Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Washington – The Senate rejected an effort Wednesday to expand the use of firearms on some of the nation’s most frequently visited federal lands, handing gun control advocates a modest success....
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved a measure that would give private sector workers the option of trading overtime pay for extra time off weeks or months later....
The Minnesota Senate narrowly approved a modest increase to the state’s minimum wage on Wednesday that directly contrasts with the higher wage hike approved by the House and endorsed by Gov. Mark Dayton....
Energy interests are preparing for another battle at the Minnesota Legislature over a proposed mandate that major utilities gather up to 4 percent of their electricity from the sun by the end of 2025....
If you can stand straight with your knees together and see a space between your upper thighs, you have what thousands of teen girls are willing to starve themselves for....
The dry data of the National Household Survey paints a grim picture of the challenges facing Canada’s First Nations youth. But what, if anything, can be done?...
When U.S. soldiers landed several miles off of Utah Beach during World War II's Normandy invasion on D-Day, Comanche code talker Larry Saupitty was there. He sent the first message back to Allied Forces in a code based on the Comanche language, telling command they had made a good landing but in the wrong place....
The Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes (ACET) has passed a guiding resolution regarding a growing issue: cultural enthusiast groups that have no continuous history are now claiming to be authentic American Indian tribes. These groups are petitioning for various forms of acknowledgment, including recognition by their state government....
WASHINGTON — For Heather Purser, the first pang came more than a decade ago as she gathered clams on Puget Sound’s Chico Beach, watching her cousin’s new husband assist with the digging. She figured she’d never have a legal spouse to help with the backbreaking work. Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/05/08/3001329/suquamish-among-3-tribes-in-nation.html#storylink=cpy...
MAKOTI The ceremony on Wednesday was called historic by many gathered at the site where The Three Affiliated Tribes broke ground for a refinery....
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. — Two incumbent members of the Spirit Lake Tribal Council lost their seats in Tuesday’s general election....
Most Aboriginal women who endure a sexual assault believe they have nowhere to turn....
HELENA — The Chippewa Cree tribe in northern Montana has suspended two leaders charged with stealing federal stimulus money....
OTTAWA – Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples are losing touch with their native tongues, even though their population is growing four-times faster than the rest of the country, according to Statistics Canada’s newly released National Household Survey results. Read more: http://www.canada.com/life/Aboriginals+lose+touch+with+native+tongue+survey+reveals/8354340/story.html#ixzz2SnN3htrm...
In a lengthy, controversial case that stirred deep passions among aboriginal leaders, a 56-year old native carver has been fined $11,000 on multiple charges of possessing eagle parts and one count of trafficking in dead wildlife....
First Nations communities threatened by rising waters each spring should be moved off flood plains once and for all, a member of the Ontario legislature said Tuesday after flood fears triggered another wave of evacuations in the province....
On Friday, April 26 the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe received the long-awaited payment of $30 million from its settlement of a trust fund mismanagement case against the federal government entitled Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. Salazar....
Nearly half of children under 14 in foster care in Canada are aboriginal children - a number that exceeds even the grimmest estimates of a leading First Nations' child welfare advocate. Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Tragic+number+aboriginal+children+foster+care/8358640/story.html#ixzz2SnOZVBoI...
Children and youth in the Garden Hill First Nation have not been in school for more than three weeks, since the roads have been in such bad shape that buses cannot drive on them....
BROWNING - The 2013 Building a Grad Nation annual update shows that more than one-third of Native American high school students drop out of school....
A dozen volunteers from around the world will descend on the tiny Pine Ridge Reservation village of Red Shirt next week to begin the transformation of acres of sagebrush-filled pasture into a campground and outdoor Taize chapel for at least 500 pilgrims set to arrive May 24-27....
Linganore High School senior Michaela Rich and her sister, Dawn Easley, have treasured playing together on the Haudenosaunee lacrosse team, an international-level squad....
Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the end of the last ice age, according to research....
BOZEMAN — A big-game outfitter who shot and killed a collared wolf from Yellowstone National Park is intentionally luring the animals by leaving dead sheep carcasses in a pile, leaders of a wolf advocacy group said....
A wayward moose in the northwest is helping researchers in Minnesota....