Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — On a cool spring morning one Sunday in 2003, a beat-up brown van drove off the highway about a mile south of New Underwood, vaulted up an embankment and slammed down onto a driveway. When paramedics arrived, they found a badly injured 11-year-old girl in the driver's seat, the Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/1METsNi ) reported. http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/south-dakota/case-reflects-tribal-distrust-toward-white-criminal-justice/article_fc70b899-7f40-5c8e-a49c-97d75985c2b3.html...
ALBUQUERQUE-“Living in America is like living in the eye of a ‘Monster Drug Storm,”says Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement and leader of the Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs and Domestic Violence. On Saturday, the Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs and Domestic Violence visited God’s Warehouse in Albuquerque, met with drug addicts and people who counsel and aid them. God’s Warehouse provides some much needed assistance in Albuquerque. Aid includes: counseling services, shelter, food and a place to heal. One night, http://native...
On a cold Thursday afternoon in March, Tabitha Martens and students from Maples Collegiate meet in a Winnipeg park to learn how to tap maple syrup. The students are part of an after school program called Food is Our Language, which connects indigenous youth to their culture's food practices. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/lost-found-and-the-journey-of-self-discovery-1.3504360/tapping-into-a-history-that-connects-maple-syrup-to-first-nations-1.3506255...
The first episode of a new show highlights Minnesota’s Native American hip hop scene. Vice Media and Apple Music have teamed up to produce “The Score” – a six-episode series that looks at local music scenes across the globe, Variety reports. http://bringmethenews.com/2016/03/27/minnesotas-native-american-hip-hop-scene-featured-on-new-series/...
Brian Borkholder, fisheries biologist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, said there has been some misunderstanding about an item in this past Sunday’s Outdoors pages about the band’s spearing on Mille Lacs Lake this spring. Here’s a summary of the band’s harvest plans for Mille Lacs, according to Borkholder: Overall, the band has an allocation of 2,034 pounds of walleyes. On the first night of spearing, 20 band members will be allowed to spear 20 walleyes each, but only two of those walleyes may be less than 15 inches long. T...
In Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation has waged war against hepatitis C. With infection rates among Cherokee Indians nearly five times higher than other racial or ethnic groups in the U.S., the group has become the first community in the country and one of only a few in the world to set a goal of completely eliminating the virus from its population. The virus, which is most commonly transmitted through the sharing of needles, can lead to liver damage, cancer and even death. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/the-cherokee-nation-wants...
Parishioners from two Winnipeg churches are acknowledging past wrongs with a pilgrimage to the former site of a residential school in the city on Good Friday. "We've been trying to figure out ways to continue to build relationships with indigenous communities," said Westworth United Church Rev. Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd. "We're … trying to be responsible for our past." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/church-walk-good-friday-1.3505415...
There is an intriguing but problematic duality in the waves of hip-hop music from Indigenous artists: the negative lyrics and messages, and the positive or motivational speaker-esque lyrics and messages. The challenge of this duality is perhaps best addressed by Tall Paul (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) an emcee from Minneapolis, MN who released his latest album this past December, entitled “No Good Good Guy.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/03/25/perfection-imperfection-tall-pauls-hip-hop-album-no-go...
The news of the last week in the word of fishing is the final announcement made by the DNR on Mille Lacs regulations for the coming season. The expected one fish harvest is gone. Mille Lacs will be catch and release only for walleyes this season from opener May 14 until Dec. 1. Night fishing is banned on the lake starting May 16. No fishing will be allowed on the lake from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. after that date. The other significant piece of this is that no live bait can be used for walleye. Artificial bait only. The stipulation also includes...
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott released the results of the Inspector General’s (IG) office in regards to the theft of funds from the Cayuga Nation of Indians youth trusts on March 1. In January 2015, at the Erie County Court Kim Thomas-Muffaletto pled guilty to grand larceny, a Class D felony, for stealing copy9,993.63 while in her position of Director at the Native American Service Bureau for the New York State office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) as a result of the investigation. Over the course of seven y...
A lineup of tribal leaders from across Washington has thrown its support to Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy on the eve of Washington's Democratic presidential caucuses. The support was solidified after a Tuesday roundtable at the Puyallup Indian Reservation in which the ex-secretary of state met with leaders of 19 tribes from the state's Native American community. "From her work on the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and Children's Health Insurance Program, to supporting the United States' role in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights...
A high-profile campaign stop on the Navajo Nation did not help Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders overcome strong support for front-runner Hillary Clinton in Arizona this week. Sanders attracted a lot of attention for hosting a town hall at the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort in Flagstaff on March 17. The visit certainly paid off in Coconino County, where the Senator from Vermont won 54.7 percent of the vote, according to the unofficial results. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows Native Americans represent 27.3 percent of...
On March 22, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Nebraska v. Parker. In this case, Nebraska challenged the Omaha Indian Tribe’s right to enforce a Department of Interior-approved liquor ordinance on parts of the Tribe’s Reservation. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Thomas, the Court rejected Nebraska’s argument that the Reservation was diminished by an act of Congress or by the expectations of current non-Indian residents. Background Starting in the 1860s, the Omaha Tribe conveyed land to the United States by treaty and o...
They’re poor, more likely to be sexually abused, end up in foster care, drop out of school, become homeless. They’re often the prey of traffickers. American Indian and Native Alaskan girls are a small fraction of the population, but they are over-represented in the juvenile justice system, whether they are living on or off the reservation. Native American girls have the highest rates of incarceration of any ethnic group. They are nearly five times more likely than white girls to be confined to a juvenile detention facility, according to the...
Syracuse, NY -- An Onondaga Nation parolee accused of targeting law enforcement during three weeks on the run is facing trial next month. But the question for Corey Redmond remains: will there be one trial or multiple trials? He's facing a slew of charges ranging from illegal use of a firearm to fleeing police. http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/03/are_onondaga_nation_parolees_alleged_crimes_so_sprawling_they_require_multiple_t.html#incart_river_index...
Conservationists and scientists have written an open letter to the Canadian government to scale up ‘scale up’ Canada’s Fisheries Act and to modernize the 150-year-old legislation. The letter has been addressed to Canada’s Fisheries and Oceans Minister Hunter Tootoo and has been signed by nearly fifty signees including West Coast Environmental Law, First Nations, the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, scientists and conservation groups. http://www.dispatchtribunal.com/first-nations-scientists-and-conse...
LEWISTON, ID — Julian Simpson, 22, was picked up by local FBI agents in Lewiston Wednesday on an Oregon state probation violation, according to an FBI Spokesperson in Portland, OR. The FBI also said Simpson has not been formally charged, as of today, in connection with a deadly March 19 shooting on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton. http://klewtv.com/news/local/captured-oregon-fugitive-held-in-nez-perce-county-jail...
