Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Sen. Al Franken on Monday said that remarks he made more than 15 years ago — before he became a senator — about Sen. John McCain’s military service were a joke. The Minnesota Democrat’s remarks are similar to those of Donald Trump, who ignited a firestorm after telling a crowd in Iowa on Saturday that McCain is “not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Franken said he told a similar joke on his radio show, during an episode where McCain, the Arizona Republican, was a guest in 2004. Franken s...
Last week President Barack Obama launched a new program called ConnectHome, which will expand broadband access for the rural communities and make high-speed Internet more affordable for low-income families. He made the national announcement in Durant, Oklahoma, the headquarters of our neighboring tribe, the Choctaw Nation. The ConnectHome initiative is a partnership between the White House and the Department of Housing and Urban Development aimed at providing the most vulnerable families with access to affordable high-speed Internet in their...
With the re-election of Principal Chief Bill John Baker, the controversy of whether the Cherokee Freedmen will maintain their status as citizens within the Cherokee Nation has come back to the fore. Their quest to remain citizens according to the 1866 treaty between the Cherokee Nation and the United States remains stuck in U.S. District Federal Court. Marilyn Vann, a Cherokee Freedmen and president of the Descendants of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, and plaintiff in the case against the Cherokee Nation, says, “We Freedmen p...
The Native American Financial Services Association is welcoming the chance to influence a new study of the online lending industry. Tribes across the nation have started online lending businesses to serve customers without traditional banking options. Their operations will be a part of the new Treasury Department study. “Treasury’s announcement is a tremendous affirmation of what NAFSA has been saying all along,” executive director Barry Brandon said today. “Innovations in the financial services industry, like those pioneered by the Tribal...
“Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!” That’s the sound that could be heard around the South Carolina statehouse grounds last week as the state honor guard lowered the Confederate flag once and for all. But have we as a country really said “goodbye” to public displays of racism? The Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina was but one example of a symbol that had imbued a public space with a heavy air of racism. In light of the debate at the South Carolina statehouse, we asked readers to submit controversial, racist symbols in their own cities an...
The Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma is refusing to pay employment contracts that were signed by former chief Paula Pechonick. Pechonick was in office until last November, when she was ousted in an election whose results she disputed. A new set of leaders, including Chief Chet Brooks and Assistant Chief Bonnie Jo Griffith, started taking a closer look at the tribe's finances and ended up dismantling a tribal business and firing all of its employees. Among those who lost their jobs were Pechonick's son, Beau Watt, and two other people. The three...
For the second time in a five-year period, a Native American lacrosse team has withdrawn from the 2015 Federation of International Lacrosse U19 World Championship. Last week, officials from the Haudenosaunee Nation Women’s Lacrosse Board announced that its under-19 squad would not be competing at its world tournament, scheduled to begin July 23 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Team representatives opted to pull out of the global event as officials from the United Kingdom would not allow members to enter Scotland using only their Haudenosaunee p...
With the wildfire situation in northern Saskatchewan improving, many people are now heading home. According to the provincial government, almost all evacuation orders for northern communities have been lifted. By tomorrow, only about 900 evacuees should still be out of their homes. At the height of the fires, more than 10,000 people were sent to southern Saskatchewan. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/hundreds-of-saskatchewan-forest-fire-evacuees-heading-home-1.3160575...
Most of the evacuees from northern Saskatchewan have been cleared to return home. For several of them, the news couldn’t come soon enough. Last week, dozens of evacuees made a plea on facebook saying the Red Cross wasn’t providing them with decent meals. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/07/20/police-chase-away-food-vendor-trying-to-feed-saskatchewan-evacuees/...
The death of a male prisoner in the Neshoba County Jail on Chestnut Street Tuesday morning is being investigated by the state Bureau of Investigations. The body of Rexdale W. Henry, 53, of 158 Bogue Chitto Dr., was found in his cell shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, Coroner Allen Collins said. An autopsy will be performed to determine a cause of death, he said. Collins said Henry had been seen alive earlier that morning around 9:30 a.m. Sheriff Tommy Wadell said Henry was in jail for failure to pay old fines. Henry recently ran for a Tribal...
The family of a Native American man who was shot and killed by a Denver police officer more than a week ago is now saddled with the financial burden of burying their loved one. In response, supporters have launched a crowdfunding page for the family of Paul Castaway, 35, who was shot four times in the torso by police on July 12. Castaway later died at Denver Health. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/20/native-lives-matter-community-seeks-funding-funeral-burial-man-killed-denver-police...
