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The family of Joey English expressed anger outside a Calgary courthouse Friday after a judge warned them not to expect a hefty sentence for the man convicted of dismembering and discarding her body last spring. Joshua Weise is not accused of killing English, and police say the cause of her death is still undetermined, though they believe it was not a homicide. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/joey-english-dismembered-body-sentence-disappointment-1.4050172...
Two men from Lac Seul First Nation are dead after being hit by a train in the small community of Hudson, Ont., near Sioux Lookout, according to Ontario Provincial Police. In a written release issued Friday morning, police said they were called about the incident around 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. When officers arrived, two pedestrians were found dead. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/sioux-lookout-train-fatal-1.4049363...
United States Senator for North Dakota Heidi Heitkamp has teamed up with Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Al Franken (D-MN), to unveil their effort to create legislation to fund trauma-informed health care across the country. The bill is titled the Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act. While the senators will assist to bring their efforts nationwide, Senator Heitkamp says she will be focused on how trauma impacts Native children and communities. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/politics/senator-heitkam...
Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed a bill March 29 that would have required some public school districts to more closely study and plan for the needs of Native American students, who have long fallen behind their peers in the education system. In action on other legislation, Martinez signed into law measures to fund cleanups of state trust land and to protect the jobs of military personnel serving outside New Mexico. http://www.taosnews.com/stories/citing-cost-martinez-vetoes-native-american-students-bill,39635...
School teachers and administrators in 22 states may legally punish children by intentionally causing them physical pain severe enough to leave bruises, cause hematomas, and send as many as 20,000 kids a year to the emergency room. But U.S. Education Secretary John B. King wants them to stop. In a November 22, 2016 letter to governors and chief state school officers, King urged states to ban corporal punishment altogether. “We simply cannot condone state-sanctioned violence against children in school,” wrote King. https://ind...
The Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation Council of BC (I·SPARC) oversees the Team BC Program for the North American Indigenous Games. I·SPARC and our Team BC coaches are seeking female (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) golf athletes born 1998 through 2005 to attend a Team BC Golf NAIG Development Camp, to be held at Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna. http://www.independentsportsnews.com/2017/04/01/team-bc-seeks-female-golf-athletes-2017-north-american-indigenous-games/...
WINDOW ROCK – Livestock owners living in the Black Mesa, Ariz. area are on edge after a trio of mountain lions killed 20 sheep recently. According to Amos Johnson, a Natural Resources Specialist supervisor stationed in the BIA Navajo Partitioned Land Office in Pinon, Ariz., at least one mountain lion has been killed. The two remaining lions are still on the loose. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/mountain-lions-kill-20-sheep-black-mesa-area/...
