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Hospital emergency rooms across Minnesota are reporting a surge in mental health patients that has turned many ERs into "holding pens" for troubled and sometimes violent adults, often at the expense of other patients needing urgent care. The crowding has become so acute in some smaller, rural hospitals that patients are forced to wait on stretchers in public hallways, often for hours, or even turned away and sent to hospitals hundreds of miles away. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-ers-become-holding-pens-with-surge-in...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham says Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is "not my favorite." Ben Carson says there are "better people" than Donald Trump to serve as commander in chief. And those are the candidates Graham and Carson want to win. Presidential endorsements often create strange alliances — remember over-the-top Trump validating buttoned-up Mitt Romney four years ago? But rarely have so many partnerships of political necessity appeared to be as reluctant, awkward, even downright tortured as in the 2016 GOP race. htt...
Nearly a decade ago, eight governors shook hands on an extraordinary agreement to erect a legal wall around the largest source of fresh water on earth — the Great Lakes. The unusual bipartisan compact, signed by the heads of the states that border the massive basin, aimed to keep the increasingly valuable water right where it is for the 40 million people who rely on it for their jobs, their homes and their vacations. Now they face the first test. http://www.startribune.com/thirsty-cities-begin-to-eye-water-from-the-great-lak...
As Minnesota farmers climb into their tractors during the next few weeks to sow more than 15 million acres of corn and soybeans, they’re all too aware that they could lose money this year. Both crop and livestock farms struggled financially in 2015, and only near-perfect weather and bountiful corn and soybean harvests kept things from being worse. They are hoping for the same this year but also taking financial steps now, before the seeds are planted, to brace for any deficits. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-crop-farme...
LOS ANGELES — A survey has found that tens of thousands of voters, including Demi Moore and other celebrities, have mistakenly registered as members of a conservative minor political party in California in a mix-up over its name, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Los Angeles Times (http://bit.ly/23G88sX ) said that a telephone survey of 500 members of the American Independent Party found nearly 3 of 4 people did not realize they had enrolled in a political party that opposes abortion rights and same sex marriage and calls for building a fence a...
WINDOW ROCK-President Russell Begaye signed a proclamation on Thursday, Apr. 14, declaring April 2016 as Navajo Nation Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month. President Begaye and Vice President Jonathan Nez both stated that sexual violence is a major public health, social justice and human rights issue. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/april-declared-navajo-nation-sexual-assault-awareness-prevention-month/...
CONCHO, OKLAHOMA – The Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs and Domestic Violence, was honored at Concho, Oklahoma with a meet and greet by the government of The Cheyenne-Arapaho tribes and a meal. Burl Buffalomeat said the opening prayer and then Eddie Hamilton, the governor of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe, shared these words: “My name is Eddie Hamilton, governor Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe. I’m very appreciative this group, The Longest Walk has came through C & A Country. I support them fully on their efforts going to Washington D.C. to be heard. We offe...
CASS LAKE—A section of land in the city of Cass Lake with contaminated soil will likely receive another round of cleaning once the federal government finishes preparations. The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, have been involved with the site, a former wood treatment plant, since the early 1980s. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/4011681-dioxin-contaminated-land-within-reservation-boundaries-be-cleaned-again...
A Tulsa man woke up behind bars Sunday after he was accused of setting his neighbor's house on fire. Officers said they found Dorian Brown outside his home near Third and Yale Saturday night. They said he was yelling and threatening to burn his neighbor's house down because of his Native American heritage. http://www.fox23.com/news/man-tries-to-burn-down-neighbors-house-because-of-his-native-american-heritage/222317177...
A missing 14-year-old from Kenora, Ont., has been found dead, Ontario Provincial Police confirmed late Sunday. Foul play is not suspected. Police said Azraya Kokopenace's body was found close to where she was last seen — leaving the Lake of the Woods District Hospital at 11:20 p.m. on Friday. According to police, she was seen going into a wooded area across from the hospital on Lakeview Drive. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/azraya-kokopenace-missing-diveteam-1.3539860...
(CN) — In a 10,000-year-old tradition where it's taboo to step forward as a public figure, one has emerged. And it's a voice pushing for changes that nobody else wants. James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney, founder of the Oklevueha Native American Church, says marijuana, ayahuasca and "sacred sexuality" are as important to his church as peyote. http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/04/15/ruling-doesnt-settle-future-of-native-american-church.htm...
The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will likely vote later this summer on changes to its membership policy. The tribe has a reservation that straddles the Iowa-Nebraska border. Currently to enroll, someone must be at least a quarter Native American, and have somewhere in their ancestry a Winnebago relative. The proposed change would require all new members be at least one-eighth Winnebago and one-eighth of any other tribe. http://iowapublicradio.org/post/winnebago-tribe-nebraska-vote-membership-requirements...
PENDLETON — Two men are facing charges in connection to a fatal shooting at a party on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The East Oregonian reports that Julian Darryl Simpson has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Antonio “Tony” Jimenez of Pendleton. Co-defendant Victor Joseph Contreras pleaded not guilty Wednesday to five counts that stem from shooting Beau Welch at the same party. http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/34273005-75/2-accused-in-fatal-shooting-on-umatilla-indian-reservation.html.cs...
For Winnipeg Centre Liberal member of Parliament Robert-Falcon Ouellette, the ramifications of the Trudeau government's doctor-assisted dying bill are too final. "Once we make a decision on this, there will be no going back," Ouellette said on Friday. On Thursday, new legislation on doctor-assisted death was formally presented in Parliament. It restricts access to the practice to mentally competent adults who have serious and incurable illness, disease or disability. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/robert-falcon-ouell...
Amid the sights and sounds of a Native American Heritage game day celebration sponsored by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Georgia Swarm (5-9) ended their losing streak and clinched an important victory against the play-off bound Colorado Mammoth (10-4). The win marks the first victory of the Swarm over Western division opponents and the first loss of the Colorado Mammoth to an Eastern division team. With only four regular season games left, this much needed win allows the Swarm to keep striving for the final playoff slot in the...
ST. MICHAEL, N.D. — A man has been charged with murder and attempted murder on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in connection with an incident last weekend. Dallas Wayne Thundershield, 35, was charged in U.S. District Court April 9, according to a criminal complaint. Law enforcement have released few details on the investigation. http://www.jamestownsun.com/news/state/4011222-man-charged-murder-reservation...
Two volunteer workers who made racist comments captured on video during a recent youth wrestling tournament in Aberdeen have been banned from working future events. That was the right call. As hard as it can be to find people willing to donate weekends to assist at sporting and other events, there's no place for helpers who make mean, ignorant comments while they're supposed to be helping kids — Native American or any other race. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_cf0b62c5-75e1-5b3e-9229-2e3ca9d6d2e7.ht...
The U.S. Census Bureau will conduct test counts on two reservations next year. The counts will reach about 3,500 housing units on the Colville Reservation in Washington, according to the agency. Another 2,900 units on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota will be included. "The 2017 Census Test will allow the Census Bureau to test the feasibility of collecting tribal enrollment information. It will also refine our methods for enumerating areas with unique location characteristics, where we cannot mail to a street...
When I trespassed across America in 2012 as part of my 1,700-mile hike along the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, I fell in love with South Dakota: its big skies, its gently rolling grasslands, its herds of deer and pronghorn. Despite being hit by blizzards and stampeded by cows and called “crazy” every day, South Dakota would settle into my memory as one of the grandest places I’ve ever visited. Most of this land, though, was considered by TransCanada, the Canadian pipeline company that wanted to build the Keystone XL, to be “low...
The Pinoleville Pomo Nation has filed a claim against Mendocino County authorities for raiding a high-profile medical marijuana operation on the tribe’s rancheria north of Ukiah last year. The tribe’s claim is on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda for Monday. Such claims are routinely denied, but must be filed before plaintiffs can sue a government agency. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5505541-181/pinoleville-pomo-nation-files-claim...
ST. MICHAEL’S, NAVAJO NATION— In the aftermath of the brutal killing of Loreal Tsingine, a 27-year-old Navajo mother, on Easter Sunday by Winslow Police Officer Austin Shipley, the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission met with officials of Winslow, Arizona. Winslow is a border town where many Navajo Nation citizens reside. On April 13, 2016, the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission (“Commission”) had a meeting with Winslow’s Stephen J. Pauken, City Manager, Ellen Van Riper, City Attorney, Stephen Garnett, Chief of Police, and Lt. Kenneth A...
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to Felina Blanch Metsker, 33, an American Indian woman, who has not been seen since March 25, 2016. Metsker was last seen between 2 and 3 p.m. on Friday, March 25 in Harrah, Washington. Metsker has brown hair, black eyes, is 5-feet 6-inches tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has a tattoo on her inner left arm, according to the FBI. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/fbi-offers-10000-reward-information-missing-na...
