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Prior Lake, MN – The results are in and South Metro Federal Credit Union raised $4,585 in their annual Chain of Hearts campaign fundraiser to benefit Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. The fundraiser, which encourages members, local residents, and area businesses to contribute by purchasing paper hearts and links, was open to the public. During the campaign, which runs in January and February each year, the personalized chains and links are added to the chain which hangs in the lobby of the credit union. In previous years more than 350 p...
REMARKS AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY BY ACTING ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL TONY WEST AT THE FEDERAL ADVISORY TASK FORCE ON RESEARCH ON VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN LIVING IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES WASHINGTON, D.C. Thank you, Bea, for that kind introduction and your leadership on this task force and in our Office on Violence Against Women. It’s a great privilege to be here and on behalf of all of us at the Department of Justice, I want to thank all of you, for your dedication to addressing violence against Native American w...
A prominent Mi'kmaq chief says he would rather resign as head of Nova Scotia's treaty rights organization than see two young First Nation women harmed because of their ongoing hunger strike, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network reported....
WINNIPEG – Canada’s chief adjudicator for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement’s Independent Assessment Process (IAP) has resigned, APTN Investigates has learned....
WASHINGTON – The following article was provided by the White House on Thursday after President Barack Obama signed into the law the Violence Against Women Reauthorization at the US Department of the Interior. It provides an excellent overview of the tribal jurisdiction provisions that are now federal law:...
Finally. After months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans waved the white flag....
As $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts take effect, funding for a Housing and Urban Development program created to pave the way for Native Americans to purchase homes will dry up. Read more: http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/across-the-board-federal-spending-cuts-gut-hud-program-aimed-at-native-american-homeownership#ixzz2NEKVjvRj...
RED CLIFF, Wis. — Some 22 barrels of military ammunition that were dumped into Lake Superior decades ago and recovered last year have been re-submerged while a local tribe and cleanup workers seek a federal waiver to bring them ashore....
The Cherokee Nation’s tribal council will vote Monday to impose stiffer penalties on crimes it prosecutes in tribal courts....
A former employee of the Lumbee Indian Tribe is suing the tribe, alleging her former boss sexually assaulted her and subjected her to severe sexual harassment. The woman, former winner of the tribe’s beauty pageant, worked for the tribal housing authority....
Today, Sunday, March 10, Chicago Public School Title VII program's Native Family Tennis Day, in partnership with the US Tennis Association, will be held at the Stockton Elementary Gym from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Participants who attend are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing. The event is open to all ages and no experience necessary. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/03/10/navajo-pro-tennis-ace-dwayne-begay-hosts-native-family-tennis-day-chicago-148090...
Cherokee citizen Cierra Fields participated in a panel discussion with members of Congress or saw President Barack Obama during her trip to Washington, D.C., according to a media release...
Today, March 10, the 29th Running of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon kicks off in Duluth, Minnesota. The race up in Alaska may be getting most of the headlines right now, but the John Beargrease dog sled race is truly an American Indian special: John Beargrease was an Ojibwe man and the inspiration for this annual 390-mile competition. You can follow all the action at the official race site, Beargrease.com. Meanwhile, we present an article on the man and the history behind the grueling test of man and dog that ICTMN.com originally...
After years of political turmoil and a criminal trial the chief and several members of Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan have received their punishment for stealing money....
Today is International Women's Day. Each year around the world, International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8....
Under a new federal law, non-tribal members must be ensured a fair trial if they are prosecuted in tribal courts for domestic violence....
The Journal's Feb. 27 editorial, "Wounded Knee, 40 years later," is wrong that "in many ways, nothing came out of the ordeal." In the past 40 years, much has changed for American Indians, although much has not. The Journal's editorial outlines what has not changed, including grinding poverty on South Dakota's reservations....
Eight days into a 1,200-mile trek along one of the longest rivers in the United States—the iconic Mississippi—Sharon Day was looking to hit mile 125 by day’s end. “We’re at Brainerd, heading south on [state highway] 371, and hope to get close to Little Falls [Minnesota] by tonight,” Day said by cell phone on the morning of International Women’s Day, March 8. She is traveling with a half dozen other walkers who have joined her from as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the Mississippi W...
Greenhouse gases and thus temperatures are skyrocketing and will most likely reach epic proportions by the year 2100, scientists at Oregon State University and Harvard University have found. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/03/09/study-shows-mother-earth-heading-toward-highest-temperatures-human-history-end-century...
After reading excellent commentary in a recent issue of Indian Country Today Media Network entitled “Restoring Heritage Cuisines and Indigenous Agroecosystems” by Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. (Chicano/Creek), a professor in American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington, I was curious to learn more about mentoring programs for Native American youth. I started by checking out the Food Sovereignty projects mentioned in the commentary, which lead to a happy discovery: There are programs in place in both...
PHOENIX - Earlier this week, two bodies were found in a coffin in the backyard of a Phoenix home. For the first time, relatives of one of the victims faced our cameras to talk about how painful the discovery was for their family....
MIDVALE - The public’s help is requested in locating Keisha Atcitty, a 14-year-old girl missing from Midvale since February. Atcitty was last seen Feb. 11 by her mother, Kara Sylvester, before she left for school. She is currently classified as an endangered runaway by the authorities. She may be in the company of a Hispanic man and they may still be in the Midvale area. An American Indian of Navajo heritage, Atcitty is 4 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown h...
On the frozen shores of Hudson’s Bay in January, a small group of Great Whale Cree strapped on their mukluks, pulled on their parkas and set out on an epic and frigid journey on foot to Ottawa....
HARBOR SPRINGS -- The tribal chairman for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians says he will sign a statute recognizing gay marriages for tribal members....
PIERRE | The South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation is warning people that a bank operating on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is not licensed, chartered or regulated by the Division of Banking....
