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The St. Paul school board made official Tuesday night that Valeria Silva’s tenure atop the state’s second-largest district will end July 15. The deal comes at a hefty price to the district: $787,500. She will be replaced on an interim basis by retired Roseville Area Schools Superintendent John Thein. A search for a permanent successor has not begun. Talks aimed at transitioning Silva out of the district’s top job — she will stay on as a consultant for 15 months — have been in the works for more than a month, said board Chairman Jon Schumacher...
Pig intestines wrapped around the front door handles of the halal grocery store in St. Cloud sent a clear message to store manager Liban Said and his customers: You’re not welcome here. At a youth basketball tournament in Rochester, a spectator called a player wearing a head scarf a “terrorist.” A Muslim teen said kids in her class were saying, “You’re in ISIS.” http://www.startribune.com/fear-stalks-minnesota-muslims-as-anti-islam-feeling-builds/383809081/...
Minnesota's statewide network of public colleges and universities is facing a "financially unsustainable" future and must act quickly to avert a crisis, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, eight months in the making, blames the slowdown in state funding for the dire situation facing the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which educates nearly 400,000 students a year. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-state-colleges-face-unsustainable-future-report-says/383881091/...
Back in 2007, during a weekly check-in, my wife’s manager delivered some unexpected good news: “You don’t have to be in the office to do this job,” she said. “You could work from wherever you want.” A fast six months later, we left hot, crowded Austin, Texas, and moved into an apartment on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, with a commanding view of Casco Bay only steps away. My wife managed a geographically dispersed web services team, and I worked as a researcher at a think tank in Washington. The separate rooms where we worked seemed like...
WASHINGTON — Routine use of small drones by real estate agents, farmers, filmmakers and countless other commercial operators was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology. The Federal Aviation Administration announced the creation of a new category of aviation rules designed specifically for drones weighing less than 55 pounds. The long-anticipated rules mean commercial operators can fly drones without s...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is one of the wealthiest people to ever run for president, but his campaign appears to be flat broke. What's more, fundraising reports show he's used about $6 million in campaign money to pay his own companies and family members. The billionaire businessman's financial woes were enough to inspire the mocking Twitter hashtag "TrumpSoPoor" on Tuesday and, far more seriously, give already reluctant donors a fresh batch of reasons to withhold their money. http://www.startribune.com/trump-s-campaign-cycl...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning his "reckless" approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence. Clinton's address in Ohio, one of the most important battleground states, sought to define Trump as little more than a con man, whose ignorance and ego would tank the global economy, bankrupt Americans and risk the country's future. "Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is. He's proud of it," the Democratic p...
A bill to expand tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians is seeing support from some of the largest tribes in the United States. The Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians are calling for passage of S.2785, the Tribal Youth and Community Protection Act. The measure expands on the Violence Against Women Act by recognizing the "inherent authority" of tribes to arrest, prosecute and sentence any person -- regardless of race -- for drug crimes, domestic violence against children and...
“In November, [2014] a [Las Vegas] Review-Journal reporter and photographer encountered one of the disenrolled, 52-year-old Darla Hatcher, sleeping with her meager belongings in front of an upholstery shop in the homeless corridor. By way of introduction, she gestured toward nearby tribal land and said: “I am a disenrolled Paiute.’” Thanks to some wonderful scholarship by Seattle lawyer Greg Guedel about the socioeconomic impacts of tribal per capita monies, The Economist has cast a bright light on the topic. Guedel’s research found that: htt...
A friend from Chicago was telling me about how he watched a coyote carrying her pup across the freeway and thought she was safe when she was only in between the two freeways so she kept going. A car hit her and it caused a pile up. He said “Something must be wrong with me, I was more worried about her than the human aspect, but humans are in such a hurry.” He then went on to tell me how fast people drive there. People drive too fast everywhere, they don’t appreciate their surroundings, the drive, the world going by. They want to get from point...
TUBA CITY – FBI Phoenix and the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safetyare investigating an officer-involved shooting here on Sunday night. Jill E. McCabe, public affairs specialist at FBI Phoenix, said the FBI responded to the shooting last night where a suspect was shot. According to sources, a police officer shot the suspect who was armed with a knife. The suspect charged at the officer with a knife and was shot. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/navajo-nation-officer-involved-shooting-tuba-city/...
Indian Country isn't the only one paying attention to a tribal jurisdiction case that's pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Comedian Samantha Bee is featuring a segment on Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on the June 21 episode of her TBS show Full Frontal. She starts off by connecting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose race-based attacks on a federal judge drew widespread condemnation, to the issue. "Racist or not, the 'brown judges aren't fair to me' argument is being made right now in...
The state of Oklahoma came close last month to Senate Bill 1552, which would have made it a felony for a physician to perform an abortion, becoming a law. Gov. Mary Fallin (R-Okla.) vetoed the bill on May 20, and the 2016 legislative session closed before an override could happen. If a variation of SB 1552 passes in next year’s Oklahoma session, how would this affect Oklahoma’s tribal citizens and Oklahoma tribes as a whole? Statistically, Native American women who receive abortion services is low. According to the Oklahoma State Dep...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is asking tribes about updates to the probate process. The BIA will host a listening session next week and two consultation sessions next month to discuss some changes. A notice that was published in the Federal Register on Monday outlines three potential revisions, including one that would increase the amount that can be withdrawn from a decedent's Individual Indian Money account in order to pay for funeral expenses. "[W]e have identified three areas for modification that will have an immediate impact in...
The Native American slogan "Heritage, Pride & Strength" was used to promote Budweiser on banners hung in convenience stores. U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch has been sued for using the slogan of a Native American tribe in its Budweiser and Bud Light advertising. The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina filed the lawsuit Tuesday, claiming the company wrongfully appropriated the slogan "Heritage, Pride & Strength" to promote its beer products on banners hung in convenience stores. The tribe’s logo, a circle divided into red, yellow, blue and white q...
A bill to exempt tribes from providing health coverage to their employees is moving forward on Capitol Hill amid opposition from Democrats. The landmark Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to obtain health insurance. In many situations, they can turn to their employers to provide coverage. The situation in Indian Country is different. Enrolled tribal members are exempt from the insurance mandate because they are eligible for care at the Indian Health Service. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/21/bill-to-exempt-trib...
DULUTH, Minn. - One new addition to Duluth's city parks could be more interpretative signs. The Duluth Indigenous Council would like to increase the visibility of Native American culture in the area. They want to bring signs both written in Native American languages and English to many parks throughout the city. "It's important so that our children who are raised in this area can look at a picture or a sign or word and identify that's part of my culture that's my people. I know that Anishinaabe word," commissioner Carol DeVerney....
WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has won the American Alliance of Museums’ Excellence in Exhibition award for “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations.” The award is given to recognize outstanding achievement in the exhibition format from all types of noncommercial institutions offering exhibitions to the public.“Nation to Nation” opened in September 2014 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the opening of the museum on the National Mall. It will remain open t...
Hunters in Arviat are excited to be one of five communities in Nunavut selected to harvest a bowhead whale this year. The name Arviat means 'a place of the bowhead whale,' yet this will be the community's first bowhead whale hunt in recent memory. "Any first animal or mammal for hunters and kids, like our first beluga ever, is always exciting," said Alex Ishalook, chair of Arviat's Hunters and Trappers Organization. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arviat-plans-bowhead-whale-hunt-1.3644292...
