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Raymond Morris Jones, “Makaowanca Omani” (One who wanders) age 44, of Flandreau, South Dakota Journeyed to the Spirit World on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at his residence. Raymond was born in Sisseton, South Dakota to John Jones and Alvina Hill on September 5, 1968. He spent most of his childhood in Flandreau, SD. where he graduated from The Flandreau Indian School in 1989. Raymond was a hardworking man who had several jobs as a subcontractor in carpentry and construction. Raymond was blessed wit...
At about 7 a.m. Wednesday, just before officers from 14 Hennepin County law enforcement agencies headed out for a daylong sweep aimed at serving 300 arrest warrants in domestic violence cases, they got a pep talk from a victims’ advocate....
Minnesota state officials are getting ready to announce how the state's economy performed in June....
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved plans Wednesday by Enbridge Energy to boost the capacity of its Alberta Clipper oil pipeline in Minnesota as environmental and Native American protesters chanted in opposition....
WASHINGTON — Heading off a costly increase for returning college students, a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal Wednesday that would offer students better rates on their loans this fall but perhaps assign higher rates in coming years....
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to delay core provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law, emboldened by the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated....
WASHINGTON — You can drive, but you can't hide. A rapidly growing network of police cameras is capturing, storing and sharing data on license plates, making it possible to stitch together people's movements whether they are stuck in a commute, making tracks to the beach or up to no good....
The man complained of memory problems but seemed perfectly normal. No specialist he visited detected any decline....
Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is a hot ticket on the rubber chicken circuit....
One of Canada’s most outspoken aboriginal critics says he threw away his Indian Act card as an act of emancipation and is encouraging others to reject the “racist policies” of the past in their own way....
The dispute over iron ore mining in Wisconsin has taken to Facebook and includes shocking racist statements and photographs as well as threats of violence. It’s difficult to sort out either the players or their motivations in these heated exchanges. A Facebook page entitled Wisconsinites for Safe Mining, has been the home of some of the more egregious racist slurs. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/16/wis-mining-racism-and-threats-reach-facebook-150449...
June 25, 2013, was a great day to be white in the United States. In one day, the Supreme Court pulled the teeth of two laws with an excellent track record of providing remedies for racial discrimination, the Voting Rights Act and the Indian Child Welfare Act. Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/17/everythings-gonna-be-all-white...
THE headline of this article by Jordy Yager in The Hill is somewhat overblown, as the issue is rather unlikely to actually decide which party controls the Senate in 2015, but it's pretty interesting on its own terms: a group of native Americans is suing the state of Montana to force it to establish more widespread voting stations on reservations. Apparently many of the state's 50,000 native Americans have to drive over 100 miles to vote, since polling stations were established back before they had the right to vote and haven't been updated...
First Nations leaders are demanding an apology from the federal government after it was revealed that Canada ran nutritional experiments on malnourished aboriginal children and adults during and after the Second World War....
As a 10-year-old boy, Alvin Dixon remembers having to milk cows during his stay at a residential school in Port Alberni, B.C....
The letter was written in perfect cursive....
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. — Roger Yankton Sr. returned briefly as chairman of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe Wednesday, sanctioned by a Tribal Court order, but opponents obtained an emergency injunction from an appeals court which again declared him out of the office he was elected to in 2011....
At the end of June in a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court undermined a 1978 federal law that discouraged the adoption of Indian children outside their culture by protecting the presumptive rights of the biological Indian parents....
LAME DEER, MT- After serving only eight months of a four-year term, John J. Robinson was removed as president of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe....
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Native American veterans are being honored today in Fargo. Eight tribal flags from across the Midwest were part of a ceremony at the VA. The flag ceremony is meant to honor the unique and special relationship between the Department of Veteran affairs and the eight federally recognized tribal nations served by the Fargo VA. Representatives from the offices of Gov. John Hoeven, Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Kevin Cramer were also in attendance....
The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation is about 100 miles east to west and about 90 miles north and south, and for many living there, a typical trip to buy food involves a very long drive....
With the win, the USA women became the first country to win the gold medal a record nine times in this event and this was also their third straight gold medal, they won in 2011 and 2009. Leading the way for the American squad was Bria Hartley UCONN, she scored 17 points and had one assist....
Federal agents have arrested an Arapahoe man in the June 9 stabbing death of Dwight Spoonhunter on the Wind River Indian Reservation....
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services will offer the next in its series of training sessions for tribal court personnel on July 22-25, 2013, in Reno, Nev., with cases focusing on illegal narcotics. Because of a high level of interest, the Office of Justice Services (OJS) is continuing to provide legal training it successfully held in 2012 to new groups of tribal court prosecutors, defenders and judges to improve their trial advocacy skills. The training focuses on cases involving the trafficking of illegal n...