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SAINT PAUL, Minn., May 13 – Prominent Dakota scholars will lead community chats with audiences at the four venues of “Dakota Music Tour” – a 90-minute musical response to the Dakota-American events of 1862 in Minnesota. “Dakota Music Tour” will feature four concerts that will reach out to Dakota and non-Dakota communities in southern Minnesota. “Dakota Music Tour” will begin Sunday, May 22 in Mankato, which was the site of the largest mass execution in American history when 38 Dakota men were hung on December 26, 1862. The Dakota scholars...
May 11, 2011...The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) announced today the winners of the 2010 competition. ISC's highest honor, the Grand Prize, is awarded to Australian songwriter and artist Kasey Chambers for her song "Beautiful Mess" which was entered into the Folk/Singer-Songwriter category. The Grand Prize winner takes home $25,000 in cash (US) and over $20,000 in prizes - the largest Grand Prize of any songwriting competition....
Two suspects are in custody awaiting charges after a 26-year-old Bena man was stabbed Sunday in Cass Lake. According to a press release from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office: Wesley Tibbetts was stabbed multiple times in the early morning. He was taken to a Deer River hospital and then flown to a Duluth hospital, where he was listed in stable condition Monday. Two Longville residents have been arrested and remain in custody pending charges. The incident remains under investigation. Responding to the call were the Cass County Sheriff’s Off...
The goal of the Mining Mini-grants Program is to support and enhance the capacity building efforts of mining-impacted communities in the U.S. and Canada to assure that mining projects do not adversely affect human, cultural, and the ecological health of communities. Applications accepted are accepted three times a year: June 1, October 1, and February 1. Applicants will be notified of the funding decision within 3 weeks of the application deadline. There will be an “emergency” fund for extremely time-sensitive projects that fall between gra...
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In the first major test of tribal fishing rights in the Twin Cities, Dakota tribe members challenged state law by placing fish nets in Cedar Lake in Minneapolis on Friday -- the eve of Minnesota's walleye fishing opener....
With chants and a drumbeat from onlookers, a half dozen Dakota band members pulled fish from a net they had placed in Cedar Lake in Minneapolis on Friday in a challenge to state law intended to prompt a court test of an 1805 treaty....
Dakota Fishers To State: "Obey Your Own Damn Laws"...
Out here in the middle of the Navajo Nation, it's a problem so common, it hardly occurs to us to complain about it....
The Navajo Nation Supreme Court has authorized Special Prosecutor Alan Balaran to withdraw criminal charges and file civil charges instead against tribal officials accused of stealing millions intended for students, elders, and families in crisis....
Jennie Platero thought she knew what being a Marine was all about. After all her father, Kenneth Tsosie, was a Navajo Code Talker and her uncle, Samuel Begay, was one of the original 29 code talkers....
THUNDER BAY, ONT.—The family of student Jordan Wabasse said goodbye to their son in a memorial by the Kaministiquia River Friday as the cry for a public inquiry into the deaths of seven aboriginal students grew louder....
CUSTER – Chief Deputy John Evans was standing on the second floor of the Custer County Courthouse dressed in full riot gear on Feb. 6, 1973, when he first got the idea to start a sheriff’s reserves group....
SHAWNEE, Okla. — New legislation signed into law will help unify state of Oklahoma vehicle license tags and all of the state’s different tribal-issued license plate tags for easy access and sharing by law enforcement agencies....
A Lac du Flambeau tribal council member charged with threatening to injure the career of Lac du Flambeau Tribal Police Chief Bob Brandenburg, and one of his officers, if they didn't withdraw a complaint charging him with operating while intoxicated says he's not guilty....
A dozen or so local Jews, affiliated with several Bay Area congregations and Berkeley-based social action groups, visited an ongoing protest at a Native American burial site in Vallejo on May 8....
The good old days of fishing have returned to Leech Lake as the combined efforts of state and tribal officials have helped restore the fishery to its previous renowned status. A decade ago Leech Lake walleye populations were in decline and the drop prompted the 2005-10 Leech Lake Management Plan. The plan sought to improve walleye abundance and size structure through a variety of methods including protection of the female walleyes through the implementation of a protected slot, the reduction of the cormorant population, an aggressive stocking...
While the $7.2 billion broadband expansion under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targeted rural areas, it didn’t really take Native Americans into account, said Harold Pruner, a founder of the Native American Broadband Association....
Perhaps nowhere in the United States does the digital divide cut as wide as in Indian Country. More than 90 percent of tribal populations lack high-speed Internet access, and usage rates are as low as 5 percent in some areas, according to the Federal Communications Commission....
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — When Berta (not her real name) left a federal prison in Phoenix and was transferred to the Community Alternatives of the Black Hills (CABH) facility in Rapid City, she was excited that she would be receiving the kind of help she needed to make it on the outside....
Lumbee Tribal Chairman Purnell Swett confirmed Friday that he is resigning, citing health issues as the reason for leaving office early....
It is often said that the United States of America is a nation of laws. There is a group of Lakota who would disagree with that. The Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council is the traditional governing body of the Lakota Nation. The Council is responsible for the preservation of their lands for future generations and, according to the Council, the "ancient Lakota ways of governance, culture, and spirituality."...
ESCANABA - After four days of testimony, a jury found three Garden Peninsula men guilty of conspiracy to buy/sell fish taken without a commercial fishing license....
KINGMAN — A Bullhead City woman has filed a civil complaint against two Fort Mojave Tribal Police officers and the Mohave County Attorney’s Office....
The death of a man on the Blood First Nation is sparking debate about caring for the Nation's homeless population....
