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CHICAGO — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news. But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. They want news, they say, though they don't always aggressively seek it out — perhaps simply happening upon it on a friend's online feed. And they want it daily. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/relationship/296399101.html...
NEW YORK — If a column in honor of heart health suggests a can of Coke as a snack, you might want to read the fine print. The world's biggest beverage maker, which struggles with declining soda consumption in the U.S., is working with fitness and nutrition experts who suggest its cola as a healthy treat. In February, for instance, several wrote online pieces for American Heart Month, with each including a mini-can of Coke or small soda as a snack idea. The mentions — which appeared on nutrition blogs and other sites including those of maj...
WASHINGTON — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112. In reality, only few could possibly be alive. As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world. But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people, with the oldest born in 1869, according to a report by the agency's inspector general. http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/296405181.html...
Spring is high season for open houses, not only for real estate agents but for representatives from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, too. The agency will hold 50 to 60 open houses in the metro area this year, with most of them in the spring and summer ahead of major road construction projects. On Tuesday, MnDOT officials will be at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis to share details about a $6.9 million resurfacing project this summer on I-394 that will have a huge impact on commuters who drive between downtown...
Fifteen minutes of Internet fame can create long-term riches for a small business. Whether it’s a photo that gets shared on social media like the recent controversy over the color of #TheDress or a funny review that gets passed around, sales of products that go viral often skyrocket. And although the sellers struggle at first to deal with the extra attention and demand, the sudden celebrity can boost business for years to come. Over the course of a few days, the debate over whether a dress sold by Roman Originals, a British clothing-store c...
From military veterans to medical device companies, from retirees on Social Security to pizzeria owners, legions of Minnesotans are coming to the Legislature for tax cuts. The pilgrimage to the Capitol happens every year, but this time, it’s different. For the first time since Jesse Ventura was governor, the state faces a new budget year flush with a surplus expected to hit $1.9 billion. That has prompted dozens of interest groups to propose all manner of tax cuts and credits on everything from gold coins to child car seats, from gym me...
It’s time to quit all the cynical eye-rolling. It turns out that those obnoxiously sappy Facebook couples flaunting their “ussies” and “in a relationship” statuses actually might be as giddy as they claim. According to researchers at Penn State and the University of Houston, people who post frequently about their relationships actually have happier relationships than people who don’t assault their friends with reports from Couplesville every day. Researchers recruited 188 partnered college students and asked them a lengthy series of question...
Who’s working from home these days? A whole lot of people. Almost one-third of U.S. workers in 2013, according to the Census Bureau, and the number increased more than 30 percent between 2000 and 2010. Most employees don’t need to be sold on the idea of telecommunicating. The flexibility, the lack of dress code and the simple comforts of home are enticement enough. But if a boss needs convincing, statistics show that telecommuting is not only beneficial to the individual worker but also good for business. Harvard Business Review recently pub...
Local native When he entered Vita.mn's Are You Local? contest, Baby Shel thought he'd never get invited to the party as a) a rapper and b) a rapper from the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which is not very local. Not only did his hard-edged, rapid-tongued MC-ing earn him a spot as one of four finalists (out of 125 applicants) performing in 7th Street Entry last Friday, but the 25-year-old Ojibwe won the judges' vote - and pretty clearly the audience's, too - which meant he got to perform next...
BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke is proposing to make permanent a tax break for coal mined from American Indian Reservations and to extend the provision to mines built in the future....
Over the weekend of March 7 to 8, teepee poles erected by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies were vandalized with toilet paper and vinyl flag tape. The teepee had been up as part of a memorial that said “Justice for our Sisters” from February 10 to March 6 to bring awareness to murdered and missing aboriginal women, children and two spirit persons. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/03/15/university-alberta-teepee-vandalism-causes-fear-indigenous-community-159606...
A recent expansion of Indian Court jurisdiction is evidence that the judicial process may be moving closer to recognition of true Tribal Sovereignty. During the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on March 7, 2013 President Obama stated, “tribal governments have an inherent right to protect their people, and all women deserve the right to live free from fear.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/03/11/making-native-communities-safer. After conducting a pilot program the Justice Department has now authorized Tribal Cou...
HEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied a permit to kill bald eagles to the Northern Arapaho Tribe on its central Wyoming reservation. U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson ruled Thursday that Fish and Wildlife violated the Northern Arapaho's religious rights. He ordered the agency to reconsider the tribe's application. http://www.starherald.com/news/regional_statewide/federal-judge-rules-for-tribe-in-dispute-over-eagle-permits/article_3dc63a36-cb25-11e4-87be-cbd75f35...
HOGANSBURG — It is a Friday afternoon at the end of January on the edge of the country. Cold. Snowy. Quiet. A lot is happening. Members of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council are talking to a film crew about a documentary on the Akwesasne Attack girls lacrosse team, the Mohawk Nation Midwinter Ceremony is progressing and, outside the territory, two SUVs bearing the diagonal green stripe of the U.S. Border Patrol are watching both sides of Route 37. http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/at-akwesasne-mohawks-are-caught-in-...
It's our recap of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: WELCOME RETURN: Nine years almost to the day after his eagle feathers were seized at a powwow, Robert Soto has gotten them back. FORTUNATE FIND: Crews digging a ditch uncovered a rare Native American pendant in Newtown, Ohio—the shell pendant is actually a gorget, and was found among human remains and other artifacts. GIANT THANK YOU: Plans are underway to erect a sculpture that memorializes the aid that the Choctaw people sent to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. Read m...
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - Four members of a Montana family have been sentenced to federal prison on charges related to the embezzlement of more than $132,500 from the town of Brockton on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Valley County. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris sentenced 59-year-old Desiree Lambert to almost four years in prison during a recent hearing in Great Falls. Lambert pleaded guilty in November to fraud, embezzlement and aggravated identity theft. http://www.kfbb.com/story/28525053/family-sentenced-to-federa...
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The Puyallup Tribe has purchased a cancer treatment center and the western Washington tribe says it will be moving the operation to Fife. The News Tribune reports (http://is.gd/LHCvNP ) The Puyallup Tribe of Indians has purchased the Seattle Cancer Treatment & Wellness Center. The Renton clinic was previously owned by Cancer Treatment Centers of America. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washingtons-puyallup-tribe-buys-cancer-treatment-center/...
There are just more than six weeks left in the 2015 legislative session, which has local lawmakers working overtime to move bills out of the House and Senate. Both chambers passed bills requiring Washington’s tribal history be taught in school, but they snubbed the Chinook Nation, a tribe historically rooted along the lower Columbia River. This week, a bill setting time limits for mental health evaluations for criminal defendants became law. http://tdn.com/news/local/capitol-dispatch-olympia-puts-tribal-history-in-schools/ar...
No historian seriously questions that the European invasion of the Americas resulted in millions of deaths. The serious debate has been how many millions. What if it was enough millions to change the carbon dioxide (CO2) content in the atmosphere and therefore the climate and ultimately the geology of the Earth? Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin, British geographers writing in Nature, have proposed that a massive die-off of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas has left enough permanent global evidence to define a new geological epoch, the...
LAS VEGAS – The top-seeded New Mexico State women’s basketball team rolled over third-seeded Texas-Pan American, 70-52, on Saturday afternoon inside the Orleans Arena to win the 2015 Western Athletic Conference Tournament, its first-ever conference tournament title, and advance to the NCAA Tournament. Two American Indian women are part of the team: Guard Abby Scott (Warm Springs) and forward Bradley Nash (Navajo). http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/nm-state-conquers-wac-tournament-abby-scott-warm-springs-and-bradley-nash-n...
ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION — Julia Charging Whirlwind, 49, was attacked and killed by a pack of wild reservation dogs in the Lower Swift Bear Community on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Two of the dogs were shot and killed by the Mellette County Sheriff early Saturday morning who responded to a call about the attack shortly before 6:30 a.m. Charging Whirlwind was transported by ambulance to the Rosebud Hospital, where she died. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/49-year-old-woman-killed-by-pack-of-wild-rez...
FORT HALL — A dog owner on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation is upset that tribal Fish and Game officers killed two of his dogs last Wednesday, but the officers say the dogs were fatally shot after they killed chickens near Swore Farms. “My dogs were murdered because they weren’t given the benefit of the doubt that they were someone’s babies who simply got out of their fenced yard,” said owner Brian Murdock. The dogs that were destroyed were a Rottweiler and a pug. http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/fort-hall-fish-and-g...
RAPID CITY, SD - Rapid City law enforcement are searching for a state prison inmate who failed to return to the Rapid City Minimum Security unit after a funeral furlough. 30-year-old Dace Lunderman did not return to the prison at the scheduled time Saturday, March 14 from Mission, SD, where he was attending a funeral. http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/rapid-city-police-search-for-missing-prison-inmate/?id=177315...
The South Dakota State Penitentiary is denying Native American inmates religious accommodations for their quarterly pow wow ceremonies. That after a U.S. District Court ruledthat the state Department of Corrections had violated those inmates’ religious freedoms by banning their use of tobacco in prayer. “The state’s latest action against Native inmates feels retaliatory,” said Huy Chairman Gabe Galanda. “It’s as if prison officials are saying, ‘Fine, you got traditional tobacco back. Now we’ll take pow wow ceremony from you.’” At some...
A group of First Nations has demanded the removal of northern Manitoba’s Grand Chief over an agreement to fund a study worth more than $300,000 on the risks of storing nuclear waste in the Canadian Shield. Manitoba adopted nuclear-free status in 1987, ruling out any storage of spent nuclear fuel from commercial or research reactors. But David Harper, chief of the MKO (Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak) representing northern first nations, negotiated a two-year $312, 689 funding agreement this winter with the Nuclear Waste Management O...
