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Four newly elected members of the Minneapolis school board will take the oath of office Tuesday, the culmination of a seven-year push for a more diverse and representative governing board....
WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders on Sunday showed no signs of emerging from their corners to resolve the next step in the financial crisis, with Democrats still talking about higher taxes on the wealthy and the Senate's top Republican suggesting that a crippling default on U.S. loans was possible unless there were significant cuts in government spending....
On Jan. 5, a new report about the baby Veronica case that has held the country's attention for the past year indicates the United States Supreme Court is now getting involved. In fact, in a turn of events, the controversial case will ultimately be decided by the highest court in the land....
The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, has agreed to a meeting with First Nations leaders following indigenous protests sparked by a hunger strike....
While Theresa Spence is getting weak, the Attawapiskat chief plans to continue her hunger strike at least until Friday's First Nations meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and maybe even after that, her spokesperson says....
It’s been a long time since I wrote something for “The Thing About Skins....
The mother of a First Nations woman whose reported abduction and sexual assault is under investigation by police in Thunder Bay, Ont., as a possible hate crime calls the incident "horrific," and is pushing for an inquiry into violence against aboriginal women....
As police in Thunder Bay investigate a possible hate crime against a First Nations woman, a support worker says solving the case is more important than the label it is given....
A brutal sexual assault of a native woman in northwestern Ontario that is being investigated as a hate crime has thrown fresh fuel on the fires of discontent being expressed in protests and demonstrations by first nations people across Canada....
In a basement interrogation room in South Dakota, agents of the state's Department of Criminal Investigation were on the firing line. A group of Native American children were claiming sexual and physical abuse by their white adoptive parents, whose home they first entered as foster children. The agents were determined to get the kids to recant....
WINNIPEG-A new blockade shut down Winnipeg’s busiest artery Wednesday. Portage Ave., the main route to Western Canada, shut down by Idle No more, and the drivers left idling their cars got angry....
Nearly six months after the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Duluth-based contractor EMR brought up 70 barrels from the bottom of Lake Superior north of Duluth, the band has released no information about what was found inside....
The following letter is from Leonard Prescott, the former Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, and is a reflection on Sen. Daniel Inouye who walked on in December....
Tribal police searched each and every vehicle returning from Whiteclay, Nebraska on Monday night, as a long line of drivers headed for the Pine Ridge Reservation waited patiently. It was minus-two degree weather where the South Dakota border meets the tiny town of Whiteclay, where 4 million cans of beer are sold each year, mostly to reservation residents....
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – This city in northeast North Dakota is cracking down on a small group of people who are repeatedly jailed for public intoxication by making it illegal to sell alcohol to “habitual drunkards....
In a recent op-ed, Suzy Chaffee, 1968 ski racing Olympian and co-founder of the Native American Olympic Team Foundation, suggests holistic approaches to reduce gun violence....
As the presidential election approached, we heard plenty of political rhetoric about reproductive rights. From abortion laws to "legitimate rape," everyone seems to have an opinion about women’s bodies....