Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux tribe, is wrestling with a sudden surge of teen suicides. Seven young people have taken their lives since early December, and some fear others are being encouraged do so on Facebook – and with nooses that have been hung near kids’ homes. Regina Garcia Cano has been covering the story and joins Here & Now’s Robin Young with details. http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/04/15/youth-suicides-sd-reservation...
Manitoba Justice is taking a second look at a Victim Services decision to deny the grieving family of a murdered indigenous woman compensation for her funeral after a CBC I Team investigation into the matter. Angela Poorman was fatally stabbed in Winnipeg in December 14, 2014. At the time the 29-year-old had 10 minor criminal convictions on her record. In a letter to Poorman's family, Victim Services told the family because of those offenses it rejected their application for funding to cover her $4,500 funeral bill. http://w...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) introduced a bill on Tuesday that supports efforts to place a woman on the $20 bill. S.925 directs the Department of Treasury to create a citizens panel to recommend a woman for the bill. Shaheen said she was inspired to take action by the Women on 20s campaign. “Our paper currency is an important part of our everyday lives and reflects our values, traditions and history as Americans,” Shaheen said in a press release. “It’s long overdue for that reflection to include the contributions of women. The incredi...
The 15-year-old girl viciously beaten in downtown Winnipeg earlier this month has been taken off life-support, a family member says. The girl has been in critical condition in hospital since the attack on April 1, when she was found near a parkade on Hargrave Street. The decision to take the teen off life-support was made by family and chiefs. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/teen-girl-beaten-in-downtown-winnipeg-taken-off-life-support-1.3033892...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has delayed sentencing for a transient man who admitted moving the body of a murdered Lame Deer woman on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters vacated Thursday’s sentencing after 36-year-old defendant Garrett Sidney Wadda submitted a last minute request for a new attorney. Wadda made his request in a letter sealed by the court. He pleaded guilty last year to being an accessory after the fact for dumping the body of 21-year-old Hanna Harris at the Lame Deer rodeo...
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana — Federal authorities in Lafayette say a Charenton man has been sentenced to a year in prison for assaulting a woman on the Chitimacha Indian reservation. U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley said Tuesday that 34-year-old Durgan Joseph Burleigh received the sentence after pleading guilty to one count of "assault in Indian Country." The victim was identified in Finley's news release only as a member of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. Finley said Burleigh is not a member of the tribe. http://www.greenfieldrep...
CHEYENNE, Wyoming — A Northern Arapaho man serving a life sentence for murder in the death of his 22-month-old daughter wants to join a legal fight over the boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation in an effort to have his conviction overturned. Andrew Yellowbear Jr. asked a federal appeals court this week to be included in the state of Wyoming's challenge to a federal agency's ruling that the town of Riverton is on reservation land. He was found guilty in state court in the 2004 beating death of his young daughter, Marcela Hope Y...
