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In a desperate attempt to save electricity, drought-stricken Venezuela has introduced a new concept to the workplace calendar: the five-day weekend. President Nicolás Maduro has furloughed public employees — who account for a third of the labor force — for the bulk of the week, so they can sit through rolling blackouts at home rather than in the office. http://www.startribune.com/venezuela-s-energy-crisis-means-5-day-weekends/377353091/...
CHICAGO — Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in a hush-money case that revealed accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling. The case makes the former speaker one of the highest-ranking American politicians ever sentenced to prison. The visibly angry judge repeatedly rebuked the 74-year-old before issuing the 15-month sentence, telling him that his abuse d...
The Republican-controlled House passed a major environment, agriculture and jobs bill after hours of debate on Wednesday, leaving a wide gulf between the House and Senate, which have until May 23 to finish work for the year. House Republicans, led by Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, chairman of a key jobs committee, cut about $20 million from existing economic development programs called the Minnesota Investment Fund and the Job Creation Fund for new spending on broadband Internet expansion, the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, workforce...
Lately, it has been quite popular to diagnose Attawapiskat as a geographic problem that can be solved by moving everyone to a more prosperous locale. The National Post’s own columnist Jonathan Kay argued as much recently. As did Macleans’ Scott Gilmore. Even former prime ministers have echoed the sentiment. “It’s desirable to stay if they want to stay, but it’s not always possible,” Jean Chretien told reporters on Parliament Hill. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/tristin-hopper-why-canadian-white-people-have-so-much...
In this era of tribal self-annihilation and self-termination, it is no longer easy to answer fundamental questions of tribal existence, like: Who's the tribe (qua tribal council)? Who's a tribal member? Two centuries of federal laws designed to dispossess Indians of land and terminate tribes (i.e., Treaties, Dawes Act, Burke Act, IRA, P.L. 280) have converged to greatly confuse such questions. In particular, the federally prescribed dissolution of tribal cash assets on a "pro rata" or "per capita" basis over the last 110 years (Lacey Act of...
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would make it illegal for federal agencies to take into account the marijuana policy of a federally-recognized tribe when disbursing federal monies. The Tribal Marijuana Sovereignty Act (TribalMarijuanaSovereigntyAct), introduced by Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), takes aim at current federal policies as well as the proposed Keeping out Illegal Drugs Act of 2015 which would “prevent Indian tribes and tribal organizations that cultivate, manufacture, or distribute marijuana on Indian land from r...
'If we get a Republican president we will get a pipeline within three weeks,' says Martin Jorgensen, a 91-year-old cattle farmer and bull breeder. The pipeline in question is known as Keystone XL and would carry Canadian oil from the tar sands of Alberta 1,700 miles across America to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would join up with other pipelines taking it to refineries in Texas and Illinois. Most of it would then be exported. It would run for a mile under Mr Jorgensen's land near the tiny community of Winner, South Dakota. Read more:...
WINDOW ROCK – NAVAJO NATION—The Navajo Department of Public Safety released a news release on Wednesday night declaring a recent postings on social media to be hoaxes. Navajo Nation Law Enforcement officials have been made aware of alarming social media postings on Facebook that are indicating violence, loss of life, and alerting people in the communities of Window Rock, Holbrook, Ganado, Chinle, Tuba City, Whitecone, Steamboat, Greasewood, Dilkon and Winslow that their safety is at risk. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer from Wind River Reservation in Wyoming was slapped with federal kidnapping charges last week, according to the Casper Star Tribune. William Arthur Curran II, enrolled Yankton Sioux from South Dakota, appeared in federal court last Thursday in Casper, Wyoming, for his initial hearing. According to the Star Tribune, four other BIA officers were present during the hearing in a show of support for Curran. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/04/26/wind-river-bia-po...
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants to know if living conditions for American Indian and Alaskan Native people has improved over the last decade. To answer that question, the commission will update its seminal report, The Quiet Crisis, later this year so it may continue to guide federal and state policy in Indian Country since its 2003 release, explained Martin Castro, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/over-the-last-13-years-has-life-improved-in-indian-country/...
Oklahoma state Rep. Todd Russ, a Republican, stepped in a steaming pile of controversy last week when he claimed that Native Americans are "predisposed to alcoholism" and would be disproportionately impacted by laws expanding liquor sales in the state. The representative's suggestion that Native Americans "process alcohol differently" came during a debate on the House floor about a proposed change to the state constitution that would allow wine and full-strength beer to be sold in convenience stores. http://mic.com/articles/...
Indian Country could see more tourists, along with their dollars, thanks to a bill approved by the Senate on Monday. S.1579, the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act (NATIVE Act), does something rather simple. It requires the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior to update their management plans and tourism strategies to include tribes, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/021155.asp...
The landmark civil rights lawsuit by Indian farmers and ranchers against the Department of Agriculture for discriminatory lending practices has come to a conclusion (barring any unexpected turn of events on appeal.) U. S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan approved an agreement reached by the Government, counsel for the plaintiffs' class, and Mrs. Marilyn Keepseagle, the lead class representative. Originally, USDA settled the case in 2011 for $680 million. However, in 2013, after the entire distribution process had been completed, class...
The following is the text of remarks delivered by Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota) on the Senate floor on April 26, 2016. He discussed the need to hold the Indian Health Service accountable for the substandard level of care in the Great Plains Area, a region that includes South Dakota. Mr. President, for years now, patients on Indian reservations in the Great Plains area have been receiving substandard medical care. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/021149.asp...
Gallup, New Mexico is a cultural mecca, rich in Hispanic tradition and serving as a border town for the pueblos of Zuni and Laguna and the Navajo Nation. It’s a beautiful place, surrounded by desert, ringed with mountains, and crossed with dry arroyos. Tourists stroll in a charming downtown, buy unparalleled Native arts and crafts, and explore the outdoors. But Gallup also has a dark side. On any given morning, hungover people stumble out of the arroyos, in twos and threes, and start down the sidewalk toward the package stores to start d...
Teen Vogue has highlighted 7 ethnically-diverse teens in a recent article entitled “7 Girls Show What Beauty Looks Like When It’s Not Appropriated.” Among the models is Daunnette Reyome from the Omaha tribe in Nebraska. In an article written by Teen Vogue’s Elaine Welteroth, which attempts to address the “countless call-outs egregious offenses, and heated debates swirling on social media” - ignited an important dialogue within the Teen Vogue office causing them to ask the question: "Where does cultural appropriation end and cultural ap...
A week after the murder of a 13-month-old infant is believed to have taken place in Poplar, a 42-year-old Poplar woman made not guilty pleas in Fort Peck Tribal Court to the charges of murder, a felony, and hindering law enforcement, a misdemeanor. Janelle Reddog allegedly punched 13-month-old Kenzley Olson to death and then attempted to hide the infant’s body in a duffel bag on Tuesday, April 19. http://www.wolfpointherald.com/index.php/wp-news/local-news/5501-investigator-said-woman-punched-infant-to-death...
POPLAR, Mont. (AP) - The Latest on a criminal charge in the death of a baby on a Montana Indian Reservation who authorities say was killed by a caregiver (all times local): 4 p.m. The mother of a woman charged with killing a 13-month old girl on a Montana American Indian reservation says she believes the death was accidental. http://www.newschannel10.com/story/31821725/mother-of-defendant-in-babys-death-says-it-was-accidental...
BISMARCK, ND (KFYR) The woman accused of killing a one-year-old pleaded not guilty in Fort Peck Tribal Court April 26. Janelle Red Dog pleaded not guilty to a of felony murder and a misdemeanor charge of hindering law enforcement. The 42-year-old appeared for her arraignment via video conference. http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/Woman-Arrested-in-Connection-to-Kenzley-Olsons-Death-Pleads-Not-Guilty-to-Charges-377166691.html...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into the theft of drugs from a health clinic on the reservation. The Chippewa Cree Health Center Pharmacy in Box Elder was burglarized early Saturday morning, the Rocky Boy Health Board said. Surveillance footage shows two people who took medications from the facility that could be dangerous and even deadly if consumed. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/021146.asp...
A woman employed as the Crow Indian Tribe’s comptroller is facing federal embezzlement charges. A document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court charges Karla Elizabeth MacCatherine with embezzlement from an Indian tribal organization. Assistant U.S. Attorney Colin Rubich alleges in the document that MacCatherine, while working as the tribe’s comptroller, embezzled $28,000 from the tribe for her own use from Feb. 25, 2013, until Aug. 14, 2014. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/crow-tribe-comptroller-f...
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Police in Port Angeles say a 45-year-old woman is a suspect in the March beating death of a Native American master carver. Interim Police Chief Brian Smith said Tina Alcorn is being held without bail in the Clallam County jail on an arrest warrant out of Arkansas. She allegedly violated parole conditions in that state and will remain in jail pending extradition to Arkansas. http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/apr/26/arkansas-woman-named-suspect-beating-death-native-/...
