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The NCAA men’s basketball tournament isn’t the only place where a full-court press is taking place this week. In Washington, D.C., bipartisan members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation wielded their collective clout on a critical education issue: obtaining adequate funding for the nation’s broken-down federally funded Bureau of Indian Education school system. About a third of 183 BIE schools nationally have facilities with safety and health hazards that undermine learning — an education crisis described in the Star Tribune’s 2014 editor...
Washington was one of the last states to get statehood and become a part of the United States of America. Alaska came a while later, and from the beginning, these two states have been linked together at the hip. Before and after Alaska gained its statehood, Washington senators played a major role in that state’s development, and most of the goods and services that went to Alaska came directly off the wharf in Seattle. So it is no surprise that Alaska Airlines is such a major presence at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport because S...
After two back-to-back disputes over planned autopsies on American Indian crash victims in the Northland, a Minnesota House panel has unanimously passed a bill allowing families to object to autopsies on loved ones due to a religious concerns. The bill (HF1935) passed unanimously Thursday by the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance Committee provides an avenue for autopsies to proceed in several cases, like murder or concerns of infectious disease. A similar bill is proceeding in the Senate. Winnie LaPrairie says it took...
The six bands of Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin have declared intentions to spear a record 68,226 walleyes during the 2015 off-reservation harvest, according to a plan presented to state officials by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. The harvest declarations are spread across 590 lakes and five lake chains in the ceded territory, essentially the northern one-third of Wisconsin. The declarations are part of an annual process conducted by tribal representatives and state officials to manage the safe harvest of fish....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A senior official in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has been convicted on criminal charges that he covered up for an employee who left the agency for a job in Montana but kept drawing government pay. John Grimson Lyon of Clifton, Virginia, was convicted of wire fraud, false claims and theft of government property following a three-day jury trial that ended Wednesday night in Great Falls. http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Senior-BLM-official-convicted-in-Montana-of-6160830.php...
A lawsuit filed in eastern Idaho March 25 alleges that the Fort Hall Bureau of Indian Affairs has been defrauding members of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe. KIDK-TV reports that the suit, filed in U.S. District Court, names Randy Thompson, superintendent of the Fort Hall BIA, and the claimant, tribe member William Beasley, argues that outsiders have been admitted to the tribe and allowed to collect tribal benefits. http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2015/03/26/video-lawsuit-alleges-shoshone-bannock-tribal-benefits-bein...
DENVER, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Indian College Fund (the College Fund) has signed Jeff Bridges & the Abiders to perform live at its 25th Anniversary Gala, to be held Saturday, April 11 from 6:00-10:00 p.m. at J.W. Marriot at L.A. LIVE. This formal fundraising event will benefit Native American higher education and celebrate the College Fund's mission to provide Native American access to higher education. Jeff Bridges is a legendary actor and producer who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis...
As she cleans the puddle of pee on her living room floor, Erie resident Amy Simms snickers at the high-pitched squeaks coming from the guilty party excitedly wagging its tail behind her. The Erie Middle School teacher can't be mad at the 3-month-old mutt, Bella, for making a mess — she's too cute and accident clean-up has become part of Simms' daily routine. In November, Simms volunteered to coordinate Colorado adoptions for LightShine Canine, a nonprofit that rescues dogs from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. h...
