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The Navajo Nation has become the first area in the country to approve a tax on junk food, pairing it with the elimination of sales tax on fruits and vegetables to try to compel people to eat healthier. The Nation comprises an area of over 27,000 square miles, across the states of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Bags of chips and Hot Cheetos, among other items such as sweetened beverages and fried foods labeled as junk food, will cost 2 percent more under the tax. Meanwhile, the 5 percent sales tax won’t apply to fresh fruits and vegetables. h...
DEFIANCE, ARIZONA—A Navajo male suspect is under arrest on narcotics and weapons possession charges in Window Rock this evening. Around noon today, reports of gunfire at the Rio Puerco and Black Rock Acres housing area of Ft. Defiance was called into the Window Rock Police Department. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/navajo-police-gang-drug-unit-arrest-navajo-male-on-narcotics-charges/...
FORT DEFIANCE, ARIZONA – The Navajo Times is reporting there is an “active shooter” on the loose in Fort Defiance, Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Here is text of the Navajo Times report: Navajo Nation Police has reported an “active shooter” is on the loose in Fort Defiance and advises Black Rock Acres and Rio Puerco housing to take precaution and stay indoors. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/shooter-on-loose-in-fort-defiance-area-on-navajo-reservation/...
MIAMI - Three-year-old Ahziya was already in pain from an untreated broken leg when he was hit in the abdomen and died in Hollywood, the Broward Medical Examiner said. Both of his parents and his extended family had substance abuse issues. His step-mom, Analiz Osceola, who had a history of abusing her child, used trash bags to cover her step-son's body, placed him in a box behind a washer in a laundry room and reported him missing, police said. The boy also had bruises all over his body, the autopsy report said. http://www.l...
Winnipeg police was close to labeling all Indigenous women and girls in the city as a vulnerable population according to a member of the police board. And as APTN’s Dennis Ward reports, the numbers show there may have been good reason to do so. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/10/winnipeg-police-report-says-indigenous-people-twice-likely-victims-crime/...
It’s no secret that water pollution is clogging rivers across Turtle Island. But the annual list of the most endangered rivers in the U.S. announced on April 7 by the conservation group American Rivers confirms that a large number of them flow through Indian country, starting with Number One. Topping the list? The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, thanks to not one but two tourism-development plans that opponents say pose much danger to the fragile ecosystems. Add to that the push to develop mineral resources there, and you have a river on t...
(CNSNews.com) - On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed a gathering at the White House that focused on the topic of creating opportunity for Native American youth. The White House posted her prepared remarks online. The full speech, as posted by the White House, can be read by clicking here. Here is an excerpt from the First Lady's remarks: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/michelle-obama-our-governmentoutlawed-indian-religions...
The Havasupai Tribe of Arizona is still trying to regain control of two Internet domain names after winning a long-running dispute against a former consultant. Last November, Judge John J. Tuchi ordered the transfer of havasupaifalls.net and havasuwaterfalls.com to the tribe. He also awarded damages and attorney fees of more than $620,000 to the tribe. Consultant Richard J. Nicolaus, however, never complied with the decision. So the tribe went back to court and sought an order against two private companies that hold the registrations for the...
Cowichan Tribes will have to pay nearly $160,000 to an employee who was fired in 2013 after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled she was terminated without cause and reasonable notice. Jennifer Pauline George, 55, was dismissed from her job as associate director of Lalum'utal' Smun'eem Child and Family Services, along with her immediate supervisor, Lise Haddock, on May 23, 2013, in part because of an altercation at the Roadhouse Pub in February of that year. George was accused of verbally and physically assaulting Anita Seymour, who was dating the...
Alexis Siebrecht was diagnosed with a rare and sometimes fatal liver disease at the age of three months. She is anxiously waiting for a liver donor. Like most kids her age, she big dreams for the future. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/10/first-nation-girl-11-needs-liver-transplant-winnipeg/...
After a 15-year-old First Nations girl, who was under the care of Manitoba's Child and Family Services, was viciously beaten last week, the province admitted things would have to change. She was assaulted at a downtown Winnipeg hotel where she was being housed. Her attack raises, once again, the issue of vulnerable Manitoba children being sheltered in hotels. By all accounts, it's a common practice... Tina Fontaine, the 15-year-old girl found dead in the Red River last year, had been sheltered in one too. http://www.cbc.ca/r...
Staff and teachers grimly detailed the aging Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High School building’s structural failings for three visiting U.S. congressmen Wednesday. But it was a comment from a student that drove home the dire need to replace the pole barn where classes are held. As students in grades 9–12 gathered to relay their concerns, Minnesota Republican Rep. John Kline asked them where they stash their coats for handy access for their frequent trips outside between the high school — which lacks a cafeteria, gym and well-stocked library — and the ele...
Adriel Arocha was a kindergartner with long braids in 2008 when his American Indian religious beliefs and those of his father, Kenney, ran smack into the grooming policy of the Needville, Texas, school system—and led to a federal court ruling centered on that state’s religious-freedom law. The law, the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is among the varied, but similarly named, statutes in 20 other states now under intense public scrutiny in the wake of controversies in Arkansas and Indiana over whether they would allow business own...
Last month, Jude Schimmel told ICTMN ‘Why not me?’ hours after she played one of the last games of her college career. She was talking about being the one to step up and help her team win big in the NCAA tournament, which she did. As the 2015 WNBA draft quickly approaches – it will be held Thursday, April 16, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. – a similar question might be pondered by many Schimmel fans in and out of Indian country: Why not Jude? Why wouldn’t she be drafted? Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedia...
Josh Skookum alleges he was brutalized by an RCMP officer seen in a video taken by an onlooker at a house party early Easter Sunday. The video was uploaded to Facebook minutes after the incident and has been viewed close to a million times. “I think it’s a good thing,” said Skookum, of Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in the Yukon. “People deserve justice for not doing anything.” http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/10/yukon-man-happy-video-rcmp-officer-hitting-gone-viral/...
An Ethete woman pleaded guilty to killing a man on the Wind River Indian Reservation last June in federal court on Thursday. Susan Chippewa pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the first degree murder of Jared Dean Little Whiteman during a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a charge of felony first-degree murder, meaning a murder committed during the commission of another crime, which was in this case kidnapping. These charges were listed in a recent...
POLSON, Mont. (AP) — A former Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal firefighter faces allegations that he set six wildfires over the past two summers. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/1y9KUfD ) Phillip Cody Haynes pleaded not guilty to felony arson during a court hearing in Polson on Thursday. http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/former-tribal-firefighter-denies-arson-charge/article_be7322c4-2c85-59a9-84bf-583d35187c9e.html...
LOCKPORT – A man who invaded a home on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation Aug. 16, tying up a 16-year-old girl and hitting her in the head with a shotgun, pleaded guilty Thursday in Niagara County Court. Keith H. Printup Jr., 27, a former reservation resident now living on 75th Street in Niagara Falls, admitted to attempted second-degree burglary. County Judge Sara Sheldon told Printup she will sentence him to six years in prison and five years of post-release supervision when he is brought back to court June 25. For now, he is being held in l...
