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The mills of justice grind slowly, but life plunges on, leaving lives blighted when justice, by being delayed, is irremediably denied. Fortunately, California’s Supreme Court might soon decide to hear — four years after litigation began — the 21st century’s most portentous civil rights case, which concerns an ongoing denial of equal protection of the law. Every year, measurable injuries are inflicted on tens of thousands of already at-risk children by this state’s teacher tenure system, which is so politically entrenched that only the court...
More Twin Cities suburbs are adding economic development directors to lure industries, boost growth and shake off their labels as bedroom communities. The trend isn’t a new one — some larger suburbs have had the post for years — but in the postrecession economy, cities that have gone without are now hiring for the task once relegated to city managers and planners. “Cities, more and more, are realizing they need to develop their tax base and add jobs,” said Craig Waldron, a public administration professor at Hamline University. “I think it...
GAMACESTI, Romania — Authorities in Romania have formally detained 38 people suspected of taking dozens of vulnerable men and boys as slaves, kidnapping them and chaining them, and forcing them to work or fight each other for entertainment. Organized crime prosecutors said Thursday suspects were questioned through the night after a raid Wednesday in a rural mountain town on the homes of suspects — members of an extended Roma family. The investigation involves some 90 suspects who authorities say exploited around 65 people with physical and men...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House on Thursday passed the nation’s first federal law that requires food distributors to label products that contain genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs. The House, which earlier this year approved a bill to ban mandatory on-package GMO labels, reversed course and accepted a Senate compromise that will force food distributors to disclose the presence of genetically engineered ingredients with words, a symbol or a smartphone scan code. Skeptics of genetically modified foods have long pushed for tighter reg...
Hundreds of people who have been removed from the Pala Band of Mission Indians are asking a federal appeals court to rehear their case. The tribe changed its constitution and enrollment laws to keep the Bureau of Indian Affairs out of membership matters. The lack of federal oversight directly contributed to the disenrollment of more than 150 people, a petition filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reads. "These days, the decimation of federally recognized Native American Indians is aided by the Department of Interior and...
After a seven-month shutdown that has taken a heavy toll on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, an Indian Health Service emergency room will finally reopen. The diversion at the Rosebud Hospital began in early December. Since then, five infants have been born in ambulances and nine people have died while being transported to facilities far from the reservation. The situation should finally change when the hospital resumes round-the-clock emergency service on Friday. Lawmakers from South Dakota welcomed the development but said underlying...
Only one major city in Canada — Halifax — staffs a police force that is as racially diverse as its community, CBC News has found. All other major law enforcement agencies across the country fail to reflect their communities' diversity among their ranks, leaving large swaths of visible minorities and Indigenous populations without representation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/police-diversity-canada-1.3677952...
For many Native peoples, the gift of a woolen blanket is a traditional way to honor and recognize those who make important contributions to the community. The blanket of choice is typically a Pendleton, manufactured by the non-Native-owned Pendleton company in Portland, Oregon. Now, however, consumers can purchase a woolen blanket produced and designed by a Native artist, Sarah Agaton Howes of the Fond du Lac Anishinaabe tribe of Minnesota. The blanket, named “Renewal,” features Howes’ signature wild rice, strawberries, dogwood and wild plum...
A bill that supporters say will improve the lives of Native youth is one step closer to final passage in the 114th Congress. S.246, the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act, creates a panel to study ways to improve health, education and other outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native youth. The bipartisan bill was approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources by unanimous consent on Wednesday, clearing it for consideration in the House. "From living in dilapidated homes with scant educational and...
For the first time since the dawn of the Obama era, a stand-alone funding bill for Indian Country programs is gaining traction on Capitol Hill. By a vote of 231 to 196, the House approved H.R.5538, the fiscal year 2017 Interior appropriations bill on Thursday afternoon. While the roll call was hardly bipartisan -- most Democrats were against it due to funding restrictions -- passage marks a significant milestone for the chamber. The last time the House passed a stand-alone Interior bill that eventually became law was in 2009. Since then,...
Leaders of the Fort Peck Tribes of Montana are accused of orchestrating a "Wino Round Up" in order to keep dozens of people away from the reservation during a popular event. According to a complaint filed in federal court on Monday, tribal leaders ordered their own officers and those in the city of Wolf Point to get rid of undesirable people ahead of the Wild Horse Stampede in July 2013. At least 31 people -- men and women -- were arrested, detained and held without charges in deplorable conditions 33 miles away in Poplar. “They didn’t eve...
The public school board in Thunder Bay is launching a pilot project this summer aimed at helping Indigenous students. The 2016 budget for Lakehead Public Schools includes funding for two "graduation coaches" — with one each at Hammarskjold and Sir Winston Churchill high schools. Board superintendent of education, Sherri-Lynne Pharand, said the goal of the project is to help students, particularly from remote communities, during what can already be a difficult jump from grades eight to nine. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thun...
Edward S. Curtis became interested in photography when he was 17 years old, back in 1885. Two years later, meanwhile having moved from Minnesota to Washington, he already co-owned a photo studio. Another ten years later, in 1895, Curtis met princess Angeline, daughter of Chief Sealth of Seattle. She became his first of many Native American portraits. In the years that followed, Curtis became more and more involved in Native American documentary photography, eventually earning him a $75,000 sponsorship by J.P. Morgan in 1906 to produce a series...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker declared a state of emergency Tuesday in the northern part of the state after storms caused flooding in eight counties. The Bad River Ojibwe reservation, located in Ashland County, has been hit hard. Several roads on the reservation and surrounding area have been washed out. “A trip that used to take only 10 minutes now takes hours,” according to Delphine Hurd, resident of Odanah on the Bad River Reservation. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/07/13/flooding-northern-w...
CHEBOYGAN, MICHIGAN — The Lower Cheboygan River was stocked June 20 with 65,000 walleye summer fingerlings by the Inter-Tribal Fisheries and Assessment Program. ITFAP has stocked other areas of the upper Great Lakes and the St. Mary’s River since 1990, but this is the first stocking in the Cheboygan area of Lake Huron. The fingerlings, about 2-inches long, were given an internal mark to identify them as a stocked fish, which will help determine post-stocking survival and future contribution to the fisheries. ITFAP plans to continue sto...
Two people have been charged with manslaughter in connection to a homicide on the Birdtail Sioux First Nation. A 59-year-old man was found dead inside a home in the southwestern Manitoba community on July 8. A 32-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman are charged and scheduled to be in Brandon court. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/birdtail-sioux-first-nation-homicide-manitoba-1.3675366...
JACKSON, Miss. - A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for assault with intent to commit murder and the use of a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, in a news release Wednesday, said U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III during a hearing Tuesday sentenced Ruben Cruz, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, to 15 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Davis says the assault took place on the Choctaw Indian Reservation located near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Read more here:...
When NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was about to go into effect in 1990, the superintendent of the Effigy Mounds National Monument in eastern Iowa at the time, Thomas Munson, stole the bones of over 40 Native Americans. The monument also has a museum in its visitor’s center that displays Native artifacts found in the same burial mounds as the bones. According to NAGPRA, if the artifacts could be linked to the bones, they would also be subject to repatriation. In other words, releasing the bones to the t...
