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LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's attorney general will announce criminal charges Wednesday against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city's lead-tainted water crisis, according to government officials familiar with the investigation. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — will be filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor, two officials told The Associated Press late Tuesday. They spoke on the c...
POLK COUNTY, TX (KTRE) - A Polk County Justice of the Peace has released the identity of a man pronounced dead at the Alabama-Coushatta reservation. Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace, Judge Larry Whitworth pronounced Spencer James Sadler dead on Sunday, April 17th at 9:20 a.m., according to the release. "We don't know why. There's no reasoning," said Debra Sadler, Spencer's mother. She said the mother of one of Spencer's friends knocked on her door and said, "Something has happened to your son. Something terrible has happened to Spencer. We...
A top foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump is part of a Western Montana campaign against the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT). Joseph E. Schmitz’s involvement in a failed lawsuit attempting to block tribal management of a dam located on the Flathead Reservation (home to the Tribes) also demonstrates how anti-Muslim bigotry increasingly accompanies attacks on tribal communities. Schmitz was named by Trump as one of five foreign policy advisors in mid-March. In September 2015, Joseph E. Schmitz joined Lawrence Kogan as c...
GREEN BAY - A federal judge will hear arguments next month on the Menominee Indian Tribe's lawsuit against the federal government regarding a hemp-growing operation. Oral arguments are set for May 13 before Judge William Griesbach, according to court records. Last October, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration raided tribal land, destroying hemp plants. The tribe said it was growing hemp for research purposes. However, after the raid, the DEA reported it confiscated 30,000 high-grade marijuana plants. The difference between marijuana and...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — A Navajo Nation lawmaker who was convicted in a criminal trial of funneling nearly $34,000 in tribal funds to his family has lost his post. The tribe's election office declared a vacancy Friday for the legislative seat held by Mel Begay. A jury found Begay guilty on 10 counts in late March. The election office had been awaiting the judge's final order before removing him from office. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Navajo-Nation-lawmaker-convicted-in-criminal-case-7256834.php...
A Pine Ridge man was sentenced in Rapid City federal court Monday to two years in prison for child sexual abuse while his teenage victim sat listening several feet away. Isaac L. Roubideaux, 24, had pleaded guilty earlier to sexual abuse of a minor as a result of a sexual encounter when he was 21 and the female victim was 13. The incident happened at his home in Pine Ridge on Oct. 27, 2013, according to court documents. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/pine-ridge-man-sentenced-to-years-for-sexual-abuse-of/article_c8bc3...
ST. MICHAEL, N.D. -- An argument led to a Spirit Lake man stabbing and killing one man and critically injuring another before striking one of them with a pickup more than a week ago, according to court document. Dallas Wayne Thundershield, 35, was charged in federal court April 12 with murder and attempted murder after one man was found dead and another was in critical condition with multiple stab wounds in a ditch on the Spirit Lake Reservation. http://www.jamestownsun.com/news/state/4012833-details-emerge-stabbing-spirit-l...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold a federal law aimed at people who have been convicted of repeated acts of domestic violence on Indian lands. The case argued at the high court tests whether the law and its stiff prison terms can be used against defendants who did not have lawyers in earlier domestic violence convictions in tribal courts. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/supreme-court-weighs-law-aimed-at-domestic-violence-on-tribal-lands/...
Minnesota's opioid epidemic is continuing to hit Native American communities especially hard. American Indians have died of opioid overdoses at a rate that's almost five times higher than whites in the state. Just last week, White Earth Nation reported eight opioid overdoses over just three days. All the victims survived, but authorities are warning that some heroin circulating on the reservation may be cut with other drugs that make it especially dangerous. http://kuow.org/post/battling-opioid-addiction-reservation...
A group of legal experts and activists say police street checks, often referred to as ‘carding,’ are unlawful and unfairly target aboriginal people. “It’s causing a divide between aboriginal people and the Saskatoon police. It creates an adversarial relationship and arguably it leads to an increase in crime,” said Glen Luther, a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Luther is one of 50 people — including lawyers, academics, teachers and activists — who signed their names to a submission on its way before Saskatoon’s board of police...
WASHINGTON - Half of the 10 schools on the Bureau of Indian Education priority replacement list released this week are in Arizona, while another three are on the New Mexico portion of the Navajo Nation. Making the list is just the first step in a process that can take years before a school is replaced - if Congress approves money for construction. Schools on the list start the planning process, but then join a backlog of 50 to 60 schools listed in past years. http://nhonews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1...
In accordance with the statements made by Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin in August 2015, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has not gone back on its word to forgo its right to net fish in Mille Lacs Lake this year. Over the weekend of April 15, 16 and 17, Band members from the Mille Lacs Band, Fond du Lac Band and two Wisconsin bands were on Mille Lacs Lake exercising their rights, per a Supreme Court ruling, to spear fish. All of the fish harvested have been counted by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. http:...
A northern Minnesota man has admitted to pushing a woman to her death down the stairs in the home they shared before rounding up a couple of friends to put the body in a makeshift grave and burning it. Marchello A. Cimmarusti, 40, of Bemidji, pleaded guilty Monday in Beltrami County District Court to second-degree murder with the understanding that he could be sentenced to nearly 37 years in prison. Cimmarusti would not be eligible for supervised release for at least 24 years. http://www.startribune.com/bemidji-man-admits-bu...
BANGOR, Maine — The former environmental director for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one year of probation for embezzling more than $25,000 over six years. Stephen E. Crawford, 68, of Beaufort, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in November 2015 to embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization. “I can’t begin to say how profoundly sorry I am for taking the tribe’s money and making it harder for them to implement their programs,” Crawford told the judge just prior to being sen...