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In bus advertisements, billboards and social media posts that will go up this week, the city of Minneapolis is asking parents to do something simple that officials believe could have a big impact on erasing disparities: talk to their kids. Tuesday, Mayor Betsy Hodges will launch “Talking is Teaching,” a new initiative aimed at getting parents to talk, sing and read to their babies. Officials believe that if more parents get the message that talking is critical for babies’ development, they might be able to tackle major gaps in learning and l...
The percentage of women on the boards of S&P 500 companies is still only 20 percent, making little progress from the year before, a new national report has found. And while at least a dozen of Minnesota’s public companies — led by Best Buy, Ameriprise Financial and Patterson Companies — have better representation than the nation as a whole, the percentage for all the state’s public companies lags behind the national average. http://www.startribune.com/study-progress-slow-on-reaching-gender-parity-on-corporate-boards/38348488...
In a college gymnasium this month in Newark, N.J., Sen. Cory Booker introduced Hillary Clinton to the crowd. It took him nearly 13 minutes. He piled praise on her and bashed her Republican rival, quoting Thomas Jefferson, Maya Angelou, Abraham Lincoln and even a song by Jon Bon Jovi, a New Jersey native. http://www.startribune.com/in-clinton-s-search-for-a-running-mate-chemistry-counts/383568781/...
LOS ANGELES — A wildfire that for days has threatened hundreds of homes and popular seaside campgrounds near Santa Barbara was half-surrounded and held in check, though firefighters were about to face the hottest day yet and the kind of dry, torrid conditions prevailing from the West Coast all the way to New Mexico. A Red Flag warning for late Sunday and early Monday, signaling dangerously dry heat and high winds, was declared for the hilly coastal area west of Santa Barbara. http://www.startribune.com/hotter-days-bring-bigg...
It’s the flip side of keeping invasive carp out of Minnesota waters, and it requires high-tech spying on 50-pound Flathead catfish, prized paddlefish, sturgeon, muskies, bigmouth buffalo and other native fish lurking in the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. Last week as a special DNR fishing crew continued to tag these critters with ultrasonic transmitters, agency officials were meeting over how to keep the research alive. Before this month ends, the DNR will formally lay out its request for $153,000 to extend its 3-year-old Native Fish E...
BOZEMAN — A Montana lawmaker is proposing that the Legislature rename Columbus day with a name that celebrates Native Americans. State Rep. Bridget Smith, D-Wolf Point, submitted a bill request last week that would change the holiday to celebrate indigenous people instead of the explorer. http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/montana-lawmaker-proposes-renaming-columbus-day/article_b8fa7e56-aa6b-53f8-a17a-d24311abe19d.html...
TRAVERSE CITY — Three Traverse City children are stuck in the center of a custody dispute — a complex web that pulls together the Indian Child Welfare Act, the Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians tribal code and two non-native families. Everyone agrees they want what's best for the kids — ages 13, 12 and 10 — but "best" is a matter of opinion. Tim and Anne Donn want to adopt their three foster children. The children's birth mother, Autumn McDonald, wants the Grand Traverse Band's Tribal...
To understand why Wilfred Jones wanted an ambulance, you have to understand where he lives. San Juan County, in southeastern Utah, is nearly as big as New Jersey but is home to fewer than 15,000 people. The lower third is part of the Navajo Nation and is almost entirely Ute and Navajo. The upper two-thirds are white and predominantly Mormon. Jones, a 61-year-old grandfather with jet-black hair and a diamond stud in each ear, lives in the lower third, five miles south of the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Montezuma Creek. It's rough, rocky...
Obama. It's the name on the tip of all of our tongues. It is whispered through the marble halls of Washington. It is shouted from the frothing mouths of protesters. Every world leader has uttered it. Obama. He may be the most-talked-about man in the world. Echoes of his unique last name bounce off the world's walls and into billions of ears. So much has been made of President Obama's middle name, Hussein, that we almost forget about his melodic and fascinating last name. The story of how he came to have it begins, as it should, on Father's...
On March 27, Easter Sunday, a young Navajo mother, 27-year-old Loreal Tsingine, was shot five times by Winslow, Ariz., police officer Austin Shipley, allegedly for resisting arrest by brandishing a pair of scissors. Tsingine was petite — 5 feet tall and weighing less than 100 pounds. Officer Shipley, a white male, is 6 feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds. On that fateful day, officers of the Winslow Police Department responded to a call from a Circle K store clerk that a young Native American woman had just shoplifted a case of beer. Two p...
OTTAWA – Health Canada makes some on-reserve patients jump through hoops or wait longer than non-indigenous Canadians to access prescription drugs their doctors believe they need to treat mental illnesses, a psychiatrist who has worked in First Nations communities says. Dr. Cornelia Wieman, who spent eight years as a community-based psychiatrist at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, a reserve near Brantford, Ont., said some prescriptions used to treat severe mental illnesses are not covered by Health Canada unless the patient has t...
WASHINGTON — Native American students in dozens of schools around the country could be studying, and in some cases living, in unsafe conditions. But the government’s Indian Affairs department is falling behind in inspections and has no idea if many of its schools are safe. The agency didn’t examine about a third of its schools last year, even though it is supposed to do health and safety inspections every year, according to an audit by the Government Accountability Office. Inspectors haven’t been to some schools in years. http://...
They are called papal bulls, edicts made by popes Nicholas V and Alexander VI in the fifteenth-century that instructed how European explorers were to treat Indigenous people. Here's an excerpt: "That in our times, especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for, and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself." http://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/reclaiming-indigenous-spirituality-1.3636858/500-years-ago-po...
This week, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina filed a suit against Anheuser-Busch and its distributor for using the tribe’s official logo and slogan in a local marketing campaign for beer. These ads prominently featured images of a tribal dancer, the tribe’s logo, and the tribe’s slogan — “Heritage, Pride & Strength” — above coolers of Budweiser and Bud Light. The Lumbee Tribe’s logo is a circle divided into quadrants to represent the four directions and the four qualities of a balanced life: the spiritual, the emotional, the physical, and t...
MONTREAL — Tiffany Morrison's bones were found in a wooded area on May 31, 2010, four years after she left her home near Montreal to meet some friends. Now, 10 years to the day since the 24-year-old went missing on June 18, 2006, her family still doesn't know who killed her. "It's a constant unknown," her sister, Melanie Morrison, said in an interview. http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news-human-interest/2016/06/18/sister-of-murdered-quebec-mohawk-woman-still-seeking-answers-10-years-later...
The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman on the Navajo Nation on or about April 4, 2016. The Native American woman’s body was found along the south shoulder of the eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 64, near mile marker 29-1/2, approximately seven miles east of Shiprock. Evidence at the site indicates the vehicle may have been a 1999-2003 Dodge Ram truck. http://www.ladailypost.com/content/fbi-offers-reward-hit-...
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...
Scott Tucker, a Leawood businessman accused of running a $2 billion payday loan operation that preyed on 4.5 million consumers, now can’t pay for attorneys in a federal criminal case against him. A federal regulator last year asked a judge to freeze Tucker’s assets. In the weeks and months that followed, recently unsealed documents show, Tucker wired millions of dollars to attorneys, bought a new Ferrari and spent thousands on private jets. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article84299467.html#storylin...
Native women rallied on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they continued efforts to reduce high rates of violence in Indian Country. The National Congress of American Indians, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and the Indian Law Resource Center hosted an overflow crowd at the U.S. Capitol to discuss a new report from the Department of Justice. The data confirms that Native women and men are victimized at rates far higher than the rest of the population and that most of the perpetrators are from another race. http://w...
HOOPA, Calif. - The following release was issued Friday from the Hoopa Valley Tribe regarding the issue of rodent infestiation at Ray's Food Place. The Hoopa Valley Tribe was notified of an extensive rodent infestation in a building it leases to Ray’s Food Place grocery store, which is owned by C & K Market, Inc., on June 10, 2016. In response, Tribal Chairman Ryan Jackson issued a statement to the Hoopa Valley community on Facebook on June 11, 2016, calling the conditions identified in a report by the Indian Health Service, “wholly una...
The general election for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa was held Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Band members went to the polls at the Old Log School from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to vote for one four-year position—tribal chairman. Running for the chairman seat was incumbent Norman W. Deschampe, opposed by Donovan Dahmen. Deschampe held on to the tribal chairman seat with 74.77 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was quite low, with only 214 enrolled band members casting ballots. Deschampe received 81 votes at the Old Log School polls and 7...
The head of the federal agency responsible for providing healthcare to Native Americans believes legislation recently introduced in the U.S. Senate would help fix severe shortcomings at its hospitals nationwide. Mary Smith, principal deputy director of the Indian Health Service, spoke with The Associated Press ahead of a U.S. Senate committee hearing scheduled for Friday in South Dakota where the proposed legislation was expected to be discussed. The measure comes as the IHS implements a series of reforms, some aimed at addressing severe...
NESPELEM, Wash. (AP) — Leaders have banned all fireworks on the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington, citing significant wildfire risks this summer. The Colville Business Council announced the fireworks ban Thursday. The council said in a news release that it passed the resolution due to increased risk of forest and range wildfires and over concerns for the lives of those living on the 1.4 million-acre reservation. Tribal Chairman Jim Boyd said the tribe is still recovering from last year's wildfires and can't risk c...
Even before it kicked off last year, JR Good Luck had even bigger ideas for what the Native American All-Star Showcase could become. It certainly was a success in its inaugural year, with the top Native American high school basketball players in Montana and Wyoming playing in front of near-capacity crowds at Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency. A year later, the event will be bigger. South Dakota has joined the mix, bringing its best Native American players to the two-day showcase. http://billingsgazette.com/sports/high-s...
