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RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The roles of Native American women in their communities and how they continue to change will be examined in the 33rd Annual Medicine Ways Conference at the University of California, Riverside on Saturday, May 10. The event begins at 9:30 a.m. and concludes at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. RSVP to Joshua Gonzales, director of Native American Student Programs, at joshuag@ucr.edu. Parking is free in Lot 1 to those who arrive...
Please join Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming Pamela Hunt a Farm Midwife Alice Skenandore & Dorene Day Community screening of the film and Q & A Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives May 9th or 10th 2014 Time: 1:00 – 4:00 Holiday Inn Express Conference Center- Bemidji Free Admission Questions call: Millicent 218-556-1961 or Roberta 218-407-1034 *The Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming an American Indian organization committed to community centered holistic care for all...
Minneapolis, MN (May 3, 2014) - Jim Oberstar, who served for 18 terms as a Congressional representative from Minnesota, passed today at the age of 79. Below is the statement of Operating Engineers Business Manager Glen Johnson: “Jim Oberstar was a true friend to the Operating Engineers and to all American workers. He was a visionary, who knew that transportation infrastructure is the heart of our country. He worked with us and our members to make all modes of transportation stronger. The Congressman was an advocate for promoting good middle...
ST PAUL, MN (May 3, 2014) - 79 year old Jim Oberstar, who served 36 years as the representative of Minnesota's 8th congressional district, was a champion of labor and American infrastructure. The following is the statement of Laborers District Council President Todd Pufahl: "Jim Oberstar was a tireless advocate for transportation infrastructure, a man ahead of his time. He understood that the strength of our country, and its economy, depends on the state of our infrastructure: roads, rail, ports, and bridges. He was an inspirational leader,...
Over the past four years, Samantha Ovadal has been bitten, hit, kicked and scratched while working as an education assistant at a Maplewood school that serves students with severe emotional and behavioral disorders....
DFL legislators are making a last-ditch effort to secure more money for statewide construction, potentially salvaging millions of dollars in new projects in the closing weeks of the legislative session....
A third-generation teacher inspired by a grandmother who maintained that teaching is “a calling that can save lives” was named Minnesota Teacher of the Year on Sunday....
A funeral mass for former U.S. Rep. James Oberstar will be said Thursday in Maryland....
Technically, Kate Barr hasn’t been a banker since 2000. Yet Barr last year made the Aliveness Project a $1 million, five-year loan to help it exit its cramped home and move into a long-vacant refurbished warehouse, which now bustles with hundreds of clients daily....
Multiple bombs. An arsenal of guns. Months of detailed planning for killing his family and then unleashing explosives and bullets on his classmates at Waseca’s junior and senior high school....
Inexpensive testing and antibiotic treatment could wipe out one of Minnesota’s fastest-growing public health problems — the rise in sexually transmitted chlamydia infections — if only the sex talk didn’t get in the way....
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, a lion in northern Minnesota politics and the state’s longest-serving congressman, died in his sleep early Saturday in his Maryland home. He was 79....
Indictments have fizzled in the cases of 10 accused in a huge operation on state Indian reservations. Like the big fish that got away, a federal crackdown last year on fish poaching on some of northern Minnesota's most popular lakes has left authorities empty-handed. Of the 10 federal indictments announced with much fanfare in April 2013, none has gone forward, to the delight of defense attorneys and to the dismay of sportsmen...
To get the hype started for the upcoming Special Olympics summer games, law enforcement officers from across the state of Arizona are putting their best foot forward as they run the Olympic torch across Arizona....
Leaders of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in California are trying to clear up an internal dispute before it gets messier....
The Obama administration urged Congress to trust tribes with energy development at a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – The director of the Billings Area Indian Health Service has resigned less than 18 months into the job, saying her efforts to improve health care for Indians were being crippled by a dysfunctional system....
PULLMAN, Wash. – As it turns out, Cinco de Mayo will also be a Native American celebration this year – at least for a busload of eighth- and ninth-graders from Paschal Sherman Indian School, part of the Colville Tribe in Omak, Wash....
The Alaska State Troopers say they have taken two men into custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two troopers in Tanana on Thursday. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/02/3451145/two-alaska-state-troopers-killed.html#storylink=cpy...
TANANA -- Droves of Alaska State Troopers descended on the tiny Interior Alaska village of Tanana Thursday afternoon following a fatal shooting of two of their own. Grief-stricken residents watched as troopers in full SWAT gear surrounded a small brown house with black trim and waited as the man they’d allegedly tried to arrest earlier in the afternoon holed himself inside....
The official tally of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada has hit nearly 1,200—and it’s not Native groups giving this number, it’s the country’s own police force. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/05/03/nearly-1200-missing-murdered-aboriginal-women-canada-rcmp-154722...
For the first time in the history of the city, Mayor Betsy Hodges selected the Minneapolis American Indian Center as the site of her State of the City address on April 24. Drum group Ringing Shield performed at the opening of the speech. Daniel Yang, Director of Organizing and Community Building at the Native American Community Development Institute, and Bill Means, co-founder of the International Indian Treaty Council, introduced the mayor....
Where should we start? In 1492, Cristoforo Colombo, an explorer from the Republic of Genoa (now part of Italy), sailing under the flag of the Crown of Castile (now Spain), set off to find the fastest route to the gold and spices of the Orient. He set off westward in the Atlantic Ocean, and ended up in the Caribbean, quite a long way from East Asia....
ALBUQUERQUE – Planning a surprise return from active military duty in Afghanistan is no easy task....
VIRGINIA — Authorities are asking the public’s help in locating a 42-year-old Native American who is a person of interest in a homicide in Virginia earlier this week....