Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal judge has refused to hold San Juan County in contempt of court over problems that emerged leading up to the primary election. The county has been under court oversight and scrutiny following a ruling last year that commission and school board boundaries were gerrymandered along racial lines, making a Native American population majority into a political minority. He ordered special elections this year. https://fox13now.com/2018/07/02/judge-wont-hold-san-juan-county-in-contempt-over-primary-election...
OMAHA -- Two former Omaha Tribal Council members pleaded guilty Friday to using federal funds to pay bonuses to themselves. Tillie Aldrich and Jessica Webster entered their pleas in U.S. District Court in Omaha to single counts of misapplication of health care benefit program funds. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 21. https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ex-omaha-tribal-council-members-plead-guilty-to-misuse-of/article_d9397960-3990-5e53-8dd5-40048c1023dc.html#tracking-source=home-trending...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian recently announced the winning proposal for the long overdue National Native American Veterans Memorial. Commissioned by Congress and proposed for the National Mall in Washington D.C., the memorial honors the Native Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, and aims to educate the broader American public about their service throughout history. After consulting with Native American communities and veterans, the NMAI launched a two-stage international competition to find the winning p...
One thing is clear from the thousands of pages of investigative files released Monday about the fatal shooting in 2012 of Cold Spring officer Thomas Decker: No one saw it coming. Not the parents and friends of the suspected killer, Eric J. Thomes, nor the behavioral psychologist who lived with him. Thomes, 31, hanged himself in a shed after an hourslong standoff as police closed in to arrest him in the ambush-style shotgun slaying of Decker behind the Winners Sports Bar & Grill in Cold Spring two months earlier. http://www.s...
