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President Barack Obama is planning a trip to Minnesota next week to draw attention to the state's about-to-increase minimum wage and draw campaign checks to assist House Democrats in the fall....
A woman's body wrapped in a blanket was found in a wooded area found Saturday night off of Minnehaha Avenue near Johnson Parkway. A neighborhood resident found the body around 9 p.m. on the 1400 block of Minnehaha Avenue East, St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos said. It was purposely thrown into the area, he said. It was transported to the Ramsey County medical examiner. The woman's age and identity hasn't yet been released. Police suspect foul play was involved. "We are asking for the public's help," Paulos said. "What did you hear?...
School districts across Minnesota are working to find more space for students, after lawmakers approved $134 million to fund all-day kindergarten....
MORRISTOWN, MINN. – In a patch of hilly, old-growth woods preserved by the state as a living museum, Bob Djupstrom and Ellen Fuge stepped carefully around wild ginger, trout lilies and other native plants carpeting the forest floor....
WASHINGTON – A special-interest group representing school nutritionists and backed financially by big food companies — including six from Minnesota — is pushing legislation that would allow school districts to bypass new lunch rules restricting sodium and requiring more fruits, vegetables and whole grains....
Minnesotans will no longer have to stretch the truth to get an absentee ballot....
The Mississippi River rose above flood stage in at least two southwestern Minnesota towns early Monday, according to the National Weather Service....
Duct tape has helped save the day for Apollo 13, countless broken taillights and TV’s MacGyver. Now some Twin Cities entrepreneurs are exploring what duct tape, metaphorically, can do for their businesses....
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges, bringing widespread criticism that the verdict was a blow to freedom of expression....
I’m at Korzo – here in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope. The area is known for its strollers and young couples and renovated brownstones brimming with state-of-the-art Kenmore dishwashers and rug rats loaded with organic Similac. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/22/native-about-new-york-frybread-burger-grows-brooklyn-155415...
It's our weekly recap of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/22/week-was-big-stories-indian-country-june-22-2014-155425...
When Oglala Sioux Nation President Bryan Brewer isn't wrestling with tribal issues like education and housing, he's often on the road to represent his people....
The president wasn’t here very long June 13, and he did just one thing in the state, in a place few North Dakotans have ever visited. It is not clear just why he came or what will come of it. I wasn’t there, but I have friends who were there, and their reports are fascinating....
PEMBROKE — A former Lumbee tribal administrator says that Tribal Council members were told in 2006 that they could not be paid stipends out of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development money designated for housing assistance....
POLSON, Montana — A judge has dismissed felony charges against a Pablo man accused of attacking a jailer last month because Lake County prosecutors took too long in handling the case....
There is a crisis facing the criminal justice system serving Native American youth. The general public has no idea of the challenges facing this group, but when President Barack Obama convened the White House Tribal Nations Conference in November 2013, one of the four major topics on the agenda was violent crime....
Coeur d’Alene tribal police are searching for a man tied to a Worley, Idaho, shooting early Saturday that left another man hospitalized....
Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) is tired of hearing excuses about why it has taken so long for money from the $3.4 billion Cobell trust settlement to make it into the hands of Native Americans. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/18/senator-walshs-no-nonsense-approach-resolving-cobell-155355...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An early-morning car crash in West Miami-Dade has devastated the Miccosukee tribe....
An off-duty Miccosukee police captain veered into oncoming traffic on Tamiami Trail early Saturday, hitting another car — and killing a fellow tribal member, authorities said. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/21/4193164/two-miccosukee-tribal-members.html#storylink=cpy...
He simply ran wild, while the Cadets tried in vain to stop his progress. It was like trying to clutch a shadow. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/18/woman-crush-wednesday-shoni-schimmel-and-catching-shadow-rez-ball-jim-thorpe-155358...
On Friday, June 13, President Obama made a historic trip to Indian Country when he traveled to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation in Cannonball, North Dakota. This trip marked his first visit to Indian Country since taking office, and one of the few trips to an Indian reservation by a sitting President. Accompanied by the First Lady, the President met with Native American youth, tribal leaders, and attended the tribe’s annual Flag Day celebration where he spoke to Indian Country....
The U.S. Surgeon General has reported that rates of co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, especially alcohol, are higher among Native Americans, and that the suicide rate among the Native population is 50 percent higher than the national rate. Studies have found rates of depression ranging from 10 to 30 percent higher among Native people. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/21/therapists-must-recognize-and-treat-historical-trauma...
The American Indian College Fund has awarded Leech Lake Tribal College with a three-year grant of $50,000 through a program designed to increase the intergenerational transfer of artistic and cultural knowledge and processes from elders to adults and children and to provide direct support for Native artists, while stemming the tide of lost and endangered cultural art forms in tribal communities. Leech Lake Tribal College was one of four selected, also selected were Oglala Lakota College, Turtle Mountain Community College, and Sinte Gleska...
While the Mille Lacs area may be known for its giant lake, epic fishing and glitzy casino, the rich history of the area and its Ojibwe ancestors is another story to behold....