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The video begins innocuously as a Brooklyn Park police officer responds to a complaint of noise coming from a parked car, then returns to his squad for a warrant check. Within minutes, it becomes indisputable footage of a cop’s fight for his life as he is repeatedly punched in the head, then placed in a chokehold. http://www.startribune.com/swift-conviction-of-man-who-fought-brooklyn-park-officer-grabbed-for-gun/380148581/...
The Hennepin County medical examiner has identified a body found in the Mississippi River in Minneapolis this week as that of a missing University of Minnesota student. The body of David Michael Miller, 20, of St. Peter, Minn., was pulled from the river north of the Ford Parkway Bridge just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. The medical examiner did not issue a ruling on how Miller died. http://www.startribune.com/body-found-in-mississippi-identified-as-that-of-missing-student/380177631/...
The long lines at security checkpoints at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s main terminal over spring break have many Minnesotans feeling a sense of hopeful queasiness over the prospect of flying this summer. Hopeful that it will turn out all right — queasy because it may not. Given the expected influx of passengers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at MSP has promised to pay more overtime for employees, add more bomb-sniffing dogs and rely on help from the airport and the airlines to herd the roller-bag masses. htt...
A cheering audience is a political aphrodisiac. Candidates for president, moved by crowds’ affection, become convinced that they are right, their opponents wrong. The pout of political pride makes backing off difficult later on. Every campaign, no matter how humble and reasonable the candidate at the beginning, encourages a growing conviction of unique importance. This year, Donald Trump is the leading example, but self-importance is not a partisan condition. Sen. Bernie Sanders is justifiably gratified by his leap from obscurity to a f...
Minnesota’s economy added 15,600 jobs in April, as the private sector posted its second-best month of job creation since the state stated tracking the numbers in 1990. Most sectors added jobs, but the gains were led by durable goods manufacturing, administrative services, bars and restaurants, and construction, data from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development showed Thursday. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-posts-big-job-gains-in-april/380123591/...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton had some of her strongest words yet for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying Thursday that he is "not qualified" to be president of the United States. In an interview with CNN, the Democratic front-runner and likely nominee questioned Trump's ability to handle complex foreign policy challenges, decrying what she described as his "irresponsible, reckless, dangerous comments." http://www.startribune.com/hillary-clinton-trump-is-not-qualified-to-be-president/380151581/...
Gary Mike is asking community members to be careful how they donate. Mike, father of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike, said scammers are trying to profit from his daughter’s death by setting up unauthorized fundraising accounts. Ashlynne Mike was kidnapped May 2 and found dead the following day. Nearly 2,000 people turned out for her funeral May 6, and fundraising efforts soon cropped up to help the family with expenses. http://navajotimes.com/reznews/scammers-attempt-profit-off-death-daughter-father-says/...
AKWESANSE — Akwesasne Mohawks who played a critical role in Allied communications during World War I and World War II will be awarded congressional silver medals. American Indians used their native languages to send coded messages that could not be deciphered by enemy code breakers, which gave Gen. George Patton and the Third Army he commanded the advantage during campaigns on the African continent in the 1940s. http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/mohawks-to-receive-congressional-medal/article_3ae8cbeb-64cd-58a1-8...
AMHERST – The town of Amherst is the first community in the state to adopt an Indigenous Peoples Day resolution, though it does not change the federal or state designations for Columbus Day. Town Meeting agreed to support the resolution initiated by Matthew Venditti's eighth grade Amherst Regional Middle School students on Wednesday night. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/amherst_first_community_in_sta.html...
“If Scott Seekins had taken photos of Auschwitz and inserted himself into those photos, I can’t even imagine the moral outrage,” said Anishinaabe artist and activist Ashley Fairbanks. “This is art about genocide.” Inside the crowded Douglas Flanders & Associates gallery on May 14, one of Minneapolis’ most recognizable artists, Scott Seekins, opened his exhibit “The New Eden,” a collection of paintings and drawings depicting the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. Many of the pieces seem to mimic Plains Indian art forms, including work created on ledg...
The leader of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin says it won’t plant a new crop of industrial hemp until a federal judge resolves the tribe’s lawsuit against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Chairwoman Joan Delabreau says the DEA raid last fall that destroyed the tribe’s first crop has cost the Menominee millions of dollars and unfairly suggested that “we were growing high-grade marijuana.” She made her comments Friday after attorneys for the tribe and the federal government presented oral arguments before U.S. District...
The Miccosukee tribe will pay $4 million to its former attorneys after targeting them in a series of failed lawsuits repeatedly rejected by courts as frivolous. The settlement is a significant victory for prominent Miami lawyers Guy Lewis and Michael Tein, who have long been mired in legal battles over their former representation of the Indian tribe, whose members live in several reservations in the Everglades. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article78711097.html#storylink=cpy...
HELENA — An oil company should not have been criminally charged for an accidental oil spill in Montana in 2011 that its employees took immediate steps to fix when it was discovered, attorneys for the company said in their request to dismiss the charges. Federal prosecutors allege FX Drilling Co. and field supervisor Quay Geza Torok failed to clean up the spill after they discovered the leak at an oil field on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The mixture of oil and production fluid spread nearly a mile over the next month to a waterway that f...
After more than two hours of discussion, former Navajo Nation Council delegate Mel R. Begay was given a three-year jail sentence after being found guilty of committing fraud and submitting false vouchers to the tribe. Window Rock District Court Judge Carol Perry gave him the maximum sentence of 365 days on the fraud charge and on two of the nine false voucher charges. All three were to run consecutively. http://navajotimes.com/rezpolitics/delegate-ordered-serve-3-years-jail-time-pay-restitution-33400/...
Lillian Catcheway just wants to go home, but the life she knew in Lake St. Martin First Nation no longer exists. It was washed away by the flood of 2011 and she was among thousands of people who were scattered around the province when the community, about 225 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, was evacuated. Efforts to relocate the community are still underway but more than 1,000 community members remain displaced — living in hotels, apartments and rented homes in Winnipeg or on a decommissioned military base near Gypsumville. h...
ALBUQUERQUE — A U.S. Justice Department official identified significant gaps Wednesday in a federal law aimed at addressing high rates of violence against Native American women, saying the law should be expanded to broaden tribes' authority over certain child abuse cases. In 2013, Congress gave tribes power to prosecute non-Native Americans in domestic and dating violence cases. The push for the law came amid outcry from victims' advocates who cited federal figures showing most assaults involved offenders who weren't Native American. h...
WOLF POINT, Mont. — Delberta Seminole Eagleman is raising six grandchildren by herself, their own mothers lost to drugs and violence on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation. When the softly-spoken 67-year-old member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe looks around, she says, she sees grandmothers holding the battered community together. http://swtimes.com/nationworld/grandmothers-fill-void-left-violence-drugs-native-american-reservations...
The Obama administration has finalized new overtime pay standards that tribes say will hurt their enterprises and force them to take resources away from critical programs. The rule goes into effect on December 1, giving employers more than six months to prepare for changes that will boost overtime wages for millions of workers. But even though tribes across the nation raised serious questions about the proposal, the Department of Labor concluded that it won't have a "substantial" impact on Indian Country. http://www.indianz....
If you live in an urban area in New Mexico, you probably pay attention to your internet speed, but not as a matter of life and death. It’s a different story in rural areas, where low connectivity and lack of broadband access can have serious impacts on education, health care and even emergency response time. http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2016/05/19/amerind-risk-new-biz-line-rural-broadband.html...
Duluth, Minn - Community college graduates in Duluth got a special treat Thursday. Their commencement speaker is a member of President Obama's cabinet. The honorable Sally Jewell is Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. http://www.fox21online.com/news/local-news/Fond-Du-Lac-Tribal-and-Community-College-Graduation/39639742...
The federal government's plan to return those who were forced from their homes following catastrophic flooding on four Manitoba First Nations is disorganized and lacks resources, an internal audit report states. The report — Audit of the Operation Return Home Project — prepared by the Audit and Assurance Services Branch of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, was written in December 2015 and focuses on the federal government's activities between April 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2015. It was posted on their website on May 4. htt...
NESPELEM—The first gray wolf killed since the species' reintroduction to the Colville Reservation has been put on display here by Colville Tribal Fish & Wildlife officials today. The female, who sports a tracking collar, died in 2015 after a recapture attempt went wrong by a tribal contractor, can be viewed at the department's location on the second floor of the Colville Tribal Government Center. http://www.tribaltribune.com/news/article_e166f582-1dee-11e6-b906-8b2ea0b6b574.html...
WINNIPEG – CRIME Reports – A male who worked as a traditional Aboriginal Healer now faces sexual assault charges in Winnipeg. Winnipeg Police report that on May 11, 2106 the Winnipeg Police Sex Crimes Unit began an investigation into an allegation of sexual assault that had occurred on May 8, 2016. The accused in this matter is employed as a Traditional Aboriginal Healer who provides counselling and healing sessions. The victim, a thirty-two-year-old female, had been participating in a healing session with the accused. The suspect app...
PHOENIX - He sat next to the third baseman coach looking at a computer monitor. He later moved to another part of the room talking to another coach. That’s the routine Yankee midfielder Jacoby Ellsbury goes through to prep for a game. http://navajotimes.com/rezsports/baseball/game-adjustments-failures/...
