Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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By this time in the 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama was an adopted member of the Crow Nation of Montana, smiling and hugging his new parents, Sonny and Mary Black Eagle. Jodi Gillette, of the Standing Rock Sioux, Wizipan Garriott, of the Rosebud Sioux, and other Natives were out canvassing for him all around Indian country. A real Native network had taken shape, and many, including Gillette and Garriott, were later rewarded with jobs in the administration. Obama’s rival, John McCain, former chair of the U.S. Senate C...
More allegations have surfaced of corruption within the Northwest Territories Yellowknives Dene First Nation....
Figures released by the US Bureau of the Census in January indicated some 78 percent of American Indians live off of tribal lands. This past Thursday, the Census Bureau released a report that indicates since 1950 the number of cities with 500,000 people has almost doubled. There were 33 cities with 500,000 or more people in 2010, nearly double the number of 18 in 1950....
LAPWAI, ID - The Nez Perce Tribe and the Nez Perce Tribal Gaming Commission came together Friday to celebrate their elders from surrounding communities....
Last Tuesday evening, the Tweed Museum of Art at UMD opened a new exhibition. The works now on view come from 17 American Indian artists. “All of these artists have a relationship to the land base of Minnesota. So, they all are either tribal members from Minnesota tribes — they may be tribal members that live here, they may be tribal members that live elsewhere — or they could be tribal members from tribes outside Minnesota but they live here and therefore have a relationship with this area,” sa...
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – Paul Bissonette, 55, remembers waiting for his mother to pick him up to give him a ride. She never came to get him....
Eight months after they began, hearings into police failures to arrest British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton earlier wrapped up on June 6 much as they began: with outraged families and aboriginal groups protesting and drumming outside. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/15/missing-women-inquiry-hearings-end-amid-cover-up-charges-from-victims-families-117884 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/15/missing-women-inquiry-hearings-end-amid-cover-up-charges-from-victims-families-11788...
Representatives of the Oglala Sioux tribe in the United States are seeking the reopening of criminal proceedings into dozens of killings that took place in the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota in the 1970s. They accused the FBI of deliberate procrastination in investigating the deaths of their fellow indigenes. Vladimir Gladkov....
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Forty years after the siege at Wounded Knee by members of the American Indian Movement, the Oglala Sioux tribe has demanded that the federal government reopen dozens of cases it says the F.B.I. may have mishandled decades ago....
June 15--Despite efforts to reduce smoking in Washington state, 70,000 youths smoke cigarettes and 50 start every day, according to state officials, with American Indian youth showing the highest rates....
WASHINGTON – Tribal officials asked a Senate committee Thursday to block taxation by the Internal Revenue Service of government benefits to the tribes and their members....
The real American Indians set up their folding chairs in front of a Marathon gas station. They weren't there for the Shriners who crisscrossed the road in tiny cars adorned with American flags or Little Miss Chasco in her purple taffeta gown or the Gulf High School marching band, all trumpets, trombones and snare drums....
WASHINGTON – It’s been over six months since the Obama White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said they were in favor of tribes being able to directly request emergency support from the President of the United States, as states now do, and the agency is finally supporting specific legislation that would amend the Stafford Act to make that change a reality. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/15/fema-supporting-specific-legislation-on-making-tribes-equal-to-states-118481 http://...
Responding to criticism about its lack of outreach to American Indians this election season, the Obama campaign has included a Native American section on its website, uploaded June 15. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/15/natives-gain-inclusion-on-obama-campaign-website-118705 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/15/natives-gain-inclusion-on-obama-campaign-website-118705#ixzz1y96jaGrm...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency re-emphasized its support Thursday for legislation to let federally recognized tribes seek emergency and natural disaster declarations directly from the president instead of having to go through their states’ governors....
Four Twin Cities arts groups have been awarded a total of $1.3 million in grants from ArtPlace “to accelerate creative placemaking.” Announced Tuesday, grants go to Intermedia Arts ($325,000), the Native American Community Development Institute ($435,000), Pillsbury House Theatre ($250,000), and Public Art St. Paul ($300,000). Fifteen Minnesota finalists were named in January; these four emerged as winners. There were 127 finalists nationally. Fifteen out of 127 is not too shabby, Minnesota....
A 21-year-old man was badly hurt after he was attacked by as many as six dogs on a northern Alberta reserve....
A man wanted in Ohio for failing to appear on a charge of gross sexual imposition has been found living in a tent on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota....
