Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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America's highest court is deciding the fate of a three-year-old girl who was adopted at birth but then forcibly returned to her Native American father....
Seattle is more typical of the urban Indian experience [“Reservation-system questions raised as Indians head for cities,” front page, April 14]. Unlike Minneapolis, with its small geographic enclave where Indians settled in the 1950s, Seattle Indians live everywhere in the greater metropolitan area. Poverty and unemployment are high and educational attainment is worse than in other groups.Urban Indians are highly mobile. Homelessness is not uncommon. All of this makes our challenge of improving health difficult....
Duane Jackson, vice chairman of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, lost his bid for another term representing the Mission District in Tuesday’s primary election, and two tribal members who have clashed with Chairman Roger Yankton Sr. will face off next month in the Fort Totten District....
Russell McKinley Wolfe, 35, was convicted on Nov. 16, 2012, in the Cherokee Court for Domestic Violence Assault on a Female, Violation of a Domestic Violence Protective Order, Driving While Impaired, and Injuring Public Property. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment. The sentence, issued by the Honorable Kirk G. Saunooke, Cherokee Court Judge, was one of the longest sentences ever issued by the Cherokee Court and comes after the enactment of the Tribal Law and Order Act which authorized criminal sentences of greater than one year in...
A group of Native American scholars recently sent a letter to Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, urging him to shun the Israeli democracy because of claims the latter does not mirror parallel “indigenous values and justice....
FARMINGTON — FBI agents executed a search warrant earlier this week at the headquarters of Navajo Agricultural Products Industry south of Farmington, said Tsosie Lewis, chief executive of the tribal farm enterprise....
Over the past several decades, Native Americans on rural reservations have flocked to big cities. Now roughly seven of 10 American Indians and Alaska Natives reside in a metropolitan area, according to Census Bureau data released this year, compared with 45 percent in 1970 and 8 percent in 1940. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/17/reservations-urban-centers-indians-struggle-escape-poverty-fight-create-positive-change...
The lead RCMP investigator in the Phoenix Sinclair homicide case told a public inquiry into the child's death that he had hoped witnesses were lying when they detailed the abuse she suffered....
A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination....
President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for a handful of tribal programs, including the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, in the budget proposal he unveiled April 10....
It may have been the shortest meeting of a charter school board in recent history. The American Indian Model Schools (AIMS) board met publicly Tuesday for approximately ten minutes, after a closed session, to discuss the recent tumult in the schools over their management and their future. There was one public comment, four action items and a quick adjournment. Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/apr/17/at-aims-meeting-few-answers-on-the-future-of-the/#ixzz2QuGCQ58F...
Douglas Miles with the Apache Skateboards Movement has a sincere love for this land. He’s an Arizona Native American with the San Carlos Apache Tribe and he has an incredible story that originated from a simple seed of love....
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A former elected district officer of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux tribe has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for her role in the theft of nearly $350,000 from the tribe. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Tribal-official-sentenced-for-role-in-embezzling-4441654.php#ixzz2QuI9KBHt...
On April 17, 2013, the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, through the elected Tribal Business Committee filed a Complaint against the State Of Utah, Uintah and Duchesne Counties and the Cities of Roosevelt, Myton and Duchesne to reopen the federal court suit titled Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah v. State of Utah, Duchesne, County, Roosevelt City, Duchesne City, and Uintah County. The case is in the United States District Court for the State of Utah, case number 75-cv-00408. The Tribe had originally...
The Department of Justice will hold two consultation sessions next month to discuss the tribal jurisdiction provisions of S.47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013....
DANBURY—The secret has been revealed. During March, a series of mysterious billboards appeared at the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 70. First, “Coming April 1.” “We’re Ready to Roll” a little later in March. And finally, on April 1, “St. Croix RAW. Rolled Fresh. EVERY DAY. Available at St. Croix Casino Danbury....
