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Legislation that aims to recognize the contributions of Utah’s Native American community passed out of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on a 3-1 vote Wednesday. SB 170 – Indigenous Peoples Day, sponsored by Senator Jim Dabakis (Democrat – Salt Lake City), provides that the second Monday of October is called Indigenous Peoples Day, as opposed to it current moniker – Columbus Day. http://utahpoliticalcapitol.com/2016/02/24/bill-to-replace-columbus-day-with-indigenous-peoples-day-moves-forward/...
It now pays to serve on the Lumbee Tribal Council. Two-hundred dollars a month, to be exact, following a vote of the 21-member council last week, with $100 being for attendance to meetings and $100 for expenses associated with tribal duties such as transportation. We are sure that a collective groan was sounded by the Lumbee Nation last week when we reported the approval of the stipends, but the reimbursement is modest and in line with what other elected officials in this county are paid — with the exception being the county commissioners, w...
The Menominee Tribe is asking a federal court for a summary judgement to declare its industrial hemp growing operation legal. The request comes in response to the federal government’s motion seeking the lawsuit from the tribe to be tossed. Last November, the Menominee Tribe sued the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Justice over a raid that destroyed the hemp being grown on tribal land in October. http://www.wrn.com/2016/02/menominee-want-summary-judgement-in-hemp-case/...
Lorelei Williams left the first roundtable on missing and murdered indigenous women in tears after family members who had lost loved ones fought to be one of four people allowed to speak. The British Columbia woman, whose aunt disappeared in 1978 and whose cousin's remains were found on the farm of convicted killer Robert Pickton, says she felt revictimized by the experience. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/beyond-the-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw-inquiry-1.3460945...
Attorneys for James Henrikson argued Tuesday that the government’s case against the North Dakota man on murder-for-hire charges is built on the lies of informants, while prosecutors said all the evidence points back to Henrikson as the lengthy trial sped to a conclusion. Introducing three witnesses, two of whom had already testified, the defense argued after a day and a half of testimony that the federal government built its case against Henrikson on the self-serving stories of informants. Read more here: http://www.tri-city...
Native Americans are more likely to be killed by police than any other ethnic group in the U.S., but the national dialogue about racial bias and criminal justice reform continues to exclude them. The absence of American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians from conversations about police brutality and social inequality exemplifies the United States’ complicity to the continued marginalization and neglect of Native communities. Not only do Native Americans need to be included in the debate over police violence against minority p...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has approved a nearly $1 billion settlement between the Obama administration and Native American tribes over claims the government shorted tribes for decades on contract costs to manage education, law enforcement and other federal services. Attorneys for the tribes learned Wednesday that a federal judge in Albuquerque approved the agreement, about five months after the Interior Department and tribal leaders announced they had reached a proposed $940 million settlement in the class-action lawsuit. The judge's a...
On a recent Friday afternoon, Dave Anderson sat behind a table just inside the entrance of a suburban Minneapolis location of the restaurant chain he founded in 1994, Famous Dave’s. He signed autographs and posed for pictures with customers who consider him barbecue royalty. “I’m glad you’re back,” one customer said. “This place wasn’t the same without you.” http://nrn.com/famous-daves/famous-dave-s-tries-get-its-groove-back...
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A central Pennsylvania man is suing police who charged him for painting the letters “AIM” on an American flag that he flew upside down on his house. Joshuaa Brubaker is part Native American and says “AIM” stands for the American Indiana Movement. He says he flew the flag on his porch in Allegheny Township in May 2014 to protest plans to route the proposed Keystone Pipeline through the site of the Wounded Knee confrontation in South Dakota. http://wkbn.com/2016/02/24/aclu-sues-police-over-seizure-prosecution...
Bullying can happen anywhere — in schools, in the workplace, and in every community. No person is immune from the effects of bullying, not even a police officer. That’s why, on Pink Shirt Day, the Blood Tribe Police Service (BTPS) took extra measures to bring awareness to the issue. Twelve duty police officers, as well as patrol members and staff, all ditched the blue for a day and wore pink shirts with their uniforms. The officers conducted two anti-bullying awareness traffic stops on Highway 2 near the entrance to Standoff. htt...
A crafty hunter from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, made emergency pants out of a fox after he fell through ice over the weekend. Well-known carver Jimmy Iqaluq, who is in his 70s, was hunting alone for polar bears on the southern part of the Belcher Islands Saturday when his snowmobile went through the ice. Iqaluq was able to pull himself out of the water and tied his snowmobile to the ice in the hopes of saving it. He walked to a small island and, because the tide was low, he had to climb up sheer ice to get on land. http://www.cbc....
Puget Sound salmon are on drugs — Prozac, Advil, Benadryl, Lipitor, even cocaine. Those drugs and dozens of others are showing up in the tissues of juvenile chinook, researchers have found, thanks to tainted wastewater discharge. The estuary waters near the outfalls of sewage-treatment plants, and effluent sampled at the plants, were cocktails of 81 drugs and personal-care products, with levels detected among the highest in the nation. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/drugs-flooding-into-puget-sound-and-i...
Ricky Papin was "shocked and appalled" when he learned the serial killer who murdered his sister had written a book in prison. Robert "Willie" Pickton released the book, Pickton: In his Own Words, on Amazon last month through the Colorado-based publishing company Outskirts Press. Papin's sister, Georgina, was reported missing in Vancouver in 1999. Pickton was convicted of second-degree for killing six women. Another 20 murder charges were stayed. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-brother-of-robert-pickton-victi...
A 29-year-old Omaha man got jail time Wednesday for hitting a police officer in the head with a full bottle of beer during a football gameday fracas at the Lincoln Indian Center. Abraham Banuelos pleaded no contest to third-degree assault on an officer for what happened Sept. 20, 2014. "I definitely did not mean to hurt anyone," he said. "But I was caught up in the moment." http://journalstar.com/news/local/911/man-gets-jail-time-for-beer-bottle-assault-during-indian/article_4a2b8abe-04bf-58ea-8767-57b2006b9384.html...
