Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The 2011-12 RLHS YEARBOOKS are HERE!! Cost $25.00. Supplies are limited, so get yours NOW!!! For more information please contact Jody Johnson or Sandy Ketterling at RLHS....
The Vikings stadium deal is unleashing the biggest expansion of Minnesota charitable gambling in 25 years while ushering in electronic gaming on a scale not seen anywhere else in the country....
WASHINGTON — Since it first adopted legislation in 1994 to aid women victims of domestic violence, Congress has reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act twice in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion....
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has gone to bat for Native American tribes like few presidents before him....
Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the area’s indigenous Ojibwe language into daily life. All over town Ojibwe language signs are posted right alongside English language labels, and for a just cause. The signage is part of a broader effort to preserve the language spoken by an estimated 60,000 persons across...
When the “6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America” was posted May 15 by Cracked.com is started something of an Internet sensation; and a spike in people searching for things like “who discovered America?” More than 1.5 million people have viewed the story thus far. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/american-history-myths-debunked-the-indians-werent-defeated-by-white-settlers-113869 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/american-history-myths-debunked-the-indians...
American Indian Movement founders Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt are expected to take part in a rally and march Monday in Rapid City for a man who claims he was mistreated at a local hospital....
U.S. Census Bureau estimates show the Native American population in Oklahoma increased from 8.6 percent in 2010 to 8.9 percent in 2011, reported the Associated Press. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/oklahoma-native-american-population-grows-in-2011-113838 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/oklahoma-native-american-population-grows-in-2011-113838#ixzz1vWDet4MN...
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) railed against the Republican-led House version of the watered down Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as an affront to herself as a woman of color and victim of rape during a press conference this week. View the Rachel Maddow Show video posted on Jezebel. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/congresswoman-gwen-moore-speaks-out-against-watered-down-vawa-as-rape-victim-woman-of-color-114046 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/congresswoman-gwen-m...
A man who allegedly spent millions of Navajo Nation corporate funds for personal use was indicted in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 15 for charges of federal tax evasion, reported the Albuquerque Journal. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/16/man-indicted-for-spending-navajo-corporate-funds-on-personal-expenses-113410 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/16/man-indicted-for-spending-navajo-corporate-funds-on-personal-expenses-113410#ixzz1vWEFzhv2...
Authorities are continuing to investigate a bomb threat at the Eastern Shoshone Tribe's General Council meeting May 12 in Fort Washakie....
Canada is in the international hot seat yet again, this time over food security for aboriginals. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/harper-touts-commitment-to-african-food-security-while-being-derided-by-u-n-for-domestic-shortcomings-113872 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/harper-touts-commitment-to-african-food-security-while-being-derided-by-u-n-for-domestic-shortcomings-113872#ixzz1vWFbO7sX...
If the B.C. government is to help a Vancouver Island First Nation to deal with a spike of suicides, officials must listen to the tribe's specific needs....
State government assumes, when deciding how clean Washington waters should be, that people eat up to a half-pound of local seafood per month. Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/05/20/2529340/eat-lots-of-fish-need-cleaner.html#storylink=cpy...
Green River • More than 100 demonstrators gathered on the sun-baked desert just south of a proposed nuclear power plant here Saturday evening, protesting both the envisioned reactors and the big gulp of disputed river water needed to cool them....
A Native American perspective was presented during the White House’s first-ever Summit on Financial Capability and Empowerment, held May 10 in Washington, D.C. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/indian-financial-action-program-featured-at-white-house-113813 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/indian-financial-action-program-featured-at-white-house-113813#ixzz1vWGnFlIw...
A critic of the Lumbee Tribal Council this week alleged the body is “illegitimate” because it is not structured as specified in the Lumbee Constitution....
A New Mexico tribal member failed to convince the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals May 10 that an assault conviction would affect his future tribal employment, in Ronald F. Romero v. Donna K. Goodrich, warden, Gallup McKinley Adult Detention Center and Pueblo of Nambe’. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/career-criminal-fails-to-impress-latest-appeals-court-round-113127 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/20/career-criminal-fails-to-impress-latest-appeals-court-round-113127#ixzz1vW...
For an alarmingly high number of Native Americans, a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes is the first in a series of preventable conditions that result in premature morbidity. The second is Diabetic Neuropathy, a nerve disorder caused by the uncontrolled blood sugar levels associated with diabetes. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/a-wound-as-small-as-a-dime-improper-care-can-lead-to-death-in-diabetics-113732 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/18/a-wound-as-small-as-a-dime-improper-care-...
In a mission to persuade Native American worksites in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to ban commercial cigarette smoking, the youth participants in a local program called Mashkiki Ogichidaag, meaning “Medicine Warriors,” have developed media campaigns to educate the local Indian community about the adverse health effects and dangers of commercial tobacco use. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/19/youth-produced-anti-commercial-tobacco-videos-featured-on-youtube-113890 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.c...
