Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

WASHINGTON - Worried the Internal Revenue Service might target you for an audit? You probably should be if you own a small business in one of the wealthy suburbs of Los Angeles....

Indian Child Welfare Act agencies on the South Dakota reservations are hoping the lawsuit filed against the state of South Dakota will bring attention to the miscarriage of justice that has continued for decades. The removal of Native children from their homes by Department of Social Services in Pennington County is considered by many involved with ICWA to be a tactic...

It oozed oil for a confirmed 10 days, or a rumoured 30, depending on the source. But the oil spill, one of the province’s largest, went unnoticed by most media outlets. Upwards of 100,000 litres, approx., 500 barrels, of oil spilled out a broken underground flow line near the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, covering an area equivalent in size to two football fields a half mile...

KYLE, South Dakota — Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe loaded an old home on a truck trailer and began hauling it to the nation's capital Saturday to demonstrate housing problems on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....

KYLE | A mud-spattered heavy duty pickup hauled away one of the oldest houses on the Pine Ridge reservation on Saturday....

GRAND FORKS - Participants in a hastily called general assembly meeting voted overwhelmingly today to oust Roger Yankton Sr. as chairman of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, according to tribal members in attendance....

Every once in a while a really nice example of institutional racism emerges from the corporate media and gives us a chance to expose unexamined assumptions that make truth impossible. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/04/14/massacres-and-denial-why-cant-america-be-honest...

Tribal governments can now directly request a disaster declaration from the president....

It was 2004, and Frank Jamerson needed a business loan. Jamerson, then 31, was short on funds but big on ideas: He wanted to provide DJ services in Little Eagle on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation....

Cherokee Nation officials have the right idea to raise awareness of, and combat, child abuse and sexual assault....

In 1906, etiologist and photographer Edward S. Curtis set out across the United States to draw, photograph and otherwise document the lives of Native Americans that hadn’t yet been contacted by Western society....

The Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, the Archbishiop of Philadelphia, is the first Native American Archbishiop; he was only the second Native American bishop. In a recent weekly address, Chaput discussed "Easter and Its Implications, Here and Now," stating: Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/14/first-na...

Since 2005, Erma Vizenor, chair of the White Earth Nation and Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, has been working to secure a memorial for American Indian veterans, many of whom have served in wars as early as the American Revolution. Her efforts could pay off. Passed by the House 129-0 Thursday, HF143, sponsored by Rep. John Persell (DFL-Bemidji), would place a plaque honoring...

The vice chairman of the Spokane Tribe of Indians poached two bison north of Yellowstone National Park in February and lied about his identity to officers investigating the hunt, court records show....

MINNEAPOLIS — Nothing in her upbringing on a remote Indian reservation in northern Minnesota prepared Jean Howard for her introduction to city life during a visit here eight years ago: an outbreak of gunfire, followed by the sight of people scattering....

STILWELL, Oklahoma - It's been nearly a year since a tornado hit near Stilwell....

The word responsible can mean being the cause or explanation of some occurrence or action, or answering for one’s conduct and obligations. This week in the House of Representatives, responsibility took on both meanings of the word, and for Republicans who promote personal responsibility as the driving force for many of their policy priorities; they certainly took the concept...

OAKLAND -- Tension was expected days before Friday night's meeting of the embattled and divided American Indian Model Schools board, but no one anticipated the events that unfolded in the wake of losing their charter....

This week, the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released the names of five organizations that submitted proposals for all or part of the land....

Johnny Depp was thrilled when Comanche Nation leaders invited him to become an honorary member of their tribe while he was filming The Lone Ranger in New Mexico last May....

A group of American Indian musicians who are on the "All My Relations" tour this week stopped by a McDonald's in Montana so that one could turn on her laptop and they could watch Tuesday night's NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship game ESPN stream....

The NABI Foundation, known for organizing high profile sporting events for Native athletes, will host a record 128 teams (64 boys & 64 girls' teams) for their 11th Anniversary NABI Invitational taking place this July 17-21 in Phoenix. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/13/maori-squad-among-128-competing-2013-nabi-basketball-tourna...

Current NABF and WBA Fedebol Light Heavyweight Champion Marcus Oliveira, Menominee Nation, is still undefeated and will face Beibut Shumenov of Kazakhstan in his next bout, with the World Boxing Association Light Heavyweight championship on the line. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/04/13/native-boxer-marcus-oliveira-knocks-out-ir...

Jonathan Winters, a towering figure in the history of improvisational comedy, died on Thursday at his home in Montecito, California, at the age of 87. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/13/comedian-jonathan-winters-cherokee-walks-148793...

Two more suspects in the brutal beating of a professor at Washington State University in Pullman came forward to police Friday....