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A former Miss North Dakota was found dead Tuesday in a Minneapolis home. Investigators are waiting for the Hennepin County medical examiner to determine the cause of Samantha M. Edwards’ death, said Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder. Police were called about 7:30 a.m. to a house in the 1700 block of Upton Avenue N., where they found Edwards’ body. http://www.startribune.com/former-miss-north-dakota-found-dead-in-minneapolis/383183221/...
Hundreds of nurses from all 50 states have applied to work in Minnesota as part of Allina Health’s plan to keep its Twin Cities hospitals open if its regular nurses carry out a threat to go on strike this Sunday. As many as 4,800 unionized nurses plan to strike for seven days, starting Sunday at 7 a.m., but Allina officials said they need to recruit just 1,400 replacements to get through the week. http://www.startribune.com/hundreds-of-replacement-nurses-will-arrive-soon-as-allina-girds-for-a-strike/383202911/...
Prosecutors in southern Minnesota aren’t saying that Long Vang provided a weapon to Jessica Haban or gave her instructions on how to kill herself. And they aren’t saying Vang supplied Haban, the mother of his two children, with an illicit drug that led to her death. But prosecutors are accusing Vang of inflicting 10 years of relentless physical and emotional abuse on Haban during their relationship until she lost her will to live and died by suicide. http://www.startribune.com/murder-charges-pin-minnesota-woman-s-suicide-on-...
North Dakota’s oil fields posted another grim month in April with production dropping by 70,000 barrels per day, the largest month-to-month decline in the state’s history. The oil drilling rig count fell from 29 in April to 27 in May, the lowest since July 2005. With oil prices hovering around $50 per barrel in recent weeks, the rig count has increased by one — a rare bit of good news from North Dakota’s monthly production report released Wednesday. http://www.startribune.com/north-dakota-oil-production-posts-biggest-drop-in...
Tens of thousands of South Americans gather on July 16 every year in a small town in the Atacama desert for a ceremony witnessed by almost 200,000 visitors. The several-days-long event features round-the-clock dance groups with some of them dressed to imitate the original inhabitants of Turtle Island. The annual “Fiesta de La Tirana” celebration features organizations bearing names like “Sioux,” “Dakotas” and “Cheyenne.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/15/fake-sioux-cheyenne-dakota-dances-thriv...
About 20 tribal members filled the audience benches in Cherokee Tribal Court last week, watching the first court hearing in a lawsuit decrying pay raises Cherokee Tribal Council gave itself in 2014. The suit’s defendants were asking Judge Sharon Barrett to dismiss the claims. “The concepts of accountability, the concepts of transparency are perfectly fine. I want to be very clear for everyone that the position of the defendants is not that those concepts should be challenged,” said Carlton Metcalf, the defense attorney. “The issue that is bein...
RALEIGH - Leadership of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina was incensed to discover this month that the tribe's official logo and slogan were used in advertising for Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light brand of beer. The ads are "particularly offensive to Lumbee People," Lumbee Tribal Chairman Harvey Godwin wrote on his Facebook page last week. The tribe filed suit on Tuesday against the St. Louis beer maker and Raleigh-based beer distributor R.A. Jeffreys Distribution Co. to make them stop advertising the beer under the tribe's name and to pay the...
Desert Hot Springs was among the first cities in California to approve the large-scale growing of medical marijuana on its land, with a city council vote in November 2014. Now, real estate agents say industrial land prices in the city have increased exponentially. And the city's leaders, once grappling with narrowly escaping bankruptcy two years ago, are talking about doubling the city's budget. This spring, Cathedral City and Coachella — two other Coachella Valley cities that have historically had small tax bases and small budgets — app...
No area of the Supreme Court’s docket is more laden with contradictions than Indian law. On the one hand is the court’s well-intentioned impulse to protect Native Americans who’ve been victimized by centuries of injustice. On the other is the equally well-meaning aspiration to recognize tribal sovereignty. But these are competing values, so the justices frequently make a hash of it. That happened in Monday’s decision allowing domestic-violence convictions in tribal court to count towards a federal felony conviction. On the surface, the result...
Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Felix Thomas claims a provincial move to seize confidential child files is akin to invading a sovereign country. And the STC chief won't stand for it. "We don't think their notice was done legitimately to begin with," he said in an interview. "You just can't go in and take over a country. And that's basically what they've tried to do here." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-tribal-council-child-files-social-services-1.3636602...
The Saskatchewan government is taking back responsibility for the care of children from the Saskatoon Tribal Council Child and Family Services. Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer says the tribal council has repeatedly refused the ministry access to files for children it serves on reserve. Harpauer says that means the government has no idea how many children are being cared for or what kind of care they're receiving. http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/social-services-taking-over-children-s-care-from-saskatoon-tribal-council-1.2...
President Barack Obama is facing pressure from Indian Country to sign a trust reform bill that his administration does not support. Tribes cheered when H.R.812, the Indian Trust Asset Reform Act, overcame its final hurdle in the 114th Congress last week. The bill encourages tribes to take greater control of their trust funds and trust assets. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/15/tribes-pressure-president-obama-to-sign.asp...
Two businesses operating in Robeson County are paying tens of thousands of dollars to settle allegations they violated anti-discrimination employment laws. Minnesota-based Regis Corp. agreed to pay a total of $90,000 to two women it was accused of illegally firing from its Smart Style Family Hair Salon in Pembroke, court records say. The salon is in the Walmart store there. http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/workers-to-be-paid-tens-of-thousands-in-robeson-county/article_9d310c81-b0d5-51be-829a-2a2b4d644623.html...
The man shot by a Pine Ridge tribal police officer earlier this month has died from his injuries, according to authorities, who say the incident remains under investigation. The FBI identified the dead man as Jamie Lee Brave Heart. He was a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The officer, a patrolman not identified by the FBI, accompanied Brave Heart to Pine Ridge Hospital on June 3 after being summoned by Brave Heart’s mother, said tribal spokesman Kevin Yellow Bird Steele. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/man-shot-by-p...
The Yukon RCMP officer who was captured on video making a violent arrest last year in Whitehorse did nothing wrong and will not be charged, according to investigators. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was called in as an impartial third party to investigate after the video was posted online in April 2015. The video quickly went viral, prompting public outrage and accusations of police brutality. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-rcmp-facebook-video-investigation-asirt-1.3637044...
A resident of the Shinnecock Indian Reservation was arrested by State Police following a shooting on the night of Monday, June 6, that left another man with multiple non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. State Police responded to the shooting, which took place on the reservation, at 9:10 p.m. After an investigation, Justin Eleazer, 26, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and second-degree criminal use of a firearm, both felonies, and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor. http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm...
A Navajo man lost his appeal of a 75-month prison sentence for a drunken driving fatality. Almundo Cruz Singer pled guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter in April, 2015, admitting he was driving under the influence when he struck and killed Marvin J. Ahasteen, a member of the Navajo Nation, near the tribe’s Fire Rock Casino. Singer received a 75-month sentence followed by three years of supervised release. But that sentence struck a sour note. http://www.lakepowelllife.com/singer-loses-appeal-for-his-role-in-dwi-de...
With all proceeds to benefit the Native American Scholarship fund at UW-Superior, the 2016 Johnson Open promises to be a day of fun for a great cause. The Johnson Open Scholarship Fund will provide a $1,000 scholarship to assist a Native American UW-Superior student with their education. The $30 entry fee per person includes a meal and door prizes. Greens and cart fees are extra. https://www.uwsuper.edu/firstnationscenter/news/golf-open-to-benefit-uw-superior-native-american-scholarship-fund_news1861987...
