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Shyann Ericksen never thought twice about reading text messages while driving, so when her phone pinged while she was making a left turn in Eagan last summer, she reflexively picked it up. It took her three seconds to read the four-word message. But in that time, an oncoming car entered the intersection of Diffley and Nicols roads. Ericksen didn’t see it; she turned without looking up. She hit the other vehicle head-on. The impact left Ericksen dazed and shaken and a toddler riding in the other vehicle with a traumatic brain injury. h...
Airlines are making big profits, and CEOs are cashing in. Delta Air Lines Inc. disclosed Thursday that CEO Richard Anderson got a 22 percent increase in compensation last year, to nearly $17.6 million. That put Anderson ahead of the CEOs of American and United, which are bigger airlines by passenger traffic and capacity. He's also more highly paid than the chief executive of Southwest, who was recently touted by Fortune magazine as the most underrated for any industry. http://www.startribune.com/business/302008321.html...
Minnesota kids are too fat to fight. That’s the message from a group of retired generals who say the state’s kids are too fat, eat too poorly and don’t get enough exercise to qualify to join the military. As part of a nationwide effort, generals recommend more physical education classes and better meals in schools and more walking and biking trails in the state’s communities to get kids in fighting trim. The report, released Thursday, doesn’t pull any punches, even in the title: “Too Fat, Frail, and Out-of-Breath to Fight.” http://www.st...
The bird flu has struck an egg-laying operation in Iowa owned by prominent Minnesota businessman Glen Taylor, and it could be the single largest casualty yet of the lethal virus sweeping the Upper Midwest poultry industry. The Iowa Department of Agriculture said Thursday that there was an initial positive test at an egg-laying operation in northwestern Iowa with an estimated 5.5 million birds. Rembrandt Enterprises, one of the nation’s largest egg producers, confirmed the operation is its Rembrandt, Iowa, facility. Taylor owns Rembrandt, as w...
(Washington, D.C.) — Today, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) opened a hearing on the “Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015.” This bill would clarify the rights of tribal governments under the National Labor Relations Act, a news release from the Senator’s office indicated. The hearing featured testimony from Richard F. Griffin Jr., the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board,the Honorable Robert J. Welch, the Chairman of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, the Honorable E. Paul Torres,...
For the Left Hand Bulls it was a family affair to advocate for a bill that would put American Indian school mascots up for approval by a board of tribal members. They came to the House hearing as a family, their two young daughters dressed in regalia, where the bill passed. The girls testified again in the Senate, where the bill failed on a party-line vote. “My friends keep calling me pretend Indian and making fun of me, my culture,” said seven-year old LacyJay Left Hand Bull. “This bill should be passed because I am not your mascot.” Their m...
A Regina woman is one step closer to finding out whether a body pulled from Winnipeg's Red River is her long-lost mother, thanks to a DNA sample she provided to local police on Tuesday. "[At] 11:23 yesterday morning; I won't ever forget that," Barbara Desjarlais told CBC News. "The Regina officer said he was here at the request of the Winnipeg police." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/regina-woman-submits-dna-sample-for-comparison-to-winnipeg-s-jane-doe-1.3054654...
Budget targets $246 million below last year’s committee levels, says Democrat on House Interior Appropriations. House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a budget resolution. That agreement then would go to each House for a vote. (An outcome that is not certain.) But, if it passes, it would be the first budget enacted by Congress in six years. Let’s be clear about this plan: It would require deep spending cuts in federal Indian programs. http://trahantreports.com/2015/04/30/congressional-budget-plan-requires-deep-c...
WINDOW ROCK – Navajo Nation President-Elect Russell Begaye and Vice-President Elect Jonathan Nez this weekend released some details of the upcoming swearing-in ceremony and transition. The swearing in will take place at the Window Rock High School Beeholdzil Fighting Scouts Events Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona, on May 12, 2015. Between then and now, the two will be working on deciding on who will be running the tribal government once the new leaders take over. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/navajo-nation-presidentia...
BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- For more than 100 years, the U.S. government separated Native American families across the country in an effort to assimilate them into white American culture. On Thursday Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC, held a forum at Husson University and presented a documentary of two years worth of information and interviews done with people, both Indian and non-Indian, about their experiences growing up in a nation that wanted to wipe away the Native American culture. The TRC...
MANISTEE, MICHIGAN — Prelimenary results indicate Larry Romanelli was reelected ogema (chairman) of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians last Friday, April 24, 2015. Ogema Romanelli will serve an unprecedented third term. Romanelli’s decisive win was the first time in the modern history of the tribe that an ogema had been re-elected twice to serve as the head of this tribe. From the beginning, Ogema Romanelli has led the expansion team working in both Lansing and Washington as the tribe pursues a second casino site in Muskegon. He ser...
The couple responsible for the death of Loretta Saunders were sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in Halifax. Blake Leggette will spend at least 25 years in prison before being eligable for parole. His partner, Victoria Henneberry, also received a life sentence but can apply for parole after 10 years. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/29/loretta-saunder-killers-sentenced-life/...
A high schooler's crowning achievement is coming with controversy. Her graduation next month should be a feather in her cap, but she thinks her heritage means she's facing discrimination on her way to a diploma from Caney Valley High School. Hayden Griffith's graduation cap should have a feather in it, but she said the school told her if she wears it she will not be allowed to walk across the stage. http://m.news9.com/Story.aspx?story=28924381&catId=112032...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education today announced the availability of an estimated $3 million in grants to help Native American youth become college- and career-ready. Funding for the new Native Youth Community Projects is a key step toward implementing President Obama’s commitment to improving the lives of American Indian and Alaskan Native children. The new grants will support the President’sGeneration Indigenous “Gen I” Initiative launched last year to help Native American youth. “We know that tribes are in the best position to...
Father and son Archie and Curtis Weenie want to bring traditional First Nations culture and teachings to people from the city. The duo founded Open Sky retreat in 2008 and put on regular cultural awareness camps. Weenie says they chose the name Open Sky because they are open to everyone. Before moving to Regina, Elder Weenie spent the past 20 years on the Sweetgrass First Nation near North Battleford. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/former-addict-from-regina-says-first-nations-elder-teachings-saved-her-life-1.3052...
When hip-hop was born in the Bronx in the 1970s, it offered an unprecedented and powerful voice for the voiceless. The movement has since gone global, lending a vocabulary to people struggling for liberty and safety in places as far-reaching as Palestine, China and Russia. Hip-hop still has work to do in the States, though, and nowhere do hip-hop's stories of liberation and resistance resonate with greater urgency than with the country's longest oppressed group: its indigenous population. "Native Americans grasp that culture of hip-hop because...
As of Wednesday, most of the Kashechewan First Nation in Ontario is empty. Officials ordered everyone out of the community on the James Bay coast because of the threat of severe flooding. It’s the fourth year in a row that flooding has forced the evacuation of the entire community. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/04/29/students-fleeing-flood-kashechewan-left-high-dry-aboriginal-affairs/...
Police have charged a man from Eabametoong First Nation with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two homeless men over the weekend in Winnipeg. The suspect, identified by police as 39-year-old John Paul Ostamas, was also charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man who was assaulted in a bus shelter in Winnipeg in early April. The victim later died in hospital. The double homicide happened on Saturday in Winnipeg's downtown area. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/john-paul-ostamas-of-eabamet...
Details are emerging about John Paul Ostamas, the 39-year-old homeless man accused of killing three other men in downtown Winnipeg, based on information from police, people who have met him and even his own Facebook page, in which he wrote "somebodys [sic] gotta die" on the day two of the men were found dead. The post, which appears publicly on one of his Facebook pages as of Tuesday afternoon, was attached to a YouTube link he posted of a music video for Somebody's Gotta Die by Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G....
BILLINGS - The man who was found dead on the Crow Indian Reservation two weeks ago was identified Wednesday. Billings police identified Jeffrey Christopher Hewitt, a 38-year-old Billings man who was found dead April 15. The cause of death has not been released. http://www.ktvq.com/story/28934967/body-found-on-crow-indian-reservation-identified...
Was going through my email account this morning and came across an email from a fella named Rick George who sent me the BIO of a Navtajo Nation girl, Renee Coggins, taking advantage of her basketball playing abilities to get an education. First of all, we're seeing more and more Native Americans using basketball as a vehicle to get an education. Coggins really took advantage of her situation and will be receiving a triple major in May. http://panicbutton.sportsblog.com/posts/2297693/renee-coggins---navajo-nation---balling-at...
