Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York state has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to scores of people beaten, arrested or chased away by state police during a protest on the Onondaga Indian Nation 15 years ago, the attorney for dozens of the plaintiffs said....
Minneapolis, MN - On June 2 more than 50 people gathered at the American Indian OIC center for a town hall meeting on civil liberties under the theme of Fight for your Right to Dissent. The event was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF)....
FARMINGTON — Farmington's Community Relations Commission voted to invite law enforcement representatives from the state, county and local levels to its next meeting in a month. The vote was in response to more than 50 members of Farmington's Hispanic community packing the commission's meeting room on Monday to express their concern about how local law enforcement and a recent influx of Immigration Customs Enforcement agents seem to be engaging in racial profiling....
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - During the first week of school in August 2010, students in an eighth grade physical science class at Randy Smith Middle School made a startling discovery. There were racist names on an Alaska topographic map. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/06/04/2491134/students-take-action-to-remove.html#storylink=cpy...
Leya Hale found herself dancing on a fine line between honor and offensiveness recently on the ultimate stage....
After an intensive three-week introduction to policing, a group of Aboriginal trainees are ready to decide if they want to join the RCMP, Dean Gutheil reports....
When North Carolina announced earlier this year that it intends to be the first state to compensate victims of decades-ago sterilization programs, it renewed a nationwide debate over the need to acknowledge and amend the travesties of similar programs in other states. Tens of thousands of women, men and even children were sterilized from the early 1900s through the middle part of the century. Often, the victims were misled about the treatments they were undergoing; sometimes they were pressured or even forced to cooperate. Most had been deemed...
KAMLOOPS, British Columbia -- Canadian conservation officers have euthanized a black bear that ate the remains of a convicted murderer. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/06/04/20120604canada-bear-eats-murderer.html#ixzz1wv1Uw6Jb...
A black bear that attacked a man who was soaking in his hot tub on Sunday afternoon has been shot and killed by police in Whistler, B.C....
The former president of the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to embezzle funds from the tribe....
A 29-year-old B.C. man who beat another man to death in an argument over a bag of chips will spend nearly eight years in prison....
On May 1st, The Aberdeen News of South Dakota reported that former South Dakota state attorney Brandon Taliaferro and court appointed child advocate Shirley Schwab were being charged by South Dakota State Attorney General Martin Jackley with witness tampering and subornation of perjury. Attorney General Jackley filed these charges in relation to the separate criminal prosecution of Aberdeen-based foster parents Richard and Gwendolyn Mette. Mr. Taliaferro is a well-known South Dakota Indian child advocate and, as a former Assistant State...
