Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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As leaders of the Red Lake and White Earth Nations in Minnesota, we are alarmed that Congress is giving serious consideration to a plan that would take away tens of millions of dollars from some Indian tribes and give it to other Indian tribes. This “highway robbery” is part of a Senate-passed Tribal Transportation Program funding distribution formula currently being considered by the House–Senate conference on the reauthorization of surface transportation programs. The proposed changes contained in the Senate bill, S. 1813 (“Moving Ahead f...
I was pleased to receive this statement in support of Secretary Vilsack’s appointment of members to the Council for Native American Farming and Ranching (CNAFR) from Ross Racine Executive Director of the Intertribal Agriculture Council [ http://indianaglink.com/index.html ]. “The addition of CNAFR to the USDA available tools should provide much needed Native American input to the Department policies, rules and program delivery. The CNAFR represents a diverse geographical group of individuals which in turn represents the diversity of Native Ame...
Red Lake opened the 2012 Bemidji Youth Baseball League season the way they left it last season; with another exciting win as they beat Subway 6-5. The visiting Red Lake team started the offense early when lead-off man Jaden Wood walked to start the game and scored on an Austin May single, which was the lone run for both teams. Starting pitcher Pat Tahahwah, Jr. struck out the first 3 batters in the home team Subway’s half of the 1st inning. After Cole Cobenais & Chase Cobenais each led off t...
BLACKDUCK – With a 17-3 record the Blackduck baseball team earned the top seed in the East Sub-Section 8A baseball tournament and will begin its postseason Tuesday when it hosts No. 8 Laporte. Tuesday’s other first-round matchups send No.5 Remer to No. 4 Kelliher-Northome, No. 6 Walker-Hackensack-Akeley to No. 3 Lake of the Woods and No. 7 Red Lake to No. 2 Cass Lake-Bena. Tuesday’s winners will advance to the sub-section semifinals which will be played May 31 at Bemidji State at noon and at 2 p.m. The semi-final survivors will square off a...
BEMIDJI – It’s a time of celebration and moving on. It’s a milestone that everyone hopes to celebrate at some point in their lives – high school graduation. For three local students, it’ll be the last time they set foot in their respective high schools before heading out into the world on very different paths. Zachary Hewitt will wrap up this step in his traditional education as he graduates from Bemidji High School and continues his schooling here in the Midwest. Kaija Roy, who was homeschooled for grades K-6, will graduate from TrekNorth...
More than half of U.S. school-age children with autism take mood-altering drugs, said a new report, as doctors increasingly target the broad range of psychiatric symptoms associated with the ailment....
NEW TOWN - The chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes says a court ruling this week upholding the $3.4 billion Indian trust case settlement is a relief for elderly and other allottees....
There is a proverb that is said to have originated among the Nigerian Igbo culture in Africa which states “It takes a village to raise a child.” For the Ak-Chin Indian Community this is very much the case....
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota will re-examine a list of nearly 40 deaths that Oglala Sioux tribal officials say were insufficiently prosecuted or investigated, U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson said Thursday....
SIOUX FALLS, SD - The Oglala Sioux Tribe wants the federal government to reopen dozens of death investigations over a 40 year period....
PINE RIDGE, SD - Seventeen people are facing federal charges for distributing marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine on and around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Authorities are still looking for three of the 17 people recently indicted for selling drugs on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma is giving former tribal members a one-time opportunity to be reinstated into the tribe....
The Winnemen Wintu Tribe moved one day closer to its proposed blockade of a section of Lake Shasta, while law enforcement officials this morning, reversing an earlier stance, announced officers would heavily patrol the area....
Paramus, NJ — NTUA, a Navajo Tribal company has hired a New Jersey firm to complete it Internet connectivity throughout the reservation. According Ceragon, they said they have achieve revenues of $117.8 million with improving gross margin and profitability....
One vote can make a world of difference for the American Indian Family Center (AIFC), a nonprofit supporting the American Indian community in the Twin Cities area by strengthening family bonds through cultural programming and offering employment services to improve lives, among many other things. In an online competition called the Maxwell House Drops of Good Community Project, 10 deserving community centers vie for $50,000 in renovations to improve their facilities—and their ability to effectively serve the needs of the people who come to t...
W hen May 29 arrives, the Central Consolidated School District is expected to learn its fate - whether status quo as a 3,000-square-mile district or split in half at the Navajo Reservation boundary....
When strange howls come from the mountains or justice needs to be brought to the Navajo people, the Navajo Nation Cops are on the scene....
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- A Glendale father is stunned by what his daughter was asked to draw in her art class....
A man who helped start a fire that burned more than 14,000 acres of remote desert in northeastern San Diego County was sentenced to six years in prison. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Eagle-Fire-Sentence-Jeremy-Ortiz-Jesse-Durbin-153671145.html...
WASHINGTON – For years, tribal leaders and members of National Congress of American Indians have expressed the importance of linking together the existing regional networks of tribal communicators at the national level to share best practices and resources with each other. Last fall, the National Congress of American Indians launched the National Tribal Communicators Network to support communications professionals and those performing public relations work in Indian Country and American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This newly c...
