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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT CASE MANAGER RED LAKE FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES Open: April 12, 2016 Closing: April 22, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m. Primary Function: To provide comprehensive case management services to children and families who are involved in the child protection system, both voluntarily and involuntarily, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Works directly with children and parents to preserve and/or reunify the family and achieve safety and well-being for children in a stable home environment...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT COOK/ASSISTANT COOK REGIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMPLEX Open: April 12, 2016 Closing: April 26, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: To provide nutritious meals for inmates by ensuring a safe, clean and sanitary environment, this position does not have supervisory responsibility. Reports to Administrator, full-time position, with benefits, salary; DOQ. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: • Responsible for supervising the development of specifications for procurement of f...
Red Lake Trading Post Specials Week of April 11, 2016...
BEMIDJI—Sandra White Hawk said she wanted Tuesday evening to be about reconciliation—and said it was important to lay out the facts, however ugly. White Hawk, founder and director of the First Nations Repatriation Institute, told horror stories and showed photos of tiny handcuffs and the children who wore them during a two-hour talk about Native American history before about 75 people at the Beltrami Electric Cooperative. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4008154-all-happened-its-amazing-were-here-sandra-white-hawk-sp...
EDINA — Jennifer Susan Kline, a former Mrs. America and home shopping network host, appeared Tuesday in Hennepin County court on a charge that she swindled Macy’s in Edina of more than $5,000. The charges surfaced after a store detective discovered that the clothes she returned weren’t the same ones she purchased, according to charges filed in Hennepin County District Court. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4008143-former-mrs-america-accused-swindling-macys...
A west-central Minnesota judge has tossed out the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ highest-profile deer-poaching bust in recent memory, saying a GPS device that conservation officers attached to the suspect’s pickup was illegal. DNR officers had obtained a “tracking order” to surreptitiously attach an electronic gadget to Joshua Dwight Liebl’s truck at his home in Dawson, Minn., on Oct. 8, 2014. http://www.startribune.com/judge-tosses-out-dnr-poaching-bust-over-tracking-device/375486921/...
A former Mrs. America was charged with theft by swindle after she allegedly made several fraudulent returns worth $5,000 to Macy’s. Jennifer Susan Kline, 50, of Wayzata, made her first appearance Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court. Kline, who was crowned Mrs. America in 1989, also was a home shopping network host for Shop NBC/EVINE Live, according to a news release from the Hennepin County attorney’s office. http://www.startribune.com/former-mrs-america-charged-with-theft-by-swindle-made-5-000-worth-of-fradulent-retur...
The Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee estimated Tuesday the Twin Cities metro area will reap $338 million in economic activity from the 2018 game — a figure that some economists immediately stamped as too high. Economists and civic boosters have long disputed the financial benefits to cities of hosting mega events such as the Super Bowl. Determining the net benefit relies on dozens of assumptions and calculations that can vary widely depending on who’s running the numbers. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-super-bowl-ho...
The transgender rights debate exploding in states like North Carolina is hitting closer to home this spring after House Republicans introduced a bill restricting restroom use and parents of a transgender kindergartner filed a discrimination complaint against a St. Paul charter school. “It’s certainly a very intense conversation that’s taking place in Minnesota right now,” said Jill Gaulding, co-founder of nonprofit law firm Gender Justice, which represents David and Hannah Edwards of St. Paul in their complaint against Nova Classical Academy...
A federal appeals court in St. Louis heard oral arguments Tuesday about whether the state of Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program violates the Constitution with its practice of indefinite detention. The case before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals could force the state to make a series of politically unpopular reforms to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), which has come under fire for its failure to release more offenders into the community. http://www.startribune.com/appeals-court-to-consider-constitutional...
Nearly 30 former General Mills employees sued the company in federal court Tuesday claiming they were victims of age discrimination in a wave of layoffs about 18 months ago. It is the second age-discrimination lawsuit to target the Golden Valley-based food giant, which in 2014 launched a multiyear corporate restructuring that will eliminate more than 3,400 positions around the world, including Minnesota. http://www.startribune.com/general-mills-faces-second-age-discrimination-lawsuit/375454211/...
Days after a marathon endorsing convention ended in a deadlock, state Rep. Phyllis Kahn and her two challengers are preparing for a three-way primary that is expected to be one of the most expensive and bruising DFL elections of the year. The Minneapolis race is opening rifts within the Somali-American community, as well as between young and old residents and white women and women of color. http://www.startribune.com/rybak-dibble-endorse-ilhan-omar-in-dfl-primary-battle/375407851/...
Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario declared a state of emergency Saturday in response to reports of 11 suicide attempts in one day by residents of all ages, including a 10-year-old child. Since September, there have been reports of more than 100 suicide attempts and at least one death. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-12-2016-1.3531544/dying-from-hopelessness-attawapiskat-desperate-to-stop-suicide-pandemic-1.3531547...
A psychiatrist who has been working with First Nations mental health services for several years says suicide crises like the one gripping the remote northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat have been a long-standing, inadequately addressed issue for decades. Dr. Cornelia Wieman, a University of Toronto professor and the first indigenous woman to train as a psychiatrist in Canada, told CTV’s Power Play Tuesday that an alarming surge in suicide attempts in Attawapiskat didn’t happen overnight. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/no...
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that it plans to conduct the 2017 Census Test in selected tribal areas in Washington, North Dakota and South Dakota and in a sample of addresses nationwide. The 2017 Census Test will allow the Census Bureau to test the feasibility of collecting tribal enrollment information. It will also refine our methods for enumerating areas with unique location characteristics, where we cannot mail to a street address. In addition to tribal areas, the test will...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted Monday to create a new three-member school board for the Cherokee Immersion Charter School to represent parents and advise school administrators on important language and mission decisions. Cherokee Nation citizens Rufus King, Melvina Shotpouch and Russell Feeling, who are all Cherokee speakers, were nominated by Principal Chief Bill John Baker. The Tribal Council approved all three nominations during April’s Tribal Council meeting. Each appointee will serve a five-year term. htt...
A foster family that lost custody of a 6-year-old girl due to the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act — a federal law mandating that “Indian children” be raised by Native Americans — isn’t backing down. Foster dad Rusty Page told The Church Boys podcast on Monday that he and his wife, Summer, are continuing to pursue legal appeals in an effort to try and bring Lexi, who is one-and-a-half percent Choctaw Native American, back to their home after the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services removed her on March 21 and placed he...
Writer’s block, oy, what a flu that is to have. Last year, I believe I did not write, and if I did it was of no consequence. However, there were a great many thinkers that did write and contributed to the ICTMN Op/Ed pages. Why? Because we have impact where it counts. Our readership crosses many lines, and many barriers. Every one of our writers are either civilians or players in NDN politics and social issues. The Natives and the non-Natives that you read in the Opinion section are either civilians or players in NDN politics and social i...
HELENA — A grand jury has charged a former business partner of Montana's Chippewa Cree Tribe with conspiring with tribal officials to skim millions of dollars from the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation's successful online payday lending company. Encore Services of Henderson, Nevada, and its president, Zachary Roberts, are accused of taking $3.5 million from the tribe through a fraudulent contract, and kicking back $1.2 million of that money to the officials who made the corrupt deal, federal prosecutors said. http://billingsgazet...
A B.C. man has been charged with fraud and international money laundering as part of a U.S. indictment involving a multi-million dollar payday loan business. American prosecutors allege that Randall Ginger claimed he was hereditary chief of a Vancouver Island First Nation to help the masterminds behind a massive payday loan company hide their activities from authorities. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/payday-loan-racketeering-charges-1.3530683...
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — The top leader on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation told tribal members Tuesday that he is thankful for federal inspections that have uncovered serious quality-of care-deficiencies at a government-run hospital serving the community. Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellow Bird Steele made the remarks during a radio address just days after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ordered the facility's administrators to either agree to make substantial changes or lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding. The ultimatum c...
In Nebraska v. Parker, 2016 WL 1092417 (U.S. 2016), the Omaha Tribe had entered into a treaty with the United States in 1865 ceding tribal lands and establishing a 300,000 acre reservation. In 1882, Congress enacted a law authorizing the Secretary of the Interior “to cause to be surveyed, if necessary, and sold” more than 50,000 acres of reservation land lying west of a right-of-way granted by the Tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior in 1880 for use by the Sioux City and Nebraska Railroad Company. The act provided further that af...
As chairman of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Jeff Grubbe looks at the supply of water from the Colorado River and sees an uncertain future, in part due to climate change. Grubbe, who was re-elected in March to a third consecutive two-year term, has taken a strong interest in water issues and has called for leaders in the Coachella Valley to develop better long-term plans to prepare for growing strains on water supplies. http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2016/04/12/tribes-leader-climate-change-thre...
FARGO, N.D. - Comedian Ralphie May won't be taking the stage in Fargo after all. The comedian postponed his show at the Fargo Theater, along with two others. It's all part of the fallout after a clip surfaced of a profane rant by May that some say is against Native Americans. http://www.kvrr.com/news/local-news/no-laughing-matter-local-comedians-react-to-ralphie-may/38994774...
The Sûreté du Québec has taken over duties from the local police force on the territory of the Atikamekw First Nation of Obedjiwan in the Mauricie region – at a cost of more than $100,000 per week. The Obedjiwan council disbanded its police force, which employed 22 officers to patrol the reserve 200 kilometres west of Roberval, Que., on April 1, because of a dispute with the province over policing costs. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/obedijwan-police-force-negotiations-1.3531943...
