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Last week, Minneapolis school board members heard from a large crowd of protesters angry about the layoffs of a number of educators of color. On Wednesday night, the board faced nearly 100 principals and assistant principals who filled the room for a special board meeting. The school administrators opposed the board’s reinstatement of those laid off. Some said they were hurt and frustrated by the board action, which they said was taken without consultation with those who had to make tough, budget-based decisions about staff cuts. h...
School officials and mental health experts are sounding alarms to parents that a popular Netflix series about a 17-year-old who takes her own life is graphic and could incite dangerous thoughts and actions by teens. But some parents and teens say it’s a must-see series. What’s clear from nearly every perspective is that the series — “13 Reasons Why” — should jolt adults and teens to talk about uncomfortable topics, including bullying, rape and suicide. http://www.startribune.com/state-s-largest-school-district-warns-parents-...
A judge on Wednesday sentenced Allen Scarsella to more than 15 years in prison for the racially motivated shooting of five black men at a north Minneapolis demonstration following the death of Jamar Clark. It was a punishment considered far too lenient by Clark’s family, who confronted Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman after the sentencing and repeatedly demanded to know why more severe charges weren’t filed against Scarsella. http://www.startribune.com/sentencing-today-for-gunman-who-shot-5-jamar-clark-protesters/420485...
New U.S. Bank Stadium oversight Chairwoman Kathleen Blatz put a quick and definitive end to discussions about a user fee on Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) events in the new $1.1 billion building. SMG, the global company hired to manage the stadium, had been in early discussions with the MSHSL about adding a fee of at least $2 to tickets for league events. SMG Executive Director Patrick Talty said the fee would be used to pay SMG’s costs for the events. SMG doesn’t charge rent to the MSHSL for the use of the building. htt...
A resolution in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has led to a recall effort in Homer, Alaska. The city council passed Resolution 16-121: Support Standing Rock Lakota Tribe and Opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline in November. The vote was 3-3 with the mayor breaking the tie in favor, according to the minutes from the meeting. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/04/26/support-for-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-le.asp...
In a terse, three-sentence press release, Elem Indian Colony’s executive committee (their elected tribal council) took the first step toward healing a decades-long rift between two factions of the small Northern California tribe of Pomo Indians. On March 30, the executive leadership withdrew an action to disenroll some 61 members, and by extension their families and other descendents, from the approximately 200-member tribe. This would have resulted in all 130 residents of the 52-acre rancheria, located on the eastern edge of Clear Lake in L...
Isabella Red Cloud, a Native transgender woman who identifies as Two Spirit was asked to leave the Union Gospel Mission of Sioux Falls, South Dakota because she was wearing a dress. As she was being escorted from the facility, a staff member identified in the video as “Don” told Red Cloud she would have to leave because she was “dressed inappropriately,” and that she could not come back until she “dressed like a man.” Red Cloud returned the next day with a few friends and was again asked to leave. Again recording the incident on her phone,...
WASHINGTON - When the Yakama Nation announced in 2013 that it had no interest in selling pot, its chairman said the tribe had “a long and unpleasant history with marijuana, just as we have had with alcohol.” But other tribes are raring to gain a foothold in the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry – and they say it would be a mistake for President Donald Trump’s administration to try to stop them. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article146881809.html#storylink=cpy...
AKWESASNE -- The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe on Monday broke ground for their new government headquarters and emergency operations center. The 54,700 square foot facility will be at 71 Business Park Road. http://northcountrynow.com/news/st-regis-mohawk-tribe-breaks-ground-new-government-headquarters-and-emergency-operations-center...
The name of the tiny town of indigenous Canadians, Attawapiskat, translates to “people of the parting rocks.” But in recent years, the name has become synonymous with its mountain of troubles. They were battered by a housing shortage peaking in 2011. Then they were dogged by a tax scandal, in which an audit found that millions in federal funds were unaccounted for. Recently, they were rocked by an epidemic of more than 100 suicide attempts that culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency last year. First Nations people, the abo...
WASHINGTON – A Trump administration plan to hire thousands of border and immigration officers has advocates concerned about a possible repeat of the last hiring binge, which they said was followed by an increase in corruption and misconduct cases. A report Tuesday by the American Immigration Council pointed to the hiring of 8,000 Border Patrol agents from fiscal 2006 to 2009, and what it called a corresponding surge in corruption cases and complaints against officers at the agency from 2007 to 2012. https://www.indianz.com/N...
RAPID CITY –– Lakota youth from the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation fledgling social enterprise Honey Lodge are scheduled to bring their locally raised honey products to the Central States Fairgrounds to join dozens of other sales and exhibitors’ booths at the Second Annual Earth Day Expo 2017, taking place here April 21-23 The youth are trying to support their non-profit’s after-school and summer programs while creating a future job source and economic driver for their community. They hope beekeeping will provide opportunity for the Sicangu...
The expectation that children born in the United States will do better than their parents is the bedrock of the American dream. Rates of upward income mobility have fallen sharply in recent decades, however, and in some areas they are close to zero. According to recent research on intergenerational mobility, the percentage of children who grow up to earn more than their parents is down from approximately 90% of children born in 1940, to 50% of children born in the 1980s. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/04/26/countie...
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — Four-time PGA Tour winner Notah Begay III will grace Twin Warriors Golf Club this Thursday, April 27, in honor of AMERIND Risk’s sold-out 13th Annual Protecting Tribal Families Golf Fundraiser. Golf teams in the four-person scramble will compete across 18 holes of the award-winning Twin Warriors Golf Club’s championship course, which snakes through high desert on the Pueblo of Santa Ana in New Mexico, overlooking the Rio Grande River and Sandia Mountains. The shotgun start is 9 a.m. https://indiancou...
HAVRE — A white student was removed from Montana State University-Northern's campus after his comments about Native Americans caused some classmates to fear for their safety. However, the student can still use campus football facilities where he remains on the football team. http://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/comments-about-native-americans-lead-to-msu-northern-student-s/article_11bb16cb-bcaa-535d-89ac-4a5f6cff14f7.html...
President Donald J. Trump’s pick of billionaire school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to head up the U.S. Department of Education is bad for Indian country, say some educators. Dr. Tommy Lewis, superintendent of schools for the Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education, says, “She is not coming from the education arena; she has never been a teacher, principal, superintendent, college professor or university administrator. [The position] deserves someone who understands how schools operate. Can she really be the national education leader we need...
SASKATOON, Sask. — After growing up one of 12 children on the Garden River First Nation reserve near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., without electricity or hot running water, Ted Nolan made it in the National Hockey League. Nolan won the Jack Adams award as the NHL’s top coach during the 1996-97 season. In between two separate stints with the Buffalo Sabres, Nolan also coached the New York Islanders and the QMJHL’s Moncton Wildcats. http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/nhl/from-a-first-nation-reserve-to-the-nhl-and-latvia-ted-nolan-s...
In the bloodshed and chaos that is the battlefields of the First World War, hundreds of thousands of young Canadian men sign up to fight for their country overseas — but there's one who sticks out from the crowd. His bravery and fearlessness are legendary. His fellow soldiers call him Peggy. http://www.cbc.ca/2017/canadathestoryofus/the-deadliest-sniper-of-wwi-was-francis-pegahmagabow-an-ojibwa-soldier-1.4083644...
Prehistoric humans — perhaps Neanderthals or another lost species — occupied what is now California some 130,000 years ago, a team of scientists reported on Wednesday. The bold and fiercely disputed claim, published in the journal Nature, is based on a study of mastodon bones discovered near San Diego. If the scientists are right, they would significantly alter our understanding of how humans spread around the planet. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/science/prehistoric-humans-north-america-california-nature-study.html?_r=...
Sudbury Police want to help educate Indigenous women and girls, as well as keep them safe. At its "year in review" celebration next month, the police service will officially launch its formal public strategy document that responds to its year-long project "Looking ahead to build the spirit of our women: Learning to live free from violence." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-police-mmiw-indigenous-strategy-1.4085680...
Drugs are at the root of violence in the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba where a 19-year old girl was beaten to death. That’s according to some members of the community 120 km northeast of Winnipeg. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/26/drugs-at-the-root-of-violence-on-the-first-nation-where-19-year-old-was-murdered/...
BEMIDJI -- An aggravated first-degree drug charge against a Bemidji man was dismissed Tuesday as part of a plea agreement. Prosecutors dismissed the felony charge against Brice Dean Wiese, 23, in exchange for two guilty pleas from a separate case in 2016, according to the Beltrami County Attorney’s Office. Wiese pleaded guilty to one count of felon in possession of a firearm and one count of first-degree possession of methamphetamine. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/4257342-prosecutors-drop-drug-charges-against-bemi...
Police shot and killed a Native American man in North Dakota who allegedly refused to drop a knife, according to reports. Ivan Wilson-Dragswolf, 24, was shot by officers in Mandan after they responded to a domestic dispute on the city’s northeast side on April 14, the Associated Press reported. Police said they shot Dragswolf after he made an aggressive motion toward them with a knife in hand. Dragswolf was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reported. Three officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative leave. h...
Two teenage girls face murder charges after 19-year-old woman, Serena McKay, died in what RCMP say was a homicide in the Sagkeeng First Nation northeast of Winnipeg. Police confirmed on Tuesday McKay's death was a homicide, having previously characterized it as a suspicious death. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/suspicious-death-sagkeeng-rcmp-1.4084181...
Sen. Patrick Brazeau has been acquitted of drunk-driving charges that date back to 2014. The news was confirmed by the court clerk at the courthouse in Gatineau in western Quebec. http://aptnnews.ca/2017/04/26/sen-patrick-brazeau-acquitted-of-charges-related-to-drunk-driving/...
