Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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As I was gathering information for the Northern Minnesota Veterans Home Task Force, I discovered some interesting facts about American Indian service members. First, they serve at a higher rate and have a higher concentration of female service members than all other service members. As a group, they are younger than others who serve, and they serve in the Navy more than any other branch of service. Up here in northern Minnesota we have four counties that have significant American Indian veteran populations. These counties are Beltrami with 329...
Nipissing First Nation members voted this weekend in favour of a land claim settlement worth $123.9 million....
The walleye fishing on Lake Mille Lacs is expected to be good this open-water season. But based on the new regulations announced earlier this week by the Department of Natural Resources, anglers will throw very few of those fish in their live wells....
OAKLAND -- More than a year of limbo ended Wednesday night when the American Indian Model Schools lost its license to operate, leaving 1,200 pupils and their parents infuriated by the decision to revoke the charter of a program considered to be one of the district's top performers....
The death of an aboriginal woman in northern B.C. is being treated as suspicious, the RCMP said Sunday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators have rejected a request by Enbridge Inc. for the go-ahead to move forward with a proposed $2.5 billion oil pipeline expansion in North Dakota....
If you’ve been following the controversy over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, recent events will either encourage you, disappoint you, or both....
Mathias Colomb Cree Nation Chief Arlen Dumas stormed out of a Court of Queen's Bench hearing today being held to restrict his band from blockading Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting mine sites in the province’s north....
PINE RIDGE INIDAN RESERVATION – Dozens of Oglala Sioux Tribe citizens lined up to be tested on National Native HIV/AIDS Day on at the tribal offices in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on Wednesday....
EDMONTON — Crumpled tissues damp with the tears of residential school survivors were collected in a small basket Saturday as men and women recounted traumatic childhood memories that torment them. Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Tears+flow+residential+school+victims+share+stories+abuse+heartache/8144162/story.html#ixzz2OYCuKG4L...
A group of students from the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Bena, Minnesota joined Leech Lake tribal leaders for a trip to Washington, D.C. at the end of February. The students attended an oversight hearing for the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and appeared on “The People’s House with Congresswoman Betty McCollum,” a cable show on February 27. “A lot of people don’t understand the responsibility that the federal government has to the Native American people,” McCollum, a democrat, e...
Imagine paying 30, 50 or even as much as 70 percent more every month for your electricity....
A group of dissident band members is staging an occupation of the Little Shuswap band office, intending to keep it locked up until their demands are satisfied....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Two Southwest tribes are moving closer to getting radio stations that have been vital sources of information elsewhere in Indian Country....
Jürgen Michaelis, who lives near Dresden, was standing in front of the small, improvised tipi he keeps in his back garden, wearing a homemade deerskin suit and a matted black wig that had a lone blue feather stuck in it. “I’m 75 percent Indian but still German,” the retired locksmith told a writer for Der Spiegel, adding that his Indian name is The Lonely Man. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/23/germanys-obsession-american-indians-touching-and-occasionally-surreal-148331...
Enjoying a favorable home court advantage, the No. 5-seeded Cardinals will host 12th-seed Middle Tennessee State (25-7, 17-3 Sun Belt) at the KFC Yum! Center in the first round of NCAA Tournament on Sunday, March 24, at approximately 2:30 p.m. E.T. in a game televised on ESPN2 (check your local listings). Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/03/23/march-madness-gets-real-sensational-schimmel-sisters-lead-louisville-against-middle...
Forty years ago, the Fort Yates Warriors basketball team achieved one of the most exciting final game victories in North Dakota high school playoff basketball history. Their brilliant come-back in regulation and persistence in three overtimes propelled them to the state class A championship in 1973. Their three-OT victory over the Minot Magicians, the top-ranked team in the state, is legendary in state basketball history. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/20/remembering-miracle-team-fort-yates-wa...
Don't let the Northwest Indian College men's basketball team's final 19-18 record fool you - the Eagles were anything but mediocre. Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/03/23/2934080/northwest-indian-college-repeats.html#storylink=cpy...
A 21-year-old man charged in connection with the death of a 4-year-old Isabella County boy is set to stand trial at the end of April....
BUFFALO (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a New York man on charges he beat his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son to death after the child awoke in the middle of the night....
Indian country in the Upper Midwest can feel a little safer following a March 19 decision that has federal prosecutors saying they’ve weakened a violent American Indian gang. The decision in the case of three members of the Native Mob resulted in a jury finding all men guilty according to the Associated Press. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/20/native-mob-members-found-guilty-face-20-years-life-prison-148272...
Chapel Hill, N.C. — The Native American Haliwa-Saponi tribe celebrated and mourned Saturday in Chapel Hill. The theme of their annual pow-wow was "Keeping the Faith," and the community is doing just that while law enforcement continues to investigate the death of one of their members....
In media coverage across the state, Lyle Francis Eagle Tail has been depicted as a hero: a man who drowned while trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy he did not know from the Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls....
Two Harlem residents died and three teenage boys were injured in a one-vehicle rollover on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation....