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Citing the possibility of salmonella contamination, General Mills is recalling 168 cases of single-serve, reduced-sugar Cinnamon Toast Crunch bowl packs sold by food services such as cafeterias or restaurants....
A candidate for a seat on the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council is seeking permission to intervene in a federal lawsuit expected to determine the citizenship rights of freedmen descendants....
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2006, I returned home to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota. At the time I was an unemployed dreamer who, like many post-college young adults, was extremely out of shape. Four straight years of beer pong, all night study sessions, cafeteria food, and a once a week sloppy game of basketball had left my body in a sad state of affairs. So I told myself I would find a way to get more physically fit....
A third honoring for Oyate Wacinyapin, Russell Means, will be held on June 13 in the sacred Black Hills at Wind Cave, South Dakota. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/03/third-honoring-oyate-wacinyapin-russell-means-and-traditional-sun-dance-149684...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The federal government has yet to state whether Native Americans must be citizens of federally recognized tribes or just have a Bureau of Indian Affairs-issued Certificate Degree of Indian Blood card to avoid paying tax penalties for not having health insurance under the Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014....
Disenrollment, a seemingly innocuous term when used outside Indian country, has become a loaded word that rivals, if it does not surpass, “termination” as a concept that invokes fear and trembling in those natives who suffer its consequences. While the federal policy of termination in the 1950s was the formal repudiation of numerous Native nations’ recognition and benefits and constituted an abrupt cessation of the trust relationship; tribes that have instituted disenrollments effectively repudiate an individual tribal citizen’s recogni...
Red Lake School Board Meeting - Wednesday, June 5 - Admin Office...
Volunteers needed for Redby Spring Fling 2013. All districts welcome. Contact Dan Wells- Redby Community Coordinator 218-679-5924 Cell- 218-434-1644...
On May 31, Thomas Vilsack, secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, announced the appointment of two prominent American Indians to positions within the USDA. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/04/vilsack-appoints-two-american-indians-key-usda-roles-149707...
A shale gas exploration company's service vehicle was surrounded and seized by a group of self-described native warriors near Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick on Tuesday, RCMP say....
ELTON, La. (AP) - Former Coushatta Tribal Chairman Lovelin Poncho was re-elected to the position Saturday....
LECHEE, ARIZONA – When Nicole Kee was 19 years old, her aspirations were solely to make life better for her three year old daughter....
This year, graduation has become a battleground for some school officials and students. With schools tightening restrictions on who gets to walk, seniors are fighting for their rights in the last hours of their high school careers....
Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American nations, the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Sioux, residing within its borders. It is the abduction and kidnapping by state officials, under the cover of law, of American Indian children....
LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- Five Michigan Indian tribes have decided to challenge the state’s decision to hold a wolf hunt in the western U.P. this coming fall. As we hear from Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta, they say the wolf hunt violates a treaty:...
HELENA – Months before a state senator and Blackfeet leader allegedly fled a sheriff’s deputy who suspected him of drunken driving, a tribal judge expunged two DUI convictions from the record of the senator’s brother and said the tribe shouldn’t have reported them to the state....