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The Wild Food Summit on the White Earth Ojibwe reservation was held in the world’s biggest classroom, the outdoors. (RELATED: Learning to Wildcraft: Foraging and Feasting on the White Earth Reservation) In addition to attending more traditional lecture-style presentation, students at the weekend-long Summit participated in gathering and preparing wild food alongside presenters and experts. This immersive, experiential learning and teaching style is typical of how Ojibwe traditionally pass a...
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are a model of successful economic development, which many attribute to their late Chief, Phillip Martin. Sociology professor Duane Champagne of UCLA recalls how he came to understand Martin’s economic vision: Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/21/lesson-jobs-choctaw-150470...
Washington, DC - In an FTC action challenging allegedly illegal business practices by a payday loan operation affiliated with American Indian Tribes, a United States Magistrate Judge just issued a report and recommendation on the scope of the FTC Act. Attorneys will want to give the order a careful read, but here’s the need-to-know nugget:...
One of those appalling nutrition tests conducted by national experts and the feds between 1942 and 1952 saw subjects fed a product from this province....
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation Attorney General’s Office is still negotiating with Oklahoma officials on a new tobacco compact, but a sticking point seems to be the state pushing to raise taxes to $1.03 per pack of cigarettes for tribal tobacco sales....
PEMBROKE - Lumbee Tribal Council members are questioning the tribal chairman about the purchase of land near a Lumberton golf course....
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former chairman of the Indian tribe that owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino improperly charged $80,000 to a tribe-issued credit card for a limousine service to shuttle his mother to doctor's appointments, a prosecutor said Monday at the opening of a federal theft trial....
EAGLE BUTTE — When Josh McNaughton, a non-tribal member, threatened Keith Little Thunder that he would cut off his long hair a series of events were set in order that now has one Eagle Butte family demanding action from their tribal government....
Aboriginal leaders are pointing to past abuses as evidence that the federal government should let their communities craft their own education policies. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Shadow+past+abuses+lingers+over+First+Nations+education+debate/8690065/story.html#ixzz2ZsATnduC...
A Native-American canoe that was part of the paddle/journey to Quinault, Washington overturned approximately five miles north of Port Townsend on Monday tossing nine people into the water. See more at: http://alaska-native-news.com/alaska-native-news-at-sea/8960-indian-canoe-on-paddle-journey-to-quinault-overturns-north-of-port-townsend-all-aboard-rescued.html#sthash.d8grNyEZ.dpuf...
The loss of bees and other pollinators around the world is already cause for concern. Now two researchers who studied bumblebees in Colorado have added a new worry, identifying the perils of bumblebee infidelity not to other bees, but to their floral partners....
According to a report released last week by Deputy Financial Officer Kim Peone, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has a net worth of over $700 million. The report, entitled “Budget Highlights Fiscal Year 2014”, reports on the amounts of tribal reserve funds and total net assets along with budget highlights and goals for FY15....
MADISON — A federal trial to determine whether Chippewa tribes can hunt deer at night across northern Wisconsin is set to begin....
Two things were in short supply at St. Stephens Indian School on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation even before the sequester began in March 2013: federal funding, and information about when that funding was coming....
The new film "Winter in the Blood", based on the late Montana author James Welch's novel, had its Montana premiere over the weekend in Missoula....
A drunk driver was behind the wheel of a Pickstown car crash earlier this month that killed two researchers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, authorities allege....