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A woman and her two children have been killed on the White Earth Indian reservation, authorities said. No one had been arrested as of Monday evening. Eugene “Umsy” Tibbetts, acting tribal chairman, told the Forum News Service that the victims were a daughter and two grandchildren of Michael LaRoque, the tribe’s director of public safety. Other details were scant. Earlier this year, the tribe made sharp cuts to many departmental budgets, including public safety. Five police officers were laid off, and several others resigned after a staff meeti...
NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Tommy Orange keeps winning awards. PEN America announced Tuesday that the author of "There There," the most honored literary debut of 2018, has received the PEN/Hemingway award for "distinguished" new novel. Orange's previous awards included a prize from the National Book Critics Circle for best new book and the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. "There There" is set in the Bay Area, its story of a loosely connected community of Native Americans culminating unforgettably at the Big Oakland Pow Wow. O...
PHOENIX - Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya spoke to an attentive audience at Native Health of Phoenix in January about the time a "recruiter" attempted to lure her into being trafficked into prostitution. "I was at a rap concert," says Imus-Nahsonhoya, Hopi. "I was pacing back and forth waiting for somebody." The man approached her and asked if she wanted a backstage pass to meet the celebrities. "'You've got beautiful hair,'" he told me. 'I just love your hair.'" https://www.nhonews....
The death toll from suicide, opioids and alcohol continues to rise in Minnesota, a state agency reported Monday, March 18. The Minnesota Department of Health reported 422 lost lives in Minnesota from opioids in 2017, 636 from alcohol and 783 by suicide. All three numbers have increased steadily since 1999, according to the health department's report: by 79 percent for suicide, by 94 percent for alcohol and by 681 percent for opioids. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business...
A Manitoban from Pimicikamak Cree Nation is headed to the National Hockey League. Brady Keeper, who played with the Opaskwayak Cree Nation Blizzard before going on to play for the University of Maine hockey team, signed a two-year contract with the Florida Panthers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-keeper-florida-panthers-1.5062106...