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WASHINGTON –President Donald Trump today proposed a $2.5 billion Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) budget for Indian Affairs, which includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The President’s budget reaffirms his support of tribal sovereignty and self-determination across Indian Country by focusing on core funding and services to support ongoing tribal government operations, including an emphasis on infrastructure repair and improvements. “President Trump promised the American people he would cut wasteful spend...
NORMAN, Okla. -- It is no easy task to categorize Tom Farris or his art. No single art form defines him. No style. No medium. Nothing boxes him in. That's just the way the Oklahoma-based Native American artist and curator wants it. He wants curiosity and intrigue. Farris desires his art to grab attention, because then he gets to drop some insight. "It forces people to ask questions," Farris explained. "You're not going to engage people in a positive way by hitting them over the head. But if you...
Intermediate Watercolor with Jane Freeman Presented by Region 2 Arts Council Renowned watercolor painter, Jane Freeman, will teach this intermediate workshop. Please bring your own watercolors and brushes. June 23 12 pm - 4 pm Clearwaters Life Center 226 Elm St Gonvick, MN Workshop is free, but you must register by calling (218) 751-5447 or emailing alice@r2arts.org...
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s $4.1 trillion federal budget proposal, released Tuesday, would vastly reshape the federal government’s funding of health care, food stamps, and an array of programs that aid hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans. The proposal also excludes further federal funding for the $1.9 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project, by only paying for transit projects that already have a “Full Funding Grant Agreement” in place with the federal government. The Southwest project does not. http://www.startribu...
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy gave a wide-ranging State of the City speech Tuesday at a mosque in north Minneapolis, covering everything from Nicollet Mall and President Donald Trump to affordable housing and workforce development. Running for re-election in November, Hodges said the city must embrace the discomfort of transformation, a theme of her campaign, and work tirelessly to create “One Minneapolis” that “works for everyone,” and where everyone contributes to making the city work for everyone else. http://www.startribune.co...
If you want to plant a pine tree that might survive the climate upheavals that are already remaking northern Minnesota’s boreal forest, where should it go? Scientists from the Nature Conservancy and elsewhere now think they know. This summer they’re embarking on a project to plant 400 acres with cold-loving evergreens like jack pine and tamarack in carefully selected “conifer strongholds” — places that they predict will stay cooler or wetter or have better soil, increasing the chances that a few of each species will survive for the next gene...
MANCHESTER, England — As officials hunted for accomplices of a suicide bomber and Britain's prime minister warned another attack could be "imminent," thousands of people poured into the streets of Manchester in a defiant vigil Tuesday for victims of a blast at a pop concert — the latest apparent target of Islamic extremists seeking to rattle life in the West. The attack left at least 22 dead, including an 8-year-old girl, shattering the revelry at a show by American singer Ariana Grande, where strains of electric pop and the sways of inn...
Canadian actor Adam Beach finds himself walking a fine line after agreeing to be an ambassador for the federal government's Canada 150 celebrations. Beach — who overcame a troubled childhood on the Dog Creek reserve in Manitoba to star in Hollywood blockbusters such as Flags of Our Fathers — feels he should help pay tribute to a government that has funded some of his films, as well as his film school for Indigenous students in Winnipeg. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/adam-beach-canada-150-1.4126567...
A new federal report says poor road conditions on tribal nations contribute to higher rates of school absences for students. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports. The Government Accountability Office inspected school districts on three reservations, including the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the U.S. The report concludes poor road conditions contribute to a nearly 10 percent higher rate of students being chronically absent from school. http://knau.org/post/federal-report-shows-poor-tribal-road-conditions-contribute-student-ab...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To show support for the late Navajo Nation police officer Leander Frank’s family, members of the Law and Order Committee (LOC) attended the 36th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. May 15. Frank, who lost his life in the line of duty in August 2016, was one of the 118 officers recognized during the national memorial service. https://www.nhonews.com/news/2017/may/23/nation-supports-family-fallen-navajo-police-office/...
Before the official ribbon cutting ceremony was to begin, last-minute finishing touches were made to the outside of the new Redby Community Center. For the town of Redby, the community center was a must after their old center fell into disrepair, marking a new beginning for the community. With a giant scissors the ribbon was cut, and the community of Redby now officially had a place to call home for countless events and activities. The space features meeting rooms and a large kitchen as well as a large gym that can be used for everything from...
TUCSON, Ariz., May 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The first jury trial conviction of a non-Indian defendant under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) occurred on May 9 in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona's Tribal Court. Frank Jaimez was the first non-Indian defendant to be convicted by a jury in tribal court for a tribal charge of domestic violence. This is the first non-Indian defendant jury trial conviction in a tribal court in 40 years due to recent federal law changes. The 19-year-old Hispanic male was alleged to have committed an act of...
The new leader of the Department of the Interior met with just a handful of tribes during his first two months in office, according to documents released by the Trump administration. Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke with leaders of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Navajo Nation and the Little Shell Tribe between March 3, his second full day on the job, and April 28. The exchanges represent only a small percentage of the dozens of meetings in which the Cabinet official participated. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017...
TOPEKA (WIBW)--- Fort Riley is helping members of the Kickapoo Tribe with adequate housing. Military leaders at the post signed over ten homes to tribal leaders Tuesday. http://www.wibw.com/content/news/Fort-Riley-is-giving-affordable-housing-to-members-of-Kickapoo-Tribe--423980143.html...
SISSETON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say two people have died in a house fire on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in northeastern South Dakota. Sisseton Fire Chief Jeff Pageler (PAY'-gler) tells KWAT (http://bit.ly/2rtKXnT ) an adult and a child escaped from the burning home Sunday. And, after the fire was knocked down, two others were found upstairs. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-dakota/articles/2017-05-22/2-dead-in-sisseton-house-fire...
SACRAMENTO — Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in the state and the Tule River Tribe located within Tulare County following the amendment to President Trump’s April 1, major disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides that occurred Feb. 1-23, announced Administrator Linda McMahon of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Private nonprofits that provide essential services of a governmental nature are eligible for ass...
ABERDEEN, S.D. — Five current and former executives of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe in far northeast South Dakota have entered guilty pleas in federal court to embezzlement and theft schemes. The federal cases against the tribal executives was part of an initiative branded as The Guardians Project — a multi-agency law enforcement operation designed to investigate, uncover, disrupt, and prosecute public corruption, theft and federal program fraud taking place on tribal lands in South Dakota. http://www.grandforksherald.c...
The wife of Robert Fool Bear, the former Cannon Ball district chairman convicted of child sexual abuse last month, faces criminal charges tied to his case. Rhonda Krein Fool Bear has been charged with failing to report child sexual abuse and making false statements in court. If convicted, she could face up to 5.5 years in prison. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-cannon-ball-leader-s-wife-charged-with-failing-to/article_e397910d-028a-5c1d-a97d-e1094db2d163.html...
The chief of a First Nation community on Manitoulin Island faces charges of criminal breach of trust, criminal harassment and intimidation of a justice system participant. In October 2016, the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin contacted police to look into alleged criminality. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/manitoulin-fn-chief-charged-1.4128475...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana filed a complaint today with the Montana Human Rights Bureau on behalf of four Native Americans, who say say they were barred entrance to a high school basketball game earlier this year because of their race. They call themselves the Pryor Four. They say while waiting for doors to open at a game between the Reed Point Renegades and the Pryor Warriors on January 21, a member of the athletic staff from Reed Point High School admitted Reed Point community members, but would not admit the two Native...
