Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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CHICAGO - Hundreds of Chicago police officers are hitting the streets on overtime every night in dangerous neighborhoods, the latest tactic by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration to reduce killings in a city dogged by its homicide rate and heartbreaking stories about honor students and small children caught in the crossfire....
March 20th is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of the terrible toll that HIV/AIDS continues to take on Native American populations. HIV/AIDS is a crisis that affects many American Indians and Alaska Natives, but particularly Two-Spirit individuals, who often experience stigma and discrimination in both Native and mainstream society....
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting has been granted a court injunction to keep the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation from holding more protests at its mining project in northern Manitoba....
WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) — The Three Affiliated Tribes has shut down construction of a landfill for oil waste on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota....
A flurry of oil exploration activity on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that raised hopes and concerns has fizzled for now with the announcement from a Denver-based energy exploration company that it’s ending operations....
WASHINGTON -- Idaho’s Rep. Mike Simpson, a Republican, asked a critical question Tuesday. It’s one rarely asked, let alone, answered. The question: Does more government money work?...
Anchorage, ALASKA — Alaska kids are joining thousands of youth across the country by taking part in Kick Butts Day, a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out, speak up and seize control against Big Tobacco. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/03/20/2833269/alaska-kids-fight-big-tobacco.html#storylink=cpy...
HAVRE — The suspended chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribe was arrested Wednesday while attempting to return to his office, an escalation of his dispute with the governing council that is trying to oust him....
ANTIGO - Stockbridge-Munsee tribal president Robert Chicks is facing three misdemeanor charges in connection with an incident in Langlade County....
GREAT FALLS — A state hearings officer has upheld a ruling that Blaine and Hill counties showed discriminatory indifference toward an 18-year-old inmate in the Hill County Detention Center who died in 2009 of acute alcohol withdrawal....
US Supreme Court judges have turned down an appeal from a woman who was ordered to pay $222,000 for illegally downloading 24 songs on the now defunct file sharing service Kazaa. The White House advised the court to side with the recording industry....
OAKLAND -- The Oakland Unified School District narrowly voted to revoke the charter of the embattled American Indian Model Schools despite a lengthy and passionate defense by pupils, parents and AIMS board members who vowed to take the decision to Gov. Jerry Brown if necessary....
The Oakland school board held a special meeting Wednesday, March 20, to revoke the charter of the American India Model Schools despite its high-performance record. A state auditor investigation found millions of dollars in what were called questionable expenditures. AIMS can appeal the decision....
The Congressional Republicans who brought us the mindless budget cuts known as the sequester have shown remarkable indifference to life-sustaining government services, American jobs and other programs. So what do they make of the country’s commitments to American Indians, its longstanding obligations to tribal governments under the Constitution and treaties dating back centuries?...
OTTAWA - Audits of the First Nations Policing Program found a number of cases in which officers' personnel files were missing proof they had completed basic training, did not have criminal records and were actually Canadian citizens. Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Cops+files+missing+important+documents+audits+aboriginal/8126880/story.html#ixzz2OAsMu000...
American Indians and Alaska Natives with substance abuse disorders who participated in a 12-week drum-assisted therapy program experienced significant improvements in mental health and psychological characteristics, as measured by the Addiction Severity Index, Native American version....
MILWAUKEE — The state Department of Natural Resources and the Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are locking horns again, this time over the tribes’ plan to dramatically increase the number of walleye harvested this spring....
Jimmie Mitchell keeps a screen saver on his computer, a photo of children he never knew in a place he’s never been....
The death of five-year-old Ethan Yellowbird, the boy who was killed when three youths opened fire on a house in Hobbema, Alta. has caused his grandmother to lose her faith in "the goodness of most people."...
