Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The superintendent for a California school district has apologized and removed a song from its elementary school curriculum in response to the objections of a fourth-grade student, and member of Wukchumni tribe, who found the song’s lyrics offensive to Native Americans, Native News Online reports. Last month, 10-year-old Alex Fierro returned home from his day at Shannon Ranch Elementary School, and announced that a song he’d learned in class had offended him so profoundly he wouldn’t sing the words out loud — even to his mom, Debra Fierro....
Shoni Schimmel’s record-setting, MVP performance in last year’s WNBA All-Star Game proved to the world that she is a rising star. Now, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla guard heads into her second season with the Atlanta Dream, ready to rise to new heights. ICTMN caught up with Dream head coach Michael Cooper for his thoughts on Schimmel as she prepares for the 2015 WNBA season. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/21/shoni-schimmel-will-start-atl-dream-jude-will-get-picked-160445...
YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. -- Yakima mother Kai Martinez was accused of starving and abusing her young twin daughters. This was after they had been taken away from her right after birth, only to be returned by a court order just a year ago. Martinez was in court Wednesday for her sentencing where she apologized for her actions. "As a mother, I was entrusted to be loving, caring and nurturing unconditionally," Martinez said. "And to be frank, I failed miserably by doing the exact opposite." http://www.kimatv.com/home/video/Yakima-m...
Kathleen Leary was found dead in her Winnipeg home Monday. Leary was a highly-regarded advocate for Aboriginal education. Winnipeg police arrested her alleged killer who is a youth. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/05/21/youth-arrested-death-first-nation-woman-winnipeg/...
A youth known to Katheen Leary has been charged in the death of the 66-year-old grandmother. The youth was arrested at the scene but police won't release the age or gender of the suspect. However, in their press release, police said "he" has been detained in custody. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/youth-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-in-kathleen-leary-death-1.3081964...
Members of Garden Hill First Nation are grieving over the death of 11-year-old Teresa Robinson while still conducting daily searches for her partial remains. Hundreds of volunteers have joined the search of the heavily wooded areas around the northern Manitoba community over two weeks after remains were first found. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/teresa-robinson-s-community-continues-search-for-her-remains-1.3082771...
A 27-year-old woman who told authorities she took heroin earlier in the morning ran a stop sign at a high rate of speed and crashed into a telephone pole in the school zone near the Saginaw Chippewa Academy elementary school Thursday morning. The woman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was unresponsive but breathing when officials arrived about 8:30 a.m., but later woke up, saying she had fallen asleep while driving and had taken heroin about seven hours earlier. http://www.themorningsun.com/general-news/20150521/woman-crashe...
Brian Koonoo, a 36-year-old man from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, walked safely into Repulse Bay Wednesday morning after four days of air and ground searches were unable to locate him. Koonoo, who works for Parks Canada, originally set out on snowmobile from Pond Inlet on May 10. He arrived in Igloolik May 12 and spent the night before heading on to Hall Beach the next day, according to Nunavut RCMP. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/missing-pond-inlet-man-walks-safely-into-repulse-bay-1.3080163...
