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The body of a missing western Wisconsin woman was found Wednesday evening in a van pulled from the Mississippi River. Marya Christiansen’s body was found in the white Dodge Caravan, according to the Pierce County, Wis., Sheriff’s Department. Christiansen, 23, who lived with her boyfriend and her two children near Hager City, Wis., had been missing since she headed home alone about 2:30 a.m. Saturday after socializing with friends in Red Wing, Minn., across the river. http://www.startribune.com/body-of-missing-hager-city-woma...
The contentious battle over how best to educate Minnesota’s youngest learners is shifting in a new direction after Gov. Mark Dayton for now abandoned his bid for universal state-paid preschool. A bipartisan group of legislators is pressing for a cheaper option of expanding the state’s early-learning scholarship program. State Sen. Melisa Franzen, DFL-Edina, wants to expand the age of children served by scholarships beyond 3- and 4-year-olds to kids as young as birth. The program also would prioritize children who are in foster care or chi...
A wave of heroin overdose deaths and hospitalizations across northern Minnesota prompted an urgent plea from authorities Wednesday for the public's help in identifying dealers and users in an effort to prevent further tragedies. Seven people have died and more than a dozen have been hospitalized in the past few weeks after ingesting heroin that in many cases was made even deadlier by the presence of added narcotics such as morphine and fentanyl, authorities said at Wednesday's news conference in Bemidji, Minn. "We're here today because people...
Drive the long, straight roads of north-central North Dakota, and you pass lake after lake amid hayfields and forests. Migratory birds, attracted by the abundance of water and grain, pause here. Farmers, boaters, and fishermen orient their lives around the pure water. The water, more than anything, explains why members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians acted so quickly when they learned their region was next in line for fracking. Within just a few weeks of tribal women meeting on the topic in late 2011, the council banned...
In a case pending before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania v. Think Finance, Inc., et al., No. 14-cv-7139, the Pennsylvania Attorney General (the “AG”) sued a number of defendants under Pennsylvania’s “Loan Interest and Protection Law,” which limits the rate of interest for loans under $50,000.00 issued by unlicensed lenders to six percent per year. See 41 P.S. § 201(a). The AG alleged that the defendants had “partnered with an out-of-state bank and with Native American tribes, in arrangements known...
Native American Natural Foods’ Tanka Bar has grown from a small local health food to the most popular snack product sold by Recreational Equipment, Incorporated…commonly known as REI. As the Pine Ridge Reservation-based Tanka Bar manufacturer prepared to attend yet another natural foods expo, we visited with company president Mark Tilsen to discuss the growth and popularity of the small-town Lakota business. http://listen.sdpb.org/post/native-american-natural-foods-keeps-growing...
President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and his pick comes with some Indian law experience. Garland is the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears a significant number of Indian law cases. But he's never written a majority opinion in any of the biggest disputes that came before him. Garland, for example, sat on the panel that decided the infamous tribal labor law case in February 2007. By a unanimous vote, the court ruled that the National Labor Relations Act can be...
The sacred land in coastal Louisiana that a small community of Native Americans has called home for more than a century has been all but swallowed by the rising sea, leaving residents with little dry ground and a fear they will lose their heritage. Now a $48 million federal grant will allow the band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians of Isle de Jean Charles to move away from their vanishing home. The funding for the relocation will make the tribe one of the first—and so far the largest—populations in the United States to be resettled bec...
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs didn’t hear much that was surprising during a March 9 oversight hearing on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal. And that was disappointing. Senators asked most of the witnesses the simple question, “Is that enough money?” Witnesses answered with some variation on the statement that this administration has been more responsive to needs in Indian country than have previous regimes. But no one gave the short answer senators have been hearing in oversight hearings, be they on Justice, or Educ...
The recent school shooting in La Loche, Sask., are a reminder of troubled times on many First Nations. This week, chiefs from the Cote, Key and Keeseekoose First Nations near Kamsack, Sask., are citing 100 deaths in 2015 as cause for emergency. Their message: First Nations people are dying due to homicide, suicide and drug overdoses, and the government needs to step in and help. "You know we have methadone in our community. Over a hundred people on methadone, and we got people falling like flies of overdoses, mixing with prescription drugs...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, We at ICTMN are celebrating the sacred women in this world. Here are five more warriors - adding to our previous post to honor our sacred women warriors. As we previously noted, Our sacred women are the ones who raise the warriors and the chiefs - those who are charged with protecting the people - and our women encourage and may even shame the men to do what is right. And if the men can not do it, then the women will. In honor of these women, Here are 5 more modern day Native women warriors. Read more a...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The women's basketball team from United Tribes Technical College has been knocked out of championship contention in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II tournament. The Lady Thunderbirds lost 77-54 to Monroe Community College of Rochester, New York, in a first-round game on Tuesday. The Bismarck school moves to the consolation bracket, and takes on Kankakee Community College of Illinois on Thursday. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaw/2016/03/16/united-tribes-womens-hoops-...
“I want everyone to know that this will be a peaceful march,” said Leslie Salyers, sister of Jacqueline Salyers, a Puyallup tribal member who was shot dead by a Tacoma, Washington, police officer on January 28. “We don’t want to stop violence with violence. We just want answers.” The slain woman’s family has planned a march that will begin at 11 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, March 16, on the Puyallup Tribe of Indians homeland. After gathering at 3009 East Portland Avenue, in Tacoma, family members and supporters will process to a federal cou...
EUREKA -- A man who was charged in the 1980s with killing his 3-month old daughter in San Mateo has resigned from a top Yurok Tribal Council post after his background came to light through social media. James Dunlap's resignation Tuesday from the post of Tribal chairman came four months after he was elected to the position. Dunlap, of Humboldt County, was charged with the "sacrifice murder" of his 3-month-old daughter Brittaney at his half-brother's San Mateo home on Sept. 9, 1988. http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services have released a draft of the revised Model Indian Juvenile Code for comment. This is the first update of the code, which provides federal guidance to tribes dealing with troubled kids, in more than 30 years. Matthew T. Ficcaglia and Ron Whitener from the Center of Indigenous Research and Justice authored the document, with the assistance of several other experts. While the revised code comes from the federal government, it does not pertain to...
State Attorney General Marty Jackley said Wednesday he has charged three people with fraud and other financial skulduggery in the GEAR UP scandal that includes the murder/suicide deaths of a GEAR UP administrator and his family. The charges stem from an investigation of GEAR UP Jackley started after the bodies of Scott Westerhuis, his wife and four children were found in their Platte, South Dakota home on Sept. 17. Scott and Nicole Westerhuis worked for Mid-Central Educational Co-op for a decade and had learned the day before their deaths the...
A couple killed in a Platte murder-suicide embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from an educational cooperative they both worked for, including federal funds aimed at helping the South Dakota American Indian students prepare for college. Attorney General Marty Jackley at a press conference Wednesday said Scott and Nicole Westerhuis funneled as much as $1 million from Mid-Central Educational Cooperative to a group they created, American Indian Innovation Institute (AIII), to subsidize the group's payroll. The announcement came almost six...
Provincial police say they are suspending their ground search and underwater recovery operation in the quest to find a 16-year-old girl from Kenora, Ont., who was last seen on Feb. 27. Two check points were set up by police in the downtown Kenora area on Saturday asking all drivers and pedestrians if they had any information to share about Delaine Copenace. The Ontario Provincial Police underwater search and recovery unit was also called in over the weekend. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/delaine-copenace-ground-u...
