Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Even as Minnesota libraries spend hundreds of millions on building expansion and renovation, fewer and fewer people are visiting those buildings to check out books....
This is supposed to be the year the Minnesota Legislature undoes as much as it does....
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A University of Minnesota-Duluth student who nearly froze to death after spending a night outside plans to move to St. Cloud Hospital to continue her rehabilitation closer to home....
NEW YORK — The U.S. abortion rate declined to its lowest level since 1973, and the number of abortions fell by 13 percent between 2008 and 2011, according to the latest national survey of abortion providers conducted by a prominent research institute....
Minnesota’s new health insurance exchange isn’t getting off the mark with small businesses any faster than it is with consumers....
As hard as he tried, Michael Duffy couldn’t find a job to match the one he’d lost....
They are known as “coders” and “carders,” high-tech gurus who live in a digital underworld....
WASHINGTON — Despite increased security put in place after the massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there's been no real reduction in the number of U.S. school shootings....
Last Sunday I asked readers to offer ideas about how to reinvigorate the Mille Lacs walleye population. I suggested anglers should be limited to catch-and-release walleye fishing for at least a year, and that the Chippewa should suspend netting as well. Meantime, on Friday, the DNR announced a record-low 60,000-pound Mille Lacs walleye quota for the coming year, beginning in May — 42,900 pounds for state-regulated anglers and 17,100 pounds for the Chippewa. The DNR will discuss the quota with a Mille Lacs area advisory group later this m...
The following joint statement comes from: Honor the Earth, the Oglala Sioux Nation, Owe Aku, and Protect the Sacred....
These are two fundamental, and essential emotions which allow us to live well. I could say function in society, but that seems too clinical. Remorse—to feel sorry, to express regret; (minjinawezid- he is regretful). And, gratitude, migwechiwendam, to be thankful. We need these feelings and emotions, and we need to be able to express them. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/01/power-thank-you-and-im-sorry...
It's our weekly roundup of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/02/week-was-big-stories-indian-country-february-2-2014-153380...
INE RIDGE — An Oglala Sioux tribal committee has started a process that could allow a public vote on whether to legalize marijuana use on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
When one says American Indian, what comes to mind? Is it the fierce-looking warrior on horseback or perhaps the individual in war paint holding a repeating rifle, ever ready for battle? We have so many political and societal issues being discussed regarding 21st century American citizens, yet it is truly rare to hear any issues relating to present-day American Indians—present day being the key phrase. Isn’t it unfortunate that a people who were forced to accept a European-based society are today left to be their own advocates in the U.S., typ...
Violent crime occurs so pervasively around Native youth that they suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the same rate as U.S. veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/02/former-sen-troy-eid-violence-ptsd-are-killing-native-youth-153381...
President Barack Obama has released an environmental-impact report that divorces the Keystone XL pipeline from the notion of increasing the rate of Alberta oil sands extraction, therefore potentially removing one of his stated objections to the project. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/31/state-department-final-environment-report-says-keystone-xl-impact-minimal-153373...
The Navajo Nation Council on Thursday approved a 2-percent increase in sales tax for junk food sold on the 27,000-square-mile reservation, becoming the first tribe in the country to install a so-called “junk food tax.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/01/navajo-nation-council-approves-junk-food-tax-fight-obesity-153376...
RAPID CITY, SD - On each cold winter evening, residents of Red Shirt go to bed wondering how long their propane will last....
BISMARCK, N.D. — The federal government has released more money for a program that helps low-income people around the country heat their homes, but the leader of an American Indian reservation in the Dakotas said it might not be enough to deal with a local propane crisis....
A northern New York man faces prison and a fine after being convicted this week in federal court of a massive smuggling operation involving land on the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation....
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — Three South Dakota men charged in a wide-ranging drug conspiracy have been sentenced in federal court....
Pay now or pay later. That's the warning of commissioner Ted Hughes' exhaustive report from the inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair....
“They tore my sweater and jeans off in the holding cell. There were three or four of them – men – a female guard was watching,” Joy I. told me. “I tried to sit up and they pepper sprayed me twice. They kept pushing me down and tearing my clothes off....
he EPA essentially redrew State of Wyoming boundaries and moved three towns onto the Wind River Indian Reservation. If the controversial decision by the Environmental Protection Agency survives legal challenges, one million acres of land was transferred out of the state without any type of Congressional approval. The city of Riverton is home to 10,000 people. Two other small towns were also included in the EPA decision that has upset state officially and residents immensely....
In the wake of a year that saw across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester ravage reservations, Congress must do more to meet its treaty obligations with Indian tribes, said U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum....
