Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

ST. PAUL – Here is where some issues stand as the Minnesota Legislature enters its home-stretch before a May 20 or earlier adjournment:...

SHOTLEY – Just a few days before a bill that will seek an increase in the gas tax to secure funding for transportation projects statewide, the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners will discuss their own plan for local roads and highways at their regular meeting Tuesday. In a conference call with the Transportation Alliance, a lobbying group working with legislators to...

WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack awarded his staff some of the largest salary increases in Congress last year as he left office....

Nearly 1 in 5 high-school-age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children overall have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

It’s not money, it’s not unfunded mandates, it’s not tenure, it’s not public vs. private and it’s not class size....

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A lawyer who helped represent the Narragansett Indian tribe after state police raided a smoke-shop a decade ago is suing the tribe over legal fees totaling more than $1.1 million. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lawsuit-seeks-payment-over-2003-smoke-shop-raid-4398312.php#ixzz2PCzk7hMO...

Congress recently passed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, or “VAWA 2013.” This new law includes significant provisions addressing tribal jurisdiction over non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence. These tribal provisions were proposed by the Justice Department in 2011....

GARRYOWEN — Many American Indians, particularly those on the Crow Reservation, are taught by their elders not to invoke the name of loved ones who have died. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/i-didn-t-think-he-would-do-it-mother-says/article_2515e894-6f17-5019-a5e9-c7e2abfc8697.html#ixzz2PD2Btn00...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman accused of lying to investigators about a stabbing on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation says she will plead guilty....

PULLMAN, Wash. — Police are looking for suspects in a brutal beating that left a Washington State University faculty member unconscious with a serious head injury Saturday morning in Pullman. Read more: http://q13fox.com/2013/03/31/wsu-faculty-member-beaten-near-campus/#ixzz2PD4W4WcM...

For 50 years, a rare collection of first nations paintings was stashed away in bags and boxes, long forgotten by the artists. The subjects are everyday scenes from the West Coast – a beach, a fishing boat, an eagle diving for prey. The media – cheap poster paint on low-grade paper – are unforgiving....

It took a powerful, disturbing dream from which she awoke sobbing to convince Robin Charboneau, an Oglala Sioux and member of North Dakota’s Spirit Lake tribe, that “I needed to open my mouth, and I needed to speak.” So she let the documentary filmmaker David Sutherland follow her for more than three years as she struggled to raise her family as a single mother while...