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Emotions ran high Tuesday night at the Mendota Heights City Council meeting as a couple of dozen people begged the council not to fire police Sgt. Bobby Lambert. Dozens more packed the council chambers, spilling out into the hall with signs supporting Lambert, a 20-year-veteran of the force who was put on paid administrative leave in February pending an internal-affairs investigation. But in the end, the council voted 4-1 to fire Lambert, effective Wednesday. http://www.startribune.com/mendota-heights-council-to-discuss-firi...
Although the number of people trying to join ISIL's fight abroad has fallen in the last year, the FBI is still investigating more than 1,000 ISIL-related cases across all 50 states, the bureau's director said Tuesday during a visit to Minneapolis. In a brief conversation with reporters at the FBI's office in Brooklyn Center, Director James Comey said the number of people trying to leave the U.S. and join ISIL in Syria dipped from 6-10 per month last year to 1-2 per month by late last summer. But he said the FBI hasn't seen the same drop-off in...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The man accused of kidnapping and killing an 11-year-old Navajo girl pleaded not guilty to murder, sexual abuse and other charges Tuesday in a case that sent shockwaves through the nation's largest American Indian reservation. Tom Begaye's attorney entered the plea in federal court just over a month after authorities say the 27-year-old abducted fifth-grader Ashlynne Mike and her younger brother as they played along their school bus route near the edge of the Navajo Nation. http://www.kob.com/albuque...
Members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona will vote on lowering the blood quantum standard for enrollment. According to the constitution, membership is open to people with at least one-half Indian blood, provided that one-fourth comes from White Mountain Apache blood. An amendment would eliminate the one-half Indian blood standard and lower the White Mountain Apache blood to one-eighth. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/07/white-mountain-apache-tribe-to-vote-on-l.asp...
Ontario Provincial Police continue to search for the remains of Charnelle Masakeyash after a bone, which was found in Mishkeegogamang First Nation, was positively identified as belonging to the 26-year-old woman. A member of the public found the bone on June 2 and brought it to police, who sent it to Toronto for examination by the Office of the Chief Coroner and Forensic Pathology Service, OPP announced in a written release Tuesday. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/charnelle-masakeyash-partial-remains-1.3620421...
Another large-scale search is underway for 27-year-old north Okanagan resident Caitlin Potts, who hasn’t been heard from since Feb. 22. Aboriginal leaders from across B.C., including Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Grand Chief Doug Kelly and Kukpi7 Wayne Christian, are helping lead a search around Enderby. http://globalnews.ca/news/2745320/first-nations-leaders-issue-call-to-action-during-search-for-caitlin-potts/...
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities said Tuesday they have proof UPS knowingly shipped about 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations to consumers and smoke shops from 2010 to 2014, even though they had agreed more than a decade ago to stop. New York's attorney general and New York City's law department sued the Atlanta-based shipping giant in 2014, alleging that it ignored clear indications that some of its clients were shipping cigarettes and should have done more to stop the shipments. The city and state allege in t...
MADISON, Wis. — Groups advocating for voting rights said they will soon ask a federal judge to allow people to vote in Wisconsin’s August primary election if they are having trouble getting a required ID. The request comes even as attorneys for the state Department of Justice are trying to put the case on hold. http://www.therepublic.com/2016/06/07/wi-voter-id-wisconsin/...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Advocates who want to end beer sales in a tiny Nebraska town are once again urging state alcohol regulators to intervene, citing numerous reports of violence in the tiny village that borders South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The group on Tuesday presented the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission with a dispatch log from the Sheridan County sheriff's office of incidents in the town of Whiteclay. They were from April alone include reports of fires, drunken drivers, assaults with cars and baseball bats, rocks t...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A fourth Navajo is suing the Mormon church, alleging religious leaders didn't do enough to protect him from sexual abuse he endured by his foster father in a now-defunct church program that placed thousands of American Indian children with Mormon families. The man says in a complaint filed this week in Navajo Nation court that he reported the abuse that occurred in the late 1970s in northern Utah to workers in the Mormon program, but he was told to remain at the home. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...
BROWNING, Montana—When June Bullshoe Tatsey’s father told other members of the Blackfeet tribe that he wanted his four daughters to become teachers, they laughed. It was the 1930s, during the Great Depression, and American Indians faced discrimination applying for the few available jobs. Public school teachers in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation’s main town of Browning were white. Native people simply did not become teachers. But by the mid-1970s, Bullshoe’s daughters had all realized their father’s dream. All four left the reservati...
A group of elected clan grandmothers intend to remove the only chief a small northern Ontario First Nation has ever known using a traditional practice called a 'seven woman dehorning'. Edward Machimity has been chief of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen First Nation, about 400 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., since the reserve was created in 1986. For decades, there has been tension between the approximately 75 community members who live on the reserve and the 150 or so who do not. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder...
Despite the fact that Saskatchewan's Chief Coroner released his autopsy report last week, the last 40 minutes of Nadine Machiskinic's life remain a mystery. The family of the 29-year-old woman who plunged 10 stories to her death down a laundry chute in Regina's Delta Hotel says that is due in part to a lacklustre, error-filled investigation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/laundry-chute-death-mystery-mistakes-missed-opportunity-machiskinic-family-1.3619439...
ISLE—Monday's four-hour meeting of the Mille Lacs Fisheries Advisory Committee was one of the most tense in the group's eight-month history, with friction between members and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources staff. Although it was unclear if the desire was unanimous among the committee, several members said they wanted a guarantee from state government leaders that there would not be a repeat this year of the economically devastating early closure of the walleye season last August. Another issue of division between the committee m...
Former American River College business instructor Gregory Scott Baker has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison in a fraud scheme that bilked the United Auburn Indian Community of more than $18 million through inflated construction project invoices and kickbacks, federal prosecutors say. U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley ordered Baker, of Newcastle, to make restitution of the $18 million he and several other defendants funneled from the tribe during the 2006 and 2007 construction of a school, community center and...
The Montana Native American Athletic Association has announced for a second year in a row all-star games between the Native Americans from Montana and Wyoming. Games are Friday and Saturday night at Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency. The Montana boys roster is Brandon The Boy, Box Elder; Jarrod Four Colors, Box Elder; Beau Venne, Hardin; Victor Yarlott, St. Labre; Chris Azure, Culbertson; Lando Stewart, Plenty Coups; Marcus Henry, Harlem; Jomiah Black Eagle, St. Labre; Ryan Loring, Browning; Uriah Bear Below, Lodge Grass. The team will be...
Saint Regis Mohawk tribal member and businessman Ryan Dale White, is pleased to announce the launch of Native Releaf’s cannabidiol vapor e‐ Pen. “The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and all Native North American’s have historically used herbs, sweet grasses and other plants given to us by the earth for a variety of functions and purposes”, says White. He feels passionately that “CBD is one of mother natures resources that has yet to reach it fullest potential in Indian Country and beyond. “The internet speaks volumes about CBD however we make no cl...
WASHINGTON – In 1999, Marilyn Keepseagle and others filed a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) claiming the USDA discriminated against Native Americans by denying them equal access to credit in the USDA Farm Loan Program. In 2010, the parties reached a $760 million settlement and distribution of funds to individual claimants took place. After all successful claimants were paid, approximately $380 million remained. Earlier this year, the parties reached an agreement on what to do with the remaining f...
Teacher Assistant II – Blackduck: 29 hours/wk for the school year. P reschool CDA; or enrolled in a program leading to an AA or BA; or enrolled in a CDA to be completed within 2 years. $10.80-$14.30 hr DOQ. All applicants must meet DHS & MN Rule 3 licensing requirements. Applications are available on our website at www.bicap.org or apply at BI-CAP, 6603 Bemidji Ave. N, Bemidji, MN 56601 by 6/10/16. EOE...
