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VARNER, Ark. — Arkansas overcame a flurry of court challenges that derailed three other executions, putting to death an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of a plan that would have been the country's most ambitious since the death penalty was restored in 1976. Ledell Lee's lethal injection Thursday capped a chaotic week of legal wrangling that left Arkansas scrambling to salvage any part of its attempt to execute eight men before one of its drugs expires at the end of April. http://www.startribune.com/...
WASHINGTON — Eager for a victory, the White House expressed confidence Thursday that a breakthrough on the mired Republican health care bill could be achieved in the House next week. The chamber's GOP leaders, burned by a March debacle on the measure, were dubious and signs were scant that an emerging plan was gaining enough votes to succeed. During a White House news conference, Trump said progress was being made on a "great plan" for overhauling the nation's health care system, though he provided no details. http://www.sta...
Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday left open the possibility that he would sign a transportation funding plan that does not include a 10-cent increase to the gas tax — a signature component of his transportation proposal. “I’m not going to veto a transportation bill that’s satisfactory in other respects because it doesn’t have a gas tax,” said the DFL governor, who criticized the hard-line position of Republican legislative leaders who have stridently opposed raising the gas tax. http://www.startribune.com/gov-dayton-leaves-open-p...
TAHLEQUAH — Today, the Cherokee Nation filed a lawsuit against McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Inc., AmerisourceBergen, CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., charging the companies with failing to prevent the flow of illegally prescribed opioids to men, women and children in the Cherokee Nation. This lawsuit is the first of its kind filed in the United States, as it seeks to hold distributors and retailers responsible for perpetuating the opioid crisis in the 14 counties in northeast Oklahoma that c...
Lawyers for the Cherokee Nation opened a new line of attack against the pharmaceutical industry Thursday, filing a lawsuit in tribal court that accuses the nation’s six top drug distributors and pharmacies of flooding communities in Oklahoma with hundreds of millions of highly addictive pain pills. The suit alleges that the companies violated sovereign Cherokee laws by failing to prevent the diversion of pain pills to the black market, profiting from the growing opioid epidemic and decimating communities across the nation’s 14 counties in the...
Marie Zackuse took office on April 1 as chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors. She’s taking the helm at a challenging time. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/politics/marie-zackuse-tulalip-tribes-first-chairwoman-takes-helm-challenging-time/...
Gallup, New Mexico is notorious and deadly for Native people. Ranked as the most “dangerous city” in New Mexico by a 2014 FBI report, violent, unnatural deaths for Native people has become an everyday fact of life. Gallup is also the county seat for McKinley County, the poorest county in New Mexico, and borders the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo of Zuni. The small city thrives on Navajo-generated business, and is a convenient 26-mile drive from Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation. https://indiancountrymedian...
A woman's decades-long quest for recognition as an Indian ended in victory Thursday, when Ontario's top court ruled she should be granted status, something the federal government had steadfastly denied her because she didn't know who her paternal grandfather was. In its ruling, the Court of Appeal found the government's refusal to register Lynn Gehl as an Indian, even though she can trace her Indigenous heritage back five generations, was unreasonable. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/woman-wins-32-year-fight-for-indian-sta...
[JURIST] US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced [press release] plans on Tuesday to implement a series of actions that will support the public safety on Native American lands. The initiative is hoped to improve relations between federal authorities and "Native America." Under the Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety three actions will be implemented to support public safety within the Indian community. The following actions to be taken are: the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] will deploy the Tribal Access Program...
HELENA – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Tuesday to expand an Obama administration initiative to allow more tribal authorities access to federal anti-crime databases – an action long sought by tribes from the Metlakatla of Alaska to the Oneida of New York. The attorney general’s announcement was part of a broader package to improve the sometimes-strained relationship between federal authorities and Native America. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/apr/18/attorney-general-expands-program-to-combat-crime-o/...
Broken windows, frequent reports of black mold and bed bugs, discarded tires as makeshift roofing, and more than a dozen people crammed together in a crumbling two-bedroom home. Such housing conditions in Indian country were uncovered last year by the Great Falls Tribune, which noted a housing shortage that “has lingered on U.S. Indian reservations for nearly a century.” As the Executive Director of an organization that has worked to address such issues since 1971, occasional reports of horrific conditions in Indian country are, sadly, not sur...
Longmont, Colorado, April 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LONGMONT, Colorado (April 20, 2017) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today published a report that clears up a longstanding “urban legend” that has had a negative impact on Native communities. The report – Twice Invisible: Understanding Rural Native America – challenges the commonly held belief that the majority of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in cities and urban areas. The Twice Invisible report looks closely at Census data and uses a definition of “rural...
Toronto is host to the 27th North American Indigenous Games. With only 88 more days before the opening ceremonies the countdown is on. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/19/countdown-begins-to-north-american-indigenous-games-in-toronto/...
No sport is more deeply engrained in the culture and tradition of Indigenous people than lacrosse, an elder from B.C.'s Kwantlen First Nation says. Lekeyten, the elder, says it even lives in the stone and ground of the Indigenous communities that play it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/b-c-girls-get-ready-for-lacrosse-action-at-naigs-1.4073859...
A Mi’kmaq warrior in New Brunswick is hopeful that a band council resolution (BCR) to ban drug dealers will help keep his community safe. “I know the drug dealers are scared now that this BCR is in the mix,” said John Levi, from Elsipogtog. “I want to give a thumbs up to the chief and council that took the stand and leadership role and go ahead and fight the drugs.” http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/18/drug-dealers-scared-as-elsipogtog-council-passes-bcr-to-ban-them/...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man accused of gunning down a tribal police officer in a remote corner of the nation's largest American Indian reservation pleaded not guilty Thursday to several charges, including murder. Kirby Cleveland, 32, will remain in federal custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled. He faces murder and weapons charges in the killing of Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo, who was shot March 11 on a dark road in western New Mexico while responding to a domestic violence call. https://www....
On April 20, 2017, Kirby Cleveland was arraigned at the Albuquerque, N.M., federal courthouse for charges related to the murder of Officer Houston James Largo, 27, a tribal police officer for the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety. He pleaded not guilty and was assigned counsel. Preliminary and detention hearings are scheduled for April 21, 2017. On March 11, 2017, Officer Largo was shot near Prewitt, N.M., while responding to a domestic violence call. He succumbed to his wounds hours later, on March 12, at the University of New Mexico...
The CBC and a group of Winnipeg-based media organizations have banded together to fight for the right to bring cameras into the courtroom during the trial of the man accused of killing Tina Fontaine. Raymond Cormier was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Fontaine, who was 15 when she was killed, wrapped in a bag and dumped in the Red River in August 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tina-fontaine-raymond-cormier-trial-cameras-in-court-1.4073887...
The mother of three Cherokee children who kidnapped them and took them to Mexico has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of International Parental Kidnapping. Shira Elizabeth Mattocks, aka Shira Elizabeth Raman, entered the plea in front of U.S. District Court Judge Martin Reidinger in Asheville federal court on Thursday, April 13. She was originally indicted on three counts of International Parental Kidnapping in a Bill of Indictment filed in U.S. District Court in July 2016, one month after her...
RED SCAFFOLD –– After an hour of conferring at the Frazier Church staging area, it took all of ten minutes for search and rescue to locate the remains of 39-year-old Richard Larrabee, who went missing in the rugged hill country east of Red Scaffold eight months earlier. Cheyenne River Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier told the gathering:, “Now’s the perfect time to conduct the search—no shrubs, no weeds…” Frazier had called in the Timber Lake Volunteer Fire Department, and sang their praises before the search got underway: “These guys are good,...
The Phoenix Indian Center (PIC) announced several weeks ago that they will present their coveted 2017 Leon Grant Spirit of the Community Award to Ernie Stevens, Sr. at their Silver and Turquoise Ball on Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona. The award, established in 2013, is named after the late Leon Grant, a founding member and first Executive Director of the Phoenix Indian Center. Each year, an individual or organization is recognized for their service, commitment, and dedication to the greater good of...
BEMIDJI—A Redby man who was charged with a felony in February after allegedly arranging to meet and have sex with an undercover officer he believed was a child was arrested Wednesday. Gary Lee Cobenais, 43, was charged with one count of soliciting a child or someone believed to be a child through electronic communication to engage in sexual conduct on Feb. 21. According to a criminal complaint, the attempted encounter with the undercover officer happened in December. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4253985-redby-man...
