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  • Cannabis trafficking charges laid against 2 Tribal ReLeaf former employees

    Jul 18, 2018

    Nine months after the RCMP raided the Tobique First Nation dispensary Tribal ReLeaf, and were blockaded by community members for hours, two people have been charged with cannabis trafficking. But Chief Ross Perley of Tobique First Nation says he's not concerned. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cannabis-dispensary-tribal-releaf-first-nation-rcmp-raid-1.4749035...

  • Department of Energy Issues $2 Billion Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program Solicitation

    Jul 18, 2018

    WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the first loan guarantee solicitation for the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (TELGP) under DOE's Loan Programs Office. This solicitation provides as much as $2 billion in partial loan guarantees to support economic opportunities for Native American and Alaska Native communities through energy development projects and activities. “The Department has heard from tribes that they can have difficulty accessing the debt capital necessary to finance energy development pro...

  • Navajo Nation offered up to $525 million in cash for gun company

    Jul 18, 2018

    President Russell Begaye of the Navajo Nation said the all-cash offer for the Remington gun company was made without the approval of his office. "This type of transaction done in secrecy is unacceptable," a July 17 post on Twitter read. https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/07/17/navajo-nation-offered-up-to-525-million.asp...

  • Complaint seeks $34K from former Navajo Nation legal counsel

    Jul 18, 2018

    WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators with the Navajo Nation are seeking more than $34,000 from the tribe's former legal counsel after she crashed a tribal vehicle and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. The Gallup Independent reports that investigators have filed a complaint with the Navajo Nation Office of Hearings and Appeals. The complaint was made public Friday. https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/region/article_74d8796e-e5fb-581a-bb9c-74701549ab7a.html...

  • County looks at fugitives in Indian Country

    Jul 18, 2018

    RAPID CITY – During the 2nd Session of the 115th Congress, Representative Kristi Noem introduced a bill to amend Title 18 of the United States Code. This amendment would penalize the unlawful flight to avoid prosecution into and from Indian Country, which brings up a very sensitive subject in South Dakota. Tribal leaders defend their sovereign rights while victims and families of victims continue to seek justice as the perpetrators wonder freely on the streets of nine reservations in South Dakota. https://www.indianz.com/New...

  • Barry Shaw – Israel, and Native Americans and Canadians

    Jul 18, 2018

    Very recently, I was honored with a phone call from a native American tribal leader who was, perhaps surprisingly to many as it was to me, on a visit to Israel. He told me of his passionate support for Israel. He rightly saw the Jews as the indigenous people of the land, something that appealed to his own tribal history. He also saw our modern history, including the return of the Jewish people to their land, as a confirmation of his biblical teachings. https://israelseen.com/2018/07/17/barry-shaw-israel-and-native-americans-...

  • GOP leader resigns after Trump-Putin summit: "A matter of conscience" and "duty"

    Jul 18, 2018

    When President Donald Trump returned to the United States after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital of Helsinki, he was greeted by thousands of protesters who denounced him as a traitor. Many conservatives — a group that has by and large been reluctant to criticize Trump, despite the overwhelming circumstantial evidence that he has been compromised by Russia — are starting to come around to the protesters' way of thinking, even if they are less zealous in how they present it. https://www.s...