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The Bureau of Indian Affairs won a rare victory this week in the legal dispute over tribal services at the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris declined Tuesday to grant a temporary restraining order against the BIA, despite the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s accusation that the agency was interfering with tribal law enforcement on the reservation. http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/judge-won-t-grant-restraining-order-against-bia-on-wind/article_c19a8956-5bac-5d05-a389-62f7c43133f5...
March 9 (UPI) -- Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said he wants to interact with Native American tribes as equals and supported their calls for sovereignty and self-determination. Zinke, who was confirmed March 1, made the comments during the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs' "Identifying Indian Affairs priorities for the Trump Administration" oversight hearing. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/03/09/Interior-Secretary-Zinke-wants-to-interact-with-Native-American-tribes-as...
In a ruling with substantial importance for water management in the American West, a U.S. appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision that an Indian tribe in California’s Coachella Valley has a right to groundwater beneath its reservation. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit determined on March 7 that when the federal government established a reservation in 1876 for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians — on arid land without the endowment of significant rivers or streams — water was part of the dea...
BOISE, Idaho — Shared legal jurisdiction between the State of Idaho and Shoshone-Bannock Tribes has weakened the tribe’s ability to gain federal funding, Shoshone-Bannock vice-chair Darrell Shay indicated at a Monday meeting of the Idaho Council on Indian Affairs. And a state report reviewed at the meeting suggested that Idaho could consider withdrawing from the joint jurisdiction arrangement, which began in Idaho in 1963 as an outgrowth of the 1953 passage of U.S. Public Law 280. http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/i...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in conjunction with the Indian Health Service, recently released promising new data for Native American diabetics. The Vital Signs report shows diabetes-related kidney failure among American Indian and Alaskan Native adults decreased by a substantial 54 percent between 1996 and 2013. The federal health agencies credit the improvement on public health and population-based approaches—including a big focus on tribal community outreach—as well as improved diabetes management and better clinical car...
On Wednesday March 1st, Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills announced the third class of American Indian youth to receive $10,000 Dreamstarter grants for projects that help their communities and bring their dreams to life. Each of the ten Dreamstarter recipients, who are all American Indian youth under age 30, will work together with a community nonprofit on an educational project supported by Running Strong for American Indian Youth. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/sports/olympic-legend-billy-mills-names-third-c...
The United States Mint began issuing Native American $1 coins in 2009, to recognize and honor the many contributions and accolades of the Native American community towards the development of the United States. Beginning in chronological order from the time in which they lived and the major events in which the individuals or groups participated, is the order in which have and will be released. The coins are much like presidential coins, which are always golden in color and feature an edge design unto themselves. While the obverse design will...
An Edmonton meet up website advertising an evening of Indigenous cuisine, a course on how to smudge and wine has drawn the ire of people across social media. The online post that has since been removed from the single travellers site in Edmonton that offered an evening of “breaking bannock” to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and learn about the Poppachase (sic) band in Edmonton. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/03/08/online-ad-invites-singles-to-pay-40-for-indigenous-cuisine-smudging-and-wine/...
A movie production team was denied permission to shoot in the Rocky Mountain national parks after Parks Canada staff learned the film's plot involved an indigenous gang leader. "They expressed a real concern that this was not something they would favour," said Mark Voyce, location manager for a film project that had been scheduled to start shooting later this month. http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/parks-canada-rejects-movie-shoot-after-learning-of-indigenous-gangster-character-1.3316625...
A Wyoming man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder and other crimes for shooting a couple and wounding their daughter when the family tried to help him along a road on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 19, faces life in prison under an agreement reached last month with federal prosecutors in which he acknowledged killing Jason and Tana Shane and wounding their daughter in July 2015. Mendoza was 18 at the time. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/man-pleads-...
BOZEMAN -- Just before state-wide divisional basketball tournaments tipped off last month, an ugly and now infamous op-ed piece showed up on a Billings radio station's website. The since-deleted story essentially called for segregated tournaments between Montana's Indian schools and everyone else. Arlee boys' basketball coach Zanen Pitts, whose team holds the West's No. 1 seed headed into Thursday's State C tournament, tried to turn that negativity into a positive for his squad that hails from the southern end of the Flathead Reservation....
A long time band councillor and former chief wants to ban drug dealers from his Mi’kmaq community in Nova Scotia. According to Alex McDonald, drug-related crimes in the Sipekne’Katik First Nation are getting worse and he wants action. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/03/08/nova-scotia-band-wants-to-ban-drug-dealers-from-community/...
Chitimacha Tribal Police Officers arrested three people after allegedly finding drugs and counterfeit money in their cars and hotel room, Chief Hal Hutchinson said. Police were called to a hotel off the reservation by someone reporting suspicious activity. They found three people in two vehicles, and then after searching found meth, mushrooms and pot in the cars. http://www.katc.com/story/34701130/three-arrested-at-cypress-bayou-casino-hotel...
BILLINGS - A Wyoming man had just become a father himself not long before he shot and killed a Pryor couple in front of their daughter in 2015. Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 19, said in his own words at his Tuesday change of plea hearing that he shot Tana and Jason Shane and attempted to kill their 24-year-old daughter, Jora. http://www.ktvq.com/story/34689538/man-admits-executing-pryor-couple-prosecutors-recommend-life-imprisonment...
A Yukon Supreme Court judge has overruled the territory's chief coroner, saying an inquest is needed to examine allegations of systemic racism as factors in Cynthia Blackjack's death in 2013. Coroner Kirsten Macdonald had earlier rejected the need for an inquest. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cynthia-blackjack-inquest-ordered-coroner-yukon-1.4014160...
A woman who said she witnessed a collision on Thunder Bay's south side that left an Indigenous pedestrian with serious injuries says police and passers-by did everything they could to help. The family of Geraldine Mamakwa said the 46 year-old woman was hit by a car on Feb. 13, fracturing her skull and mangling her leg. The family had raised concerns that she was left in the middle of the road after the collision while traffic went by, and that the incident was a "hit-and-run." Police have said the driver who hit Mamakwa stayed at the scene....
