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MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police say the driver of a car who struck and killed a 2-year-old has been shot to death at the scene of the accident. A teen who was not in the vehicle was also shot and died at a hospital. Police Captain Timothy Heier says the car accident occurred at 5:10 p.m. Sunday after the child ran into the street. Heier said in a statement that the driver, a 41-year-old man, remained at the scene. Then he and a 15-year-old boy were shot. Heier said the teen was not a passenger. http://www.startribune.com/local/...
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped back into presidential politics on Sunday, making a much-awaited announcement she will again seek the White House with a promise to serve as the "champion" of everyday Americans. Clinton opened her bid for the 2016 Democratic nomination by positioning herself as the heir to the diverse coalition of voters who elected her immediate predecessor and former campaign rival, President Barack Obama, as well as an appeal to those in her party still leery of her commitment to fighting income inequality. h...
It’s a chilling moment: A message appears on a computer screen, saying the files are encrypted and the only way to access them is by paying a ransom. It happened at Jeff Salter’s home health care business last December. The network of nearly 30 computers at Caring Senior Service was infected with ransomware, malicious software that hackers use to try to extort money from people and businesses by preventing them from opening or using documents, pictures, spreadsheets and other files. If computer users don’t pay, there’s no way they can access...
What appeared a likely reform of controversial payday lenders at the Minnesota Legislature fell apart at the close of 2014 session. This year, it didn’t even get out of the starting blocks. This is a setback for a coalition of community and religious groups who demanded concessions and who produced hard-pressed customers who said a several-week loan of $350 or so, led to more loans that critics say puts desperate borrowers in a “debt spiral” of compounding, triple-digit interest charges and fees. http://www.startribune.com/b...
The announcement last week that night fishing would be banned this year on Mille Lacs and that the walleye limit there would be one — as in one — was not unexpected. Given the relatively few walleyes that swim in the lake these days, a declaration making Mille Lacs walleyes entirely catch-and-release beginning with the May 9 opener could have been justified. That the state’s premier walleye fishery could decline so far so fast suggests skulduggery on many fronts, and the inclination is to point fingers. Indian nets are to blame. Or the Depar...
Like hundreds of Minnesota turkey growers, Kim Halvorson has watched helplessly as a lethal flu has struck 14 farms and wiped out more than 900,000 birds. A month into the outbreak, she worries about it in her sleep. “I had a nightmare where I walked into the barn and every bird was gone,” said Halvorson, who with her husband, Dennis, has raised turkeys for 27 years west of Faribault. “It’s kind of similar to knowing that there is a burglar in the neighborhood, but you don’t know where he’s going to hit.” http://www.startrib...
SKOWHEGAN, Maine — Representatives of four Maine Indian tribes will meet with members of the Skowhegan school board to try to persuade them to drop "Indians" as the town's high school team name. Members of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac tribes are scheduled to meet with a school board subcommittee on Monday at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria at the Skowhegan Area Middle School. The Morning Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/1FMTp04 ) that supporters of keeping the team name will hold a silent protest outside the school at 5:15 p.m. h...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An Onondaga Nation leader said fugitive Corey Redmond is not armed and is getting help from the leaders to peacefully resolve the situation. "We're trying to keep peace. We're working through it," said Trudi Shenandoah, an Onondaga Nation Snipe Clan Mother. She said Redmond is undergoing "spiritual healing" but said she cannot reveal details about what that entails. http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/04/cory_redmond_onondaga_nation_trudi_shenandoah.html#incart_river...
BELCOURT, North Dakota — The Early Head Start and Head Start programs on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation are getting a $2.9 million boost in funding from the U.S. government. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says the money will be available over five years as the tribe works to improve its governance, health and safety of its children, and provide early education services to improve school readiness for Native American children. The funding will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start. h...
George Bonga was unflappable — even when folks Up North threatened to burn his trading post and wreck his canoes. A 19th‑century North Woods fur trader, translator, canoe guide, storyteller and Leech Lake lodge owner, Bonga found himself in the middle of Minnesota’s first murder case in 1837. Alfred Aitkin, 21, who ran a trading post on what is now Cass Lake, had been fatally shot by an Ojibwe man involved in a love triangle that Aitkin tried to squelch. http://www.startribune.com/local/299456961.html...
Who decided for us that we should be called "Native Americans?" It was the mainstream media of course. One day a reporter was interviewing an East Coast Indian and the reporter said, "Indian" and the East Coast Indian said, "No, we don’t like to be called Indians because we got that name when Columbus thought he landed in India: We prefer to be called Native Americans." "Well," the reporter replied, "I am of Irish descent but I was born in America so therefore I also am a Native American." And so when the story was published the Indian p...
Brian Yazzie sits in the driver's seat of his white minivan, watching his daughter, Kristen, as she heads to the driving range at Talking Stick Golf Club in Scottsdale. It's a Tuesday afternoon and Kristen is one of 13 kids participating in The First Tee Program. She's also the only Native American. "Native American kids think golf is a rich man's sport," Yazzie says. "They play basketball and baseball." http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/golf/2015/04/11/golf-first-tee-native-americans/25584139/...
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Two of South Dakota’s largest tribes won a sweeping victory recently in federal court that could reverberate for tribes across the country, according to NPR. A federal judge has ruled that the South Dakota Department of Social Services, prosecutors and judges “failed to protect Indian parents’ fundamental rights” when they removed their children after short hearings and placed them largely in white foster care. http://www.yorknewstimes.com/news/york-native-part-of-federal-court-case/article_c7e28a52-e007-1...
Canadians took to social media this week to share their outrage about the lack of action from police and government on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in the wake of a CBC News investigation into 230 unsolved cases. Many demanded a federal inquiry into the issue (which the PM has said isn't going to happen) http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/canadians-share-outrage-over-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-rcmp-statement-1.3028589...
At least 11 kids between the ages of 12 and 17 have killed themselves in Oglala Lakota County on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since December. Three of those deaths were in February, two more during March. The heartbreaking details vary from child to child, but their families and this community feel the voids left by their absences just as deeply each and every time. http://www.argusleader.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/04/11/voice-latest-wave-suicides-call-change/25596763/...
Though it hasn’t gotten much attention in the media, Michelle Obama made some truly groundbreaking remarks at the Generation Indigenous convening Wednesday on the topics of Native American youth and Native American history. The White House has posted a transcript of her full remarks online and it is available here. But I would like to call special attention to the following excerpts in which the First Lady discusses the source of challenges facing Native American communities and the role of the United States government in stripping Natives o...
Neshoba County, Miss. In 2011, The Choctaw Tribe made history by electing Chief Phyliss J. Anderson as the first female chief of The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Saturday she announced her candidacy in her re-election bid as tribal chief. "I am running for the re-election of the office of the tribal chief, so i ask for your support," Chief Anderson stated. http://www.wtok.com/home/headlines/Chief-Anderson-Announces--299452971.html...
For years, Tulalip tribal officials have been pressing for better access to criminal databases. Then the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School last fall made the reason all too clear. Tribal records should have blocked the purchase of the gun used in the shooting. But the records never traveled the seven miles between the Tulalip Tribal Court and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. KUOW’s Amy Radil explains. http://kuow.org/post/barriers-keep-tribal-court-cases-hidden...
The throaty chant of singers cut the din of beating drums. Four teams of four men pounded a beat beneath a wooden arbor in the center of Halenbeck Hall's gym floor at St. Cloud State University. Dancers young and old clad in colorful Native American garb marched clockwise round the makeshift structure. The American Indian Center at St. Cloud State on Saturday hosted the 22nd Annual Traditional Pow Wow. Representatives from seven Midwestern tribes participated. http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2015/04/11/tribes-become-...
Minnesota lakes are poised for an increase in Indian netting and spearing for walleye this spring. Topping the list of waters likely to draw attention is Lake Vermilion near Tower, where members of two Native American bands are planning to net walleye shortly before Gov. Mark Dayton fishes the lake on the May 9 Governor's Fishing Opener. The increase in activity -- up to 77 other northern and central Minnesota lakes could conceivably see tribal spearing for walleye -- is at least partly the result of stricter protections for the walleye...
ONONDAGA NATION -- Emergency medical responders will not be taking calls on the Onondaga Nation for the foreseeable future, a nation leader said Friday. According to Tadodaho Sid Hill, emergency medical services to the nation have been temporarily suspended. He did not know how long the suspension would last, but said the nation was in the process of informing the community. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/04/emergency_responders_will_not_take_calls_on_the_onondaga_nation.html...
After undergoing a second mental health evaluation, a woman charged with a fatal stabbing on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation has been deemed competent to stand trial. Lydia Marie Barney’s case had been in flux since December when her attorney asked for an evaluation, citing erratic behavior at the St. Louis County Jail. Barney, 21, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of her aunt, 31-year-old Waubunoquay Dawn Randall, on Oct. 19 in Stoney Brook Township. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime/3720099-fdl...
FAIRBANKS — Two former officers of an Alaska tribal government advocacy group pleaded guilty today to stealing funds from the organization, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska. Steven D. Osborne and Thomas R. Purcell were indicted in August 2013 for stealing a combined amount of more than $27,000 from the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council in 2008 and 2009. http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/tribal-officials-plead-guilty-to-theft-charge/article_85649334-dfec-11e4-bffc-27d69eda75dc.html...
Seventy per cent of the solved murders of aboriginal women were committed by people of aboriginal descent, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says in a letter to Grand Chief Bernice Martial of the Treaty Number 6 Nations. The letter, dated April 7, was in response to a request from Martial for the RCMP's report on missing and murdered aboriginal women and for access to the National Center for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains database. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-says-7-of-10-female-aboriginal-homicides-committed-...
Roxanne Isadore was already a survivor by the time she reached her sixth birthday. "She used to scream at night … 'That guy is after me.'" Her grandmother Angeline recalls how the sexual abuse Roxanne experienced as a child haunted her for years. As she got older, she continued to struggle. There were suicide attempts, addictions. And when she was 24, she disappeared. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/missing-murdered-aboriginal-women-crisis-demands-a-look-at-root-causes-1.3027023...
