Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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EDMONTON — Rachel Notley was sworn in as the 17th premier of Alberta Sunday afternoon in Edmonton. The New Democratic Party formed a majority government earlier this month in a historic election that ended the 43 year Progressive Conservative dynasty. During her campaign, Notley committed to take seriously the government’s relationship with Alberta’s Aboriginal peoples. She assured Aboriginal voters that she would address several on-going issues and pledged to make the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples law. http:...
The Winnipeg Police Service and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection are highlighting the cases of three girls as part of National Missing Children's Day. The 16-year-old McKay was last seen in the city's Garden City area on May 16. She is described as five feet and one inch tall, and weighing 130 pounds. She has long, straight brown hair with brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black-and-white tank top with a pink-and-white sweater on top, denim shorts, a black-and-white baseball hat, brown flip flops and carrying a brown purse....
John George Robinson spent his birthday tramping through the woods and climbing over boulders looking for whatever is left of his daughter, an 11-year-old girl with a contagious smile who was killed before she got the chance to dream, her mother said. The search for the rest of Teresa Cassandra Robinson’s remains continued on the weekend in Garden Hill First Nation, 12 days after part of her body was found in a wooded area in this fly-in community in northern Manitoba, where patchwork prairies give way to islands and lakes. The girl, who was l...
Manitoba RCMP and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection are highlighting the cases of six youth as part of National Missing Children's Day Monday. Police are still searching for three boys and three girls, all of whom went missing over the span of about eight years. "It's critical that we keep missing children's stories in the public eye because there's always hope that someone will do the right thing and come forward with new information that could lead to a missing child being located," Christy Dzikowicz, director of Missing Children...
“Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” These words are ingrained in us. We sing them proudly at ballgames, and BBQ’s, firework displays and ceremonies honoring the many occasions of celebration and remembrance that make us all American. Most likely choruses of our national anthem will be performed many times over this Memorial Day weekend in honor of our veterans. It’s America’s way of paying tribute for their service. This weekend always gives me pause. What is sacrifice, what is service, what does it mean to be an American veteran,...
The end of 2014 was a bloody time for Native Americans. Even as protesters rallied against the police killings of unarmed black people like Michael Brown and Eric Garner in December, Rapid City police fired five bullets into Allen Locke, a 30-year-old Lakota man living in South Dakota. In a tragic bit of irony, it was later revealed that Locke had been at a demonstration against police killings of indigenous people just one day earlier. Yet while devastating for his family and community, Locke's death illustrates a much bigger problem: From...
Rarely, if ever, do I extend myself to a social media rant. This is primarily because I'm not sure that such things ever change opinions and belief systems. That said, I'm going to take a moment to do just that. Feel free to tune out—I won't be offended. Statements such as this one (from the May 21 ICTMN article, "War of Words: ICWA Hearings Reignite Ancient Clash Over Indian Children, Part 1") anger me: Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/23/response-war-words-icwa-hearings-reignite-ancient-battl...
FARGO—If you're a black, Hispanic or American Indian student, you're much more likely to receive an out-of-school suspension than your white peers in North Dakota and Minnesota, according to data from both states' education departments. In part due to a program aimed at reducing the racial gap in suspensions, Minnesota saw a 20.4 percent decline in all out-of-school suspensions between the 2010-11 and 2013-14 school years, the state's Department of Education reported earlier this year. That included significant decreases in suspensions for b...
WASHINGTON — Manley Begay Jr. stood surrounded by boxes “stacked to the ceiling” that were filled with the remains of more than 1,000 Native Americans, when one label caught his eye. Canyon del Muerte. It was where Begay’s family took their livestock to winter on the Navajo Nation. But here, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University more than two decades ago, it was the label on a box of human remains. http://tucson.com/news/local/law-helps-tribes-reclaim-remains-from-museums/article_dd99bb18-e...
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA — The Comanche Nation Emergency Management Team is continuing their effort to help those affected by the flooding in area communities. They are issuing sandbags, and through the Red Cross, has opened the Cahoma Building in Cache as a shelter for flood victims in the Cache and Indiahoma communities. The Comanche Nation Community Center in Walters is on standby as a shelter for the Walters and Temple communities. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/comanche-nation-emergency-management-efforts-continue-to-batt...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 43-year-old man who allegedly killed a young bull moose on the Umatilla Indian Reservation was arrested by the FBI for unlawfully possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun. Thadd Justin Nelson was indicted by a grand jury on the gun charge. Prosecutors said he had a weapon made from a West Point Model 949, 20-guage short-barreled shotgun, with a barrel length of 16.5 inches, and was not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. FBI spokesperson Beth Anne Steele on Friday c...
As we head towards the dog days of summer where athletes in South Dakota will be working to take their fitness and athletic exploits to new levels, how about a reminder of some elite Sioux athletes that are competing at the highest level. Came across two serious athletes with ties to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Hailey Lunderman - daughter of Mark Lunderman, grand-daughter of Tuffy Lunderman - scholarship to Ole Miss to continue her softball career. http://panicbutton.sportsblog.com/posts/2531769/rosebud-sioux--lunderman-and-iro...
