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LONGMONT, Colorado (Feb. 25, 2016) – 2015 was a record year for First Nations Development Institute (First Nations [ http://www.firstnations.org ]). During those 12 months, First Nations granted its largest annual dollar amount ever to Native American organizations and tribes. It also awarded the largest number of grants ever in a one-year period. The funding went toward projects aimed at grassroots economic development and Native community betterment, and covered areas ranging from agriculture and food systems, to Native arts-related e...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced the results of the recent elections of board members to serve on three Minnesota commodity councils. The MDA is responsible for administering the elections and certifying the ballots. The Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council elected the following members to serve three-year terms: Region 1 Tony Brateng, Roseau, Minnesota Tim Dufault, Crookston, Minnesota Region 2 Kevin Leiser, Fertile, Minnesota The Minnesota Dairy Promotion Council elected the following m...
John R. Tunheim, Chief U.S. District Judge, is pleased to announce that the Court has selected Katherine M. Menendez to serve as its next U.S. Magistrate Judge. Menendez will replace Magistrate Judge Jeffrey J. Keyes who is retiring at the end of April. Menendez will take the oath of office on April 28, 2016. A formal investiture ceremony will be held at a later date. The U.S. District Judges of the District of Minnesota appointed a seventeen-member Merit Selection Panel to review applications, interview prospective candidates, and recommend...
A Taste of Minnesota is folding. Linda Maddox, the summer festival’s general manager, announced the closing and her retirement on Thursday via the event’s Facebook page. Her declaration would appear to put an end to the once-thriving annual celebration, which got its start in St. Paul in 1983 and has been held in Waconia the last two years. Maddox’s late husband, Ron, was one of festival’s founders. News that the July 4th festival is ending took its entertainment director by surprise. “Don’t count it out,” said Jack Koshick. http://www.st...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced new executive actions Thursday aimed at thwarting illegal foreign steel dumping into the market, which workers on the Iron Range and Minnesota politicians blame for the slowdown in the mining industry there. The executive actions include adding more inspectors of steel imports at ports of entry and bringing on more staffers to enforce trade laws. The White House also said they will add personnel to the Commerce Department to help ensure tariffs are enforced against those who dump steel in the...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – For Thomas Lewis, a high school senior who plays trumpet in the marching band and works evenings at a grocery store, South Dakota’s debate over transgender rights is personal. Lewis, 18, who came out as transgender last year, has been speaking out against a bill that would prohibit public school students from using a bathroom or locker room for a sex other than theirs at birth. If the bill is signed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard, a Republican, by Tuesday, it will make South Dakota the first state to impose such a law. htt...
Something about the way Maria Isabel Jaime reacted to being robbed at gunpoint struck her colleagues as strange. Indeed, Jaime would later tell federal agents, she knew the man in the black ski mask who forced his way into the south Minneapolis TCF Bank branch as she and a co-worker opened one morning last fall. It was her boyfriend, Felix Mendez. http://www.startribune.com/feds-allege-inside-job-in-240k-minneapolis-tcf-bank-heist/370186121/...
NEW YORK — It's tax time, so you'd better think twice before clicking on that link in your email inbox. What may look like a legitimate communication from your bank, human resources department or email provider may actually be part of a scheme designed to steal the confidential information stored in your computer, or to gain access to the network it's attached to. Experts warn that tax season is a prime time for this brand of fraud known as "phishing," with hackers out to steal your information in hopes of using it to file a false tax r...
ST. PAUL, MN (MNC-KDAL) - Tribal groups in Minnesota are continuing their calls for the Enbridge Energy Sandpiper project and existing pipeline expansion to be shut down completely. The project has been delayed for another two years, until 2019, by a court ordered environmental impact study. Winona LaDuke, with the environmental group Honor the Earth, says the pipeline would affect two reservations and "cross through the middle of the heart of our wild rice territory, the most sacred food of our people." LaDuke's group and others have taken...
For years deceptive and predatory lenders have bilked millions of trusting consumers from their hard-earned monies, while consumer advocates have fought back for fair and transparent lending. On Feb. 11, 2016 another contentious round of exchanges on debt-trap lending occurred on Capitol Hill. Unlike previous forums, however, this one came with an open bias. A subcommittee of House Financial Services held a hearing named, “Short-term, Small Dollar Lending: the CFPB’s [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] Assault on Access to Credit and Tra...
A day in early August 2014. The sun is strong, and the thought of school is far enough away to be a dream. A dozen Lakota girls from Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota make their way to a site called Coyote Springs. It’s 30 minutes from the nearest town, down a winding dirt path lined with prairie grass. It’s sacred land, and the house they’re headed to is the only building for miles. Each summer, elder Inila Wakan Janis and his wife, Jennifer Janis, a teacher at the local middle school, present a math camp there for the girls. It’s...
The Washington NFL team is scheduled to play in London this fall, and two members of the British Parliament aren’t happy about it. “We were shocked to learn the derivation of the term ‘R*dskin,’ pertaining as it does to the historic abuse of Native Americans,” Ruth Smeeth and Ian Austin wrote in a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN. “The exportation of this racial slur to the UK this autumn, when the Washington team is due to play, directly contravenes the values that many in Britain have worked so h...
The Washington NFL team better known as the Redskins would bring “racial slurs” that go against British values when they play in the United Kingdom, two members of parliament have complained. Two Labour party representatives have written to the NFL to put pressure on the Redskins to rethink their name ahead of a game in London scheduled for this fall. “We were shocked to learn the derivation of the term ‘R*dskin,’ pertaining as it does to the historic abuse of Native Americans,” Ruth Smeeth and Ian Austin wrote. This content was originally...
The head of the committee established to oversee the process for compensating people who were abused at Canada’s Indian residential schools has rejected a call to investigate why government lawyers were allowed to use a legal technicality to have many of the claims thrown out. Mayo Moran, chair of the oversight committee of the Independent Assessment Process (IAP), was asked in writing by Charlie Angus, the NDP’s indigenous affairs critic, to examine the IAP’s decision to discard what is estimated to be at least 1,000 claims on the basis of wh...
The village of Whiteclay, Nebraska has long had a reputation as being the primary location for alcohol purchases by members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The image of vehicles driving from the Pine Ridge Reservation across the Nebraska border and returning to the dry Native American land has appeared in media outlets around the world. It’s an image that has fueled controversy over the indiscriminate sale of alcohol to residents of a neighboring community where alcohol abuse and addiction run rampant. But efforts are being made to change how p...
The decision to shutter Al Jazeera America recently was met with a general shoulder shrug. It was hard to find the channel on cable TV. It was easy to find its website, but not enough people were interested in finding it. Yet, there’s one particular avenue of its coverage that will be missed, at least by those who aren’t hypnotized by the bright shiny object of political coverage and vapid reality TV. Nobody was as good at investigating stories involving Native Americans as AJA was; stories that the rest of us in the media should be ash...
The federal government plans to pay back Native American tribes nearly $1 billion. A federal judge approved a settlement Tuesday. In the 1970s, self-determination laws gave tribes the authority to run their own schools, law enforcement, housing and other programs previously overseen by the federal government. But Congress put a cap on the amount of money tribes should be compensated to manage those services. That left tribes without enough money for things like administrative costs and workers’ compensation. In 1990, tribal leaders filed a c...
Attentions were turned to an historic American milestone, as Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the raising of the American flag over Mount Suribachi by U.S. Marines in the battle for Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. The iconic photo of that captured that moment has become a symbol of victory for World War II. The reflection was timely, as Hope MacDonald Lone Tree presented to the Navajo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday highlights of legislative issues currently being addressed on behalf of the Navajo Nation. “Today is actually a very s...
FLAGSTAFF — At first glance, it is just another rustic cabin surrounded by Ponderosa pines on the outskirts of town. A closer inspection reveals something else. Inside, Adrian Manygoats works to help Native American entrepreneurs realize their dreams of owning a small business. Manygoats is the coordinator for the Native American Business Incubator Network, a Flagstaff-based outreach group that aims to improve Native American entrepreneurship in Arizona. http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/program-helps-bolster-native-americ...
A North End community group is gaining wide support online for its efforts to help find 17-year-old Cooper Nemeth, whose body was found last weekend. A 22-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder. The street patrol group called the Bear Clan spent countless hours searching for Nemeth and in the end, honoured him in a smudge ceremony. The group's search for the teen, who had been missing for a week, is now sparking seeds of hope in both the indigenous and non-indigenous community. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Outside of education circles, it may not be commonly known that Minnesota holds the national title as the state with the largest achievement gap between Native American students, students of color and white students. Yet, those who work in schools across the state know that the gap exists, and they know that it needs to change. They know that Native students and students of color have the ability to succeed academically and to help narrow the gap. http://www.messagemedia.co/millelacs/community/education/isle-school-district-...
KLAMATH, Calif. - A dozen people were certified as captains at a graduation ceremony Thursday in Klamath through a two week program by the Yurok Tribe. The graduates completed the U.S. Coast Guard Boat Master Inland 100 course allowing them to get their captain’s credentials. The credentials allow anyone to operate, USCG-inspected vessels that weigh 100 tons or less and run boats that carry more than six people. They would also be trained in first aid and CPR. The tribe said the credential allowed community members, either tribal or n...
BILLINGS - A chase started in Billings and ended on the Crow Indian Reservation on Wednesday night.. Officers eventually stopped the vehicle on Highway 87 east about a mile from Pryor Road around 10:30 p.m. The chase started in the Heights when the Dodge pickup turned in front of a deputy. http://www.ktvq.com/story/31310076/pursuit-starts-in-billings-ends-on-reservation...
SANTA FE — A court-side confrontation has led the Santa Fe Indian School to fire two basketball coaches, both the parents of a popular WNBA player. They say racial remarks set off the dispute. The school’s varsity head Coach Ceci Moses, and her husband and assistant coach Rick Schimmel were let go on Sunday following a Feb. 17 game at St. Michael’s High School in Santa Fe, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The Santa Fe Indian School apologized earlier this week for unsportsmanlike conduct at the game, while Moses and Schimmel said in a state...
