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Key indigenous group members facing fraud, theft and tax evasion allegations Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/key-indigenous-group-members-facing-fraud-theft-and-tax-evasion-allegations-20140713-zt61x.html#ixzz37RP0hVLb...
The Blackfeet Community College Chess Team won first place at the 2014 American Indian Higher Education Consortium National Chess Championships held this March in Billings, Montana. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/07/13/blackfeet-community-college-churning-out-chess-champions-155699...
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. - The Warm Springs Indian Reservation has been girding for a potentially tough wildfire season -- and on Sunday, the signs of just such a rough stretch arrived in the form of close to 1,000 lightning strikes that sparked at least 17 fires on or near the reservation, some threatening structures and prompting a few evacuations....
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — The chances of an American buffalo being born white instead of the normal brown are about one in a million, according to Ron Nease....
Gitxaala First Nation has launched a court challenge of the federal government's decision to approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway. The legal proceeding, known as a Motion for Leave to Apply for Judicial Review, was filed in the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday....
WINNIPEG -- It has been an entire century since the canal that feeds Winnipeg all of its drinking water was dug through the peninsula where the people of the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation make their home, turning it into a man-made island and plunging the aboriginal community into 100 years of isolation, hardship and life-threatening danger....
MANDAREE, North Dakota (AP) — Growing up, Ruth Anna Buffalo would follow the dirt track behind her house into the rugged North Dakota badlands, swimming in creeks picketed with beaver dams, finding artifacts and climbing bluffs overlooking Lake Sakakawea. For the young, the lake and the land around it were a wonderland....
The election was sparked by the way the tribe handled a $150 million settlement from the U.S. government....
A village of Suring man who sexually abused an 8-year-old girl was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a federal court this month, according to the U.S. Department of Justice Green Bay division....
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD), James Inhofe (R-OK), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) today introduced the Tribal Adoption Parity Act. The legislation ensures parents adopting American Indian and Alaskan Native children through tribal courts are treated fairly under our nation’s tax code by making it easier for adoptive parents across Indian Country to claim the full adoption tax credit for “special needs” children....
Sawyer, MN (NNCNOW.com) - If the flags are raised, and if the drums are beating, then Chuck Smith must be ready....
SIOUX CITY (ABC9 News) - Officials are on the look out for an escapee from the Woodbury county work release facility....
In a news conference on Thursday, July 10, North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger defended his strict reading of North Dakota voting law. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom Resource Center, representing those with disabilities, had called on Jaeger to rethink his interpretation, which allows voters to use a small number of forms of identification. The rights groups say this has unfairly burdened tribal and disabled voters. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com:81/2014/07/11/got-tribal-id-n...
This is the final installment in a series exploring the largest demographic of American Indians and Alaska Natives–the Urban Indian. Through in-depth interviews, the series touches on some of the struggles, hopes, and aspirations of a largely invisible population....
NESPELEM — The Colville tribes governing board has a new leader....
Choctaw Central High School got got a visit from the family of Shoni Schimmel, an All-Star guard for the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. Schimmel was born and raised on a Native American Reservation outside Portland, Oregon....
SICANGU LAKOTA OYATE — Gerald Eagle Bear, Council representative candidate from Black Pipe Community, submitted to a voluntary drug test yesterday....
Working closely with four American Indian tribes and four Canadian First Nations, Les Whitbeck, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his colleagues have developed a model of adolescent development for indigenous youth, based on data collected during an 8-year longitudinal study of 746 tribally-enrolled kids. “Indigenous Adolescent Development: Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts” (Routledge), the first book based on the research, details the findings from the first four years of this landmark study, when the...
Some people in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, say they're sad to lose a well-loved priest because he incorporated aboriginal spirituality into his Catholic services....
More than half of the Manitobans who have been forced out of their homes due to this year's floods are from First Nations communities....
(Lander, Wyo.) – Have you seen this man? The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for the disappearance of Jared Little Whiteman....