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  • Jun 1, 2012

    PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Canadian man's murder conviction and life sentence in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement activist, ruling that the state had jurisdiction to prosecute him....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    The legacy of residential schools continues to impact thousands of Aboriginal men and women across the country....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    WINNEBAGO, Neb. | The Winnebago Tribe's reservation in Northeast Nebraska is home to about 2,800 enrolled members....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    The Dakota will ignore a temporary injunction to shut down a smoke shop that sells cigarettes in defiance of provincial tobacco tax laws, Canupawakpa Chief Frank Brown said late Wednesday....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    A battle between Manitoba and Dakota communities over cigarette taxes could spread across the province and ignite rail blockades and other actions, says one of the candidates running for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Anheuser-Busch and other big brewers blocked a Nebraska bill that would have curbed sales targeted at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....

  • Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is drowning in beer

    Jun 1, 2012

    Just six hours from Denver is the town of Whiteclay, Neb. Its population: about 12. Yet in 2010, this tiny town sold 465,000 gallons of beer, enough for nearly 5 million 12-ounce servings. Read more: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is drowning in beer - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_20704990/drowning-beer?source=pkg#ixzz1wXlAWBTQ Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse...

  • Grassroots River Closure, Coordinated Boater Harassment Highlight Winnemem Wintu’s War Dance

    Jun 1, 2012

    Spangled with duct-tape lettering and weighed down by milk jugs filled with water, the banner reading “River Closed” was strung across the McCloud River on May 26 far higher than any boat and cast against mountains that were veiled in cloud shadow. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/31/grassroots-river-closure-coordinated-boater-harassment-highlight-winnemem-wintus-war-dance-115777 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/31/grassroots-river-closure-coordinated-boater-harassment-highlight-wi...

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Ontario's chief coroner says a joint inquest will be held into the deaths of seven First Nations youth in Thunder Bay....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Ontario's chief coroner will hold a joint inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations teenagers from remote reserves who were living in Thunder Bay to attend high school....

  • Fremont County protests fees in voting rights case

    Jun 1, 2012

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Fremont County is balking at paying legal fees for a group of American Indians whose court challenge forced the county to abandon its system of at-large voting for commissioners. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_e9f05109-a760-5c5f-aa96-f43de6d6cbd2.html#ixzz1wXoBHdsy...

  • Vern Traversie and the Worst Place to Be an Indian

    Jun 1, 2012

    In western South Dakota, it’s all about perception. If you are Indian, or appear to be Indian, you are routinely judged by the color of your skin regarding the content of your character. If you are white, there is also a set of assumptions made by those standing on the other side. Not everyone sits firmly on one side or the other, but that doesn’t always matter much, because there is a clear line drawn between the Us and the Them. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/vern-traversie-and-the-worst-place-to-be-an-indian htt...

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Two at large Tribal Council seats and the office of vice chairman are what hang in the balance in the 2012 Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal elections that will be decided this Saturday....

  • Nationally renowned education program headed to Winnebago

    Jun 1, 2012

    WINNEBAGO -- A deep-seated desire to better prepare their children for kindergarten led leaders of the Winnebago Tribe to a program that serves as a national model for early childhood education. Read more: http://journalstar.com/news/local/education/nationally-renowned-education-program-headed-to-winnebago/article_3a8a60e8-03ac-5a67-88c1-0ee696476122.html#ixzz1wXrNyVyo...

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Synchronized swimmer Mary Killman, member of the Citizen Potowatomie Nation, has hopes for 2012 Olympic gold in London. She will be partnered on the American squad in the duet event with teammate Mariya Koroleva. This will happen exactly 100 years after Jim Thorpe, the most famous Native American Olympian of all time, won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    Two of five people killed in this week's two-car crash on the Umatilla Indian Reservation cannot be identified....

  • Jun 1, 2012

    RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., have recovered the corpse of a man that was pulled from a car by a bear and stashed nearby in the woods....

  • Hardin woman gets prison for meth trafficking

    Jun 1, 2012

    A federal judge sentenced a Hardin woman to six years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine on the Crow Reservation. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_57f4bfe8-05e9-53b2-a6db-621ee2d2358a.html#ixzz1wXstiKFH...

  • Jun 1, 2012

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two minors on the Wind River Indian Reservation has been sentenced to 25 years in prison....

  • Two charged over illegal sale of prescription drugs on Blood reserve

    Jun 1, 2012

    CALGARY — Police have charged two people in connection with the illegal sale of prescription drugs on the Blood reserve in southern Alberta. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/charged+over+illegal+sale+prescription+drugs+Blood+reserve/6710698/story.html#ixzz1wXtaDOUt...

  • Jun 1, 2012

    The search continues this morning for 22 year old Charles Sydney Longshore, the suspected shooter in Monday’s double homicide of 19 year old Tyler Drake and 37 year old Anitrea Taber. Police searched a home near the Squaxin Island Tribal Headquarters on Wednesday. He was not in the home, but 2 other individuals were arrested on unrelated warrants....