Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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When it comes to fighting cancer, the good news is that many kinds are subject to delay or avoidance by making smart lifestyle choices. Some of the behavioral tweaks recommended by a leading cancer doctor might surprise you....
NEAH BAY — The Makah tribe will receive $25 million from the federal government under the terms of a $1 billion settlement of a series of lawsuits brought by Native American tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands....
Cameron Harris is only 3 years old, but he's already learning about his rich Paiute heritage....
When an infant's body was found under a bed in a dormitory at Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, the death was investigated by two federal agencies rather than state agencies. Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-crime-jurisdiction-in-indian-country-involves-federal-tribal-state-governments/article/3668428#ixzz1sru7BfXL...
Senior RCMP officers held a news conference in Duncan Saturday to announce that they had charged a local man in the murders of two women in 2010 and 2011....
DUNCAN, B.C. — Mounties revealed few details about the man charged with murdering two Duncan women seven months apart in 2010 and 2011. Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Mothers+mourn+police+name+suspect+killings/6497665/story.html#ixzz1sruovmz4...
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - The possibility of a Minnesota wolf hunt this year is stirring up controversy that's been hitting the airwaves recently. Farm and hunting groups support the proposed November hunt but animal rights groups and others say it could just cause bigger problems. A group called Howling for Wolves, is running an anti-hunt ad campaign. Some members of the state's Ojibwe tribes are also speaking up. Robert Shimek, a tribal activist and member of the Red Lake tribe, said, "We've got...
LOS ANGELES--America’s population is aging quickly. In 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 13 percent of Americans were 65 or older. By 2030, estimates are that demographic will exceed 20 percent. Among Native Americans, the number of American Indian and Alaska Native elders will more than double by 2030, with trends indicating those 65 or older will total 15 percent in 2030, up from 7 percent in 2010. Amidst this backdrop, a troubling narrative is emerging. Our elders a...
Earth Day at the Duwamish Longhouse Cultural Center Saturday, April 21, featured a presentation by two teens, including the granddaughter of Cecile Hansen, Chairwoman of the Duwamish Tribe....
Last year, Dr. Anton Treuer received an honorable mention at the St. Paul Foundation’s Facing Race Ambassador Awards for his work in culture revitalization through the Ojibwe language in his hometown of Bemidji. As a preliminary for this year’s April 23 event at Crowne Plaza in St. Paul, where Treuer will serve as keynote speaker, he spoke with the MSR about the “painfully slow” process of addressing issues that negatively affect Native Americans....
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (AP) — A suicidal girl who was allowed to be shuttled between homes with sex offenders. Reports of suspected child abuse and neglect left ignored. A child protection worker convicted of felony child abuse....
At least one Native from the Denver area thinks the University of Colorado-Boulder’s (CU) stench-based approach to curtailing a marijuana celebration April 20 is a tempest in a teapot—or pot, perhaps more appropriately. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/22/amidst-the-haze-university-of-colorado-boulder-draws-attention-to-annual-pot-rally-crackdown-109510 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/22/amidst-the-haze-university-of-colorado-boulder-draws-attention-to-annual-pot-rally-crackdown-1...
The sight of a pensioner dressed as a native American may have drawn a few funny looks in Wimbledon High Street....
BROWNING — Zachary Gervais often told his girlfriend, Robyn Mad Plume, that life isn't fair — enough times that it got kind of annoying....
Eighteen more First Nations have officially signed on to set in motion the process of divesting themselves of the 34 land-related sections of the Indian Act, which gives them control of their land, resources and environment. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/21/18-first-nations-sign-framework-agreement-to-take-back-control-of-their-lands-109435 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/21/18-first-nations-sign-framework-agreement-to-take-back-control-of-their-lands-109435#ixzz1sryYikVn...
Stereotypes help market American merchandise for more than a century, and the history of their use and abuse offers a strange and telling story of race relations in this country. Starting with sugar, its long history is interwoven with that of the slave trade. As sugar consumption increased, the exercise of raw power by European colonials came to dominate non-Western societies to meet the demands of production. Africans were captured and tight packed on board European slave ships and sailed from Africa to the sugar Islands of the Caribbean to...
(MONROE, WA) -- This is one of those almost unbelievable stories that, if it were the plot of a movie script, no one would buy it. The story seems too far out there. It is also a story of the failure - not to mention the gullibility - of many in the news business, the TV business and the book-publishing world to sniff out a phony....
An outdoor class on traditional First Nations practices came to an abrupt end this week after police arrived and told students to drop the knives they were using to forage for roots and plants. Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/Foraging+First+Nations+class+disrupted+police/6498856/story.html#ixzz1ss3fqjW6...
DUNCAN, B.C. — Mounties revealed few details about the man charged with murdering two Duncan women seven months apart in 2010 and 2011....
FAIRBANKS — A former Dot Lake tribal president has been sentenced to three years probation under the terms of a plea agreement reached in January. Read more: http://newsminer.com/bookmark/18314887-Former-Dot-Lake-tribal-leader-sentenced-to-probation-for-embezzlement-...
White privilege in America first stood for wealth advantage, the provenance of white men, no matter how amassed, deserved, shared or inbred. Among its prominent symbols are oil baron J.D. Rockefeller, Monopoly guy with a fistful of cash, television’s The Millionaire, film’s Gordon (“Greed is good”) Gekko and cartoonish tycoon Donald Trump. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/white-privilege http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/white-privilege#ixzz1ss7Hw2Wf...
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation officials hope to spur investigations into what they say are unsolved murders of 75 Native Americans over 30 years by presenting evidence to the U.S. attorney’s office. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/oglala-sioux-tribe-pushes-for-fbi-investigation-of-deaths/article_8f5267cc-8a86-11e1-b4df-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1ss7fXlU6...
Standing-room only crowds met Navajo President Ben Shelly this week as he hosted three public hearings on a proposed settlement of tribal claims to the Little Colorado River....
The federal government is preparing to cut off Lake St. Martin First Nation members in Manitoba who have been fraudulently claiming flood evacuation benefits....
Gwen Westerman is an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate. Both of her parents are native, as were all four of her grandparents and all eight of her great-grandparents....