Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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An approximately $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Native Americans will help the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) in Tahlequah, Oklahoma develop its “Project NATIVE”—Native Americans Teaming in Visual Empowerment, reported the Tahlequah Daily Press. The program will provide training for visual aid outreach workers who will assist visually impaired clients. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/12/grant-to-support-project-native-a-visual-a...
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. – A suicidal girl who was allowed to be shuttled between homes with sex offenders. Reports of suspected child abuse and neglect left ignored. A child protection worker convicted of felony child abuse....
FARGO — She came into their lives one day after her first birthday and in fragile health. Three months later, the child was abruptly taken away....
Working shifts other than the typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. is putting people at increased risk of obesity and diabetes, according to a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital that controlled the eating and sleeping schedules of 21 individuals, reported BBC News. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/13/shift-workers-face-increased-risk-of-diabetes-and-obesity-108154 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/13/shift-workers-face-increased-risk-of-diabetes-and-obesity-108154#ixzz1sCIXljd0...
Elyssa Sierra Celine tried to kill herself last spring. As if it was her turn to do it. Within two years of her moving to the Pine Ridge native American settlement in 2009, she had been seeing her peers do the same....
It is documented in the land by petroglyphs, or rock etchings, including those in Laguna Niguel that indigenous people around the world have tried to describe or paint things that appear to be space craft or space aliens....
Vince Hill knew he would be celebrating regardless of the outcome of the Canadian Lacrosse League‘s inaugural championship final. That’s because Hill is the director of operations for both the Ohsweken Demons and Iroquois Ironmen, the two all-Native squads that met in the final of the six-team Canadian circuit, which also goes by the moniker CLax. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/15/history-made-an-all-native-lacrosse-final-between-the-osheken-demons-and-iroquois-ironmen-107835 http://indiancountry...
GREAT FALLS- U.S. Army Specialist Antonio Burnside, the Montana soldier who died in Afghanistan, arrived back in Great Falls on Sunday....
A defendant accused of shooting and killing Navajo Nation Police Sgt. Darrell Curley was in federal court last week and changed his plea to guilty as part of a plea agreement....
When it's time to say the pledge of allegiance, Minnesota Rep. Susan Allen stands, places her hand on her heart and recites. The woman who once abstained from the pledge to protest the government's treatment of American Indians now has a seat on the House floor....
Seen any Indians on TV lately? Probably not, and you’re not likely to. Here’s why: The FCC has allowed the American television Industry, which I like to call “a content provider,” because the Internet has changed everything. They don’t know what to call themselves either. The federal government, through its oversight of the FCC, has allowed the content providers to do three things with us and our image. These will have a devastating impact on American Indians economically, and we don’t yet know the negative social and psychological impact to g...
Uh oh. The Boston Red Sox’s star center fielder and lead off hitter Jacoby Ellsbury, Navajo and member of the Colorado River Indian Tribe, left yesterday’s game in the fourth inning after sliding into second base, clutching his shoulder and writhing in agony. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/14/jacoby-ellsbury-injured-in-red-soxs-home-opener-against-tampa-bay-rays-108278 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/14/jacoby-ellsbury-injured-in-red-soxs-home-opener-against-tampa-bay-rays-10827...
LOWER BRULE — A Lower Brule man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to possession with intent to distribute Valium....
Two members of Los Coyotes Indian tribe changed their plea to guilty in the Eagle Fire arson case Friday to accept a deal that will send them to state prison for six years instead of serving life sentences....
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tucson man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for a non-fatal stabbing on the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation....
MIAMI — A former council member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida who was known for his free-spending ways pleaded guilty Friday to filing a false income tax return, agreeing to pay $5.46 million to the Internal Revenue Service....
Voters in Cherokee reject all three referendums on alcohol sales. Voters got to decide among three ballot questions. The first would've allowed a Tribal ABC store. The unofficial results show it failed 1,499 to 1,005. Question two would've permitted restaurants to sell alcohol, it failed 1,498 to 995. The third would've allowed the sale of beer and wine in grocery stores, and it failed 1,640 to 851. Alcohol is now only sold inside Harrah's Casino....
The Cherokee Reservation will remain dry, keeping in place the historic ban on alcohol sales, following Thursday’s election on the issue....
For nearly 175 years members of a small Indian tribe have lived deep down in Terrebonne Parish on a sliver of land called the Isle de Jean Charles, but now the waters surrounding the community are forcing them out. Vanessa Bolano has more....
The former director of the Nez Perce Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance is seeking to get her day in court. Judy K. Oatman, of Kamiah, alleges her civil rights were violated when supervisors called for her resignation more than a year ago....
Accomplished anthropologist and author David Treuer argues that “to claim that Indian cultures can continue without Indian languages only hastens our end.” Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/13/book-excerpt-rez-life-an-indian%e2%80%99s-journey-through-reservation-life-by-david-treuer-107550 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/13/book-excerpt-rez-life-an-indian%e2%80%99s-journey-through-reservation-life-by-david-treuer-107550#ixzz1sCXnJQnD...
Rather than the princess herself, a photo of Alexandria Tyler Cole will be placed on her seat on the Queen’s Float in Saturday’s Grand Floral Parade during the Daffodil Festival. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/12/daffodil-princess-walks-on-107867 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/12/daffodil-princess-walks-on-107867#ixzz1sCYL0APW...
VISTA (CNS) - Two men who started a fire that scorched 22 square miles of mountainous backcountry between Warner Springs and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park pleaded guilty Friday to arson charges....
VISTA — Two young Los Coyotes Indian reservation tribal members admitted Friday that they started last summer’s Eagle fire, which scorched more than 14,000 acres of the reservation and state park land and cost $15 million to extinguish....
The United States Attorney’s Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings on April 11, 2012 before Senior United States District Judge Jack D Shanstrom, Donald Charles Rapos, a 53-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, appeared for sentencing. Rapos was sentenced to a term of:...
