Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has asked Iowa utility regulators to block plans by a Texas-based company to start construction next week on the Bakken oil pipeline in Iowa. Dakota Access LLC, a unit of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, asked the Iowa Utilities Board this week to permit construction to begin next Tuesday on the vast majority of the project to allow time for the pipeline to be completed this year. The company said it proposes to construct the project "at its own risk," except in areas where pre-construction notification is...
Don’t lecture me about alcohol and in particular about drunk driving, because I can turn incoming admonishments around on a dime. I’ll take you to 1966, when I was traveling back to Kelly AFB to gather my stuff and head for something called “counter-insurgency training” in preparation for a 13 month vacation in sunny Vietnam. I was driving south on IH 35 while the police were chasing a drunk driver north in the southbound lanes. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/05/09/bootlegging-inconvenient-truths...
I teach native politics, treaties, and federal Indian law at the University of Minnesota. In my current course, Law, Sovereignty, & Treaty Rights, we just read a splendid short article by Russel Barsh that describes the rich political and cultural diversity of Indigenous peoples at the global level. He points out, for example, how Indigenous peoples in states like the United States and Australia, where their demographic footprint is small—less than 2 percent of the overall population and controlling less than 5 percent of the t...
Jason Galanis, a man who in 2004 was called “Porn’s New King,” was arrested by FBI agents at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday and charged with taking part in a $60 million scam that ripped off impoverished South Dakota Sioux and others. It was the third time in nine years that Galanis had been accused of engineering a financial fraud. http://nypost.com/2016/05/12/porns-new-king-busted-for-ripping-off-tribe-in-60m-scam/...
TAHLEQUAH — An Oklahoma chief could be removed from office over questions regarding his tribe’s finances. Impeachment charges were filed Tuesday against George Wickliffe, principal chief of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/articles-of-impeachment-brought-against-keetoowah-tribe-s-chief/article_f74302e9-3c73-5694-a6c8-184bb999115f.html...
Hailey Nutt's Tribal, a wholesale and distribution juice business, is a hands-on job. The Chickasaw tribal member hand-cuts her organic produce before throwing it down a chute that cold-presses nutrient-rich beverages. Each bottle contains three to five pounds of organic vegetables and/or fruits. "It's been crazy. We still hand-label, hand-bottle, hand-batch everything," Hailey says of her 15-month-old, Dallas-based company Tribal that's in roughly 25 grocery stores across Texas. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymediane...
A police officer who made remarks about Indigenous people during door-to-door visits in the Southwest borough claims it was a "slip of the tongue." Ossie Michelin filed a complaint with Quebec's police ethics commission because he felt officers were racially profiling First Nations people while warning residents about rowdy behaviour in the Atwater neighborhood. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-southwest-borough-1.3579875...
WASHINGTON – Rape and domestic violence against Native women have reached “epidemic proportions,” but the hotlines that could help are often unprepared for the unique cultural needs of tribal women who may live in rural areas with little support and a bewildering legal system. But that could be changing. Sometime this year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline expects to take the first call at a hotline created specifically to respond to tribal victims. https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/05/11/advocates-hopes-high-domesti...
You've heard the horror stories of college students graduating with a mountain of debt. And, in many cases, they don't graduate and are still overloaded with a financial burden. United Tribes Technical College says it's getting out of the student loan business, and is going to try something else that has immediate appeal. http://www.kfyrtv.com/home/headlines/United-Tribes-Technical-College-to-Offer-Tuition-Waiver-379061821.html...
The long-term survival of 148 indigenous languages spoken by people living in North America before the European invasion starting in 1492 may be getting a boost from the US Senate, after a new bill was passed unanimously by the Indian Affairs committee. If the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act passes the full Congress and receives President Barack Obama's signature, it will help prevent the predicted death of the languages within the next 100 years. https://www.rt.com/usa/342842-dying-native-american...
Two First Nations men in British Columbia have been charged after taking part in traditional fish ceremonies. Dozens of people rallied in support for them before they appeared in court. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/05/12/two-b-c-men-charged-after-taking-part-in-traditional-fish-ceremonies/...
Thousands of Fort McMurray evacuees lined up to receive emergency cash from the Red Cross Thursday. In Edmonton, people waited hours for their share. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/05/12/fort-mcmurray-evacuees-wait-for-hours-for-emergency-cash/...
One child is dead and three more injured after a stabbing in the Nunavut community of Coral Harbour. According to Nunavut RCMP, officers responded to a call from a resident in the central Arctic community at 12:15 pm Thursday. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/05/12/stabbing-in-coral-harbour-nunavut-leaves-one-child-dead-three-others-wounded-rcmp/...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing one man and critically injuring another on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation has pleaded not guilty in federal court to murder and assault charges. Dallas Thundershield entered his pleas Monday and was scheduled for a two-week trial beginning July 5, though court documents indicate his attorney will ask for a delay due to a scheduling conflict. http://www.devilslakejournal.com/news/20160511/spirit-lake-reservation-slaying-suspect-pleads-not-guilty...
A provincial police officer has been found not guilty of assault, for a second time, after a 2012 altercation in a Greenstone, Ont., jail cell left a First Nation man with broken bones in his face. A second trial was ordered after the crown appealed the 2013 finding of not guilty in the case against Cst. Brian Bellefeuille. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/police-assault-jail-cell-bellefeuille-1.3577766...
