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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation’s president has reacted to concerns raised by the abduction and death of an 11-year-old girl by setting a 60-day goal for establishing a new tribal alert system to provide notifications of abductions and other emergencies. Tribal President Russell Begaye announced Monday he has created a task force headed by the tribe’s telecommunication director and the director of the Department of Public Safety. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/navajo-nation-plans-new-alert-system-in-...
SANTA FE, N.M. —When most people think UFOs and the unexplained in the state they turn to Roswell, but residents of a tiny town in northern New Mexico say they've also seen strange things. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that residents of Dulce, a small town on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, say they've seen flying saucers, UFOs and fast moving lights moving back and forth in the sky. One resident says he's tracked Bigfoot. http://www.koat.com/news/residents-of-dulce-claim-ufos-bigfoot-spotted-in-area/39459770...
The Lummi Nation has prevailed in its fight to block the largest coal port ever proposed in North America, at Cherry Point. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency reviewing permits for the deep water port project, agreed with the tribe Monday that it could not grant a permit for a project that would infringe on the Lummi Nation’s treaty-protected fishing rights. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/tribes-prevail-kill-proposed-coal-terminal-at-cherry-point/...
Canadians will find out who will oversee a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and how it will be structured before Parliament breaks for summer, a Liberal cabinet minister says. The government organized 18 pre-inquiry meetings in communities across the country with family members of missing and murdered women and other stakeholders. The final meeting in that series was held in February. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/missing-murdered-inquiry-details-hajdu-1.3573412...
Another payday lender lawsuit has been settled. This particular case relates to a predatory lending suit against CashCall and Western Sky Financial, who are accused of evading lending regulations by making false claims that they had tribal affiliation. As a result of the outcome, the state of Nebraska will accept a $1.6 million settlement. This settlement comes just one day after the suit was filed in court. http://www.pymnts.com/news/regulation/2016/payday-lender-regulation/...
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement is nearing its end after paying out billions in compensation, but indigenous leaders say there are so many gaps that left so many people uncompensated for their suffering that the deal must be reviewed, then rewritten or replaced. The executive committee of the Assembly of First Nations will be asked at a meeting in Ottawa this week to consider what to do about the deal, which was struck nine years ago between former students, the government and the churches that ran the schools where abuse...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Native American adolescents have higher rates of cigarette smoking than other racial or ethnic groups. New research from the University of Missouri on the smoking habits of Native American adolescents finds that family warmth and support, as well as participation in school activities, can play a role in tobacco prevention. "Tobacco use among all adolescents has been declining; however, we are still seeing higher rates in Native American populations," said Mansoo Yu, associate...
Canada will no longer be the lone objector among the world’s countries to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The move would lift the qualifications to this country’s endorsement of the declaration. Those qualifications were officially registered by the previous Conservative government over concerns that the document’s requirement for the “free, prior and informed consent” of indigenous people on issues that affect them could be interpreted as a veto over development and other decisions made in the broader p...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) — Native American dancers traveled from across the country this past weekend to perform at a Powwow on Credit Island. Now one winner of the competition has come forward saying the Powwow owes her the winnings. The competition flier promised thousands in prize money over a dozen different categories. One drum contest promised ten thousand dollars in combined prizes. The organizer confirmed winners didn’t get paid, but wouldn’t say anything else. Performers headed back home empty-handed. http://kwqc.com/...
As former Yellowknife resident Kevin Giroux prepared his own family to flee the fire that destroyed his Fort McMurray, Alta. home, he was also helping others. His neighbour, along with her children and pets, had no way to get out of their Fort McMurray neighbourhood of Abasand. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/northerners-helping-northerners-fort-mcmurray-1.3571081...
WASHINGTON — President Obama signed a law on Monday making the bison — tens of millions of which once roamed North America — the country’s first national mammal. The designation does nothing to threaten the bald eagle’s position as the national animal. But the eagle is not a mammal. So, at long last, the nation now has an official one. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/us/politics/bison-mammal-designation.html?_r=0...