Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The pre-Christmas data theft of millions of credit and debit cards used at Target may have shocked consumers, but the retail giant knew the threat was real and had pursued an innovative solution years ago....
A group of Mt. Pleasant-based Native Americans, including 66 removed from the rolls of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe in November, are seeking federal recognition of the original three bands of American Indians that first settled in Isabella County in the mid-1800s....
A federal judge in Kansas City, Kan., ruled Dec. 20 against the Kickapoo Tribe in its suit against the Nemaha-Brown Watershed. See more at: http://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/article_e01d4e93-f4a0-575e-96fd-323ab9f051e8.html#sthash.cXXy6O0h.dpuf...
ALBUQUERQUE - An effort to repeal the Navajo Nation's same-sex marriage ban has been energized by decisions in some states to allow such unions....
In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/national/some-states-confirm-water-pollution-from-drilling/article_3e145359-b91a-5093-a661-48ab9ed383b7.html#ixzz2pcYKwQHS...
PAWHUSKA, Okla. – An Osage Supreme Court decision late Thursday has cleared the way for the tribe’s first removal trial....
FARGO, North Dakota — A man sentenced to life in prison for killing his niece and nephew on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation is appealing the case to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals....
A First Nation on the shores of Lake Manitoba is being investigated over loans and advances paid to its former band council and staff, newly released documents show....
A defendant’s right to due process appears to be clashing with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s right to sovereignty in a criminal case headed for trial in 6th Judicial District Court in Durango....
The New Year brought a small victory for a St. Theresa Point family....
Holding onto hope his daughters would be returned soon, Nathan McNutt of Black Hawk held off decorating his Christmas tree by himself in mid-December....
Aboriginal youth who were involved in a 2012 suicide pact in East Vancouver are still in danger and waiting for crucial support services, an advocate says....
BEMIDJI, Minn. – A patient is best served when she has a team of medical staff working in tandem to address all of her medical needs, says Dr. Valerie Fox, a Sanford Bemidji family physician. That is the goal of Sanford One Care, a team-based initiative that aims to improve health care delivery for patients with chronic health concerns. “What we’re trying to do is identify how we can improve our ability to serve our patients … in the most effective manner,” said Dr. Read Sulik, Sanford Health’s senior vice president for Behavioral Health Serv...
FARMINGTON — During the feast of St. Thomas on Dec. 21, 2013, Bishop David Bailey ordained Cornelia Eaton transitional deacon, making her one of two Navajo deacons serving in the Navajoland mission area....
Photographer Pamela J. Peters is exhibiting her work today (January 5) at 118 Winston Art Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The show is called "Exiled NDNz: A celebration of American Indian culture in the heart of Los Angeles." Peters, who was born on the Navajo Nation and has been photographing Native subjects for years, took a few moments to discuss her project with ICTMN. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/05/exiles-la-streets-exiled-ndnz-documents-las-natives-152980...
Cheap shots have been taken at the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—on the ground that most of the Congress that voted for it never read it. The shot is true. What makes it cheap is ignorance. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/04/why-nobody-congress-reads-laws-they-pass...
OTTAWA — Thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires, protected from abusers, and healthy from deadly disease, a commission into the saga has found....
SAN CARLOS — San Carlos Apache tribal employees were promised improved electrical service, something a tribal official said should have happened a long time ago....
Former Seahawk Mack Strong and his wife Zoe always knew they wanted to give back to the community and help kids struggling with difficult life situations, especially since both came from challenging upbringings. But little did they know how much that would actually entail....
Of the some 136 million objects and specimens in the grand Smithsonian collections, most carry an implied positive energy, or a promise of better things to come, or sometimes just simple joy. But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history, including one so unimposing in size and materials as to appear insignificant; you could slip it into a shirt pocket, forget it’s there and run it through to its destruction in the wash. Read more at http://indiancountry...
I’m not one to make resolutions for the upcoming new year but I do think the end of the year is a good time to reflect back on the news that came out of Indian country. What was news this year is now recent history and the gift of hindsight helps us to better understand where we stand in any given moment. Our perspective depends on the angle we are looking from and forms what we call truth. Another way of saying this comes from the Star Wars movie “Episode 1: The Phantom Menace” when the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn tells the young Luke Skywa...
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about who Native women are and what we should be, even within Native circles. While this is to be expected given our turbulent history of genocide and assimilation, it must end now....
The year 2013 saw no shortage of compelling news stories. CBC Thunder Bay has compiled a list of it top-10 stories of the year that were most clicked on by our website readers....
Leaders of Montana's Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have split the duties of tribal chairman between two council members following a deadlocked vote....
For a baseball trailblazer, James Madison Toy suffered a perhaps unfortunate and ignominious fate....
