Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Minneapolis, MN (April 13, 2015) – The Laborers District Council of Minnesota and North Dakota announced today their support for the conclusions of fact-finding report that affirms the need for the proposed Sandpiper oil pipeline. The report, which was prepared by Administrative Law Judge Eric L. Lipman, affirms that the project is needed to transport growing volumes of Bakken oil; and that it would benefit the state by creating jobs, reducing rail congestion, and ensuring reliable supplies of crude oil for Minnesota refineries. “This is gre...
TOWER, Minn. – A storm lashing at their canoes, three men from Virginia, Minn., abandoned their fishing trip and sought shelter on a remote northern island. The following morning, while waiting for the weather to clear, one of them found a cave and ducked inside, stumbling upon a find of American Indian artifacts including birch scrolls, medicine bags and a fur and feather belt. Nearby, in a three-sided box, rested the skeleton of a man. In the near-century since their accidental discovery, most of the things found that day have resided in s...
By today’s safety standards, every baby boomer should have been dead by the time we were 12. We defied danger on a daily basis. We never knew that we were doing risky things, of course; we just thought that we were having fun. Nonetheless, we spent our days immersed in activities that we’d never for a second allow our children or grandchildren to do. Or even think about doing. Here are some of the ways we courted trouble: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/299600911.html...
Minneapolis homicide detectives are investigating what police termed a “suspicious death” that occurred Monday afternoon in the Willard-Hay neighborhood. Officers were summoned shortly after 2 p.m. to the 2300 block of Russell Avenue North, where they found a man slumped over inside a vehicle, said police spokesman John Elder. The man, whose identity wasn't immediately released, was pronounced dead at the scene. http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/299647331.html...
Authorities have identified the woman who was found shot and mortally wounded Saturday afternoon in south Minneapolis as 21-year-old Ayan Abdi Abdulahi. Abdulahi, of Bloomington, died of a single gunshot wound to the head, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said in a news release Sunday night. She was found sometime after 2 p.m. by officers responding to a shots fired call at a duplex on the 2400 block of Portland Avenue. Neighbors said a resident came upon the body after he awoke from a nap and called police. Abdulahi was p...
Some of his neighbors considered 90-year-old Earl A. Olander part of their family. Others, including a national television audience, marveled at the vitality and self-sufficiency of a bachelor farmer who lived alone on 160 acres in rural Carver County. And no one could make sense of an apparently violent end to a life well lived. Carver County Sheriff’s deputies said they found Olander dead in his ransacked home in the 16000 block of Homestead Road in San Francisco Township at 7:19 p.m. Saturday. His hands had been bound, and it appeared t...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is threatening to veto two bills that the White House says would undermine the Dodd-Frank financial reforms put in place after the economic crash. Both of the bills affect housing. One of the bills would exempt some borrowing fees from an existing law aimed at protecting consumers. The second bill would undo a provision in Dodd-Frank that categorized some loans for mobile homes as high-cost, triggering additional protections to make sure borrowers can afford them. http://www.startribune.co...
Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk said Monday that a push to repeal the state’s 80-year-old ban on Sunday liquor sales is still a long way from becoming law this session, despite renewed confidence from House Speaker Kurt Daudt that the measure has a 50-50 chance at clearing his chamber — and that if it does, it will become law. “Unlikely,” Bakk said succinctly, following Monday’s Senate floor session. He said the measure’s highest hurdle is in the House, which last took up Sunday sales as a floor amendment in 2013. It was soundly defeated, 1...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — The people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are no strangers to hardship or to the risk of lives being cut short. But a string of seven suicides by adolescents in recent months has shaken this impoverished community and sent school and tribal leaders on an urgent mission to stop the deaths. On Dec. 12, a 14-year-old boy hanged himself at his home on the reservation, a sprawling expanse of badlands on the South Dakota-Nebraska border. On Christmas Day, a 15-year-old girl was found dead, followed weeks later by a high schoo...
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Monday sanctioned the delivery of a highly capable Russian air defense missile system to Iran, a game changer move that would significantly bolster the Islamic republic's military capability and fuel Israel's concerns. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry objected to Moscow's decision in a phone call to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the White House indicated the move could endanger plans to ultimately lift sanctions on Iran as part of a proposed nuclear deal. White House press secretary Josh E...
The National Native American Bar Association is taking a stand against the tribal disenrollment epidemic. A resolution passed at the group's annual meeting in Arizona last week underscores the right of tribal nations to determine their own citizenship rules. But it also states that people are being removed from the rolls "without equal protection at law or due process of law, or any effective remedy for the violation of such rights." As a result, NNABA said it was "immoral and unethical" for "any lawyer" to help tribes remove people from their...
Pull into any gas station, supermarket or housing area on the Navajo Nation and you’ll see them: skinny, mange-ridden, often limping; weakly wagging their tails in hopes of a handout or slinking away in fear of being kicked. It’s no secret that the Navajo Nation has a stray dog problem — estimates of their number range into the hundreds of thousands. As with seemingly every problem on the Navajo Nation, those assigned to deal with it are too few, underequipped and underfunded. But by networking with volunteer organizations both on and off t...
Hartford, Conn. (WTNH)– ‘Payday Loans’ with interest rates between 200 and 400 percent are being offered to Connecticut residents through direct mail and the internet, by a lending company associated with a Native American Tribe in Oklahoma. The co-chair of the General Assembly’s Banking Committee is blowing the whistle on this and he’s getting help from the Governor and the leaders of both of Connecticut’s federally recognized tribes If you or someone you know has received a letter from ‘Great Plains Lending,’ you or someone you know has be...
Lenders from Native American tribes have been illegally soliciting Connecticut residents for loans, according to officials with the Connecticut Department of Banking. In addition to the solicitation, state leaders contend that the interest rates at which customers can borrow far exceed those allowed under state law. "Any entity that does business in the state of Connecticut doesn’t have the right to charge our citizens 448 percent interest rates," Gov. Dannel Malloy said at a press conference Monday. "We wouldn’t allow the Swiss to do it. We...
VANCOUVER -- Strappings, beatings with a pointed stick and orders to stand in the classroom corner for speaking her own language were among "horrific" measures that erased Darlene Bulpit's ability to pass along her First Nations heritage to her two children and three grandchildren. The 66-year-old from the Shishalh Indian band, on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, was allowed to go home at night and grins when she recalls learning to hunt with her brothers and bringing home "the prize." Each morning she trudged back to school with dread....
First Lady Michelle Obama recalled her and her husband’s historic trip to Indian country in 2014 before making bold statements in regards to the current state of Indian country at the Generation Indigenous Native Youth Challenge (Gen-I) convening on April 8. Throughout her speech, the First Lady acknowledged historical events that have left a lasting effect on tribal communities throughout Turtle Island from forced removal, the boarding school era, and “Civilization Regulations” – “regulations that outlawed Indian religions, ceremonie...
Dozens of people marched along Highway 66 in Gallup for the Native people who lost their lives in the city. At least 60 people marched down Route 66 through Gallup on April 4 holding up black and yellow signs with bold letters stating, “Stop Racist Violence Against Natives.” Printed underneath were the names of Native people who lost their lives due to unnatural causes in the City of Gallup since 2013. http://navajotimes.com/reznews/marchers-demand-justice-for-gallups-natives/#.VSzdpfAeroh...
A bill passed by the Arizona Legislature last Thursday will give students residing on Indian reservations the option of using their share of state school funding to pursue other educational options, such as charter, home or online schools. The program, known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, is already available to special needs students, foster children, children in military families and students in districts with failing schools. State Sen. Carlyle Begay (D-Dist. 7), who sponsored the bill (SB 1332) in the senate, said children living on...
A Moorhead mother claims her 15-year-old daughter was brutally assaulted a week ago on the White Earth Reservation. She told us tribal police aren't doing enough to bring her daughter's attackers to justice. So, she's blowing the whistle on the investigation. Just a warning, some images may be disturbing. A party a week ago on the White Earth Reservation, where alcohol was involved, spiraled out of control. And, video shot from the party was posted to Facebook. "I think she was lucky to have lived,” said mother Nadja Finch. “I think just see...
A nurse at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center has been fired over Facebook posts that are now circulating online. On Jan. 13, Amanda Francis wrote, "Soooooo sleepy here in the ICU. Will someone please code and give me something exciting to do? #isthatbad?" The post insinuates a patient would need to die to give Francis something to do at work. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3764261.shtml#.VSze-fAeroh...
