Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Today the California Supreme Court denied a petition to reconsider a state appellate court ruling in the case of a 6-year-old Choctaw Nation tribal member who was returned to her relatives last week after a five-year custody battle. On March 21, foster parents Summer and Russell Page ignited a worldwide firestorm of publicity when they initially refused to turn Lexi over to her biological relatives because of their objections to the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law enacted in 1978 to prevent the dissolution of tribal families and...
BISMARCK, N.D., March 30, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ -- On March 21, a 6-year-old girl of 1/64 Choctaw ancestry was taken crying from her home by social services, placed in a car, and driven to another state. Many realize current federal Indian policies are hurting people. What many don't know is the extent. Dozens of children across the nation currently face the same situation Lexi faced – if not worse. http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/4867377636.html...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (CN) - A federal judge Monday vacated a 12-year-old injunction forbidding a farmer on the Pine Ridge Reservation from growing industrial hemp, but stopped short of ruling whether Alex White Plume or anyone else can do it legally there. "The court finds there has been a significant shift in the legal landscape since 2004 which makes 'continued enforcement' of the permanent injunction 'detrimental to the public interest,'" U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken wrote. The permanent injunction had barred brothers Alexander and Percy...
Oglala Lakota hemp farmer Alex White Plume says he wants to harvest the wild hemp seeds growing on his land and plant a new crop next year. In the late 1990’s the Oglala Sioux Tribe legalized industrial hemp, but when White Plume tried to grow it, federal agents seized his crop. White Plume has been under a federal injunction prohibiting him from growing the crop, but that injunction was recently lifted. http://listen.sdpb.org/post/white-plume-hopes-plant-hemp-2017#stream/0...
On Friday, in the midst of the social media storm over Senator Bernie Sanders’ meeting with a small house finch that landed on his podium, Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced the endorsement of her nomination by more than 30 Native American leaders in Washington State including NCAI president and Swinomish Indian Tribe Chairman Brian Cladoosby and Puyallup Tribe of Indians chairman Bill Sterud, whose tribe had given Clinton the Lushootseed name: tsiwələx̌ʷi which is pronounced “tsee-wuh-luh-x̌wee” and means “Strong Woman.” "Secretary Clint...
Loreal Barnell-Tsingine, a 27-year-old member of the Navajo Nation, was shot and killed by a police officer in Winslow, Arizona, on Sunday. Barnell-Tsingine was shot five times, a spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Public Safety told the Associated Press. The department is investigating the incident and her family wants answers. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020858.asp...
The U.S. is trying to seize $48 million from Ferrari-racing payday loan mogul Scott Tucker, saying he illicitly transferred the funds into bank accounts of three Native American tribes to conceal his ownership and control. Tucker was accused in February of money-laundering and other charges for allegedly running his payday loan businesses as a racketeering scheme. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/u-s-sues-ferrari-racing-payday-mogul-to-seize-48-million...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. - A major milestone has been reached in the recovery from the May 2015 storms on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as the 100th new manufactured home was recently provided to a tribal household. The 100 homes have been installed in just over three months’ time, with the first being turned over on Dec. 9. http://www.kotatv.com/news/south-dakota-news/Pine-Ridge-families-move-into-FEMA-homes/38763542...
Nascar driver Derek White was among almost 60 people targeted by Quebec and Ontario police in the biggest tobacco-smuggling bust in North American history, according to law enforcement officials. Authorities said some of the suspects arrested early Wednesday have links to biker gangs and organized crime, buying tobacco in the U.S. and illegally importing it into Canada through three border crossings. The tobacco was ultimately sold on the Kahnawake and Six Nations reserves, according to police. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Members of a family accused of a long history of illegally selling cigarettes have pleaded guilty to dealing contraband smokes. Investigators found thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes during searches of the Comenout family’s business, the Indian Country Store at 908 River Road, between 2008 and 2015. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article69066392.html#storylink=cpy...
About 65 per cent of the young people who died in northwestern Ontario in recent years are Indigenous — a statistic revealed Tuesday at the inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students in Thunder Bay. One of the lawyers for the Nishnawbe Aski Nation asked Ontario's Chief Coroner about the number of Indigenous deaths in a region where First Nations people make up far less than half of the population. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-nations-student-death-inquet-1.3512019...
A Billings contractor along with two Billings companies and a Chippewa Cree tribal member are facing federal conspiracy charges stemming from a large, ongoing corruption investigation of the north-central Montana tribe. Kevin David McGovern, 46, of Billings, and Brian Kelly Eagleman, 53, of Box Elder, an elected member of the tribe’s business committee and co-chairman of the tribe’s Roads Division Oversight Committee, pleaded not guilty to multiple counts in an indictment during an appearance Tuesday in Great Falls before U.S. Magistrate Jud...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The director of the federal agency that oversees education for American Indian children was demoted Wednesday after a federal watchdog found he used his influence to get jobs for a close relative and a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship. Charles "Monty" Roessel abused his position as director of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education to help the woman secure multiple positions and to get the relative a job on the Navajo Nation, the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General said in a report. h...
A remote Ontario indigenous community is mourning the loss of nine people – three of them small children – who died when fire consumed their crowded home, a recurring tragedy in Canada’s fly-in communities, which often have no running water to douse the flames. The blaze in Pikangikum broke out late on Tuesday evening and, although the firefighters and police who serve the town of about 3,000 raced to the scene, no one was pulled out alive. The dead were all members of the same family, sources said. They included Dean and Annette Strang; their...
Pikangikum First Nation's chief says a house fire that killed six adults and three children has brought things to a standstill on the northwestern Ontario reserve. Flames engulfed a three-bedroom home on Dunsford Road after 11 p.m. Tuesday. "The community is just shocked … We aren't really doing much ... just ... idle," Chief Dean Owen said of the deadly fire in the community, located more than 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/pikangikum-fatal-fire-1.3512105...
The suspect in a fatal shooting on the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation was the son of former NHL hockey player Fred Sasakamoose. Sources tell CBC News that 59-year-old Elgin (Chucky) Sasakamoose, who died from a gunshot wound, was the suspected shooter in the death of an unidentified 56-year-old man yesterday morning. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/elgin-sasakamoose-sask-shooting-ahtahkakoop-cree-nation-1.3512528...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The former finance director of the Pit River Tribe in Burney was arrested Wednesday on a number of tax charges and theft. Kenley Black, 41, formerly of Burney, was arrested today at his home in Ft. Defiance, Arizona, on charges of tax evasion, failure to file income taxes, and embezzlement and theft from a tribal organization, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said. http://www.krcrtv.com/former-finance-director-of-pit-river-tribe-arrested/38766764...
There's a new report out on longtime marijuana use. And it's bad news for habitual stoners. In summary: The more pot you smoke, the more apt you are to be a loser. And it’s not so much that losers toke weed. It’s that toking a lot of weed over several years turns someone into a loser. It’s not really a chicken or egg thing. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-marijuana-20160331-story.html...
