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Two newborn lambs mysteriously fell sick, quickly regressed and died in the spring of 1999 on a Texas ranch named for Saint Jude, the Roman Catholic patron of lost causes. That launched an odyssey for Fred and Joan Horak, retirees breeding rare sheep traced to the biblical era and named after the Jewish patriarch Jacob, who is described in the Bible as raising similar sheep. Their quest to discover why the lambs died ultimately helped advance research into Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease that affects humans as well as animals....
SEATTLE – Microsoft said Monday that it was acquiring LinkedIn in a $26.2 billion cash deal, as the company seeks new sources of growth on the internet. The acquisition, by far the largest in Microsoft’s history, unites two companies in different businesses: one a big maker of software tools, the other the largest business-oriented social networking site with more than 400 million members globally. Both, though, make most of their money by catering to professionals. Executives involved in the deal said that the common thread prompted the acq...
PARIS — A Frenchman once convicted of recruiting jihadi fighters stabbed a police commander to death outside his suburban Paris home, recording the attack and posting it on Facebook Live, French officials said Tuesday. The commander's partner and the attacker were found dead inside the home after a three-hour standoff with police. The couple's 3-year-old was in the house in Magnanville, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) west of Paris, but was unharmed. A police official said that at one point in the video the attacker puzzled over what to do w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is receiving $1 million in federal grant money as part of an effort to get more children enrolled in federal welfare programs for which they are eligible. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday that the Tahlequah-based tribe is one of 38 recipients from 27 states to receive part of the $32 million in awards that are called Connecting Kids to Coverage grants. The Cherokee Nation was the only Oklahoma recipient in the latest round of awards. http://ww...
Cannabis is state-legal for adults 21 and older in Oregon. There hasn’t been a federal marijuana possession case tried in the state since 2011. So why is the U.S. Attorney laying federal charges against a 19 year old from Salem who just graduated from high school? That’s the mystery at the center of the case surrounding Devontre Thomas, a recent graduate of the Chemawa Indian School who’s planning to attend community college in the fall. https://www.leafly.com/news/headlines/why-are-the-feds-out-to-get-19-year-old-devontre-t...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KOTA TV) As the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation grapples with high crime rates including violence that accompanies methamphetamine use that plagues every corner of KOTA Territory, It must do so with a severe handicap. A shortage of police officers. Officer Tony Long Soldier is a supervisor for the Oglala Sioux Tribes Public Safety Department. He describes the work his team put in last weekend. http://www.kotatv.com/content/news/Pine-Ridge-grapples-with-dearth-of-police-officers-382868411.html...
In a historic victory for tribal jurisprudence, the United States Supreme Court today ruled that prior uncounseled tribal court convictions used in subsequent criminal cases does not violate the Constitution when the proceedings were in compliance with the Indian Civil Rights Act. The unanimous decision in U.S. v. Bryant, which was delivered by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reversed a Ninth Circuit Court decision which held that using uncounseled tribal court convictions was “unconstitutionally impermissible.” In plain English, today’s decis...
ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) — The Indian Health Service says people looking for surgical and obstetrics services at its hospital on the Rosebud Indian Reservation are being diverted to other facilities about 50 miles away. The agency said Monday that the move comes after a key staff clinician died. O.J. Semans is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Health Board. He says it is a "tremendous blow." http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/associated_press/south_dakota/rosebud-ihs-hospital-diverting-surgical-obstetrics-patients/article_3884...
POLSON – Boeing announced Monday it had awarded $200 million in subcontracts to small businesses for work the firm is doing for NASA and the International Space Station, and a significant chunk is headed to a tribally owned company headquartered on the Flathead Indian Reservation. S&K Global Solutions vice president of business development Mike Monahan estimated the five-year contract would be worth “north of $50 million,” and will involve engineering and technical services. “We won’t know the exact dollar figure until we receive task orde...
Several parts of the Ray’s Food Place store in Hoopa — including the deli, the bakery and the meat department — were ordered closed this weekend, following the discovery of a massive rat infestation that left the store littered with feces and reeking with rat urine, according to local investigators. On his Facebook page, Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairperson Ryan Jackson advised locals to stop shopping at the store — Hoopa’s only supermarket — until “the situation has been adequately investigated and addressed.” https://lostcoasto...
Rural districts often struggle to find and retain teachers. This can be even more difficult for tribal schools, which have some of the lowest test scores in the nation and enroll students who come from generations of poverty. These challenges were detailed recently by a story in Slate about schools on Montana's Blackfeet reservation. The tribe has recently ramped up initiatives to train and employ more Native teachers in the hopes of hiring teachers who can better understand the lives of Native students and who are more likely to continue...
Four Mormon missionaries in Anáhuac, Chihuahua, Mexico were detained last Thursday night after they attempted to baptize three local children without parental knowledge or consent. According to a report by The Salt Lake Tribune, the Mormon missionaries in Mexico were all from other states in Mexico, and they apparently had plans to baptize three minor brothers, two 11-year-olds and a 9-year-old, without consulting the children’s parent(s). According to the boy’s father, the Mormon missionaries lured the children to a local church with prom...
PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. — The remains of a prehistoric young woman were unearthed in 1931 during construction of a new road. Now U.S. Highway 59, the excavation site, is about a mile north of artist Marcella Rose's studio in Pelican Rapids. The primeval woman is believed to have lived about 20,000 years ago and may represent the oldest archaeological discovery in North America. Inspired by the magnitude of the discovery, Rose has dedicated her artwork to her interpretation of the young woman. http://www.grandforksherald.com/ac...
BIRDING -- A Colville Tribe member has been ordered to pay a $1,500 fine to devote 100 hours to building bird nesting boxes for killing a northern hawk owl that had been attracting scores of birders in January to a corner of the Indian reservation. But the tribe has not confirmed that the sentence was carried out. "The Tribes do not intend on issuing a release on this matter at this time," Dana Cleveland, reservation supervisory attorney said Friday. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/jun/13/tribes-northern-hawk-ow...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Trial has been delayed more than two months for a man accused of killing one man and critically injuring another on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. Dallas Thundershield's attorney, Fargo-based Assistant Federal Public Defender Christopher Lancaster, said in court documents that he needs more time to prepare, including time to travel to the northwestern North Dakota reservation. http://www.hastingstribune.com/trial-delayed-for-suspect-in-spirit-lake-reservation-killing/article_d1cacd29-4177-517a-8186...
Communications and advertising agency Jackalope recently aired the first-ever branded ad completely voiced in Lakota for the Black Hills Federal Credit Union (BHFCU), which is playing on stations across South Dakota. The campaign recently won Best of Show and a gold American Advertising Award at the AAF-Black Hills awards show. For Jackalope, the effort is part of a larger movement to preserve the Lakota language, place Lakota consumers on an equal plane and give greater representation to a voice conspicuously absent from the media or present...
