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  • Apr 17, 2012

    After watching citations for texting and driving increase exponentially, more than 400 law enforcement agencies plan to flood state highways on Thursday to crack down on distracted drivers....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    Warm, humid weekend weather gave way to rain and snow in Minnesota on Monday....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    The Legislature has sent Gov. Mark Dayton a bill that would let employers set hiring preference for veterans and some of their spouses....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    Despite growing pressure from parents and community groups, change continues to come slowly for Minneapolis schools and their students....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    As regulators crack down on storefront and Internet payday lenders, a new report says four big banks -- including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank -- are major players in the multibillion-dollar fast-cash industry, charging vulnerable people interest rates as high as 365 percent....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    WASHINGTON - The inspector general for the General Services Administration said Monday that he is investigating possible bribery and kickbacks in the agency, as lawmakers assailed the former GSA administrator for allowing a Las Vegas spending scandal to erode taxpayers' trust in government....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    James Ramos has retired after a two-term chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and the tribe has elected Carla Rodriguez to replace him....

  • U.S. Senator Worries Tribal Courts Will Imprison ‘Any American’

    Apr 17, 2012

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is expressing concern that tribal courts operating on Indian reservations will attempt to arrest and imprison ‘any American’ if legislation aimed at protecting Native women from criminal violence passes the U.S. Congress. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/16/u-s-senator-worries-tribal-courts-will-imprison-any-american-108508 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/16/u-s-senator-worries-tribal-courts-will-imprison-any-american-108508#ixzz1sI...

  • Indian Health Service Releases Anti-Bullying Video

    Apr 17, 2012

    WASHINGTON – Indian Health Service has released an anti-bullying Public Service Announcement with a strong message: "Bullying is not Native and does not honor our traditions or culture." Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. An astonishi...

  • Apr 17, 2012

    EBCI tribal members went to the polls on Thursday, April 12 and voted a resounding “no” on three referendum questions dealing with the sale of alcoholic beverages on trust lands of the Tribe....

  • Apr 17, 2012

    LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A preliminary hearing is expected to be set next month for Robinson Rancheria’s tribal chair, who is alleged to have embezzled tens of thousands of dollars while she worked for another local tribe....

  • Aboriginal sentencing rules racist? Good

    Apr 17, 2012

    According to critics — which includes just about everyone, it seems — Del Louie got away with assaulting bus driver Charles Dixon thanks to Louie’s aboriginal ancestry. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/McKnight+Aboriginal+sentencing+rules+racist+Good/6457863/story.html#ixzz1sIgQZFcj...

  • Apr 17, 2012

    Two Oklahoma daycare workers are facing felony child abuse charges after allegedly feeding habanero hot sauce to a 13-month-old boy and laughing as the infant writhed in agony.The incident occurred in March at a daycare in Muscogee Creek Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Muscogee people based in Oklahoma....

  • Russell Means: "I Owe a Lot to Dennis Banks"

    Apr 17, 2012
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    LEECH LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION – Surrounded by his family and friends, Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, was roasted on Friday night as part of his 75th birthday celebration at the Northern Lights Casino and Resort on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Walker, Minnesota. Banks, wearing a purple ribbon-shirt, black slacks, argyle socks with white athletic shoes trimmed in red and a black fedora, sat for over three hours as speaker after speaker came to the podium to roast...

  • Let's not stand for high rate of tribal youth suicide

    Apr 17, 2012

    Last week’s sad death of Daffodil Princess Alexandria Cole will fall into the numbers that health experts use to alert us to risks. It will be swept into the statistics that governments use to allocate resources to the understanding and prevention of the things that kill us. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/04/16/2109290/lets-not-stand-for-high-rate-of.html#storylink=cpy...

  • Daisy Blackbird, thought to be the oldest Chickasaw in Oklahoma, dies at 109

    Apr 17, 2012

    Oklahoma became a state when Daisy Hawley Blackbird was 4 years old. Blackbird, believed to be the oldest Chickasaw in the state, died Thursday after a short illness, said Michelle Jenkins, a close family friend. Blackbird, of Oklahoma City, turned 109 on Jan. 18. Read more: http://newsok.com/daisy-blackbird-thought-to-be-the-oldest-chickasaw-in-oklahoma-dies-at-109/article/3666598#ixzz1sIkAVxgL...

  • Apr 17, 2012

    RONAN- Tribal game wardens will be promoting education and cleanup, more than trapping, as they try to deal with problem bears in the Mission Valley this summer....