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In the mid-2000s, the area surrounding the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota began to undergo a massive transformation after corporations figured out they could access vast wells of oil from the Bakken shale formation using fracking technology. Politicians celebrated as high-paying jobs flooded the area, but women in the community saw a darker side to the boom. In her film “Nuuca,” Michelle Latimer explores the traits of the Bakken oil boom through the eyes of a young woman who grew up on the reservation. Some of the boom’s featu...
Refresh yourself or catch up on local news with Humboldt Last Week. It begins with quick summaries and often finishes with an interview or longer story. Available where you get podcasts and downloadable for later listening. The Eureka Police Department is investigating an officer who admitted on camera to telling a Native American man working on his car along the waterfront to “go back to the reservation.” In the footage the man can be heard responding with some insults of his own. The ‘Department has a zero-tolerance policy for racially insen...
The term “cultivated wild rice” is an oxymoron, but while a few wild harvest operations in Minnesota sell their rice online outside the state, if you’ve eaten any of this long, purple-black, chewy grain lately, it probably came from a farm, in either Minnesota or California. This was not always the case. The plant has a long history in the Great Lakes region. Indigenous people living in Wisconsin and the Upper Michigan peninsula depended upon the wild crop as a staple food, revered it as a gift from the spirits, and used it for medicinal purpo...
BILLINGS, Mont. - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case in which a Crow tribal member and former tribal game warden from Montana is asserting his right under a 150-year-old treaty with the U.S. government to hunt elk in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming, The Billings Gazette reports . A ruling could resolve disagreements among lower courts with regard to tribal treaty rights, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote last month in recommending the high court take up the case. https://www.wsbradio.com/news...
MINNEAPOLIS — Fresh off approval by Minnesota regulators, officials with Enbridge Energy said Friday they’re on track to finish construction and put the company’s disputed Line 3 replacement crude oil pipeline into service in the second half of next year, assuming all goes well for them. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Thursday determined the project is necessary and approved the Canadian company’s preferred route across northern Minnesota, with modifications and conditions that Enbridge considers minor. http://...
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia First Nations appear poised to take on the province's marijuana monopoly — including one Mi'kmaq community that has enlisted Olympian Ross Rebagliati to roll out a "seed to sale" cannabis operation. Sipekne'katik First Nation in Indian Brook, N.S., has plans to grow cannabis and sell it directly to consumers, while Millbrook First Nation is considering retail locations, bypassing the provincial Crown corporation slated to control sales once the drug is legal on Oct. 17. http://www.thetelegram.com/news/b...
Minnesota’s new U.S. attorney, Erica MacDonald, carried a framed doodle by one of her sons to hang in the office where she cut her teeth as a federal prosecutor a decade ago. “My mom puts bad guys in jail and when she comes home we do laundry,” he wrote on the page. http://www.startribune.com/families-not-far-from-mind-of-new-minnesota-u-s-attorney-erica-macdonald/487033591/...
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump said Friday that he plans to announce his pick to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on July 9, quickly kicking off a confirmation battle that the White House and Senate Republicans hope to finish by early fall. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew to his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort for the weekend, Mr. Trump said that he has narrowed down his Supreme Court candidates to “about five people,” including two women. He later said he would “probably interview six or seven altogether.” https://w...
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — The Bureau of Indian Affairs plans to seek to recapture some federal funding from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes in Wyoming. The Ranger reports that the Department of Interior's Office of Inspector General has found that some of the money was misspent as part of the tribes' 2013-2015 transportation contract. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2018-06-29/bia-will-try-to-recoup-some-tribal-funds...
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A private ambulance company says two Washington state employees accused of making derogatory comments about Native Americans on Facebook are no longer working there. A spokeswoman with American Medical Response, Tawnya Silloway, said in an email Thursday night that two are out. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/crime/article/EMTs-accused-of-racists-comments-out-at-ambulance-13037003.php...
ALBANY, NY – The state’s highest court, the New York State Court of Appeals, has ruled against a Seneca Nation businessman, who challenged the state’s collection of taxes on non-native cigarettes sold at reservation shops. The man who challenged the law, Eric White, owns several smoke shops, a tobacco wholesaling business, and recently made news for starting construction on what sources say is an off ramp from the Thruway onto his property on the Cattaraugus Reservation, in protest for his loss in an unrelated tax case. https...
KYLE (AP) — Authorities have a suspect in custody in the fatal shooting of a man in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation community of Kyle. The Oglala Sioux Department of Public Safety says officers responded to reports of gunshots in a housing area Wednesday night and found a man dead next to a home. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/crime-and-courts/4466907-suspect-custody-slaying-pine-ridge-reservation...
Indigenous people are overrepresented in Canada's criminal justice system, but what is causing the numbers to be so high? CBC's Lenard Monkman sat down Friday with panellists Ryan Beardy, Pam Palmater and Cora Morgan to talk about the reasons why, and what can be done about it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-incarceration-justice-system-panel-1.4729192...
BEMIDJI, Minn.—Nine Minnesota schools have formally agreed with the state on a plan to reduce the district's discipline disparities. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has been pressuring school districts to reconsider their disciplinary practices since fall after noticing non-white students were suspended or expelled at a rate much higher than their white counterparts. https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/education/4466815-nine-minnesota-schools-agree-work-discipline-rates-people-color-disabilities...
The Patriot Ledger reported that Richard Bonanno was driving on the west side of Scituate four years ago when he saw an expensive mountain bike at the end of a driveway - thrown out with the trash. He stuck it in the back of his truck, took it home, fixed it up and gave it to a neighbor’s kid. “The next day there were three more. So I picked them all up,” he said. “I gave all three to a friend in Hull, who said four kids came by wanting the bikes. He gave away three then called me and said ‘do you have any more?’ and I said ‘I’ll see w...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Stephanie Hubers, the assistant business manager at Mid Central Education Co-Op in Platte, has been found not guilty. Hubers' trial ended on Friday with the jury clearing her of grand theft and receiving stolen money charges. She had been accused of helping Scott and Nicole Westerhuis steal millions of dollars in grant money from the GEAR UP education program for Native American students. https://www.keloland.com/news/investigates/hubers-found-not-guilty-in-gear-up-trial/1274348833...
CLEVELAND — A former Oberlin College instructor and an activist for indigenous people pleaded guilty to stealing funds from the American Indian Education Center of Cleveland, where he was executive director. Robert Roche, 70, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft of government funds in the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio on May 16. His trial had been scheduled to begin this week. http://www.chroniclet.com/Local-News/2018/06/29/Ex-Oberlin-College-instructor-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-and-theft-of-government-funds.html...
The day after Timothy J. Martin Jr. was sent to state prison for killing a pedestrian and leaving the scene of the accident, the victim's daughter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him. The suit was filed Thursday by Cherise Jacobs of Niagara Falls, daughter of Loren Jacobs, the 59-year-old Mount Hope Road man who was struck from behind by Martin's car near his home on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation about 11 p.m. Feb. 8, 2012. https://buffalonews.com/2018/06/29/civil-suit-filed-against-hit-run-driver-in-tuscarora-rese...
A First Nations team involved in an ugly incident at a tournament in Quebec City last month, says they're "overwhelmed" by the response to the story and hope to create a movement to rid hockey of racism. The First Nation Elites, a Quebec team of high-level Indigenous hockey players from several Cree, Innu, Mi'kmaq, Algonquin and Atikamekw communities, say they were subjected to racial taunts, mock war cries and tomahawk chops from some of the other players and spectators at a bantam AAA tournament in late May. http://www.cbc...
