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OKLAHOMA CITY – The highly respected deadCenter Film Festival will feature the award-winning documentary “First Encounter” concerning the Chickasaw Nation’s interaction with Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540-41. In January, the film won Best Short Documentary at Duncan’s Trail Dance Film Festival. “First Encounter” also was featured by the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) in April. First Encounter will be shown Saturday, June 13 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The event is called Native...
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org), will be attending a conference in Washington, D.C., today and tomorrow, hosted by the Association of Public Health Laboratories, that will look at newborn screening research and programs. Brase will attend as a representative of patient freedoms and privacy protections, as the event will consider the impact of newly implemented requirements mandating parental consent before federally funded research can be conducted on new...
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session. But that program and several other post-Sept. 11 counter-terror measures look likely to be revived in a matter of days. With no other options, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an about-face, reluctantly embraced a House-passed bill that would extend the anti-terror provisions, while also r...
Elder Leiva glides through the bustle of Wellstone High’s cafeteria, a nonchalant lilt to his gait. He continues on to a quiet school office, where he finds a spread of pork tacos and Minneapolis district staffer Mayra Garcia-Rivera. She’s there to give Elder and a half-dozen other teens answers to high-stakes questions: How do they catch up on school credits — and childhood vaccinations? How do they line up a library card — and a lawyer? http://www.startribune.com/young-migrants-present-minnesota-schools-with-tangle-of-need...
ANGLE INLET, Minn. – Linda LaMie reached out of the boat, grabbing the dock and knotting a rope. Wind whipped cold rain against her camouflage coat, its hood tied tight beneath her chin. She trudged up a hill and fished through her pockets, heavy with the tools she needs for this daily commute: a flashlight, ice picks, a passport. Then she unlocked the door to the one-room schoolhouse — Minnesota’s last. By the time students arrived, just before 8 a.m., LaMie, 56, had shed the camouflage to reveal curled hair, a bright scarf, a bit of lipst...
Kate Gillen brought one of her most precious possessions when she came to speak to a health class at Park High School in Cottage Grove: a purse-sized photo album filled with snapshots of a growing boy and his parents. Students who passed it from desk to desk seemed to handle it with reverence, glancing from the baby pictures to the 33-year-old communications executive standing in front of them. “That’s my son,” Gillen said. “And his mother and father.” http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-teens-get-new-perspective-on-adoptio...
A town-hall meeting Thursday night drew about 100 people to the Church of Gichitwaa Kateri in Minneapolis to discuss the devastating effects of heroin on the American Indian community. Many audience members were affiliated with the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis, which has lost six people to heroin overdoses over the past six months. Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek asked those in attendance to raise their hands if they had been directly affected by the issue of addiction. More than two-thirds of the audience indicated they...
The commission that has spent five years examining one of the darkest chapters in Canada's history is winding up its work with a key question left unanswered — exactly how many aboriginal children died in residential schools? Justice Murray Sinclair, who heads the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says the federal government stopped recording the deaths around 1920 after the chief medical officer at Indian Affairs suggested children were dying at an alarming rate. "He was fired," Sinclair says. "The government stopped recording deaths of c...
An estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people walked through downtown Ottawa-Gatineau in an effort to "transform and renew" the relationship between aboriginal people and other Canadians as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada prepares to release its final report on Tuesday. "It's a dark chapter in Canada's history, no question. It was cultural genocide," said National Chief Perry Bellegarde, head of the Assembly of First Nations, who took part in the walk on Sunday. "There's a lot of young ones that didn't come home to their families,...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are no strangers to hardship or to the risk of lives being cut short. But a string of seven suicides by adolescents in recent months has shaken this impoverished community and sent school and tribal leaders on an urgent mission to stop the deaths. On Dec. 12, a 14-year-old boy hanged himself at his home on the reservation, a sprawling expanse of badlands on the South Dakota-Nebraska border. On Christmas Day, a 15-year-old girl was found dead, followed weeks later by a h...
South Dakota Fourth Circuit Court Magistrate Judge Eric Strawn ruled on Thursday that Trace O’Connel, 41, will not spend a day in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. The charge carries up to a $500 fine and a 30-day jail sentence. O’Connell is the man who sprayed beer on a group of 57 American Indian students from the Pine Ridge Indian Reseration at a Rapid City Rush hockey game on January 24, 2015. O’Connell was part of a group in the corporate suite owned by Eagle Sales of the Black Hills, which is the Anheu...
BEAVERTON, OREGON — The latest Nike N7 collection honors the tradition and growth of basketball on native lands. To honor this tradition and celebrate the seventh anniversary of Nike N7, Nike brings a new dimension to the Summer 2015 Nike N7 collection with three Jordan Brand footwear styles: the Air Jordan 1 Low N7, Air Jordan 7 Retro N7 and the Jordan Super Fly 3 PO N7 (also in kids’ sizes). The collection also includes additional basketball styles for men, as well as men’s and women’s running and training footwear and apparel. his is the...
BANGOR — Marie Harnois stands on the banks of the Penobscot River at dusk, swirling a dip net under the water, fishing for eels – something her ancestors in the Passamaquoddy tribe have done for thousands of years. Fishing has been a way of life for Maine’s American Indians since time immemorial – “Passamaquoddy” is derived from a word that means “the people who spear pollock” – and Harnois thinks it’s past time the state government’s regulators came to the table to share management of fisheries with the tribes. http://www.pressheral...
Around 200 fisherman and tribal members rallied near Willamette Falls Saturday. They showed support for a bill that would allow tribes with fishing rights to kill some sea lions on the Columbia river. Sara Thompson, with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, says sea lions have eaten about twice as many fish as usual at the dams this year. “We’ve seen probably, just in the quarter mile below Bonneville dam, over 8,000 Salmon and Steelhead consumed by sea lions,” she said. http://www.opb.org/news/article/tribes-fis...
With a few strokes of a pen, more than 500 acres of land were added to the Soboba Reservation on Friday, May 29. Signatures from Soboba Tribal Chairwoman Rosemary Morillo and Amy Dutschke from the Bureau of Indian Affairs completed a process that started 12 years ago. The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians eventually plans to relocate its casino to the property, which includes the Country Club at Soboba, where the signing ceremony. http://www.pe.com/articles/soboba-768536-land-tribe.html...
REDMOND WA- Kirkland based wholesale megastore Costco has announced plans to offer bulk high grade marijuana under their flagship Kirkland Signature brand in all 237 Washington locations. The marijuana will be exclusively purchased from the Suquamish Tribe, which is currently awaiting federal approval to begin production on. Tribal gaming commissioners met with Costco executives more than 3 months ago to work on a tentative deal. http://www.kitsapreport.com/costco-to-offer-wholesale-marijuana-by-summer/...
t least 6,000 aboriginal children died while in the residential school system in Canada, in a "cultural genocide", officials have said. Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who is responsible for studying the legacy of the residential schools, said the figure is an estimate and the true figure could be much higher. "We think that we have not uncovered anywhere near what the total would be because the record keeping around that question was very poor," Sinclair told Rosemary Barton of CBC's Power &...
One year after Allan Waugh was murdered in his own home in the Kwanlin Dün First Nation village, his five children still have no clue who killed their 69-year-old father or why. On Friday, Waugh's family led a sombre and emotional march through the village to repeat their plea for help in finding their father's killer. "On behalf of my family I make a statement, I make a plea, for anyone with information regarding the murder of my father, Al Waugh, on May 30, 2014, to please come forward," said daughter Dawn Waugh. http://ww...
ONAMIA-- Elected leaders and staff from Minnesota's tribal communities and other experts gathered Thursday on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation for a summit on the issue of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. American Indian communities in Minnesota face some of the highest rates of NAS, or children born addicted to opiates. Tribal leaders from Bois Forte, Red Lake, White Earth, Leech Lake, and Mille Lacs were in attendance along with policy experts from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, staff from U.S. Sen. Al Franken's office, and...
WHITE SWAN — Yakama Nation Tribal Council Member Warren L. Spencer Jr. died Friday. Spencer, 50, died on his property from self-inflicted injuries, said Yakima County Coroner Jack Hawkins. Spencer served as the Tribal Council’s assistant secretary and served as the chairman of the committee that dealt with Hanford issues, and on the economic development and fish and wildlife committees. He also served 17 years on the nation’s Code of Ethics committee, http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/coroner-yakama-official-died-from-s...
ANCHORAGE – Tribal leaders and fishermen in Kodiak have joined in the protests against the military exercises planned for the Gulf of Alaska. Earlier this month, on Cordova’s Orca Inlet, more than 100 boats linked together in a massive flotilla. Today, members from Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak (STK), commercial fishermen and local residents simulated that protest at the Port of Kodiak. Ships, skiffs and kayaks lined the waters with banners reading “Our livelihood is not a game.” The major concern among the protestors is that military activitie...
In Indian Brook, stray dogs that roam, sometimes in packs, are a familiar sight around the Sipekne'katik First Nation. For residents like Brittany Parker, a mother of two small children, they trigger a deep fear. "I worry all the time [about] my kids getting attacked by a dog," she said while playing with her three-year-old son on their front lawn. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sipekne-katik-first-nation-implementing-dog-population-control-program-1.3094215...
TACOMA, Wash. - A Suquamish tribal member was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Friday for beating his girlfriend so severely she suffered permanent vision problems and a host of other injuries. The sentencing came after Wade Williams, 43, admitted assaulting his then-girlfriend more than once, spitting on her, pushing her to the ground, smashing her cellphone, beating her with a broom and squeezing her so tightly in one incident that she lost consciousness and fell, hitting her head on stone steps, court records show. The "pattern of...
A 29-year-old convict with a history of violent, sexual offences has been located after failing to appear for sentencing on an undisclosed conviction. An arrest warrant was issued for Keegan Spearchief on Monday, May 25, 2015 after RCMP determined he posed a risk to the health and safety of the public, particularly adult females. According to RCMP officials, Spearchief turned himself in to the Blood Tribe Police Services on Friday. http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/high-risk-sex-offender-surrenders-to-blood-tribe-police-1.2397993...
PEMBROKE - While some Lumbee families wait as long as 15 years for help repairing their homes, the tribe spent federal money meant for housing services on an ocean fishing trip, banquet catering and other unallowable expenses, according to a government review. The Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina must repay about $225,000, including $5,000 for a chartered fishing excursion for 80 veterans and about $10,000 for holiday catering. The findings are part of a monitoring report conducted by the Eastern/Woodlands Office of Native American...
