Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Nearly a year after lawyers announced that U.S. Bank would pay $55 million to settle accusations that the bank wrongly boosted its overdraft fees, the case is far from closed....
BANGKOK â Oil prices edged down slightly Tuesday after a credit-rating upgrade of U.S. government debt led investors to speculate that the U.S. central bank might consider scaling back its aggressive monetary policies....
GRANTS PASS, Ore. â Tens of thousands of acres in Oregon's drought-stricken Klamath Basin will have to go without irrigation water this summer after the Klamath Tribes and the federal government exercised newly confirmed powers that put the tribes in the driver's seat over water use â a move ranchers fear will be economically disastrous....
Five years ago, Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons and issued the historic apology for the legacy of government and church-run residential schools. At that time, many Aboriginal people held hope that this marked the beginning of a new and empowering chapter in relations between the government and Aboriginals. Now the government has slashed funding to 43 representative Aboriginal organizations. The new chapter clearly needs severe editing....
OTTAWA — Five years after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s historic apology for the Indian residential school system, the words ring hollow for some who hoped they would represent a new relationship between the federal government and Aboriginal Canadians. Read more: http://www.canada.com/Five+years+after+residential+schools+apology+aboriginal+groups+they+still+waiting+progress/8505116/story.html#ixzz2VuVtTgCR...
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is in the final stages of bringing high-speed Internet connections to the Navajo Nation....
Nishnawbe Aski Nation education leaders are looking to establish an Aboriginal trades high school in Thunder Bay....
Two days before he died in early February, Bobby Johns, known as Chief Bearheart to his tribe, released a red-tailed hawk into the wild....
A wildfire spreading near the Morongo Indian Reservation northwest of Banning has burned about 1,500 acres, officials said Monday morning....
It's official: Jesse Smith, Mohawk from Six Nations, has qualified for the U.S. Open, the second major golf tournament of the season. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/10/native-golfer-earns-spot-us-open-call-notah-begay-149813...
A Billings woman who served time in federal prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death faces new charges that she abandoned her three young children to assault a former boyfriend. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/prosecutors-billings-woman-abandoned-children-to-assault-ex-boyfriend/article_7cd836b0-545b-52ad-803d-0f9ab9e88a83.html#ixzz2VuYTTfPw...
A Naytahwaush, Minn., man was sentenced Monday for selling heroin at the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in May 2011, the Department of Justice said....
Native groups on P.E.I. are trying to understand how they'll be affected by substantial funding cuts from the federal government....
After the incredible, unprecedented run through the 2013 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament that Shoni and Jude Schimmel, Umatilla, led the Louisville Cardinals on, ICTMN reached out to some of the most amazing and historically important Native hoops players to get their thoughts on the state of Native basketball, how to succeed in life and where they're headed next--including from the Sisters themselves. "Let's give them somethintg to talk about!," we promised. And so we kicked off a Conversations With Champions series, sitting down with...
Update 10:50 p.m.: The U.S. Forest service reports that the Hathaway fire burning near Banning has spread by about 200 acres siUpdate 10:50 p.m.:...
The Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions report released this week by the Department of Justice previews a new era of partnership between the federal government and American Indian tribes. The report documents an unprecedented level of collaboration with tribal law enforcement, regular consultation on a crime fighting strategy, joint federal-tribal task forces, information sharing, training of investigators, and cross deputizing tribal police and prosecutors to enforce federal and tribal law. Read more: http://bill...
Two men who married one another on an American Indian reservation in Michigan, which bans same-sex marriage, have been invited to the White House...
WASHINGTON – The new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, will deliver her first national address to tribal leaders, governments, and citizens in Reno, Nevada at the Mid Year Conference of the National Congress of American Indians....
Bayfield High School’s commencement speaker caused a stir when she said the school hurts Native American students during her speech....
The people running Indian schools often get fired if they do too good a job. It does not always happen, but it happens a lot. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/08/fight-improve-indian-education-can-be-tough-one-149685...
An Alameda County judge says three top-ranked charter schools in Oakland may stay in business, for now, as they fight accusations of mismanagement....
A letter from George Washington recently acquired by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin describes the killing of three Mingo Indians by white settlers as “villainy” and “mischief.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/06/george-washington-letter-describes-killing-natives-villainy-149753...
Reservation Blues, a book written by Sherman Alexie, will be released in Iran holding Saeed Tavanaei’s translation. The 26th Tehran International Book Fair had also displayed Alexie’s Flight which was also rendered by Tavanaei....
QUAPAW, Okla. — There were hugs, stories and the occasional tear this morning when two children who were trapped and seriously injured after the 2011 Joplin tornado met for the first time the Quapaw Tribe firefighters and emergency medical workers who pulled them from the wreckage and saved their lives that night....
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials are declaring victory in their four-decade campaign to rescue the gray wolf, a predator the government once considered a nuisance and tried to exterminate....
