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BOSTON, May 30, 2012 -- Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today joined local officials, educators, and students to highlight the first anniversary of the MyPlate food icon and announced a month of nutrition events and promotions to mark the occasion. In June 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled MyPlate, the federal government's primary food group symbol, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthy food choices consistent with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. MyPlate is...
WALLA WALLA — Graysun Sherwood lay sprawled across his grandmother's lap, a red Kool-Aid stain ringing his mouth....
In Edmonton, an Aboriginal woman who says racism forced her to quit a dream job with the city’s police service has now received an apology from the chief of police....
Depending upon whom you ask, Kevin Martineau is either a respected nonprofit manager eager to see his organization grow, or a hot-tempered, overbearing grouch with a penchant for cutting clients and staffers off at the knees....
HOOPA, Calif. -- He snorted his first line of dope when he was 15. He remembers the day. He ran with the older boys, and they tried to look out for him by refusing to rail him up. They told him, “You better not.” But it wasn’t long before his “bros” caved to his curiosity. Nor was it long before he stopped snorting, and started shooting his poison. He spent the next 21 years incarcerated or on the run, battling an addiction that swept his youth away like powder in the wind....
Suicide may still be a hush-hush topic for many Indian people, but it’s not for Arnold Thomas, Shoshone-Paiute. And Thomas, who tried to commit suicide in 1988, when he was 18—and miraculously survived—has plenty to say about it. In fact, that is what he has done for most of the past decade. Under the banner of his Salt Lake City–based firm, White Buffalo Knife Consulting, he has traveled to dozens of tribal communities in the United States and Canada to speak about his attempted suicide. During the first half of the 2000s, he was telling...
Hopi High wins 13 media awards from Arizona Interscholastic Press Association...
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — The tribal police chief says five people have died in a two-vehicle crash and fire on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon....
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The preliminary hearing of Robinson Rancheria’s tribal chair – alleged to have embezzled thousands of dollars from another Lake County tribe – has been set for August....
Devils Lake, ND — FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says a North Dakota man must pay back $23,350 he embezzled from a Spirit Lake tribal program with the help of his wife and daughter. The Grand Forks Herald reports that a federal judge in Fargo also sentenced 68-year-old William Kazena to four years of probation Friday for conspiracy to embezzle from an Indian tribal organization....
COEUR D’ALENE-- New details have been released surrounding the death of Coeur d’Alene tribal member....