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BAGHDAD – As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be together, a minivan packed with explosives blew up and killed at least 143 people — the third mass slaughter across three countries in less than a week. The attack was the deadliest in Baghdad in many years — at least since 2009 — and was among the worst Iraq has faced since the U.S. invasion of 2003. The bombing came barely a week after Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S....
PEMBROKE - A Raleigh beer distributor has apologized and will make what Lumbee tribe officials have called a "substantial" donation to the tribe. Lumbee Tribal Chairman Harvey Godwin announced the agreement with Raleigh-based beer distributor R.A. Jeffrey's on Friday, during the annual State of the Tribe Address in Pembroke. Tribal officials could not be reached for comment Saturday. http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/beer-distributor-donation-part-of-apology-to-to-lumbee-tribe/article_8dfb94e7-2d72-57ee-9116-b5960a5644ed...
WINDOW ROCK – For the first time in the history of the Navajo Nation, two BIE grant schools have lost their accreditation. Navajo Nation Superintendent of Schools Tommy Lewis reported to the Navajo Nation Council’s Health, Education and Human Services Committee Monday that the AdvancEd Commission, the accrediting entity for schools on the Navajo Nation, had revoked the accreditation of both Rough Rock and Chilchinbeto community schools effective July 1, based on a recommendation from its investigating council. Chilchinbeto, a K-8 school, and...
More than two weeks after the Hoopa branch of Ray’s Food Place closed its doors to the public, resources continue to pour into the area to aid residents short of nearby grocery store options. “The USDA was able to provide (food) boxes to serve about 290 homes. The number I think is about 1,500 individuals,” Hoopa Office of Emergency Services Director Serene Hayden said. “We’re also working with Humboldt Food for People. They come here on a monthly basis but have since stepped it up to weekly. We’re also coordinating with AmeriCorps,...
When longtime friends and collaborators Notah Begay III (Navajo/San Felipe/Isleta Pueblo) and Sam McCracken (Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux), the head of Nike N7, get together, big ideas unfold — ideas that not only have the potential to promote health and tribal sovereignty, but stand to benefit generations of Native youth. Their goals and aspirations have aligned since the first time they spoke. They met in the summer of 1998, at a Web.com event, the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, connecting over a shared passion to get m...
Our American experience has demonstrated the fact, that the two races cannot live in the same vicinity in peace…The white man, to whom time is money, and who labors hard all day to create the comforts of life, cannot sit up all night to watch his property; and after being robbed a few times, he becomes desperate, and resolves upon a war of extermination...That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races, until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected. While we cannot anticipate this result but with painful r...
Fig Island might be a mystery, but “Monkey Island” is a dare. The live oak sprawled island near Beaufort where free-roaming monkeys are bred for research has long been a party boat destination, even though it’s off-limits to the general public. Boaters have tossed the monkeys potato chips, drinks or beers, despite signs warning that it’s illegal — a practice so common that the monkeys have been known to pop the tops with an accustomed ease . Fig Island and Morgan, or “Monkey,” Island together could probably draw more visitors than all othe...
When the week began, Casey Nichols noticed that several of the young visitors seemed a bit out of their element. But within the span of a few days, the participants would go from feeling a bit lost to feeling like they’d found something new. Nichols, a Texas State University student from Red Oak, was a volunteer for the 2016 Native All-Star Football Classic at UT Arlington. Nichols, a member of the Acoma and the Three Affiliated, played in the all-star game in 2013 and has been helping out each summer since. Read more here: h...
On May 25th, 2016. The Jury Found Mark Anthony Nelson #Guilty of PC 187- Murder First Degree & Of Knife Enhancement for the Murder of Lakota Gall Brightman on July 3rd, 2015. We are Asking For Solidarity in Helping Our Win Justice for Our Beloved Family Member, Lakota Gall Brightman's Murderer (Mark Anthony Nelson: Case Number 5-151356-3) Be Sentenced to Live in Prison. Please Take a Moment of Your Time to Write a Letter to the Honorable Judge Laurel S. Brady in Department 31 ASAP and to Show up to the Sentencing on Friday July 29th, 2016 at...
For the first time since 1978 changes are being made to the Federal Indian Child Welfare Act and how it affects families, The Act says to "protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families." Program Bureau Chief Mick Leary said the point of the new regulations is to add clarity and a consistent application regionally and nationally. He said Native American children still have the highest percentage in the foster care system. According to the State's Annual Progress Service...
There’s been a lot of political buzz this week at the mid-year conference of the National Congress of American Indians in Spokane. Tribal leaders say the next president must understand the importance of tribal sovereignty. Tribal members can vote, but the National Congress of American Indians is non-partisan. That's why NCAI President Brian Cladoosby said issues are more important than personalities. “It is up to us to educate Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the positions that tribes are taking,” Cladoosby said. “And to show not only wh...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A tiny Nebraska village that sells millions of cans of beer each year near a South Dakota Indian reservation is consuming a sizeable chunk of the surrounding county's budget, according to county officials. Sheridan County Commissioner James Krotz raised the issue during a closed-door meeting earlier this year to address problems in Whiteclay, Nebraska, a ramshackle town on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His comments were disclosed Friday in documents obtained through an open-records request by activists w...
Irene Begay didn't get the memo. A 27-year resident of Crouch Mesa, an unincorporated community near the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, Begay never received the boil advisory issued May 25 after a faulty valve began recirculating dirty water to an estimated 7,000 households. When repairs lagged, the New Mexico Environment Department issued a second boil advisory, which has been in effect since June 3. Begay, Navajo, didn’t receive that one, either. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/07...
NESPELEM, Wash, - All fireworks are prohibited this year on the Colville Indian Reservation. You can't buy them, you can't sell them and you definitely can't set them off. The ban is in response to last summer's wildfires. Right now the fire danger is moderate but the tribe wants to be proactive. “You know I think it's a great thing,” said Juan Moreno, owner of Melody Restaurant on the reservation. He remembers what happened last year very well. “You see so many people losing their homes and financial-wise and it's gray all the time.” http://...
MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN RESERVATION, Wash. - Rockets, mortars and cherry bombs provide some impressive July Fourth explosions, but too often they are set off illegally and that can make for a dangerous holiday. Vendors at tribal stands report a slump in sales this year. Some think the safety emphasis in recent years may be turning some people away. It's just a warm up to Independence Day, but the fireworks display is still something to behold at the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation. Just a short distance away from the customer testing area, dozens of...
The fatal beating, choking and burning of Roylynn Rides Horse, a 28-year-old Crow Agency woman, has rekindled outrage over violence on Montana Indian Reservations. Now that citizens on and off the reservations are paying more attention to public safety needs in these rural, impoverished communities, one dangerous bureaucratic obstacle has become glaringly apparent: It takes a year to decide to put just one new Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer on patrol. On Monday, Crow Agency Police Chief Jose Figueroa told a Crow Tribal Judicial...
SIOUX FALLS | An education program whose name became synonymous with scandal in South Dakota last year is attempting a fresh start under new leadership. GEAR UP, a national program aimed at helping low-income students get to college, was run in the state by Mid-Central Education Cooperative until a murder-suicide last September left six people dead and spurred an investigation that uncovered more than $1 million in embezzled funds. While three former program administrators await criminal trials, Black Hills State University in Spearfish is...
“I have been in trouble for drinking, selling weed and beating up people since I was fourteen, and by the age of sixteen I was already in jail.” That was Wendell Mills Jr.’s life up until a year ago. In July of last year, two months after his release from a six month term in juvenile detention, his life unexpectedly took a new direction. Wendell, a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (UMUT) in Towaoc, Colorado, who is now 18, vividly remembers that moment. “I was hanging out at the gym, when Alex Munoz, founder and creative director of Films b...
This Canada Day long week, CBC Aboriginal wants to celebrate by recognizing a few of the country's talented Indigenous musical acts. A Tribe Called Red - Stadium Pow Wow Stadium Pow Wow, the first summer single of 2016 for A Tribe Called Red, will no doubt compel you to dance. The video juxtaposes rural and urban settings, from kids playing in fields, to strong Indigenous women sparring. This summer A Tribe Called Red is taking their electric pow wow on the road, hitting cities across the country. http://www.cbc.ca/news/abor...
Firefighters with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are working to put out a 500-acre blaze burning on Ravalli Hill. C.T. Camel from CSKT's tribal fire division said it was first reported around 6 p.m. Thursday. Until Friday morning, crews from the Arlee, Mission, Ronan and Charlo volunteer fire departments also were assisting the tribe. Camel said the fire is human-caused, and started next to U.S. Highway 93 across the road from the National Bison Range. It has been burning east on the hill, and while it started burning in the...
HAVRE — A Box Elder man is charged in Chippewa Cree Tribal Court with setting fire to a house in May, killing a man. The Havre Daily News reported that Mitchell LaMere pleaded not guilty Monday to five charges including deliberate homicide and arson for the May 19 fire that killed 24-year-old Fred Bacon. Tribal police allege LaMere set the fire intending to harm his ex-girlfriend and two other men, with whom he had argued earlier. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/tribal-court-charges-man-with-homici...
GREAT FALLS — A former member of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Council has pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the tribe and failing to pay income taxes for several years. The plea agreement calls for Brian Kelly Eagleman to pay $683,000 in restitution to the tribe and the Internal Revenue Service, according to federal court records. Eagleman, 53, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls to embezzlement from an Indian tribal organization, theft from an Indian tribal organization and income tax evasion. He is to be s...
Transgender people in the Northwest Territories might soon be able to legally change their gender markers without having to undergo gender reassignment surgery. “The requirement for gender reassignment surgery is outdated and inconsistent with the majority of the provinces in Canada,” Health and Social Services Minister Glen Abernethy told APTN. “The changes in our act keep the NWT in line with the other provinces, and is progress in the right direction for transgender people.” The change he has presented to the legislative assembly is to remo...
A group of people in Regina protesting living conditions on reserves in Canada says it's not going anywhere. The protest camp for the group Colonialism No More has been set up in front of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada office on Albert Street since April, marking more than 70 days. "We've gone through hot, hot, hot days. We've gone through windy days where things blew down. We've gone through the whole gamut," said protestor Sue Deranger. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inac-protestors-say-wont-move-1....
SAULT STE. MARIE, MICHIGAN — A directive by the U.S. Post Office postmaster in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan to bring a locked election box containing ballots to the post office at 4:30 p.m., rather than 5:00 p.m., has put the June 23 tribal election certification process on hold for the time being. Tribal citizen Isaac McKechnie is contesting the election of the June 23 tribal election of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, based in Sault Ste. Marie. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/u-s-postal-service-directive...
