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For almost a year, Anoka County detectives staked out a massage parlor suspected of prostitution in a nondescript strip mall in Ramsey. They tracked the suspected prostitutes, the owner and the manager, linked the business to an apartment where the sex workers stayed, traced money and analyzed cellphone and financial data. It paid off. The manager and owner were charged this month with felony receiving profits from prostitution — the third major recent prostitution sting in Anoka County where police targeted those who profit. That’s a far dif...
Two young girls taken by their mother and considered missing could be in the St. Paul area, Duluth police said in appealing for help in finding the three. Tameicia Morris, 20, does not have custody of the girls but took them for a visit and has not returned, police said in a release Thursday night. Missing are Jameicia Chapman, 2, and Shaniya Chism, 7 months old. Authorities went to several locations in search of the girls but had not been able to find them as of Thursday night. http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/297750...
Attorneys for the Community Justice Project at the University of St. Thomas filed a complaint last week with federal civil rights officials that accuses a Minneapolis school of routinely violating the rights of special education students. The complaint states that Minneapolis Public Schools' Harrison Education Center fails to provide adequate instruction to its students and segregates them from the district's students who don't have disabilities. The complaint requests a federal investigation. Harrison currently serves high school students...
There’s a reason that one of the first buildings visitors see on Minnesota’s Leech Lake Indian reservation is a diabetes clinic. And that on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation, one of the landmarks rising from the prairie is a large, modern kidney dialysis center. When it comes to population health, the data points on American Indians are bleak. Their life expectancy is 4.2 years lower than the U.S. average, according to the federal Indian Health Service. Heart disease is a leading cause of death. They also are more likely to die of disea...
Tyra Banks smiled a toothy grin and chatted idly with a captive audience earlier this week, showing off her new pixie haircut. She later flipped a blond-streaked auburn lock at the crowd, asking in a half-mocking tone, “How do you like me now?” Banks was not on the set of her daytime television show or modeling on the runway at New York Fashion Week. She was staring into her smartphone camera while using a test version of Periscope, a live-streaming video app that Twitter introduced on Thursday, one among a surge of such apps with names lik...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An incompatible combination of nitrate salts and organic cat litter is to blame for a mishap that forced the closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, according to findings released Thursday by an independent team of experts from national laboratories around the country. The technical team was charged by the U.S. Energy Department to investigate all the possible scenarios that could have led to the release of radioactive material at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in February 2014. The report c...
Heading south on Prior Lake’s Canterbury Road, there’s a moment when the words “Mystic Lake” suddenly appear in red neon lights. By 10 a.m., the parking lots at both Mystic Lake Casino Hotel and the nearby Little Six Casino are already crowded. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is perhaps best known for its casinos and the wealth they’ve produced. But just behind the Little Six, the unassuming Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Center is the nucleus for a wide range of work that’s made the reservation something akin to a self-sustai...
Supporters of a bill to grant driving privileges to immigrants living in the state illegally gave the Minnesota House transportation committee a rare standing-room-only audience and almost an hour of tearful testimony Wednesday. But the bill’s prospects remain murky. The proposal, which stalled in three recent legislative sessions, enjoys unprecedented Republican backing in the House and a stronger show of support from law enforcement. A version passed in the Senate transportation committee last week. The proposal still faces opposition from l...
The Ho-Chunk Nation has decided to set a $10-an-hour minimum wage for employees of its enterprises. The $10 minimum will take effect this July. It will apply to the 3,500 people who work for the tribe and its businesses. In a statement, tribe president Jon Greendeer said the move will benefit both employer and employees. "The cost is high but the return is much greater," Greendeer said. http://www.jsonline.com/business/ho-chunk-sets-10-an-hour-minimum-wage-for-its-employees-b99469895z1-297704621.html...
One of Oregon's native tribes is exploring commercial weed—with the help of former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski. The federal government issued a memo in December telling tribes they’d be treated the same as states when it comes to marijuana enforcement. The Warm Springs tribes, who live on land about 90 miles southeast of Portland, are considering taking the feds up on that offer. http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32999-former_gov_ted_kulongoski_is_helping_warm_springs_tribes_explore_commercial_weed.html...
A consulting firm with offices in Santa Fe is trying to interest Indian tribes in joining the burgeoning marijuana business. However, it’s not immediately clear whether they will have any takers in Northern New Mexico. Blaze America LLC has been emboldened by a memo issued by the U.S. Department of Justice that stops just short of promising Native American tribes that it will look the other way if tribal governments want to grow marijuana on their land. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/business/tribal-representatives-he...
A Humboldt County man was arrested in Bonsall on Tuesday afternoon, March 24, after sheriff's deputies found a large amount of marijuana and cannabis concentrates in his car. The suspect, identified by Sgt. Patrick Yates as 24-year-old Adam Mathison, was sitting in a vehicle "that was parked awkwardly" on the 2700 block of Pala Road when he was approached by authorities. According to Mathison, he and a female companion were "sunning themselves because it improves their serotonin." http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/mar/...
FARMINGTON — Early walk-in voting has started on the Navajo Nation for the April 21 special election. Virginia Nelson, a voter registration specialist at the Navajo Election Administration office in Shiprock, said the office received ballots for all the 110 chapters on Wednesday, and several people voted on Thursday. http://www.daily-times.com/four_corners-news/ci_27793567/early-voting-starts-april-21-navajo-nation-special...
FARMINGTON — A new bill posted on the Navajo Nation Council's website is calling for the removal of Chief Justice Herb Yazzie. The bill alleges that Yazzie has been engaged in malfeasance and misfeasance while serving on the Navajo Nation Supreme Court, and neglecting the duty of his office. Yazzie was confirmed as the chief justice by the council in April 2005. http://www.daily-times.com/four_corners-news/ci_27787454/new-bill-calls-removal-navajo-nation-chief-justice...
How should governments govern soda? An outright ban on large sugary drinks? A tiny tax? Or not at all? This debate has been playing in New York, Berkeley, and places in between—and one community recently made drastic moves to target people’s eating habits. The Navajo National Council just announced that they have approved a 2 percent increase in sales tax on foods like pastries, fried foods, desserts, chips and sodas, reports Leilani Clark for Mother Jones. She writes: Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nava...
RAPID CITY –– A resolution passed by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council erroneously listed Rapid City Attorney Patrick Duffy as a writer for the Rapid City Journal and advised stores selling the Journal on the reservation to refrain from doing so. The resolution also called for the Rapid City Journal to be banned from the Pine Ridge Reservation. Tribal Vice President Tom Poor Bear was not comfortable with the contents of the resolution. “First of all, I don’t like to be told what I can or cannot read,” Poor Bear said at a meeting of the LNI Board...
RAPID CITY –– As election season approaches in Rapid City, candidates have been hitting the pavement with petitions to meet the March 31 deadline to get on the ballot. Native American votes play a key role in the June 2 elections. On March 5, Mayor Sam Kooiker announced his intentions to seek re-election. The Mayor lists his main goals for the next two years as; focusing on infrastructure, resolving American with Disabilities Act and other code compliance issues, streamlining city ordinances to diminish government inefficiencies, and wor...
The Tk'emlups Indian Band and the Sechelt Indian Band are fighting for compensation for First Nations children who attended B.C. residential schools but did not live there. Lawyers representing the bands will be in court next month, arguing for the certification of a class action lawsuit launched in 2012 that seeks compensation for all day scholars who attended residential schools. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kamloops/residential-school-day-students-seek-compensation-1.3007130...
Patrick Duffy, superintendent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, will be in the hospital until Monday, said Roxanne Sazue, chairwoman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. Duffy, who lives in Pierre, was attacked Wednesday in his office in Fort Thompson, South Dakota, by a man wielding a knife, according to people who know him and the alleged attacker, as well as a BIA source. http://www.capjournal.com/news/tribal-chair-bia-s-duffy-stable-after-attack/article_806b50d2-d3f5-11e4-b594-133ce8f4a3be....
The acquittal of a man in the death of a native woman in Edmonton is provoking rallies and calls for an appeal in a case activists say raises questions about the way the criminal justice system treats indigenous women. Bradley Barton, an Ontario trucker, was found not guilty of first-degree murder last week in the 2011 death of Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old sex worker who bled to death at the Yellowhead Inn in Edmonton from an 11-centimetre wound on her vaginal wall. Ms. Gladue’s preserved vagina was brought into court as evidence – the fir...
The northern Manitoba reserve of Shamattawa is mourning the deaths of four young people in the past six weeks, with concern growing after four more suicide attempts since last Thursday. "We are at the stage where we can't wait until the next victim," said Grand Chief David Harper of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, which represents northern Manitoba First Nations. He said more support services are needed in the isolated community of 1,000 people as soon as possible. An appeal has been sent to Health Canada to establish a crisis intervention...
SHIPROCK — Gallup resident Mike Sekiya stood quietly next to the casket holding Navajo police officer Alex Kee Yazzie. Sekiya stepped back, then saluted Yazzie before exiting the chapel at the Desert View Funeral Home here Thursday. Yazzie, 42, of Crownpoint, was shot and killed on March 19 during a shootout near the Arizona-New Mexico line. http://www.daily-times.com/four_corners-news/ci_27795323/community-shows-support-family-navajo-nation-police-officer...
A Native American man scored a legal and symbolic court victory on Thursday in Rapid City with his acquittal on a charge of fishing without a license. James Swan, 53, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a Rapid City resident, represented himself in 7th Circuit Magistrate Court at the Pennington County Courthouse. Will Williams, of the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s Office, was the prosecutor. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/in-symbolic-case-native-american-man-beats-fishing-without-license/a...
Change may be on the horizon for Native Americans in the United States, a group suffering from a slew of chronic health conditions stemming from poor diets and food insecurity. The Shakopee Mdewkanton Sioux Community (SMSC), a federally recognized sovereign tribe based in Minnesota, recently announced the launch of a philanthropic campaign to improve Native American nutrition. The campaign, named Seeds of Native Health, aims to build awareness of the Native American nutrition problem among members of that population and restore traditional...
WASHINGTON – When the federal government opened foster care assistance to Native American tribes in 2008, more than 80 expressed interest in the program. By 2014, however, just 27 tribes had applied and only five had been approved for the federal program, their efforts hobbled by a lack of resources, inflexibility by federal bureaucrats and cultural insensitivity, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The February GAO report said that many tribes, as a result, have struggled to win approval for plans that would let them m...
