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CHICAGO –Take a few minutes to commit to being ready for disasters that may threaten your community. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region V office in Chicago, Ill., is encouraging everyone to take part in America’s PrepareAthon! National Day of Action on April 30 and consider doing at least one activity to improve your resilience to potential disasters. “Spring in the Midwest can bring a heightened risk for severe weather, so it’s even more critical for people to get ready now,” said FEMA Region V Administrator Andrew Velasquez I...
April 28, 2015 — Two Nepalese students at Bemidji State University will raise funds on campus tomorrow, April 29, to support those affected by this weekend’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. • Ruhi Sharma (ROO-hee SHAR-muh), a junior in business administration, and Bibek Shakya (bih-BECK SHOCK-ya), a senior in business administration, are coordinating this effort. Shakya is graduating this May and has been in Bemidji for 3.5 years; Sharma has been in Bemidji for about 2.5 years. • The pair will raise money April 29 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (April 28, 2015) - On April 27, 2015, Hy-Vee, Inc. issued a recall for Hy-Vee Summer Fresh Pasta Salad that is sold in its stores' kitchen department cold cases and salad bars. The pasta was recalled after Hy-Vee was notified the frozen vegetables used to make the ready-to-eat pasta were potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The frozen vegetables were produced by Inventure Foods, Jefferson, Georgia. Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – Indigenous choreographers and dance scholars from the United States, Canada and New Zealand will gather at the University of California, Riverside April 29, and May 5, 7, and 8, to explore connections between traditional and contemporary dance and Native traditions, spiritual healing and understandings of how to live as a Native person in the world. The Indigenous Choreographers Riverside (ICR) conference is free and open to the public. Parking permits for events at UCR are available at the kiosk on West C...
Harold Gerard Diver, Sr. "GAGIIBISH" Born: Thu., Apr. 14, 1938 Died: Mon., Apr. 27, 2015 Visitation 7:00 PM Thu., Apr. 30, 2015 Location: Fond du Lac Head Start Gym Traditional Native Service 10:00 AM Fri., May 01, 2015 Location: Fond du Lac Head Start Gym Harold "Art" Gerard Diver, Sr., "GAGIIBISH", "Cookum Lupper", age 77 of Cloquet, MN, passed away at his home on Monday, April 27, 2015. He was born on April 14, 1938 in Cloquet, the son of John Diver, Sr. and Agnes (Woods) Diver. Art was a...
MOSCOW — Russia's Mission Control has failed to stabilize a cargo ship spinning out of control in orbit, but says it has not yet given up on saving the unmanned spacecraft. The Progress M-27M was launched Tuesday and was scheduled to dock at the International Space Station six hours later to deliver 2.5 tons of supplies, including food and fuel. http://www.startribune.com/nation/301661671.html...
WASHINGTON – Airlines may price seats based on your ZIP code, your travel habits or your marital status — a practice Sen. Al Franken on Tuesday urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to further regulate. The federal agency last year gave the airlines permission to use “personalized pricing,” which allows the industry to charge one consumer more than another for the same seat on the same flight based on collected personal information. The rule, supported by the airline industry and business travel groups, prohibits companies from using c...
House Republicans moved ahead early Wednesday in their efforts to cut about $1 billion in state spending on health and human services, setting up a clash with the DFL-led Senate and Gov. Mark Dayton, who have decried the cuts as draconian. After seven hours of debate that started on Tuesday, the House approved the measure on a vote of 72-60. The legislation’s most controversial provision is a proposal to eliminate MinnesotaCare, the state’s basic health care insurance plan for lower-income Minnesotans who don’t qualify for medical assis...
The Minnesota House rejected a measure that would allow cities or counties to decide whether to allow their liquor stores to open on Sundays, effectively ending another year’s bid for the repeal of the state’s Sunday sales ban. The House voted 75-57 Tuesday against the amendment presented by Rep. Jenifer Loon, R-Eden Prairie, as part of the omnibus liquor bill. The House also rejected a second, similar amendment by Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, would have allowed municipalities to decide on Sunday sales, but limit hours from 11 a.m.-6 p.m...
The Obama administration on Tuesday designated north Minneapolis one of 13 communities nationally to receive priority for future federal grants, providing more direct assistance to an area that has struggled for decades. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to Minneapolis to announce the “Promise Zone” designation to an elated crowd of local officials gathered at a nonprofit organization on W. Broadway, the commercial spine of the North Side. Despite 123 applications — including one from St. Paul’s East Side — only eight new communiti...
The bird flu has stung Post Holdings Inc. through its Minnetonka-based Michael Foods Group. Iowa egg farms that supply Michael Foods — a giant in liquefied and processed eggs — have been hit by the avian flu, Post said in a statement late Tuesday. The farms housed 5.5 million birds, which represent about 10 percent of Michael’s egg supply. Post, a publicly traded company, said that it’s analyzing whether the flu will have a financial impact. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/301622451.html...
WASHINGTON — Time for another history lesson. Only about a quarter of eighth graders showed solid performance or better in U.S. history, civics and geography on tests known as the Nation's Report Card. The 2014 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress released Wednesday were similar to those four years ago when the assessments were last administered. Students did better overall in U.S. history and civics than their peers in the 1990s when the tests were first given, but geography scores have remained stagnant since 1994. h...
WASHINGTON – Iran on Tuesday took control of a Marshall Islands-flagged ship and its crew of 34 people after accusing the ship of trespassing on its territorial waters, U.S. defense officials said, and the U.S. Navy sent a destroyer toward the Persian Gulf in response. A Pentagon official in Washington said that the commercial cargo ship, the Maersk Tigris, was intercepted by several patrol boats from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Tuesday while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf on what the official cal...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the Baltimore riots show that police departments need to hold officers accountable for wrongdoing "instead of just the closing-ranks approach that all too often we see." In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning on "The Steve Harvey Morning Show," Obama said his heart goes out of the Baltimore officers who were injured by rioters. He said there's no excuse for that kind of violence and Baltimore police showed "appropriate restraint." But he said police departments have to build more trust in m...
On the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Grandma was a bootlegger. Grandpa was a recreational gambler who literally lost his shirt and arrived home one snowy morning without it (or his coat). Fred and Jeanette Auginash differed in age, education and upbringing, and they seemed always at poverty's edge. They cobbled a living through hard work, hunting, fishing, veterans benefits, occasional welfare, charity and resourcefulness. They made what a daughter called "a warm, good-humored and...
CHEROKEE — As the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians faces a growing controversy over how top officials were paid recent raises — and how even former officials got retroactive increases — records obtained by tribal members detail how the dispute developed. A grassroots organization, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for Justice and Accountability, said last week that it is prepared to take legal action if the EBCI’s Tribal Council doesn’t reverse its October move to offer pay increases to current and past council members. http://ww...
Health Canada is failing to provide adequate medical care for First Nations living in remote communities, according to a new report from Auditor-General Michael Ferguson. The wide-ranging spring report from the federal Auditor-General was tabled in Parliament Tuesday. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-medical-care-for-remote-first-nations-inadequate-auditor-says/article24149495/...
The bill that lowers the extraction tax on oil from 6 and a half to 5 percent starting on Jan. 1, has received a great deal of attention in the last few days of the session. However, not everyone is happy with the legislation. The Chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes (MHA Nation) says the oil tax bill was the biggest piece of legislation for them this session. http://www.kfyrtv.com/news/headlines/MHA-Nation-Reacts-to-Oil-Tax-301623751.html...
The family of an aboriginal woman missing for the last decade says they are heartbroken but relieved that her remains have been found in Alberta. Delores Dawn Brower, who went by the nickname Spider, was a sex-trade worker last seen hitching a ride in Edmonton in 2004. The 33-year-old was reported missing by her family a year later. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/remains-of-aboriginal-woman-missing-for-10-years-found-in-alberta-woods/article24151238/...
The Navajo Housing Authority is kicking off the Bluestone project that will have people in new homes next summer, “This will be a full community,” said Aneva Yazzie, CEO of the Navajo Housing Authority in Indian Country Today. Yazzie expressed how NHA would like to re brand communities across the Navajo Nation in all Chapter agencies. http://www.navajopost.org/2015/04/27/high-end-housing-project-coming-to-the-navajo-nation/...
As federal officials attempt to thread the needle between restricting predatory lending and ensuring that emergency loans remain available to America’s poorest, they’re trying to create a new and adaptable system of rules. But in one state, the traditional approach to payday lending is producing a strange public relations fight between lawmakers, a governor, Native American tribes, and a mysterious D.C.-based conservative PAC. Months after Connecticut regulators imposed a large fine on an unlicensed internet lender, a series of billboards sho...
WASHINGTON – The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was chosen by the White House Tuesday as one of eight new "Promise Zones," a designation that allows areas dogged by high poverty additional access to government help. The Obama administration said the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe along with one rural area and six cities - including Indianapolis, Minneapolis and St. Louis - were chosen from among 123 applications from 36 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. as the newest promise zones. Each applicant was asked to s...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A former state director of Native American services was sentenced today to five years of probation after admitting she took nearly $20,000 in trust fund money meant for children of the Cayuga Nation, according to state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott. Kim Thomas-Muffoletto, 57, of Getzville, must also repay $19,993.63 in restitution to the victims, according to the inspector general's office. Thomas-Muffoletto was supposed to oversee 14 accounts in her job with the state's Office of Children and Family Services,...
RAPID CITY, SD - A South Dakota state judge and other defendants have filed motions requesting a federal judge reconsider his ruling in which he found state officials in Rapid City set policies that violate the federal Indian Child Act Welfare Act. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken issued the opinion on a lawsuit last month that was brought by the Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux tribes and three Native American parents. Viken wrote that state Judge Jeff Davis and other defendants have failed to protect American Indian parents' fundamental...
The Mescalero Tribal Council deadlocked in the case of Ben Martinez, a council member who had been suspended pending a hearing. The suspension was the result of an alligation that Martinez had promised another tribal member two acres of land elsewhere if she would give up her assignment next to his. It included allegations of his using his influence as a council member to make the exchange happen. In a letter addressed to the Mescalero Apache Tribe, president Danny Breuninger said the hearing had been completed and the Tribal Council "even...
