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  • Supreme Court takes hard look at Minn. implied-consent law

    Apr 21, 2016

    WASHINGTON – A testy U.S. Supreme Court pressed a Dakota County attorney Wednesday to defend why suspected drunken drivers should be criminally punished for refusing a blood-alcohol test. The court is looking to settle hotly debated implied-consent laws in Minnesota and 12 other states, laws that have endured countless lower court challenges from those arguing that the tests are unconstitutional without a search warrant. http://www.startribune.com/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-minnesota-implied-consent-law/376408391/...

  • Woman sexually assaulted by five men while walking in Uptown on Saturday night

    Apr 21, 2016

    A woman was sexually assaulted by a group of five men while walking along an Uptown street on Saturday evening, according to a safety advisory issued by Minneapolis police. The victim was walking in the Lyndale neighborhood around 9 p.m. when a car full of men called her over to their vehicle. They spoke briefly and she continued walking, police said. http://www.startribune.com/woman-assaulted-by-five-men-while-walking-in-uptown-on-saturday-night/376450591/...

  • Mankato body shop owner accused of a most unusual payroll currency

    Apr 21, 2016

    A Mankato auto body shop allegedly has been paying its employees with a most unconventional currency: Methamphetamine. Not surprisingly, that's against the law, and now the shop's owner is in jail Thursday awaiting charges. Agents of the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force received a tip Wednesday from one of the employees at Clear Choice that the 40-year-old owner and his 39-year-old girlfriend were paying the employees with meth, said Task Force Cmdr. Jeff Wersal. http://www.startribune.com/mankato-body-shop-owner-accus...

  • 'World's meanest mom' punishes daughter by putting truck up for sale on Craigslist

    Apr 21, 2016

    She calls herself the “world’s meanest mom” in a Craigslist ad that she claims is a legit attempt to sell her 15-year-old daughter’s red 1998 Dodge RAM SLT truck as punishment for being disrespectful at home, skipping school and bad grades. The Chisago County mom is willing to negotiate, but asks $2,750 for the V8, four-wheel drive truck with more than 158,000 miles on it. http://www.startribune.com/world-s-meanest-mom-punishes-daughter-by-putting-truck-up-for-sale-on-craigslist/376448411/...

  • Petters victims will start getting money soon

    Apr 21, 2016

    At long last, the victims of Tom Petters’ epic Ponzi scheme can count on receiving a check. In the next seven to 10 days, $172 million that has been collected by liquidating the property of Petters and his key associates will start flowing, according to trustee Doug Kelley, who oversaw the eight-year bankruptcy of Petters’ business empire. http://www.startribune.com/petters-victims-will-start-getting-money-soon/376396631/...

  • 3 officials charged in Flint water crisis; more predicted

    Apr 21, 2016

    FLINT, Mich. — The Flint water crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when two state regulators and a city employee were charged with official misconduct, evidence-tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries of racism. "This is a road back to restoring faith and confidence in all Michigan families in their government," state Attorney General Bill Schuette said in announcing the first charges to come out of the disaster, blamed on a series of bad decisions by bureaucrats and political...

  • Tubman to be new face of $20 bill, Hamilton stays on $10

    Apr 21, 2016

    WASHINGTON — Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist who was born a slave, will stand with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin among the iconic faces of U.S. currency. The $20 bill will be redesigned with Tubman's portrait on the front, marking two historic milestones, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced Wednesday. Tubman will become the first African-American on U.S. paper money and the first woman to be depicted on currency in 100 years. http://www.startribune.com/treasury-official-says-h...

  • On 4/20, fight for legalized marijuana comes to Minnesota Capitol

    Apr 21, 2016

    The fight to legalize the recreational use of marijuana came to the Minnesota Capitol on Wednesday, as about 200 activists, many passing around joints, called for an end to the pot prohibition. Advocates for marijuana legalization have rallied on April 20th — otherwise known as 4/20, the unofficial national holiday for marijuana culture — to draw attention to pot laws in the state and nationwide. http://www.startribune.com/fight-for-legalized-marijuana-comes-to-minnesota-capitol/376451171/#1...

  • Reservations in Dakotas, Washington selected for census test

    Apr 21, 2016

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two Native American reservations — one in the Dakotas and another in Washington state — have been selected as test sites ahead of the 2020 census, as officials mull whether to ask for the first time about tribal enrollment. Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which straddles North Dakota and South Dakota, and Colville Reservation in Washington will be the focus of next year's testing on tribal lands, the U.S. Census Bureau announced this month. The bureau has enlisted the help of the tribes on those reservations as...

  • Trump's foreign policy advisor thinks Turkey is conspiring with Native Americans to build nukes

    Apr 21, 2016
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    One of Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisors is trying to wrest control of a Montana dam from two Native American tribes as part of a bizarre anti-Muslim campaign. Joseph Schmitz, an attorney and former Pentagon inspector general, was tapped as one of Trump’s five foreign policy advisors last month, along with a bewildering mix of conspiracy theorists and “third-rate people.” https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trumps-foreign-policy-advisor-thinks-turkey-is-conspiring-with-native-americans-to-build-nukes/...

  • Native American tribes weigh in on legalizing medical and recreational marijuana

    Apr 21, 2016

    In October 2014, Department of Justice director Monty Wilkinson released a three-page memo regarding policies surrounding the Controlled Substances Act as it relates to Native American tribes. The “Wilkinson memo” states that priorities in an earlier memorandum “will guide United States Attorneys’ marijuana enforcement efforts in Indian Country, including in the event that sovereign Indian Nations seek to legalize the cultivation or use of marijuana in Indian Country.” http://www.oudaily.com/news/native-american-tr...

  • Federal government killed appeal of residential-school settlement ruling

    Apr 21, 2016

    The Canadian government abandoned an appeal of a controversial court ruling that let the Catholic Church out of its responsibility to raise millions of dollars for aboriginal healing programs, court documents show. The appeal was dropped just six days after the Trudeau government took office. The revelation comes in a week when the Liberal government has repeatedly said that it had no options for appeal. It did not mention, however, that an appeal had been commenced and then withdrawn. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol...

  • Supreme Court hears arguments on Indian tribal courts, False Claims Act

    Apr 21, 2016

    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] in two cases Tuesday. In US v. Bryant [transcript, PDF] the court heard arguments [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] to determine whether a conviction in an Indian tribal court without counsel used to satisfy the predicate offense requirement of 18 USC § 117 [text], which criminalizes domestic assault when the defendant has at least two convictions in a federal, state or Indian tribal court, violates the Sixth Amendment [Cornell LLI materials]. The case arose [Oyez...

  • First Americans for Hillary Clinton Campaign

    Apr 21, 2016

    Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency picked up some powerful support in Indian country recently with the formation of the First Americans for Hillary Clinton committee headed up by Ada Deer, Menominee, former DOI Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, and Dean Chavers, Lumbee, director of the nonprofit Native American scholarship organization Catching the Dream. Why Clinton? “She’s the most qualified candidate in the history of the U.S. that is why,” says Chavers. “And she has a very strong outlook on Indian affairs, a really...

  • Northern Cheyenne Tribe disavows group behind 'traditional' court

    Apr 21, 2016

    Officials of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana are distancing themselves a group that started a "traditional" court on the reservation. Native Sun News first reported on creation of the Tsistsis & Suhtai Traditional Court in December. But the tribal government does not recognize the entity and is disavowing comments made this week by some of its representatives. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/021056.asp...

  • 85 per cent of Saskatchewan children in foster care are indigenous: Stats Can

    Apr 21, 2016

    REGINA – Recent numbers from Statistics Canada show nearly 48 per cent of foster children across the country are aboriginal and the number in Saskatchewan is even more striking. Derald Dubois has been working in the child welfare system for almost three decades. He deals primarily with first nations cases and as an aboriginal man, he knows the troubles facing many in his community as a direct result of what he says of historic injustices like residential schools. http://globalnews.ca/news/2652328/85-per-cent-of-saskatchewa...

  • Pretty Indian Girls inspire new generation of round dancers

    Apr 21, 2016

    A group of indigenous women from Saskatchewan are taking the powwow trail by storm. The five friends were on their way to a round dance in North Dakota in January, singing songs in the van, when they decided to post a video online. Home Sweet Home — sung in a round dance style, with their own flavour — took off on social media. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/pretty-indian-girls-make-round-dance-cool-1.3541278...

  • Bookkeeper blames gambling addiction for $780,000 theft from NT Aboriginal organisations

    Apr 21, 2016

    The Alice Springs Supreme Court heard Johannes Joubert, 46, stole about $780,000 between 2010 and 2014 when he worked as a bookkeeper for local accounting firm Centre Accounting Services (CAS), which has since closed down. Joubert attributed his offending to a pathological gambling addiction through online betting, including poker. The crown had alleged Joubert transferred funds from his clients' bank accounts directly into his personal bank account, he hacked financial records and manipulated the accounting system. http://w...

  • Paul First Nation wildfire evacuation to be lifted Thursday

    Apr 21, 2016

    While the Paul First Nation remains under a state of emergency, an evacuation order should be lifted Thursday morning, a coordinator with the disaster services team said. Darlene Rain said fire crews are still tending to hot spots and heavy smoke remains in the area, but residents will be allowed back to their homes at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. Around 21 homes on the northeast part of the reserve were evacuated, and one family home was lost to the fire. The local school remains closed. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/...

  • Reservation police officer accused of kidnapping wife released from jail

    Apr 21, 2016

    A Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer accused of chaining his wife in their basement and threatening to kill her has been released from jail pending trial. Four fellow Bureau of Indian Affairs police officers were in a Casper courtroom Tuesday to support William Curran, who is charged with kidnapping. U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Michael Shickich decided Curran could be released to a fellow police officer. http://trib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/reservation-police-officer-accused-of-kidnapping-wife-released-from-jail/art...

  • Missing Montana toddler found dead in Poplar, person in custody

    Apr 21, 2016

    POPLAR, Mont. -- A 13-month-old girl who was abducted from her home in Poplar on Tuesday night has been found dead. Lee Allmer, Roosevelt County public information officer, said authorities found Kenzley Olson dead in Poplar on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on Wednesday. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/4013744-update-missing-montana-toddler-found-dead-poplar-person-custody...

  • FBI Investigating Border Patrol Shooting On Arizona Reservation

    Apr 21, 2016

    The FBI is investigating a Border Patrol-related shooting that occurred Tuesday in south central Arizona. The U.S. Border Patrol said its agents were tracking a group of suspected marijuana smugglers near Cowlic on the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation. The agents were assaulted with rocks and an agent fired his weapon. Nobody was hurt but two men were taken into custody, including the alleged assailant. The FBI and the Border Patrol’s own Office of Professional Responsibility are investigating the incident. http://www.k...

  • BIA officer charged in wife's kidnapping released from jail

    Apr 21, 2016

    CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A former U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer charged with the kidnapping of his wife following an incident at their home on the Wind River Indian Reservation has been released from jail pending trial. The Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1r1dDAY ) that William Curran was released Tuesday. His attorney, Michael Bennett, says Curran, who had been an officer on the reservation since 2014, was fired Monday. http://baytownsun.com/article_f892f2c0-0451-5e5e-981e-510162e4b4e8.html...

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