Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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On June 16, Let's Move! in Indian Country (LMIC) will hold a celebration of its third anniversary at the Pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico. The celebration will include the opening of the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project summer camp, a lunch at the Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center, and youth soccer activities. LMIC is part of the Let's Move! White House initiative led by First Lady Michelle Obama to help address the problem of childhood obesity. The goal of Let's Move! is to have a healthy...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of President Obama’s historic visit yesterday to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota, Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn today announced the implementation of a new initiative to hire more American Indian and Alaska Native veterans to work for Indian Affairs. “In building a 21st century workforce, we recognize the importance of attracting and retaining veterans in this organization,” said Assistant Secretary Washburn. “Individuals who have served in the Armed Forces have...
My dad’s a lucky guy. It was 10 years ago that my dad, a relatively young, thriving, robust, gregarious, independent and proud African American man, suffered a large stroke. It might seem strange to have me say he was lucky - but he was. My dad was many things, but as you might have noted, “healthy” wasn’t one of them. While from all external indicators he looked great, he was a ticking time bomb. His blood pressure was so high that it nearly killed him. After his stroke, he was left with some physical deficits such as moderate vision loss wh...
Minneapolis, MN, June 15, 2014--The American Red Cross is ramping up its response to flooding in the International Falls, MN, area along the US-Canadian border. Additional relief workers and supplies, including a second mobile feeding truck, will be heading north on Sunday and Monday. "It's going to get ugly up here before it gets better," says Tony Guerra who is on-the-ground leading the Red Cross relief effort. Red Cross mobile feeding on Saturday served approximately 70 meals to people working to hold back the flood waters in Koochiching Cou...
Regular School Board Meeting - Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2 PM at the Red Lake Administration Office...
Two men were shot, one fatally, in north Minneapolis on Sunday afternoon, the Minneapolis Police Department reported Sunday night....
A once respected House leader, Republican Marty Seifert is feeling his party’s lash since vowing to challenge the GOP endorsed gubernatorial candidate in a primary. And Matt Entenza, a former DFL House leader who served a decade in the Legislature, has all but been branded a traitor for daring to run against the endorsed candidate for state auditor....
The June 7 article “ ‘Focus’ is failing to deliver” presented early impressions of a two-year-old effort by the Minneapolis public schools to improve educational outcomes by more tightly determining and sequencing the content of instruction. The article suggested that “focused instruction” is associated with lower academic achievement. Unfortunately, the claims were supported by rather sketchy “analysis,” with no real clear sense of how to judge this initiative in a clear, nonambiguous way as the first step in a longer, careful and succe...
Next school year, most Minnesota middle and high school students will take a version of the ACT on the state's dime....
New York, NY: An Internet payday lender that fell under the weight of state lawsuits, in spite of claims of immunity under Indian tribe status, may, in tandem with its service partner, owe New Yorkers caught up in the online payday loan snare upwards of $20 million in excessive interest....
A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, who had survived a serious car accident that killed two others in 2012, died Saturday after he lost control of his all-terrain vehicle and crashed, his family and New York State Police said Sunday....
CANNON BALL, N.D. – President Obama on Friday became only the third U.S. sitting president in eight decades to set foot in Indian Country, encountering both the wonder of Native American culture and the struggle of tribal life on a breeze-whipped afternoon in the prairie. Amid snapping flags and colorful, befeathered dancers, Obama declared that there was more the U.S. could do to help Native Americans....
Tribal Chairman David Archambault announced the arrival of the President to an arena used for pow-wows....
CANNON BALL, North Dakota — A North Dakota attorney and Native American rights activist says President Barack Obama's visit to the Standing Rock Reservation was overwhelmingly positive....
Three tribes are among the recipients of the Green Apple Awards given for environmental education initiatives by the not-for-profit group E3 Washington, a professional group that provides education on environmental development and stability. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/15/three-tribes-win-coveted-washington-state-environmental-education-awards-155312...
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced plans to improve tribal education and support economic housing development for Native communities. Part of the initiative HUD announced includes assistance for tribes that are implementing the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act -- a bill Senator Heinrich successfully passed through Congress, which was signed into law in...
This week federal officials and Alaska tribal leaders met to talk about the impact of violence on Alaska Native children. Intuitively, and perhaps through personal experience, most of us know the impact on kids isn't good. Early childhood exposure to violence, either as a victim or a witness, can set the stage for a lifetime of struggle, which sets in motion an inter-generational cycle of abuse: neglect, domestic violence, sexual abuse, addiction, suicide, homicide, incarceration. Children exposed to violence are more vulnerable to all of...
BISMARCK – The Department of the Interior has launched a program to recruit and hire more Native American veterans to work for the agency....
In the turbulent history of the Old West, there were many things that killed people - grizzly bears, hostile Indians, outlaws, violent white men and white-man diseases, natural disasters, and a host of other dangers. But what helped keep the Indians and white newcomers alive in those early days was plenty of things to eat....
A four-year-old child has died in what police say is a possible dog attack in a small village in northern Quebec....
On May 27, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a 5-4 decision in the case State of Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community. A five justice majority issued a ruling that works in favor of the Bay Mills Indian Community. While a great deal of commentary is likely to be focused in the majority decision, this column is about the dissent by justices, Thomas, Alito, Ginsburg, and Scalia, and their tacit acknowledgment that a system of domination has been and is still being used by the United States against our nations and peoples. Here’s the d...
President Obama was honored by Native American tribal singers and dancers on Friday afternoon, but on his first presidential visit to Indian country he also heard from activists who want him to reject the Keystone pipeline project that could pass nearby....
President Obama will visit Cannonball, N.D., today, home of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, to celebrate increased cooperation between tribal and federal governments. One issue, not on the official agenda but likely on the minds of several Native Americans leaders, is federal regulation of resources and the Keystone Pipeline....
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The chairman of the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation was happy with what he heard from President Barack Obama here Friday....
As President Barack Obama makes his historic visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation this week, the federal government is rolling out plans to overhaul the Bureau of Indian Education, which for decades has failed to offer quality education to Native American students...
