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Articles from the May 9, 2016 edition


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  • Canada's Fort McMurray wildfire becomes a flashpoint for environmental debate

    May 9, 2016

    WANDERING RIVER, Alberta - A wildfire was growing just outside Fort McMurray, but Matt Hepditch went to work in the oil sands the way he always does. Some people had evacuated, though reports the night before suggested the fire would move away from the hard-working city at the center of Canada’s oil industry. Then the wind shifted. http://www.startribune.com/canada-s-fort-mcmurray-wildfire-becomes-a-flashpoint-for-environmental-debate/378580256/...

  • How Roosevelt High School principal keeps the students coming back

    May 9, 2016

    Roosevelt High School Principal Michael Bradley roams the halls at a time when most students should be in class. Here comes a student heading to the bathroom, phone in hand, earbuds pumping music. “Psst. Psst. You can’t hear me. Why not,” Bradley whispers. http://www.startribune.com/roosevelt-principal-gets-results-by-putting-kids-first/378489436/...

  • Bird flu worries still haunt producers as they spend money to prevent it

    May 9, 2016

    Last year at this time, Minnesota turkey growers were in the middle of a full-blown disaster, the likes of which they’d never seen. Between March 4 and June 5, the highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu claimed about 5 million turkeys and 4 million egg-laying chickens on more than 100 farms in the state. Minnesota, the nation’s No. 1 turkey producer, lost 10 percent of its production. This year? Nothing. http://www.startribune.com/bird-flu-worries-still-haunt-producers-as-they-spend-money-to-prevent-it/378593686/...

  • Anderson: No limits on optimism for Minnesota walleye opener

    May 9, 2016

    In Minnesota on Opening Day, you might catch a limit of walleyes and you might not. But for sure, you’ll feel better for trying. Just ask the state’s most famous walleye fisherman, Al Lindner. “When I got back from Vietnam in the 1960s and my brother, Ron, and I were looking for a place to move to and set up a fishing guide business and perhaps a bait shop, we came to Brainerd from Wisconsin,’’ Lindner said. http://www.startribune.com/no-limits-on-optimism-for-minnesota-walleye-opener/378523935/...

  • More Than 3,000 Attend Abducted Navajo Nation Girl's Funeral

    May 9, 2016

    She was a budding musician and talented artist, a girl whose death at the hands of a man who authorities say lured her into his van spread grief far beyond her home on the Navajo Nation. More than 3,000 people turned out for Ashlynne Mike's funeral in Farmington, New Mexico, weeping as images of the 11-year-old girl were displayed overhead and the sounds of her xylophone rang out in the auditorium. A headstone created for her grave read "our little angel in heaven." http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/11-year-olds-slaying-spr...

  • Canada to shift position on UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    May 9, 2016

    Canada is set to formally announce a shift in its position on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, CBC has learned, nearly a decade after the powerful statement of rights was first adopted by the UN. Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett will make the announcement at the upcoming session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, kicking off Monday at the United Nations in New York City. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/canada-shifting-position-un-declaration-indigenous-1....

  • Sexual assault common on Navajo Reservation

    May 9, 2016

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The sexual assault and killing of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike sent shock through the Navajo Nation. The Albuquerque Journal reported sexual assault is too common in native communities. “The numbers are staggering. One in three women in tribal communities are sexually assaulted and they're 2 1/2 times more likely to be assaulted than women in other populations as well,” Albuquerque Journal reporter Elisa Kaplan said. http://www.koat.com/news/sexual-assault-common-on-navajo-reservation/39441196...

  • IRS Deadline for Native American volunteers nears, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel needs diversity

    May 9, 2016

    Are you from a Native American background and interested in helping the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) resolve tax issues on behalf of American taxpayers? In early 2016, the IRS put out several notices through their Indian Tribal Government News email circulation that they were “looking for volunteers to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), a federal advisory committee.” http://www.inquisitr.com/3076815/irs-deadline-for-native-american-volunteers-nears-taxpayer-advocacy-panel-needs-diversity/...

  • BIA head: Future is bright and hopeful for Native Americans

    May 9, 2016

    Michael Black, director of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, will return to his alma mater today to give the commencement speech at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology graduation ceremony. Black graduated from the School of Mines in 1986 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. In his current post, he oversees a federal agency tasked with aiding more than 500 recognized tribes with 1.9 million Native American residents across the country. The BIA, among other duties, is responsible for...

  • Sex assault all too common on tribal lands

    May 9, 2016

    As the news of the sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike sent shock waves of grief – and fear – through the Navajo Nation last week, Jana Pfeiffer, 31, couldn’t stop thinking about her own kidnapping and sexual assault at the hands of a Navajo family member 20 years ago. “You think you have trust in that person, and you wouldn’t think that something like this would happen,” Pfeiffer said. As shocking as the crimes against Ashlynne were, sexual assault is all too common in Native communities. http...

  • Tribe welcomes four new council members

    May 9, 2016

    WHITERIVER — The White Mountain Apache Tribe welcomed four new council members in high style. Held at the Chief Alchesay Activity Center on May 4, the ceremony was well attended by tribal members as well as officials from around the state. Officials of the San Carlos and Jicarilla Apache tribes, as well as Show Low Mayor Daryl Seymore and Councilman Rennie Crittenden, Pinetop-Lakeside Community Development Director Matthew Williams, Mary Springer of Emergency Management Navajo County, District 1 Supervisor Dawnafe Whitesinger, Congressional...

  • Despite winter darkness, solar power might work better in rural Alaska than you'd expect

    May 9, 2016

    The sun is a rare sight in much of Alaska during winter, and doesn’t even make an appearance for weeks at a time in northernmost Barrow. But sunlight actually might be a factor for remote areas trying to diversify their energy sources. Villages here, some with the help of the federal government, are looking to solar as an alternative to diesel fuel. Sleek solar panels are already cropping up in small towns in the Arctic and elsewhere, and many more are on the way. http://www.adn.com/article/20160508/dark-alaska-solar-power...

  • Americans tastes the Native American Food for the first time and their reactions are surprising!

    May 9, 2016

    So what it is like, living in a culture and still you never had the chance to taste the native food. These Americans must know the answer to the question now. We often ask questions like What would it be like? How would certain dish taste? The judgments we make about any dish is purely based on our experiences with our own food habits. In this Era, where McDonald and Pizza Huts of the world have replaced almost all our food choices, our taste buds never got to know the real taste of food from the native side. I feel happy for those who know...

  • "A Moment of Joy" – Five Red Cloud Indian School Seniors Earn the 2016 Gates Millennium Scholarship

    May 9, 2016

    PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – Spring is a time of new beginnings at Red Cloud Indian School. The hallways are filled with talk of the future—of starting college, exploring careers, and dreaming of new possibilities. After a year consumed with the challenges of college and scholarship applications, members of Red Cloud’s senior class are preparing to begin a new phase of their lives. And for five hardworking Red Cloud students, that next step involves taking on a new title: 2016 Gates Millennium Scholar. “When I went home, I opened my...

  • Solving lacrosse's diversity problem

    May 9, 2016

    Lyle Thompson dances around the goal just three minutes into the University at Albany's 2015 Spring Stomp matchup with Yale. He cradles the ball in his stick with one hand and then the other, sprinting left to draw his defender before cutting right and circling around to the front of the goal, his long black braid whipping through the air behind him. Yale's defender backpedals into the crease (the 18-foot circle around the goal), whacks Thompson in the chest with his d-pole (the long stick used on defense), then cuts one way and the other, side...

  • Tribal and non-Indian anglers 'fighting over the last fish'

    May 9, 2016

    LACEY — A demonstration in front of the Lacey satellite office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week brought back some uncomfortable memories. It was a gathering of fishermen protesting against members of several local tribes fishing for spring chinook salmon. The tribal fishermen meanwhile were asserting their treaty rights to catch the first salmon returning to their native watersheds, as they always have. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160507/NEWS01/160509203...

  • 'Threat of child abduction is real'

    May 9, 2016

    Community members here and in Shiprock were still in shock Wednesday after hearing of the tragic death of Ashlynne Mike at the hands of a man who enticed her into his van and then killed her. On Monday, Mike, 11, a fifth grade student at Ojo Amarillo Elementary and her brother Ian Mike, 9, were abducted by a man who reportedly was driving a maroon van with tinted windows in the Fruitland area. http://navajotimes.com/reznews/threat-child-abduction-real/...

  • After more than 100 years, American Indian children buried in Carlisle begin a journey home

    May 9, 2016

    Jessie Spread Hands, a member of the Arapaho Nation, was 14 when she was taken from her family and sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in September 1880. She spent 15 years at the boarding school before being discharged due to illness. Hawk Charging Daylight, a Sioux whose name was changed to Bernard Hawk, was 13 when he was forced to enter the boarding school on Oct. 6, 1879. He spent three years away from his family. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/05/carlisle_indian_school_repatri.html...

  • Gallery under fire over use of Native American imagery

    May 9, 2016

    An upcoming gallery exhibition in Minneapolis is drawing opposition for its use of Native American imagery. The show, called "The New Eden," features 40 paintings and drawings by Scott Seekins, all on the theme of the Dakota War of 1862. http://kuow.org/post/gallery-under-fire-over-use-native-american-imagery...

  • 'Off the Reservation' Is a Phrase With a Dark Past

    May 9, 2016

    Hillary Clinton made a regrettable choice of words in a CNN interview last week, when she was asked about Donald Trump’s attacks on her. “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak,” she told Jake Tapper. After the interview aired, Mrs. Clinton’s political director Amanda Renteria “walked back” the “off the reservation” remark, noting on Twitter that the expression has “some very offensive roots.” Mr. Trump pounced on her word choice in his...

  • Cherokee council sparks up medicinal marijuana initiative

    May 9, 2016

    CHEROKEE — After months of debate, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council yesterday approved a plan to pursue legalizing medicinal marijuana, at least for tribal members on the tribe’s lands. The plan is a relatively small step, compared to what a local activist group, Common Sense Cannabis, had hoped for after the U.S. Justice Department last summer freed Native American tribes to plot their own course on regulating the drug. http://carolinapublicpress.org/24819/cherokee-council-sparks-up-medicinal-marijuan...

  • $1.6 Million Settlement With Payday Lenders

    May 9, 2016

    LINCOLN, Neb. (CN) — Nebraska will accept $1.6 million to settle a predatory lending suit against CashCall and Western Sky Financial, which it accused of falsely claiming tribal affiliation to duck lending laws. Attorney General Douglas Peterson said the state settled out of court the day after it filed suit in Lancaster County Court, in the state capital. Defendants included Delbert Services Corp., J. Paul Reddam and Martin A. Webb. http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/06/1-6-million-settlement-with-payday-lenders.htm...

  • American Indian tribes in North Dakota plan to band together and seek state funding to promote tourism on reservations

    May 9, 2016

    BISMARCK, North Dakota — American Indian tribes in North Dakota plan to band together and seek state funding to promote tourism on reservations. Tribes want visitors to North Dakota to experience the whole state, including Native American culture, Turtle Mountain Tourism Association Vice Chairman Les Thomas told the Bismarck Tribune (http://bit.ly/1T4JHQG ). http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ad217d698fb641d390250468211a75e4/ND--Tribes-Tourism...

  • Report explores Native Americans' legacy in Duluth

    May 9, 2016

    A recently released report explores the role Native Americans have played in Duluth's history to date, as well as their ongoing influence. At 6 p.m. Monday, a report dubbed the Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Contributions to the City of Duluth will be presented in council chambers on the third floor of City Hall, 411 W. First St. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4026251-report-explores-native-americans-legacy-duluth...

  • The Jingle Dress Tradition

    May 9, 2016

    Episode: Ojibwe stories tell of the beginnings and the healing powers of the Jingle Dress Dance, a popular tradition throughout America’s Native communities. Produced with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. http://www.tpt.org/the-jingle-dress-tradition/#/episode/the-jingle-dress-tradition...

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