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RAPID CITY -- Across Lakota Country all eyes are pointed towards Rapid City as a congressional delegation made up of representatives of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs prepares for a series of public meetings on improving the Indian Health Service. On Friday, lawmakers including South Dakota Sen. John Thune, will host a field hearing that will include a discussion and overview of the proposed Indian Health Service Improvement Act of 2016. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/15/lakota-country-times-senate-committee-fo....
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the availability of $1 million in grant funding for tribal applicants to establish clean diesel projects. Under this grant competition, applicants may request up to $800,000 in federal funding. EPA anticipates awarding up to five tribal assistance agreements, and projects may include replacing, upgrading or retrofitting school buses, transit buses, heavy-duty diesel trucks, marine engines, locomotives, energy production generators or other diesel engines. Proposals from t...
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - The City of Pocatello is currently being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This comes after the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said they were discriminated against by the City. For some time now, the Tribes and the City of Pocatello have had tension. The most recent issue was a lease agreement for use of airport land. http://www.localnews8.com/news/feds-investigating-city-of-pocatello-for-possible-discrimination/40072160...
WASHINGTON - Ten years after a federal agent crashed a pow-wow of a Texas tribe and seized their ceremonial eagle feathers, the tribe has won a settlement that lets members keep the feathers – and get court costs paid, too. “The fight wasn’t for the feathers,” said Robert Soto, vice chairman of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. “It was for the religious rights for Native peoples.” Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article84041227.html#storylink=cpy...
Wyoming’s interpretation of Indian treaty hunting rights is being challenged once again in a case that has the potential to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for resolution, according to legal scholars. At the center of the argument is Crow tribal member Clayvin Herrera’s killing of a bull elk in Wyoming in 2014. “From our perspective, it’s a right we’ve always had,” Herrera, a tribal fish and game warden, told The Gazette in a 2015 interview. http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/crow-tribal-member-appeals-after-wyomi...
HOOPA, CALIFORNIA – After the Humboldt County Health Department found a major rat infestation problem at a grocery store that serves the Hoopa Valley Indian community, Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairman Ryan Jackson told his tribal members to not shop at Ray’s Food Place. The building is owned by the Hoopa Valley Tribe and is leased to a company that operates Ray’s Food Place that is located on the reservation. The Humboldt County Health Department performed an inspection at the grocery store last Thursday, June 9 and discovered a “massive rat inf...
Editor’s note: Voters this year will elect the 45th president of the United States. This is the 24th in a series of 44 stories exploring past presidents’ attitudes toward Native Americans, challenges and triumphs regarding tribes, and the federal laws and Indian policies enacted during their terms in office. Grover Cleveland opened his second term as president of the United States with a call for “humanity and consistency” toward Indians as efforts continued to assimilate them into mainstream American culture. Read more at http://...
SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS – Riverside County Sheriff’s officials have confirmed locating and recovering the body of 37-year-old Jerome Salgado Jr., a San Jacinto resident who had been reported missing Sunday, May 22. According to a missing person report filed with the sheriff’s department, Salgado was last seen in the Hemet area Friday, May 20. The investigation began Saturday, June 11, at about 1:42 p.m., after deputies from the Riverside Sheriff’s Hemet Station received a call regarding possible human remains in the area of the Indian Creek T...
Caitlin Potts has been missing for almost four months and family members are starting to fear the worst. Pott's sister, Codi, says there are a number of chilling clues the 27-year-old First Nations mother left behind before she vanished. Her last known location was either Enderby or Kelowna. B.C. "She left me a message the morning she went missing saying she had found a ride on Kjiji to Calgary." http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/caitlin-potts-disappeared-1.3638116...
