Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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RED LAKE - Eight students from the Class of 2018 Red Lake Nation College graduated on Thursday, May 10, 2018. They were, James Cloud III, Racheal Jorgenson, Eliza Lussier, Leah Kingbird, Tori Kingbird, Laura Fairbanks, Brent Sigana Jr. and Lorena Sumner. Cloud, Jorgenwon, Lussier, and both Kingbirds were all Co-Valedictorians....
RED LAKE - The Red Lake Nation Youth Conference 2018 kicked off at the Red Lake Humanities Center at 6 PM on Wednesday, May 2nd, beginning with the Miikawaadizi "Be Beautiful" Fashion Show. About 40 women and children participated in the show. A performance by Becca Lynn followed, as well as a performance by comedians Kasey Nicholson and Bobby Wilson of the "1491's" and a Round Dance Social. Day 2 will begin with registration at the Red Lake High School Lobby, breakfast, prayer and smudge, and...
RIVERTON — A failure of oversight by the Bureau of Indian Affairs allowed the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes to misuse $6.2 million in federals funds between 2013 and 2015, according to a draft report by the Department of the Interior. According to the DOI’s Office of Inspector General, the BIA officials in Billings, Mont., responsible for overseeing the tribes’ use of federal funds were “not familiar with how to review (financial) reports and had not received training.” https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional...
Bellingham,Washington – A 20-year-old member of the Lummi Tribe was sentenced Monday June 4, 2018 to six years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for sexual abuse of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JASON LITTLE SKY JAMES JR, of Bellingham, Washington, was indicted in November 2017, and pleaded guilty in March 2018. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart noted the need to protect the public from JAMES JR., who will be required to register as a sex offender following his release from prison. https://w...
A Colorado man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a woman on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during an argument in September 2016. Thirty-seven-year-old Orlando de Macias initially was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 34-year-old Annie Colhoff, who was shot in Pine Ridge village. He eventually pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter. http://www.keloland.com/news/article/news/colorado-man-sentenced-for-south-dakota-reservation-slaying...
ALBANY — New York’s top court on Thursday upheld a state law imposing taxes on cigarettes purchased on Indian reservations by non-Indians. The owner of a Seneca Nation smoke shop on the Cattaraugus Reservation south of Buffalo had claimed the state law, adopted in 2010, violated the Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1842 because it effectively was a direct tax on Seneca Nation members. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle/ny-top-court-tax-on-indian-reservation-cigarettes-is-legal-1.19028352...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs unanimously approved the nomination of Tara Sweeney, an Inupiaq woman from Alaska, to be the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior. If confirmed by the Senate, as is widely expected, Sweeney would be the first Alaska Native to head Indian Affairs, and many in Indian Country have been watching her nomination with anticipation. Sweeney is well known in Alaska for her work on Indigenous issues, ranging from economic sustainability to tribal sovereignty....
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill to rename three VA facilities in Montana, including two clinics in Billings. According to a joint press release from Montana’s congressional delegation, in Billings the Community Based Outpatient Clinic on Spring Creek Lane will be renamed in honor Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow and the Community Based Specialty Clinic located on Majestic Lane will be renamed in honor of Benjamin Charles Steele. http://www.ktvh.com/2018/06/trump-signs-bill-to-rename-2-va-facilities-in-billings-1-in-...
WASHINGTON — Students, parents and educators urged the federal officials charged with preventing the next school shooting to pour more mental health resources and school support staff into the nation’s elementary and secondary schools — not more guns. The first public forum of the federal commission on school safety, convened by President Trump after the February school shooting in Parkland, Fla., drew dozens of speakers from across the country to the Department of Education on Wednesday. But neither Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the commi...
ARLINGTON, Va. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia. She swiped through 360-degree views of her school, inside and out. She clicked on icons embedded in the virtual classroom to learn about energy-saving features such as LED lights and super-insulated exterior walls made of concrete-filled foam blocks....
The lawyer for the coach at the epicenter of a grade inflation scandal told the Shelby County Schools board Wednesday his client is a scapegoat for a problem that goes far beyond one coach and one school. Still, the board reaffirmed its December vote to fire Teli White, the former Trezevant High School football coach. White’s lawyer, Darrell O’Neal, said his client would appeal to chancery court. https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2018/06/06/coach-fired-amid-memphis-grading-scandal-will-not-be-reinstated-board-says/...
Chickasaw Nation Election Secretary Rita Loder announced today the candidates seeking four legislative seats and one Supreme Court seat within the Chickasaw Nation. The filing period closed at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Incumbent legislator Toby Perkins of Ada, will retain Pontotoc District Seat 1, as he was unchallenged. Incumbent legislator Nancy Elliott of Ada will retain Pontotoc District Seat 2, as she was unchallenged. Incumbent legislator Scott Wood of Tishomingo will retain Tishomingo District Seat 1 as he was unchallenged....
QUEBEC CITY — President Donald Trump is cutting short his first presidential trip to Canada this weekend, as trade and foreign policy disputes appear set to mar his planned summit with the leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies. The U.S. president's reception in the picturesque town of La Malbaie along the St. Lawrence River is set to be a far cry from when Ronald Reagan visited Quebec three decades ago, when he was so friendly with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney they sang a song together. http://www.startribune.co...
