Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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CHICAGO - Anna Schiferl hadn't even rolled out of bed when she reached for her cell phone and typed a text to her mom, one recent Saturday. Mom was right downstairs in the kitchen. The text? Anna wanted cinnamon rolls for breakfast....
Looking back at the week that was, we bring you our Sunday round-up, connecting you to the big stories in Indian Country. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/03/the-week-that-was-the-big-stories-in-indian-country-116009 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/03/the-week-that-was-the-big-stories-in-indian-country-116009#ixzz1wowZy2OY...
Something is happening in Northeast Nebraska that’s long overdue for our attention. Wednesday’s groundbreaking for the $10 million Educare center in Winnebago, Neb., was just the latest example of a transformation that has been nothing short of remarkable....
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....
The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI) elected a new leader on Wednesday to finish out the term of Grand Chief Randall Phillips, who resigned suddenly last year. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/association-of-iroquois-and-allied-indians-elect-gord-peters-as-grand-chief-115686 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/association-of-iroquois-and-allied-indians-elect-gord-peters-as-grand-chief-115686#ixzz1woxPBd4n...
The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) has released a new parenting curriculum focused on supporting American Indian families where fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is suspected. Gifts from the Sacred Circle: A Native Traditional Parenting Curriculum for Families Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is now available through Hazelden Publishing. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/31/new-parenting-curriculum-supports-native-families-with-fasd-115518 http://indiancountrytoday...
PORT ANGELES — Frances Charles has been re-elected as chair of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, a position she has held since 2005....
AKWESASNE – Paul Thompson won the position of tribal chief of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in Saturday’s election....
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) participated in a raid to dismantle what authorities said was a drug trafficking ring in the Abenaki community of Odanak First Nation on May 30, according to a press release. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/rcmp-and-aboriginal-authorities-conduct-drug-raid-on-odanak-first-nation-115756 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/rcmp-and-aboriginal-authorities-conduct-drug-raid-on-odanak-first-nation-115756#ixzz1wozafTdr...
Santa Fe police didn't charge local artist Mateo Romero in connection with last week's shooting outside a north-side convenience store, his attorney said Thursday, because he was acting in self-defense after a panhandling couple tried to rob him....
ABC News reports that a group of high school students armed with a video camera and some lightning quick instincts may have captured the mercurial, mythic Bigfoot during a class project in the Idaho wilderness. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/01/bigfoot-captured-in-student-video-in-idaho-you-be-the-judge-115909 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/01/bigfoot-captured-in-student-video-in-idaho-you-be-the-judge-115909#ixzz1wp0MPUhn...
As the Dakota in Manitoba continue their fight against the provincial government to sell cheap cigarettes, they also continue to claim their tribe is a sovereign nation....
WASHINGTON (May 30, 2012) -- Responding to a New York Times investigative report that found the rate of sexual assault of Native women is more than twice the national average, with even greater disparities in rural Alaskan villages, Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Dan Boren (D-Okla.) today called on the Republican leadership of the Natural Resources Committee to hold a hearing on this important matter....
Fort McMurray – May 31, 2012 – Wednesday afternoon members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), including Chief Allan Adam, found two grotesquely deformed, lesion covered Fish in Lake Athabasca near the community of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, a remote fly in community in Northern Alberta. The Suckerfish and Jackfish were found at two separate locations on Lake Athabasca Wednesday afternoon and are now stored in the community and will be sent for analysis at the CCWHC lab in Calgary....
KYLE, SOUTH DAKOTA – As part of a plan to provide home ownership opportunities on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Lakota Funds has given all tenants of the 30-unit Eagle Nest Housing Development in Wanblee, South Dakota first right of refusal to purchase the homes they currently rent before the units are put up for sale in 2014....
GRAND RAPIDS – Two weeks ago, a provocative picture of a three year old standing on a chair while his mother breast fed him made the cover of TIME magazine. The cover created a media frenzy with people wondering if TIME went too far with the picture....
TOPPENISH — Plans to disburse only 20 percent of a $193 million federal settlement directly to members of the Colville Tribes isn’t sitting well with some members....
Driving along a remote dirt road on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico recently, a rancher crested a ridge and noticed two animals intent on something in a nearby ditch. As he approached, one of the scavengers loped away—the other looked up, its mouth glistening with blood. The rancher guessed one of his sheep had been attacked, but he soon discovered something much different: the discarded body of a murder victim. It was going to be another busy day for our agents in Indian Country....
MAYETTA, KANSAS – The Potawatomi Tribal Police Department received high praise from Barry Grissom, the US Attorney in Kansas, and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Council for thoroughly investigating and cooperating with other law enforcement agencies that contributed to a plea of no contest from a man in a child rape case....
In a May 30, 2012 story in The Guardian, journalist Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children reveals that next Fall over 100,000 elementary school students in American public schools will receive explicit coaching on the scriptural justification for killing unbelievers, every last one - drawing on Old Testament scripture that, according to Pennsylvania State professor Philip Jenkins, author of Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses, has...
Haskell Indian Nations University officials have again cancelled a Journal-World interview with president Chris Redman to discuss academic violations within the school’s athletics department. A similar meeting scheduled for last week was also cancelled....
An intensive review of Ontario records has so far turned up more than 100 possible cases of previously unidentified child and youth deaths linked to Indian residential schools, the province's chief coroner said Thursday....
(Port Angeles) -- Francis Charles has been elected chair of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe again....
CHEYENNE -- Edward Wadda, tribal liaison for the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, was killed in a single vehicle rollover Thursday night 16 miles north of Kaycee. Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/eastern-shoshone-tribal-liaison-dies-in-car-crash/article_b6d30392-6433-5746-b4df-416b782a0e46.html#ixzz1wp7BkBmq...
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people after a gang and drug enforcement operation on the Fort Apache reservation in northeastern Arizona....
