Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Sorted by date Results 51 - 58 of 58
ST. PAUL—A White Earth Nation judge will join the Minnesota State board of trustees. Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday, Feb. 22, named George W. Soule to fill a vacancy on the board of what had been known as the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. http://www.dl-online.com/news/4222992-white-earths-soule-be-minnesota-state-board-member...
A federal appeals court has dealt a huge blow to two tribes as part of a long-simmering dispute over the boundaries of their reservation in Wyoming. By a 2-1 vote, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday held that Congress diminished the Wind River Reservation in 1905. The majority on a three-judge panel said it was clear that the boundaries were altered when the home of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe was opened to non-Indian settlement. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/02/22/wyoming-tribes...
BILLINGS – The topic of race entered the high school basketball conversation this week as divisional tournaments begin around the state. In a post on catcountry1029.com that has since been deleted, Cat Country KCTR 102.9 radio personality Paul Mushaben suggested that Native American and non-Native basketball teams should have separate tournaments. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-radio-host-under-fire-after-calling-for-separate-native/article_ad69a0d9-94f5-5332-9805-a183b82c50a8.html...
The infamous Executive Order 9066, which singled out "resident enemy aliens" in the United States during World War II, forced 120,000 Americans of Japanese background into relocation camps like Manzanar. The EO targeted Americans of Italian and German ancestry, too, but also deeply affected another group of Americans—not because they were viewed as potential enemies of the state, but rather because indigenous Aleuts in Alaska were in a combat zone. As John Smelcer explains for NPR’s Code Switch, in 1942, Japanese troops began to bomb the Ale...
The website MormonLeaks says Chief Seattle was baptized posthumously in the Mormon church. The website released purported baptism documents for 17 long-dead people. One set of documents says the famous Native American for whom the City of Seattle was named was baptized in 1991. http://kuow.org/post/chief-seattle-was-secretly-baptized-mormon-church-leak-shows...
Five individuals are being charged with violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act after they allegedly imported and fraudulently marketed fake Native American jewelry. A federal grand jury in Albuquerque returned an indictment February 9 charging five people of marketing or distributing fake Native American jewelry that was manufactured or imported jewelry from the Philippines. The indictment identifies 40 specifics fraudulent acts, including sales of the jewelry in stores in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to individuals who were unaware...
A Saskatchewan First Nation band councillor accused of selling drugs has been released on bail. Clarence Papequash, 64, of the Key First Nation was in Yorkton provincial court on Wednesday. Papequash is charged with drug trafficking, firearm offences and one count of possession of property obtained by crime. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/clarence-papequash-band-councillor-released-on-bail-1.3994746...
Mi'kmaq leaders faced off against Nova Scotia government officials to mark the province's Heritage Day in two hockey games over the weekend in Truro. But the show-stopper came between the second and third periods of Monday's game, when players from both teams joined at centre ice for a traditional round dance. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/on-ice-round-dance-1.3993269...
