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WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States....
The North Shore Tribal Council held a march down Great Northern Road in protest over provincial cuts to social services that the council says will affect its member First Nations....
Mary G. was born from the boats. Her children were born from the boats too, all fathered through her liaisons with male customers. She has never known anything else. Like generations of Native girls and women before her, Mary and her family are inextricably tied to prostitution in the great port city of Duluth, Minnesota. Long before the term sex trafficking entered the public lexicon and began appearing in headlines, Native women like Mary and her mother Ruthie were lured into prostitution. Largely driven by poverty and homelessness as...
Monday marked the grand opening of White Earth’s women’s shelter in White Earth village. The opening ceremony started with a traditional blessing by spiritual leader Mike Swan. This was not only for those who come to the shelter seeking help, Swan said, but also for those who work there, because “it’s not an easy job, helping people.” Following the blessing, members of the White Earth Tribal Council spoke to thank the shelter’s workers and supporters, which included representatives...
Winnipeg, Manitoba (May 16, 2012) -- With two active tracks currently being played on radio across Canada, it’s looking like sunny days ahead for Winnipeg’s Don Amero. Turn These Grey Skies Blue Was released to country radio stations across Canada last week, and within two days became the third most downloaded song on DMDS.com. This week, it has been listed on the Top 10 Most Active Indie downloads, and continues to be listened to by radio programmers from coast-to-coast. Through The Storm A song from Don’s last album, Through The Storm...
Richard Whitmarsh, director of Sioux Nation Superstore, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has responded publicly to charges of spoiled-meat sales that closed down first the store’s meat department on Friday, May 4, then the entire privately operated, 50-employee business a week later. The problems began after an Oglala Sioux Tribe member purchased meat that was “said to be spoiled,” according to Whitmarsh. The meat was not tested and proven to be tainted, he noted, and the Indian Health Service reported no incidents of food poisoning at the...
An attorney for Sioux Nation Shopping Center said the Pine Ridge grocery store might reopen as early as Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe dismissed its closure order Tuesday. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/pine-ridge-grocery-store-waits-to-reopen-after-closure-lifted/article_b635809c-9f0b-11e1-b275-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1v86uTEU0...
VANCOUVER—The national Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, which started over two years ago, has been largely ignored by the Canadian public, despite the participation of thousands of residential school survivors and countless others, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous....
In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are affecting residents of an Indian reservation that has been decimated by alcoholism. The reservation is dry, but the nearby town of Whiteclay, Neb., (with a population of about 10 people) “sells more than four million cans of beer and malt liquor annually” and “is the main channel through which alcohol illegally enters the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Key legislation in the battle against domestic violence might be facing a rougher than anticipated road to reauthorization, in part because a new provision would give tribal courts jurisdiction over non-Indians accused of assaulting Indian spouses and domestic partners....
Protesters on the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Split Lake, Man., are demanding the resignation of their chief and council over what they say are poor living conditions....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Federal authorities say a man who allegedly spent millions of Navajo Nation funds for personal use has been indicted on federal tax evasion charges....
A federal cabinet minister slammed activist groups who she says interfere in Inuit traditions, blaming them for food security problems in the North....
FARMINGTON — A suspicious package reading "bomb" was found at Navajo Preparatory School this morning before the school was put on full lockdown. All access to the school is off-limits until the campus is cleared by the Farmington police and fire departments. An on-call bomb threat service also received notice, according to Farmington police and fire dispatch....
TOPPENISH, Wash. -- A new jail with a $15 million price tag opened today in Toppenish. It's a tribal facility that doubles as a rehabilitation center. Tribal council and corrections officers say inmates will leave the jail as better people....
Jefferson County voters gave their approval Tuesday for a school bond designed to help pay for a new K-8 school on the Warm Springs Reservation....
One person is dead and others are in hospital following a crash Tuesday night at the Ochapowace First Nation near Broadview, Sask., RCMP say....
A 36-year-old woman died Monday afternoon in a single vehicle accident on the Umatilla Indian Reservation....
PHOENIX -- A former Marine sniper has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a shooting spree last fall....