Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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A drinking water crisis in the small town of Adrian, Minn., this spring is highlighting Minnesota’s larger problem with farm chemicals polluting wells and surface water. Located just 18 miles west of Worthington — where Gov. Mark Dayton is scheduled to talk Thursday about requiring farm buffer strips to clean up Minnesota streams, rivers and lakes — Adrian is one of eight Minnesota communities relying on special equipment to treat water with excessive nitrate levels in municipal wells. For the second time since the town purchased a nitra...
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday he is strongly considering a ban or limits on state taxpayer-funded travel to Indiana, in response to a new law in that state that has prompted a harsh nationwide blowback from gay rights supporters. “I abhor the actions taken by the Legislature and governor of Indiana,” Dayton told the Star Tribune. “I’m heartened to see even the Republican mayor of Indianapolis has distanced himself. I think they have done significant damage.” http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/298387391.html...
Major changes with the federal Affordable Care Act expanded coverage through Minnesota’s nonprofit health insurers last year, while also boosting operating income from the state’s public health insurance programs. The health law expanded access to the public programs, and insurers hired by the state to manage care collectively saw more income and enrollees as a result, according to figures released Wednesday by the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. The increases stoked criticism that the state is overpaying the health plans. http:...
NEW YORK — Doctors traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day. They ruled out several potential causes before stumbling on a reason for the 56-year-old man's kidney problems. He said he drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day. Black tea has a chemical known to cause kidney stones or even kidney failure in excessive amounts. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/298371061.html...
NEW YORK — Doctors traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day. They ruled out several potential causes before stumbling on a reason for the 56-year-old man's kidney problems. He said he drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day. Black tea has a chemical known to cause kidney stones or even kidney failure in excessive amounts. "It was the only reasonable explanation," said Dr. Umbar Ghaffar of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. She and...
ECHO LAKE, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping. Standing in dry, brown grass at a site that normally would be snow-covered this time of year, Brown announced he had signed an executive order requiring the State Water Resources Control Board to implement measures in cities and towns to cut the state's overall water usage by 25 percent c...
ALBANY, N.Y. — A college sophomore who died of excessive alcohol consumption drank a 60-ounce bottle of vodka during what college officials said was the hazing of pledges at an unsanctioned fraternity, according to court papers filed in connection to the case. The Times Union of Albany reported (http://bit.ly/1Imn00z ) Monday that the documents were filed by two students who were expelled from the University at Albany after Trevor Duffy, 19, of the Bronx died in November. His death came after a night of heavy drinking during a party held by Z...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants who rose to become one of the highest-ranking Hispanic members of Congress, was charged Wednesday with accepting nearly $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political favors. Menendez predicted he would be "vindicated" and, in a defiant statement before reporters and cheering supporters Wednesday evening, said, "This is not how my career is going to end." http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/298355...
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) - The Claremore Police Department and the Cherokee Nation Marshal’s Office recently entered into a cross-deputation agreement, allowing officers from both agencies to serve in each other’s jurisdictions in case of an emergency or any situation. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for about 15 years, when I became deputy marshal,” said Cherokee Nation Marshal Shannon Buhl. “Claremore is one of the largest cities in our jurisdiction we were never cross-deputized with. What that meant was they couldn’t help us if we needed...
More than 30 cities and states across the country have attempted to tax soda. Nearly all have failed. Now, a community of about 250,000 people has found a way to tax not just sugary beverages, but also junk food. At the same time, it’s making fresh produce more affordable in one of the hardest regions in the U.S. to buy it. http://nepr.net/news/2015/04/01/navajos-fight-their-food-desert-with-junk-food-and-soda-taxes/...
For Peter Yucupicio, domestic violence is all too personal. As a 12-year-old growing up on a Native American reservation, he told a Rapid City conference on Tuesday, he was the only defense his mother had. He spoke to tribal leaders from South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska who gathered at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn to learn what is required to take charge of domestic violence cases on reservations. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/tribal-leaders-urged-to-apply-violence-against-women-act/article_f030d4ad-dbda-53...
When April Fools’ jokes fall flat, they can really fall flat. Just ask the editors of The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Virginia. Business Insider writer Peter Jacobs reports that for this year’s April Fools’ issue, the newspaper’s editors decided to run a phony story making light of the case of Martese Johnson, the African-American UVA student who was beaten and bloodied by agents of the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control. In a piece titled “ABC agents tackle Native American student outside Bodo’s Bagels,” the...
The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has approved a resolution requesting that Pine Ridge Indian Reservation businesses halt sales of the Rapid City Journal. The action was in response to the newspaper’s January 31 front-page headline, “Did Native students stand for National Anthem?” The article elaborated on a disputed anonymous claim that Pine Ridge schoolchildren who were taunted and sprayed with beer at a Rapid City Rush hockey game had not stood for The Star-Spangled Banner. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork...
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota state officials developed and implemented policies that have routinely violated provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the due process rights of American Indian parents during preliminary child custody hearings since 2010, a federal judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken issued his decision late Monday in the lawsuit filed by the Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux tribes and Indian parents on how the state has run hearings in the state's seventh judicial circuit, which includes P...
Patrick Duffy, the BIA superintendent on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation who was stabbed a week ago by a man facing federal charges in the case, was released Wednesday from Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls. Nedra Darling, a BIA spokeswoman from Washington, released a statement this evening saying Duffy, who lives in Pierre, was released “and is expected to make a full recovery.” http://www.capjournal.com/news/bia-duffy-out-of-hospital-will-recover-from-stabbing-at/article_500fc3b2-d8ca-11e4-8b74-1bb5e6767199.html...
On Monday, March 30 a federal judge issued a landmark decision affirming that officials in South Dakota violated numerous provisions in the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and denied Indian parents their rights under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. Referencing widespread and systemic failure to protect the integrity of Indian families, Judge Jeffrey Viken issued a partial summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in Oglala Sioux Tribe v. Luann Van Hunnik on seven issues before the court regarding emergency removal hearings, also...
This post is in collaboration with The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, which brings together scholars and researchers from around the world to use the Library’s rich collections. The article below was originally published on the Kluge Center blog with the title The Indians’ Capital City: Native Histories of Washington, D.C. More Ole Miss Student Who Hung Noose on Statue Indicted on Civil Rights ChargesA Movement Against Racism Should Be a Movement for Mental HealthCollege Rampage: 'If You Were a Christian, You Were Shot' NBC...
Phoenix, Arizona - Ken Jermaine Fowler, 30, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was found guilty by a federal jury of involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a minor. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow from March 3-26, 2015. The defendant was remanded into custody after trial. Sentencing is set before Judge Snow on June 29, 2015. The evidence at trial showed that Fowler assaulted the ten week old infant on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation while she was alone in...
GREEN BAY – A Green Bay man has been sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman while she was asleep. Prosecutors say Avery A. Gomeyosh, 36, pleaded guilty in federal court to the attack, which happened last May 31 at a home on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Investigators say he admitted sexually assaulting the woman. Gomeyosh was sentenced to five years and five months in federal prison, followed by 10 years on supervised release. http://fox11online.com/2015/04/01/man-sentenced-in-sexual-assault-case/...
The inaugural Chickasaw Nation Tobachi Kanchi (to buy and to sell) Art Market is set 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at the historic Chickasaw National Capitol grounds in Tishomingo. The Art Market will feature art work of artists from southeastern and woodlands tribes. In addition to the art exhibit, a day of entertainment is also planned. Scheduled activities include a bouncy slide for children and a youth sidewalk chalk competition, which begins at 10:30 a.m. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded in each age group. T...
