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Jacob Vevea was a rising leader in the Navy before a noncombat shoulder injury forced him to leave the service. When he came home, Vevea dealt with anger and anxiety by drinking....
Legal settlements usually settle disputes, but a proposed $7.25 billion class-action settlement involving Visa and MasterCard appears to be erupting into a whole new battle over the fees retailers have to pay when consumers pull out their plastic....
PORTLAND, Maine - The remnants of a violent storm that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma sent punishing winds and torrential downpours to northern New England and a tornado to South Carolina. And there could be more coming, though meteorologists say the worst is over....
I was barely a moment inside Wal-Mart, studying the cucumbers and avocados, when a middle-aged man came up to say hi....
Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they had done countless times before: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms like the one in Oklahoma....
In electing its first Native American Bishop, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) also elected its first openly gay Bishop. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/02/evangelical-lutheran-church-america-elects-first-native-american-bishop-149669...
Ten members of Congress recently sent a letter to Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s name, the latest attempt in a lengthy battle to remove what some consider a racial slur to American Indians....
Cuts to federal funding for tribal colleges and universities due to the sequester mean more than fewer classes and increased teaching loads to the people charged with fulfilling the mission and promise of these schools. “Tribal colleges play a key role in tribal nation-building efforts. We strive to build tribal nations by building people. It’s not just about funding—TCUs are deeply connected to tribal communities and tribal nations. These cuts reflect on the promise of the government to partner with TCUs to provide education” to America...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A bill expanding the powers of police officers that currently patrol the state’s two federally recognized Indian tribal reservations is heading to the governor for his signature....
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing for Yvette Roubideaux to serve another term as director of the Indian Health Service....
Imagine a knife sharper than a razor blade. Sharper even than a surgeon’s scalpel. Some new product utilizing futuristic technology? No, these knives (and arrowheads) were crafted by the Stone Age people called Clovis over ten thousand years ago....
CHICAGO – Respected Ojibwe elder George Martin carried the Eagle Staff in front of a sold-out crowd prior to Game One of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Western Conference Final on Saturday afternoon between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings....
Two men from the Wind River Reservation have been indicted for their roles in the 2006 murder of an Idaho man. 61-year-old Alan Brown and his brother 54-year-old Vernon Lee Brown are accused of murdering Tad Barnson. Both men are members of the Northern Arapaho tribe....
The spotted owl, already encroached upon by the invasive, usurping barred owl and under siege from continuing loss of its old-growth-forest habitat, may have a new enemy: rat poison on illegal marijuana plantations. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2013/05/30/pot-farm-raticide-may-be-killing-spotted-owls-hoopa-tribe-investigates-149603...
An Escambia Academy High School student who wore an eagle feather on her graduation cap was denied her diploma after graduating May 23. According to a contract issued by the school in Atmore, Alabama, 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer, of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, would not receive her diploma or high school transcripts until she paid a copy,000 fine for wearing the feather. Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/05/31/poarch-creek-student-fined-wearing-eagle-feather-graduation-149646...
This summer athletes, vendors, and spectators will gather from around the world in Fairbanks to celebrate the 52nd Annual World Eskimo Indian Olympics. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/05/31/head-fairbanks-alaska-annual-world-eskimo-indian-olympics-149595...
Johnny Depp’s controversial portrayal of Tonto in the upcoming Disney film “The Lone Ranger,” has prompted Disney to offer a peacepipe to Indian groups upset by the movie. Apparently nothing soothes the savage soul quite like money....
Aboriginal opposition is sufficient to kill West Coast pipeline projects such as Northern Gateway regardless of what happens with other governments and regulators, a new paper from the Macdonald Laurier Institute warns. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/approach+needed+First+Nations+support+pipelines+report+warns/8460890/story.html#ixzz2V9o4OtJR...
GOSHEN — Goshen Community Schools Superintendent Diane Woodworth responded to comments about the removal of the wooden statue of an American Chief from the gym in a press release:...
Uranium giants Cameco and Areva have reached a $600-million deal with a Saskatchewan First Nation that supports their mining operations and drops a lawsuit over land near the proposed Millennium project....
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ The Oglala Sioux Tribe will open up a new grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation within days of the forced closure of the reservation's sole grocery store, the president of the tribe announced Tuesday....
The Justice Department said this week that it had increased its rate of criminal prosecutions in Indian country by more than 50 percent in the past four years, a period in which violent crime on the nation’s Indian reservations has soared and tribes have complained of lawlessness....
BISMARCK, N.D. — U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon says federal prosecutors have put a dent into crime on American Indian reservations in the last few years, but worries that budget mandates will slow the progress....
The cuts to K-12 education funding because of the federal sequester will impact students and teachers across the country, but many say they will hurt American Indian elementary and secondary school students the most. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/05/31/every-child-left-behind-sequester-guts-indian-education-part-2-149592...
Washington (CNN) -- On most days, Ray Arsenault feels light years away from Washington as he works as superintendent of a vast school district high in the quiet mountains of northeast New Mexico....
