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Minneapolis Police unveiled a final body camera policy Wednesday, one week before nearly 600 officers are due to be outfitted with the devices in hopes of improving department accountability and public trust. The guidelines address when officers would record police-citizen interactions and how that data would be stored. Under the new plan, sworn officers would be required to turn on the devices during all traffic and suspicious-person stops, car chases and searches, in addition to any use of force. http://www.startribune.com...
ELLSWORTH, Wis. — Jurors have acquitted a woman accused of texting before a 2013 crash that killed her daughter and two nieces in western Wisconsin. The jury deliberated less than two hours Wednesday before finding 35-year-old Kari Jo Milberg of Centuria not guilty on all counts. Pierce County prosecutors alleged Milberg was sending and receiving Facebook messages just before she lost control of her SUV on Highway 35 near Prescott and collided with a truck. http://www.startribune.com/woman-acquitted-in-crash-that-killed-3-ch...
More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The letter asks Greenpeace to cease its efforts to block introduction of a genetically engineered strain of rice that supporters say could reduce Vitamin A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world. “We urge Greenpeace and its supporters to re-examine the experience of farmers and consumers worldwide with crops and foods improved through biotechnology, recognize the findings o...
Some Minnesota legislators want to lower the age that children can use a firearm to go hunting from 12 to 11 years old. The measure would allow 11-year-olds to get firearm safety certificates after completing a class. Currently, 11-year-olds can take the safety course, but their certificate is not valid until they turn 12. “I certainly went out hunting younger than 11 and I took my daughter out pheasant hunting when she was about 8,” said Rep. Bob Gunther, R-Fairmont, a sponsor of the measure. “I just think ‘When is it not a good time to lear...
POTRERO, Calif. — The Latest on a wildfires burning in the U.S. West (all times local): 5:30 p.m. A group of firefighters who had to deploy their fire shelters this week while battling an Arizona blaze were part of the Navajo Interagency Hotshot Crew. Six firefighters in the 20-member crew deployed their shelters Tuesday, a few days after the three-year anniversary of a fire that claimed the lives of 19 Yarnell Hotshot crew members. http://www.startribune.com/the-latest-fire-forces-evacuations-in-california-foothills/3848646...
Dick Bancroft was a dropout from the University of Minnesota, an insurance salesman, then a Presbyterian missionary who lived in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife, Debbie, and four children from 1966 to 1968. But in 1970, he had a life-changing experience, meeting American Indian Movement (AIM) members. For the past 46 years he's chronicled AIM's causes as its unofficial photographer. "I'm not a missionary anymore," said Bancroft, 88. "I'm an advocate for Indians." http://www.startribune.com/dick-bancroft-has-shot-photos-of-the-...
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has resumed handing out eviction letters to non-natives living in the community on Montreal's South Shore, asking them to obey the controversial law that bans mixed-marriage couples from staying on the territory. Twenty letters signed by Grand Chief Joe Norton were sent out starting in mid-June, prompted by complaints the band council said it received from some community members. The letters ask recipients to "respect the law and the will of the people in the community by leaving the territory."...
The gathering and removal of plants or plant parts for traditional purposes will now be allowed in national parks by members of federally recognized Indian tribes. The rule change was announced by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Wednesday at the National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Conference in Spokane, Wash. “The changes to the gathering rule support continuation of unique cultural traditions of American Indians and support the mission of the National Park Service,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jar...
Indigenous leaders and advocates say dozens of cases where police determined there was no evidence of foul play must be included in a federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. They were responding to a CBC News investigation that uncovered 34 cases in which families disagreed with official findings that their loved ones' deaths or disappearances were not suspicious. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/mmiw-unresolved-chiefs-reaction-1.3657180...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) — Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced her office has settled a consumer protection lawsuit against Western Sky Financial, CashCall Inc., WS Funding, Martin A. Webb and J. Paul Reddam that had alleged the entities conspired to offer illegal payday loans. The defendants purportedly offered payday loans with interest rates as high as 342 percent, which violates state law. Western Sky attempted to allege that, because it identifies as a Native American tribal entity, it is protected by t...
The chief of police in Thunder Bay, Ont., says he looking forward to partnering with other groups in the community to ensure the city is a safe place for First Nations students. J.P. Levesque was reacting to the recommendations delivered Tuesday by a coroner's inquest examining the deaths of seven First Nations students who had left their remote communities to attend high school in the city. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-police-chief-inquest-students-deaths-1.3656734...
Actor Adam Beach, writer Sherman Alexie, producer Heather Rae and executive Joanelle Romero are among a diverse group of luminaries who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy produces the Oscars and has faced criticism for its lack of diversity. By extending invitations to a class of 683 artists and executives -- more than double the number from the year prior -- the organization has dramatically expanded the number of Native, women and people of color in its ranks. Beach, who hails from the...
In a general election held Tuesday, Blackfeet voters filled four open positions on the tribe’s most powerful legislative body, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council. With one qualified exception, all the incumbent candidates running to retain their seats on the nine-member BTBC lost in their re-election bids. Browning District, Position No. 1 Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person Sr. was narrowly defeated by Timothy F. “Kink” Davis by a vote of 1,203 to 1,293. Old Person was elected to his first term on the BTBC in 1954. In a few weeks he will compl...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will award up to $1 million in grants to tribes and organizations across the country in an effort to improve HIV prevention and care outcomes among tribal populations. The funding from the Indian Health Service will come in the form of up to five awards together totaling no more than $200,000 a year for five years. The goals of the effort, announced Monday, are to reduce the number of new HIV infections annually, cut the risk of transmission by changing b...
Two young leaders are now at the helm of the Gwich'in Tribal Council, after voters opted for change during Monday's election. Bobbie Jo Greenland-Morgan, 39, was elected the new president of the council — the first woman to ever hold the position. She also took the win by a wide margin and against two seasoned leaders. "It just means a great deal to me, not only to be elected, but to know that I'm the first female elected president," she said in an interview this week. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/young-leaders-gwichi...
Saskatchewan's chief coroner has called for a review of the circumstances surrounding the death of an indigenous woman, Nadine Machiskinic, at a Regina hotel last year. Machiskinic, a 29-year-old mother of four, fell to her death down a laundry chute at the Delta Hotel in January 2015. Chief Coroner Kent Stewart announced today that an inquest will be held in order to ensure public confidence in the Coroners Service. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inquest-called-nadine-machiskinic-death-1.3658692...
South Dakota's top prosecutor wants to put someone behind bars for the state's Gear Up scandal. But the attorney general faces an obstacle in a 2013 state law that made it tougher to lock up nonviolent offenders without criminal histories. Three people have been charged with helping embezzle more than $1 million from a state-funded education cooperative. Stacy Phelps, Dan Guericke, and Stephanie Hubers were previously employed by the cooperative or its programs and have been indicted on various felony charges. None had a prior criminal record....
The Leech Lake Tribal College will celebrate its 25 year anniversary July 15 at the Sanford Center in Bemidji. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with reception and main programming starts at 7. Guests include state dignitaries, tribal representatives, education administrators and many friends of the College. The event is to mark the start of the future of the College and usher in the next 25 years for the benefit of local tribal and surrounding communities....
Billings contractor Kevin David McGovern and his company, CMG Construction, this week denied corruption charges alleging they defrauded the Chippewa Cree Tribe and bribed tribal officials to get $2.5 million in federally funded contracts without having to compete. McGovern, 46, pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment during an arraignment Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls. McGovern, president of CMG Construction, also pleaded not guilty on behalf of the company. The indictment, filed on May 23, charges McGovern and CMG...
Members of the Christian sect Jehovah's Witness reportedly destroyed a sacred Indigenous archaeological heritage site in central eastern Mexico in an act of apparent religious intolerance, claiming the traditional rituals practiced at the ancient ceremonial place were “not Christian,” local media reported Monday. The attack on the more than 7,000 year-old Makonikha sanctuary in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo destroyed at least a dozen stone structures used as altars in the spirituality of the Otomi Indigenous people. Jehovah's Wit...
