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Congress has recently taken measures to protect women in the United States, including those within tribal nations. The most recent reauthorization of The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has increased tribal courts’ jurisdiction over non-Native American people who commit crimes such as domestic violence, rape, sexual assaults, violations of protection orders and stalking against American Indian women on tribal reservation land. As we engage women and families from across Michigan in educational programs, it is important to be mindful there a...
PIERRE -- The state Public Utilities Commission listened Tuesday to what might be the final arguments in Sprint Communications’ allegations of illegal business practices by a telephone company based on the Crow Creek Reservation....
A tribal nation with what could be North America’s strictest enrollment criteria may soon decide on more flexible rules that might, if adopted, increase the tribe’s current 3,000-plus membership. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/09/northern-ute-tribal-enrollment-may-rise-pending-election-could-lower-blood-quantum-148682...
PENDLETON -- Hours before tip-off of the NCAA women's basketball championship game in New Orleans, a dozen elementary school students crowded around Shane Rivera, demanding their teacher print images of the Louisville Cardinal, known around the Tribal Rec Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation as "Louisville coloring pages."...
The U.S. government opened its corruption case against former Navajo Housing Authority CEO Chester Carl and contractor Bill Aubrey at the federal courthouse here Tuesday, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Vasquez portraying Aubrey's company, Lodgebuilder, as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" out to fleece the federal government, and Carl as the negligent shepherd who let him into the corral....
PALA, Calif. – Arizona Rep. Albert Hale, D-St. Michaels (District 7), shared statistics on youth drug use....
EASTVILLE — Michael Hinman, historian for the Accohannock Indian tribe based in Crisfield, recalls the many oral traditions shared by his mother. He also remembers how telling his classmates about his Indian ancestry got him kicked out of his classroom at age 6....
A six-year old boy was mauled by a pack of stray dogs on a remote northern Manitoba reserve....
Chris Knouse, 46, Toledo, was granted a deferred judgement and placed on self-probation for one year by Judge Mitchell E. Turner in Tama County District Court in Toledo on Thursday, March 28....
A former Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District employee was found guilty on Monday of molesting several children....