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One year after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released its summary report, describing the Indian Residential School system as a tool of attempted “cultural genocide,” Environics’ Survey of Canadian Public Opinion on Aboriginal Peoples has revealed some hopeful trends. Canadians’ awareness of residential schools and their consequences has increased (from 51 per cent in 2008 to 66 per cent in 2016) and more than three-quarters express interest in learning more about Aboriginal cultures. By these measures, things are imp...
In response to massive fish disease outbreaks in back-to-back years on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe submitted a 60-day notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Reclamation. “We cannot stand by and do nothing while our salmon hover over the brink of extinction,” said Thomas P. O’Rourke Sr., Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “We will not continue to watch water managers jeopardize the fate of our fish and our river.” https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2016/jun/26/yurok-tribe-threatens-take-leg...
Nebraska U.S. Attorney’s office has launched an investigation of past and current members of the Omaha Tribal Council suspected of stealing of federal funds, embezzlement and conspiracy. The investigation is related to incentive payments tribal council members gave to themselves and to other tribal employees in 2012, according to a letter from the U.S. Attorney’s Office to those being investigated. Jan Sharp, chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Omaha, declined to comment about the investigation. htt...
June 13 of this year marked a milestone in constitutional law. Fifty years earlier, in 1966, the Supreme Court decided Miranda v. Arizona, requiring officers to notify individuals in police custody of their “Miranda rights,” including their right to a court-appointed lawyer if unable to afford one. Although controversial at first, the Miranda decision has since become a standard safeguard against government overreaching in the investigation, interrogation and prosecution of alleged criminal conduct. http://www.abqjournal.com...
Jim Crow laws were a set of oppressive laws that reclassified Native American Indians into the category of Colored. Jim Crow reached their greatest influence during the decades of 1910, 1920, and 1930. Among them were hypodescent laws, defining as black anyone with suspected black ancestry, or even those with a very small portion of black ancestry. Tennessee adopted such a "one-drop" statute in 1910, and Louisiana soon followed. Then Texas and Arkansas in 1911, Mississippi in 1917, North Carolina in 1923. http://www.dailykos...
BOZEMAN - Gary Joseph Conti, the Three Forks man who led law enforcement on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash outside Livingston last year, has pleaded not guilty in federal court to a charge of escape. Conti, 70 years old, entered the plea Tuesday. He faces up to five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and 3 years of supervised release. Conti escaped from the Englewood Prison Camp in Littleton, Colorado, on October 30, 2015. FCI Englewood is a low-security correctional institute. He was apprehended after the crash in Park County....
THE DALLES — Matt Fox told his supervisors that if no changes were made, one night an employee carrying buckets of fish across an unfinished bridge and down a steep, scree-covered trail leading down to Fifteenmile Creek would fall and be injured. The fish biologist argued with supervisors that the work site on a Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs project was risky at dusk. After they changed policies and asked employees to walk the trail carrying 50-pound buckets filled with fish later at night, Fox said, an injury was almost certainly on t...
MISSOULA - Bruce Meyers, the only Republican Native American in Montana’s Legislature, has some simple advice for his GOP brethren for campaigning on the reservation: Emphasize shared values, honor local officials and elders, and, above all – lighten up. “Humor is the No. 1 value in Indian country,” he told a roomful of Republican candidates at the party’s state platform convention in Missoula this weekend. “The quicker you can give an appropriate joke, the quicker people will recognize you and say, `Hey, he knows how to laugh – they’re not a...
BAY CITY, MI — A Mount Pleasant man was convicted in federal court this week of sexually abusing two children on the Isabella Indian Reservation over a 13-year period. George Howard Mandoka, 45, was indicted by a federal jury on multiple charges in July 2015. A jury trial before U.S. District Judge L. Thomas Ludington began on Tuesday, June 21. http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2016/06/mount_pleasant_man_convicted_o.html...
Roxanne Jimerson-Friday is set to become the first Native American woman from the Wind River Indian Reservation to be ordained to the transitional diaconate of the Episcopal Church in Wyoming. Ceremonies begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Laramie, with the Rt. Rev. John S. Smylie, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming, presiding. Several others in the process of becoming priests will be ordained during the ceremony as well. Jimerson-Friday’s ordination is a major step in the process of becoming a priest. Upon being ord...
A tied 4-4 decision in the Supreme Court yesterday allows a sexual assault case filed against a non-Native defendant to move forward in tribal courts. “This is a powerful victory for tribal sovereignty and Native women and children!” Jacqueline Agtuca, a lawyer and policy consultant for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, wrote in an email. “It would have been devastating had … tribal civil jurisdiction not been upheld,” said Rebecca Nagle, an anti-rape activist. “[It] would have been the most devastating case to Native Americ...
Aaron Payment has won another term as chairman of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan. Payment defeated Keith Massaway for the post, the tribe announced. The election was held on Thursday. “I am honored and humbled to have been returned to office by Sault Tribe voters," Payment said in a press release. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/24/aaron-payment-reelected-as-chairman-of-s.asp...
BILLINGS (AP) — The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that a Montana man who was granted clemency by the governor after he spent three decades behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit is now under investigation on allegations that he asked a female to perform sex acts. The newspaper says an investigative report obtained Friday through a public records request says a person told the Billings Police Department in January that Barry Beach picked up the female, whose age is not clear in the report, and drove her to his home, where he a...
PUBLIC LANDS -- People dumb enough to ignite fireworks on public lands this time of year don't read the rules, so they probably don't read the newspaper either. But for everybody else, here's the deal: Fireworks are banned on most Washington state lands, wildlife areas and parks. Fireworks also are banned on most federal lands including national forests, parks, refuges as well as the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/jun/24/fireworks-ban-state-federal-tribal-lands/...
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Three western North Carolina children who were reported missing nearly two years ago have been located and a warrant has been issued for their mother’s arrest. In November 2014, police on the Cherokee Indian Reservation said Shira Raman Mattocks was having custody issues involving her three children. Family members indicated through social media that the children, ages 3 months to 8 years, were allowed supervised visits with Mattocks, but it was believed she had taken the children and left the area. Police said the chi...
POCATELLO — Tanisha Phelps, 20, of Fort Hall, was sentenced Thursday to time served — 11 months, including six months in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Justice Center and five months in federal custody — for assault with a dangerous weapon. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Phelps to serve an additional six months in a halfway house, followed by three years of supervised release. Phelps pleaded guilty to the charge on April 11. http://idahostatejournal.com/members/fort-hall-woman-pleads-guilty-to-cutting-a-...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - On May 7, local Native Americans - Cherokee, Muscogee Creek and Choctaw - held a spirited demonstration in opposition to the annual Andrew Jackson Day Dinner sponsored by the local Democratic Party. The dinner was held at the newly minted Music City Center in Nashville. Area local American Indians have long opposed any celebration of that arch architect of genocide, Andrew Jackson. A number of signs carried by demonstrators read "Indian Killer Jackson. He is considered in Native American circles as an early-day American...
CARLISLE, Pa. - There's no doubt that Earnest Knocks Off, son of a Sioux chief, lies buried among nearly 200 children in the Indian cemetery here. The question is, where? He seems to have two separate headstones. Other grave markers on the grounds of what was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, now the Army War College, contain partial or misspelled names, wrong dates of death, and missing birth dates. The supporting paper archive is incomplete. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160624_Can_the_Army_tell_who_s_buried_at_...
Hillary Clinton's campaign released a short video on Friday afternoon lampooning Donald Trump's response to Brexit. The presumptive GOP nominee weighed in on the referendum to leave the European Union—a move he has recently championed—during a press conference at his golf course in Scotland, Turnberry. The video intercuts news footage depicting the havoc Brexit unleashed on world financial markets with footage of Trump calmly saying that a weaker pound will benefit his business. "When the pound goes down, more people are going to Tur...
Sales tax is the largest revenue source for area towns to provide community services. But Ignacio's sales tax revenue could take a significant hit if Southern Ute Tribal members and the tribe itself are exempt from paying any sales tax in town. The issue has been simmering sort of under the radar for months, if not years. It goes back to 1984 when Congress passed PL98-290 as an addendum to existing federal law regarding Indians and specifically the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. It refers to jurisdictions within Southern Ute Reservation...
All tribal board incumbents running for re-election were returned to office in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ 2016 General Election, according to June 23’s General Election Day unofficial results. In the chairperson’s race, incumbent Aaron Payment was re-elected. Running against him was Unit 3 Director Keith Massaway. Chairperson Payment said, “I am honored and humbled to have been returned to office by Sault Tribe voters. I will do my best to earn everyone’s support going forward.” http://www.sooeveningnews...
Federal charges have been filed against a man who is accused of kidnapping, sexually abusing and assaulting a 4-year-old girl on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana John William Lieba II is charged with one count of kidnapping of an individual under 18, one count of aggravated sexual abuse and assault resulting in serious bodily injury on an individual under 18. He was arrested on Wednesday and entered a not guilty plea on Thursday, according to federal court records. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/06/24/federal-charges-f...
POPLAR - The Wolf Point man who is accused of kidnapping a Poplar girl from a playground and sexually abusing her denied the charges in U.S. District Court in Great Falls on Thursday. John Lieba, 20, pleaded not guilty to the charges of kidnapping a minor, aggravated sexual abuse, and assault. Lieba was first charged in March in Fort Peck Tribal Court with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and attempted murder. According to court documents, Lieba kidnapped a 4-year-old girl from a park on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in...
A 17-year-old straight-A student from Deer Lake First Nation will tip off a new chapter in his life, when he takes to the court with Team Ontario at the Native American Basketball Invitational in Maricopa, Arizona. Keelan Meekis, who is a student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, was selected because of his play during a tournament organized by the Aboriginal Sports and Wellness Council of Ontario. "I was really excited and overwhelmed" by the feeling of accomplishment, he says, when he was told he had made the team....
