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(Reuters) - Starbucks Chief Executive Kevin Johnson apologised late on Saturday for the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia coffee shop last week, which sparked accusations of racial profiling. Promising to make everything right, Johnson promised a thorough investigation of the incident caught on video by a patron Thursday and shared widely online. https://www.yahoo.com/news/philadelphia-police-chief-defends-officers-starbucks-arrests-033052350--finance.html...
Tobi Merritt Edwards Young, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation originally from Midwest City, Oklahoma, recently accepted a position as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Young is thought to be the first enrolled citizen of a Native American tribe, and the first woman from Oklahoma, to serve as Supreme Court clerk. She will serve at the Court for a year, starting in July 2018. Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby said that the selection of Tobi Young marks an important...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OUTREACH COORDINATOR RED LAKE NATION URBAN EMBASSY – MPLS OPEN: April 13, 2018 CLOSING: April 26, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: The Outreach Coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating programs for Red Lake Nation members and descendants in the Minneapolis area. Outreach Coordinator will report to the Red Lake Nation Urban Embassy-MPLS, Director, full time position with benefits, salary; DOQ. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Assess the program req...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Karl Ward is long dead, but some say the once-revered school superintendent in a small Alaska fishing town was not the benevolent educator worthy of having the high school gym named in his honor. A cellphone video made by a man before he died by suicide last month has given voice to at least five other men, all of whom say they were sexually abused decades ago by Ward, confirming publicly whispers that had long quietly existed. http://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/man-s-suicide-unearths-decades-old...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett announced Friday that USDA is accepting applications for grants to use broadband e-Connectivity to improve access to health care and educational services in rural communities. “Under Secretary Perdue’s leadership, USDA is tackling e-Connectivity as a foundational issue for rural communities because it affects everything from business opportunities to adequate health care access,” Hazlett said. “These grants are one of many tools USDA provides to help ensure th...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department recognized a detective from the Gila River Police Department on Friday for helping to arrest a man suspected of abusing multiple children over a 30-year period. Detective Kevin Rivers was honored by DOJ officials in celebration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which commemorates crime victims and those who advocate on their behalf. https://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/gric-detective-honored-for-ending-painful-chapter-on-reservation/article_57bd5fb6-8324-5...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Roughly $133 million is expected to be made available to tribes to support Native American and Alaska Native crime victims who advocates say had been largely left out of a federal funding program for decades. The appropriation for tribes was tucked into the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill approved in late March, and comes as federal Native American programs and services overall are seeing a funding boost – including some that a year ago faced the prospect of drastic funding cutbacks initially proposed by the Tru...
Tribal areas are permanently eligible for assistance using the emergency Amber Alert system under a new law pushed by Arizona's Sen. John McCain and Rep. Andy Biggs. President Donald Trump signed legislation that makes permanent a federal program to help tribal areas implement the child-abduction system. It came about after the 2016 slaying of Ashlynne Mike, an 11-year-old Navajo girl. Authorities waited a day after her family reported her missing to post alerts about her disappearance. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
President Donald Trump is promising not to challenge states that have legalized marijuana even though they are in conflict with federal law, according to GOP Sen. Cory Gardner. The Colorado senator said on Friday that in a private conversation with Trump this week, the president assured him that the Justice Department will not crack down on the state's burgeoning legal marijuana industry. The assurance came despite the DOJ’s January rescission of the "Cole memo," which had directed Justice to focus on drug cartels and violent drug dealers r...
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida father has filed a lawsuit against members of the Miccosukee Indian Tribe in which he accuses them of kidnapping his newborn baby. Justin Johnson said the situation, involving his daughter Ingrid, became an ordeal he wishes he could forget. https://wsvn.com/news/local/father-sues-miccosukee-tribe-members-accuses-them-of-kidnapping-newborn-baby/...
Just two weeks after U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the Department was forming a new Joint Task Force (JTF) to combat the opioid crisis in Indian Country, the Secretary announced the JTF's first raid seized 49 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of $2.5 million and more than $20,000 worth of marijuana, plus smaller amounts of heroin, and other narcotics. The raid was led by Interior's JTF with partnership from the Pueblo Tribes and New Mexico law enforcement officials. Secretary Zinke formed the JTF in response...
BAY CITY, MI -- A 63-year-old man, who is a registered sex offender in Canada, is now facing charges in U.S. federal court for allegedly raping a preteen girl several times and potentially inducing a rare pregnancy complication. A grand jury on Wednesday, April 11, indicted Byron Dale Bird on the following 14 charges: http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2018/04/sex_offender_with_dual_citizen.html...
