for summer getaways, fishing, hiking, recreational boating, and building cottages....
When Marie-Hélène Cousineau heard the news, she cried for three days. She hadn’t seen Lukasi Forrest in more than a year, and the two had gradually lost touch since they worked together on a film in 2012. But when she heard that Forrest had taken his own life, it rattled her. “It was devastating,” said Cousineau, a Montreal-based filmmaker. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/remote-quebec-community-of-kuujjuaq-reeling-after-three-teen-suicides...
In an elaborate scheme that involves other inmates, two countries, and an American publisher, Canada’s most prolific serial killer, Robert Pickton, has published a book from behind bars at a maximum security prison, CTV News has learned. The 144-page book -- called Pickton: In His Own Words -- evaded detection from prison authorities because it was sent out to the United States by a cellmate, a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child who hopes to use the money from the sale to fund a lawyer to secure his own release. ht...
A federal probe into the spending of the former grand chief of a Manitoba organization representing some of the poorest First Nations in the country has found tens of thousands of dollars in questionable claims, according to numbers contained in draft portion of a report provided to APTN National News. The financial probe of former grand chief David Harper and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) was conducted by auditing firm KPMG under a contract with the federal Indigenous Affairs department. The investigation was launched in September...
Just how many missing or murdered indigenous women are there in Canada? No one can say for certain — and the numbers reported in recent days only add to the confusion. The number 1,181 has been widely accepted after the release of a RCMP report in 2014. But that report doesn't necessarily provide a complete picture. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mmiw-5-cases-to-know-1.3452021...
More than five years after a special prosecutor first brought charges against a staggering number of Navajo leaders accused of misusing the tribe’s discretionary funds, three individuals are still facing criminal trials. A trial for Navajo Nation Council Delegate Mel R. Begay is set for March 14 in district court in Window Rock, Arizona. Begay, who has served as a delegate for 12 years, faces 16 complaints of making or permitting false vouchers. Seven of those complaints allege that between 2006 and 2010, Begay personally authorized at least $...
An American photo project that captures images of Saskatchewan’s residential school survivors is getting new life. The “Signs of Your Identity" project, by Daniella Zalcman, has won a grant through the website viewfind.com. Not only has she received $5,000, the website has given a new platform for her photo essay. On Thursday, that same project was featured by National Geographic on its Proof: Picture Stories page online. Along with publishing the photos, National Geographic also features journal entries from Zalcman about the experience. htt...
The Canadian military’s counter-intelligence unit has been conducting surveillance of a Mohawk community straddling the Canada-U.S, according to “confidential” reports released to APTN National News. The documents, a handful of counter-intelligence reports from 2012 to 2015, reveal that the Canadian Forces National Counter Intelligence Unit regularly mentioned Akwesasne—a Mohawk community straddling the Ontario-Quebec-New York State borders—as part of its “threat information collection.” http://aptn.ca/news/2016/02/19/akwesa...
WARNING: This is part of a series of stories to be published over the next few weeks that contain potentially trauma-triggering material. The Ojibwe family woke to a terrific banging in the middle of the night, and then the door of their tiny, homemade bungalow on the outskirts of Taos burst open. “Does Naivara’s mom live here?” one of several men loudly demanded. Shocked, a woman we’ll refer to as Kai nodded wordlessly, as her 4- and 8-year-old grandchildren, Naivara’s children, cried in fear. (As with Kai, Naivara is not her real name; her...
RED LAKE, Minn. — The Red Lake Nation is installing 15 megawatts of solar panels atop their largest buildings, pushing for enough power to light every bulb in the tribe’s casinos, the tribal college and all government buildings. Minnesota Public Radio reported that tribal leaders say it’s a big step toward energy independence rather than having to rely on electricity generated outside the reservation borders in northern Minnesota. “Grandfather Sun and Mother Earth are the foundations of who we are as native people,” said Red Lake developme...
The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center thinks a whole race of people, American Indians, are “weak.” In a bizarre rant laced with multiple factual errors, the increasingly discredited group also theorizes about and purports to expose a vast “anti-Indian” conspiracy. But it strategically omits what is arguably the story's most important fact: The target of the SPLC's vitriol is actually an American Indian herself, married to a direct descendant of Sacajawea. Oops! The fact that the SPLC was targeting an Indian could not have escaped the att...
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts: David Benton – Member, Arctic Research Commission Phyliss J. Anderson – Member, National Advisory Council on Indian Education Mandy Broaddus – Member, National Advisory Council on Indian Education Dahkota Kicking Bear Brown – Member, National Advisory Council on Indian Education Joely Proudfit – Member, National Advisory Council on Indian Education Robert O. Carr – Member, National Infrastructure Advisory Coun...
