Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (June 6, 2017) — Today, Hy-Vee, Inc. announced that with the help of its customers, it has rescued more than 1 million pounds of fruits and vegetables from landfills — just four months after it began offering the Misfits produce program. To further combat the nation’s food waste issue, Hy-Vee began offering so-called “ugly” produce in nearly all of its grocery stores in January. “Ugly” produce is cosmetically challenged fruits and vegetables that would traditionally go unsold due to the industry’s size and shape standards...
WASHINGTON — Fired FBI Director James Comey will testify under oath Thursday that President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed him for his "loyalty" and directly pushed him to "lift the cloud" of investigation shadowing his White House by declaring publicly the president was not the target of the probe into his campaign's Russia ties. Comey's detailed and vivid recollections of his one-on-one conversations with Trump were revealed in seven pages of prepared testimony released Wednesday, the day before his much-anticipated appearance before the S...
An Oakdale principal and South Washington County school board member was found dead Wednesday morning, two school districts reported. Joe Slavin was principal at Skyview Middle School and had been on the District 833 school board since 2015. The Woodbury Bulletin was linking his death to a police report of a man found dead at Carver Lake Park in Woodbury. http://www.startribune.com/man-found-dead-in-woodbury-park/427080361/...
A use-of-force expert testified Wednesday that there was "absolutely no reason" for officer Jeronimo Yanez to believe Philando Castile was the armed suspect in a robbery days earlier, although a nonworking brake light was enough grounds for a legal traffic stop. "It's my opinion that the use of deadly force was objectively unreasonable," said the prosecution's witness, Jeffrey Noble. "He was simply a black man who drove by the convenience store four days later." http://www.startribune.com/use-of-force-experts-expected-to-tak...
This weekend may feel like a hot mess as soaring temperatures and sticky dew points combine Saturday to make it feel like it’s well over 100 degrees. With the 80s pushing into the upper 90s over the next several days, roads may buckle, weekend warriors may suffer and most everyone will feel like jumping in the lake. Those who aren’t careful could risk heat exhaustion and heat stroke, said Twin Cities meteorologist Paul Douglas. http://www.startribune.com/get-ready-for-a-hot-messy-weekend/427119461/...
NEW YORK — How long has our species been around? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back by about 100,000 years. The bones, about 300,000 years old, were unearthed thousands of miles from the previous record-holder, found in fossil-rich eastern Africa. The new discovery reveals people from an early stage of our species' evolution, with a mix of modern and more primitive traits. http://www.startribune.com/this-is-us-earliest-fossils-of-our-species-found-in-morocco/427048441/...
WASHINGTON – Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday backed President Donald Trump's recently unveiled paid family leave proposal, saying he'd like Minnesota to lead the nation in implementing a plan that many in the president's own party have been reluctant to embrace. Trump's federal budget proposal, released last month, would require states to set up their own programs through unemployment insurance for new parents to receive six weeks of paid leave. Dayton, who has been previously unsuccessful in getting Minnesota Republicans to sign on to his own p...
BISMARCK, N.D. | North Dakota regulators have scheduled late-summer hearings on potentially fine-able offenses alleged against the Texas-based developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The North Dakota Public Service Commission is investigating whether Energy Transfer Partners removed too many trees and shrubs while laying pipe in the state and improperly reported the discovery of Native American artifacts along the route. No artifacts were disturbed. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/latest/hearings-scheduled-on-potential...
If the results of the June 1 primary elections are any indication, incumbent Tribal Council members could be in trouble come the General Election Sept. 7. Councilmember Marie Junaluska, of Painttown, won’t even make it to the general election, coming in sixth place in a field of eight with 78 votes, or 11 percent. Two more council members barely squeaked by, making the cut with fourth-place finishes. Chairman Bill Taylor, of Wolfetown, finished fourth in a field of six, with just two votes separating his 173 votes from the fifth-place c...
A former Seminole Tribe chief has his eyes on the medical marijuana industry as a new cash cow for Native Americans. James Billie, who served as Seminole chairman until 2016, has partnered with the head of a cannabis investing firm in Nevada called Electrum Partners to leverage the tax and zoning benefits afforded through Native Americans’ sovereign land rights. http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2017/06/07/former-seminole-tribe-chief-sets-his-sights-on.html...
Three incumbents were successful in their bid for re-election on the Poarch Creek Tribal Council. Tribal Chairman Stephanie Bryan and At Large members Arthur Mothershed and Garvis Sells won handily without run-offs in the election held Saturday, June 3. http://atmorenews.com/2017/06/07/incumbents-win-pci-election/...
As Senate Republicans attempt to produce their own health care blueprint this week, beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act are left wondering: what will happen to me? But one community is especially vulnerable if Congress repeals the ACA: Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill currently making its way through Congress, does not undermine the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, a 1976 legislative promise made by the federal government to Native Americans to care and educate their community....
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (Herald de Paris) — Mitochondrial DNA analysis along the human genome in 2014 has revealed that members of some native North American tribes share a maternal ancestry, haplogroup X, which is linked to the maternal ancestors of some present-day individuals in western Asia (And possibly Western Europe), albeit distantly. This has also provided some support for pre-Clovis models. More specifically, a variant of mitochondrial DNA called X2a found in many Native Americans has been traced to western Eurasia, while not being f...
The Gila River Police Department has located and arrested a woman who is suspected of killing her brother. Gila River Police Department tweeted out saying that they had arrested 29-year-old Angel Roxanne Sullivan. No other details about her arrest were immediately available. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2017/06/07/gila-river-indian-community-woman-wanted-brothers-murder/377067001/...
A plea hearing for one of three defendants in an embezzlement case has been continued until July 5. Barbara Kirk, 65, was set to enter a plea in federal court in Aberdeen Tuesday to charges of felony conspiracy to commit theft from a tribal organization. http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/local_news/hearing-continued-in-tribal-embezzlement-case/article_834644ca-4b98-11e7-a519-4fdd2864d1a8.html...
SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France, June 7, 2017 — One of the few surviving American Indian World War II combat veterans returned to the country he helped to liberate to attend the dedication of a memorial in his honor here June 5. „As one of the few surviving American Indian combat veterans who participated in the liberation of France, I speak here not only for myself but also on behalf of my comrades from Turtle Island,” retired Army Master Sgt. Charles Norman Shay, said, citing the Native American name for North America. http:...
When Covenant Day students heard about the conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, they knew they had to do something. Fewer than 40,000 Lakota Indians live on the more than 2-million acre Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The median income on the reservation is less than $3,500 per year, and more than 95% of the population lives below the federal poverty levels. Although the sale and possession of alcohol on Pine Ridge Reservation has been prohibited since the early 1970s, alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on...
