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The deadline has changed we need to submit applications to Group Work Camp by May 6, 2016. Group Work Camps are intensive one-week trips that help people grow in Christian faith through service. Individuals and youth from around the country will spend one week in our community performing hands-on home-repair projects for elderly, low-income, and disabled families. The work at each home will be done by 5 young people, and at least one adult leader, representing many Christian denominations....
Summer Youth Program - Indian & Free Prevention/Treatment Program Ages 14-17 - Applications will not be accepted after May 20, 2016 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AWY1YLX4iD4NtgsnjgyivIx6UfLF7rZ2UwVl1aCMMJg/pub...
Kindergarten Registration - Tuesday, April 26, 2016 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Red Lake Early Childhood Center https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRhz3NvwR9Ja3tyPCh_zoJwXHe-iBQXy-82E0573o2o/pub...
LONGMONT, Colorado (April 22, 2016) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a $13,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation to support First Nations’ work in promoting farm-to-school food efforts in Indian Country. First Nations funds and promotes many farm-to-school programs and other projects through its Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (NAFSI). NAFSI is designed to help tribes and Native communities build sustainable food systems such as community gardens and kitchens, tradi...
WILMINGTON, Del. — A 16-year-old student died Thursday after she was assaulted at a high school, Wilmington police said. Detectives from the homicide and violent crimes unit were interviewing multiple students at Howard High School of Technolody who were considered persons of interest in the assault, according to a source close to the investigation. Two female students were taken to police headquarters for further questioning, police Chief Bobby Cummings said. Police said they do not believe anyone outside the school was involved. "My heart b...
A 22-month-old Apple Valley boy became the third child in two years killed when an Ikea furniture item tipped over, a hazard that prompted a government safety warning last year, a lawyer for the boy’s family said Thursday. Theodore “Teddy” McGee was killed in his bedroom soon after his mother checked on him during an afternoon nap on Feb. 14, according to the police report. http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-toddler-is-3rd-killed-by-tipped-over-ikea-dresser/376635881/...
The State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash on the Crosstown that occurred early Friday following a high-speed police pursuit involving a stolen car from Eagan into south Minneapolis. Police were responding to a robbery call at a Holiday gas station on Holiday Lane just before 1:30 a.m. when they spotted a man driving a white Crown Victoria with no license plates. As officers tried to stop the vehicle, the driver took off at a high rate of speed, the Eagan Police Department said. http://www.startribune.com/high-speed-cha...
Beware hikers, turkey hunters, and other brush-country and wilderness travelers: Black-legged tick season is here, and the tiny bloodsuckers are looking for a host. “It’s that time of year,” said Dave Neitzel, supervisor of the vectorborne disease unit at the Minnesota Department of Health in St. Paul. “The bottom line is this: If you’re in a woodsy, brushy area, you’re at risk.” And maybe never more so: Minnesota has seen a dramatic increase in the number of counties reporting established tick populations. http://www.startr...
About 200,000 zebra mussels per square meter cover the bottom of Lake Minnetonka’s Wayzata Bay — thriving on the water’s moderate algae levels and affecting its quality, a study of the lake has found. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District released the findings of a five-year study on Thursday that looked at the conditions in which the invasive pests thrive, knowledge that could help slow their spread. http://www.startribune.com/study-reveals-zebra-mussels-effects-on-lake-minnetonka/376639281/...
WASHINGTON – The FBI paid more than $1 million to an unidentified third party to help agents unlock the iPhone of a terrorist involved in last year’s San Bernardino, Calif., attacks, the bureau’s director, James B. Comey, said Thursday. Speaking at a security forum in London, Comey elliptically referred to the cost of breaking into the iPhone as being more than the total he will earn in the remaining seven years of his 10-year term as the bureau’s director. Comey earns $183,000 a year. “We paid a lot,” Comey said. “But it was worth it.” ht...
Republicans and DFLers at the State Capitol have been united in calls for a big spending boost on Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, but an enduring disagreement about how to pay for it is making progress unlikely for the second year in a row. Leaders from the two parties say that an additional $600 million to $700 million a year is needed to both maintain the state’s rapidly aging roads and bridges, and to add to it in key spots where population growth is outpacing what the system can handle. http://www.startribune....
AKELEY, MINN. – Friday is Earth Day, and few people study the Earth as closely as Dallas Hudson. A phenologist by vocation and avocation, Hudson, 51, an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey, years ago began to detail his observations about the ever-changing seasons and their effects on plants and animals. Elm and red maple trees, for example, are just now flowering near his northern Minnesota home, while spring peepers and tree frogs are singing and white-throated sparrows and yellow-rumped warblers are migrating. http:/...
RAPID CITY –– Twenty-eight years after the body of Mi’kmaq Indian Activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was found near Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Reservation, an Oglala man stood trial for his role in her 1975 disappearance. In February of 2004, Arlo Looking Cloud was convicted of “being a party to 1st Degree Murder” in the death of Anna Mae. Six years later, in 2010, a Canadian man was convicted for being the trigger man in her execution. John Boy Patton aka John Graham was sentenced to life behind bars in a South Dakota State Prison. http://ww...
AMHERST — The Amherst Regional School Committee recently agreed to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, but the eighth-grade students who brought this to the committee are not done. Next up is the Amherst Town Meeting next month. The meeting begins May 2, but the date the student-driven petition article will be heard is unclear. \ http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/04/amherst_schools_replacing_colu.html...
In February 2013, Michelle Roberts, along with around 300 other Nooksack Indians, received a letter informing her that she was being ejected from her own tribe. The missive came from the tribal council of the Nooksack, a 2,000-person federally recognized tribe whose homeland is tucked into Washington state’s lush northwestern corner. Roberts and her kin, wrote the council, couldn’t adequately prove their ancestry, and thus “did not meet the requirements for membership contained in the Nooksack Tribe’s constitution.” They were being disenroll...
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., announced Wednesday he plans to introduce a bill prohibiting the federal government from denying federal dollars to a tribe because of their marijuana policy. The bill, dubbed the Tribal Marijuana Sovereignty Act, would liberalize the application of marijuana legislation for tribes. While it would not outright legalize marijuana or hemp cultivation on tribal lands, it would prevent the federal government from denying federal money based on the practice. http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2016/...
If you need cash in a hurry, you can easily find lenders -- online, or at offices in many Southern and Western states -- who are happy to give you $500 today, and collect it back, with hundreds of dollars in interest, from your next several paychecks. That kind of payday lending is illegal in Pennsylvania and more than a dozen other states. Pennsylvania law effectively limits interest on loans under $25,000 to 24 percent a year. http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/news/12195781/crackdown-on-payday-lenders-surprises-some...
In recent months, the attention of the tribal lending industry has focused on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s emerging role in regulating short-term loans from sovereign tribal nations, but a new and even more powerful player has recently emerged that could play a role in shaping future discussions: the U.S. Department of Justice. Originally published in Law360, New York - April 20, 2016. http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/doj-takes-on-tribal-lending-inside-the-26929/...
April 19 — U.S. Supreme Court justices focused their sparse questioning during oral argument April 19 on an issue of due process not raised in briefs for a domestic violence case that called into question the sovereignty of American Indian tribal courts. The court heard arguments on whether misdemeanor convictions from tribal courts—which are not subject to the Sixth Amendment right to counsel—could be used for a federal sentencing enhancement under the Violence Against Women Act. http://www.bna.com/justices-focus-due-n57982...
A federal judge on Wednesday approved the creation of what is expected to become the largest U.S. philanthropy serving Native American farmers and ranchers, redistributing $380 million left unclaimed in a landmark 2010 civil rights settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay for years of official discrimination. Most of the $680 million in the 2010 settlement went unspent after far fewer people than expected brought successful claims. Instead of the 10,000 anticipated, only about 3,600 applicants were paid. https:/...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker said Thursday that a plan to expand beer and wine sales in Oklahoma would disproportionally affect Native Americans because they are "predisposed to alcoholism." The comment from Rep. Todd Russ of Cordell during a debate over the measure, which passed on a 61-30 vote, drew a sharp rebuke from the chairman of the House Native American Caucus. The resolution calls for a statewide vote on proposed changes to the Oklahoma Constitution needed to allow wine and cold, strong beer sales in grocery and c...
MEDFORD, Ore.-- Harriet Tubman is moving Andrew Jackson to the back of $20 bills. Tubman's face will be on the front while Jackson's is moving to the back. Jackson is known for the Indian Removal Act. Back in the 1800s, he removed tribes to other regions in exchange for their land. Some council members of the Klamath Tribes said what he did was horrendous, and do not mind his face being removed. http://ktvl.com/news/local/local-tribes-react-to-new-20-bill...
Foster parent Alyssa Preciado describes her day to day as a bit of a zoo. "I have two adopted sons and I currently have three foster children," said Preciado. Preciado is a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. She said she likes being a foster parent here because it helps keep more of the tribe’s kids in a home where their culture is practiced. But as a single parent, making ends meet can sometimes be a challenge. http://kjzz.org/content/294866/years-tribes-were-left-out-federal-foster-care-funding-thats-finally-changing...
While morel mushrooms will soon begin emerging from the forest floors, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes remind local harvesters that only tribal members may harvest the fungi within the Flathead Indian Reservation. Tribal members may have nonmember children or partners accompany and assist with mushroom harvest as long as the they have the required recreation permits in their possession. http://www.dailyinterlake.com/members/mushroom-limits-in-place-on-tribal-land/article_37fc2df8-07de-11e6-8a40-f30c5065ca1d.html...
A Republican lawmaker is leading an effort to repeal 12 federal laws that he says are "racist" and "paternalistic." Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) has only been in the Senate since January 2015. During that time he's emerged as a strong critic of the Indian Health Service in hopes of improving the quality of care for tribal members in his state. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/021067.asp...
