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If President Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline, large quantities of the Canadian oil it’s designed to carry will still roll into the United States — on railroads with tracks through Minnesota....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A New York high school basketball player's wild, buzzer-beating shot helped his team clinch the state title, and video of the win has gone viral....
Gov. Mark Dayton’s bid to recalibrate Minnesota’s tax code is part of a larger effort in statehouses across the country to find a 21st-century tax formula that works....
Musician Steve Humerickhouse was on his way to rehearsal at Concordia College in St. Paul last week. He hit a sour note on the way when he plunged his 2013 KIA Optima — a vehicle he’d owned for just two weeks and driven just 195 miles — into a giant pothole on the ramp from Franklin Avenue to eastbound Interstate 94 in Minneapolis....
Room 112 is walled off from the rest of a Maplewood public school by an ugly row of concrete blocks....
As parents demand more police presence in schools, communities across the Twin Cities metro area are grappling with how to pay for officers despite lagging budgets....
WASHINGTON - Despite their unpopularity, those deep federal spending cuts look like they'll be around for a while....
WASHINGTON - A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection....
A former prime minister, Olympian and a social activist are standing together....
MASHPEE — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Election Committee announced results from a recount of a tribal election held last week. Read more: http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x171156050/Mashpee-Wampanoag-recount-confirms-Cromwell-re-election#ixzz2MZsBoUrj...
SHIPROCK — Uranium mining companies have renewed their interest in the Navajo Nation, and it seems they will not be easily deterred....
National Congress of American Indians President Jefferson Keel began his annual report, State of Indian Nations, with a simple exclamation. “Indian country is strong!” That statement, he added, is something he hasn’t always been able to say. He then described this as “a moment of real possibility.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/15/state-indian-nations-moment-real-possibility-147702...
During what should have been a peaceful gathering to protest the use of recycled wastewater on the sacred San Francisco Peaks, the Protect the Peaks organization says two Navajo youth were attacked by an inebriated woman in Flagstaff, Arizona on February 9 Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/11/idle-no-more-snowbowl-protest-disrupted-disorderly-woman-147590...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The Spirit Lake Nation’s continuing efforts to deal with deficiencies in its child protection system is about to get another round of national exposure....
ALBANY – The state’s attorney general is stepping up efforts to combat the movement of tax-free cigarettes from Indian-owned companies in Canada to New York tribes, including the Seneca Nation of Indians....
When the Violence Against Women Act is signed by President Barack Obama, it will mark an historic milestone for Native American tribes: for the first time, they will have the authority to prosecute non-Indians who do not live on tribal lands for crimes committed there. Under the Act, Indian tribes will be able to ask the Attorney General for certification that their tribal court system can exercise jurisdiction over non-resident, non-Indians charged with domestic or sexual violence that occurred on Indian lands....
WASHINGTON - Tribes will be able to prosecute non-Native abusers in tribal courts under an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act that won final approval Thursday....
PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Over 100 Oglala Lakota Sioux tribal members and allies, including members of Deep Green Resistance, rallied once again today to round dance and raise awareness of the dire conditions in the Nebraska border town of White Clay, NE, an unincorporated hamlet that has four liquor stores next door to the "dry" Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Many in Ottawa celebrated this week when a new professional basketball team was presented to the community....
OTTAWA–Cindy Blackstock was met with applause from child advocates, students and young children as she stepped down from the witness stand at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Friday after five days of questioning....
SNOW HILL The name sounds too foreign, too exotic, too dramatic for a Greene County wheat field: Nooherooka, massacre of the Tuscarora War. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/02/3889433/300-years-later-forgotten-indian.html#storylink=cpy...
“Whites never get asked to speak for all white people. Everyone knows there is a diversity of opinion on any subject, and nobody could speak for all members of their race, but Indians are often asked to speak for or represent their entire race.” So writes Anton Treuer in his new book from Borealis Press, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/03/03/anton-treuer-ambassador-answers-silly-questions-147970...
Montana-based visual journalist Adam Sings In The Timber, Crow, created and shared with ICTMN the following short video, "Native America," containing some of his photography documenting the lives of modern Native Americans. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/15/native-america-documenting-native-life-truthfully-and-honestly-147694...
Tewaaraton Foundation has announced the 2013 Tewaaraton Award men’s and women’s watch lists. The lists include the top players across all three divisions of NCAA lacrosse and highlight the early contenders for the 2013 Tewaaraton Award. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/03/03/native-lacrosse-players-among-early-contenders-2013-tewaaraton-award-147973...
Lead hunting bullets in carrion are killing eagles and other scavenging animals, and in Wisconsin at least, it mostly stems from deer hunting, and more and more wildlife experts are raising the alarm. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/11/bald-eagles-falling-prey-lead-laced-bullets-carrion-147566...