Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The former executive director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society pleaded not guilty this week to charges of federal program fraud. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/former-women-s-shelter-director-faces-fraud-charges/article_ab5da812-b4f0-11e0-bd77-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1T7hHNKvw...
Representative Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) introduced new legislation on June 24, 2011 that will facilitate American Indian economic development by encouraging trade and investment relationships between tribes and Turkish companies....
The American Indian Foods project represents Native-owned businesses that employ the time-tested methods of growing food consistent with our respect for the land. These companies' products often sound more like the shopping list at an urban health food market: locally grown berries, organic chocolates, grass-fed beef and fine wines. This melding of centuries-old traditions with the 21st century demand for organic foods and sustainable farming reflect a connection between our cultural past and modern commerce....
CATAWBA INDIAN RESERVATION Members of the Catawba Indian Nation have elected a new chief. Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/24/2477787/catawba-elections-bring-new-chief.html#ixzz1T7jAp1kt...
The American Indian Institute for Innovation (AIII), which engages American Indian students from high school through college in a nurturing educational community with a rigorous Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum, recently received a $50,000 grant from the Shakopee Mdewakantan Sioux Community (SMSC)....
CHEROKEE — The high school dropout rate on the Cherokee Indian Reservation has been cut in half in the last two years, the school system's superintendent said this week....
The internet has become a place where everyone is on a level playing field when it comes to promoting music. The Vancouver film and video company Make Believe Media is taking advantage of this fact with the launching of RPM.fm, which is devoted to promoting Native music with MP3s, videos, streaming programming, and podcasts of Indigenous artists. The site was inspired by a documentary on Native blues artist Derek Miller, ‘Music is the Medicine,’ which the company produced for broadcast this fall on Canada’s APTN....
The Southwestern Region of the U.S. Forest Service is massive—22.3 million acres in Arizona and New Mexico with 11 national forests and a national grassland. That’s a lot of tall timber and prairie grass in the potential pathway of a single burning ember that could have been ignited by lightning or by man....
WASHINGTON – As a result of major losses caused by drought, high winds, excessive heat and wildfires that began this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona as a primary natural disaster area....
After close to three hours of deliberation, a jury on Friday found a former Fort Peck Tribes criminal investigator guilty of first-degree murder in the 2006 killing of a Wolf Point man....
Over the 4th of July I watched an Oneida boy dressed as a wedge of Swiss cheese march down the road, and I wondered, “What is art and how important is it for Indian communities?...
The Calista Corporation board of directors has voted to close and liquidate Alaska Newspapers Inc. (ANI). The Calista subsidiary for the past 19 years published six weekly rural papers including the multi-award-winning The Tundra Drums out of Bethel, the award-winning quarterly magazine First Alaskans, as well as Camai Printing, a traditional printing house based in Anchorage....
Three people have been questioned over a man's death after an altercation with security staff at Melbourne's Crown Casino, while two others have been charged over the assault of one of his friends....
Chaos erupted inside a crowded tribal casino in Auburn early Sunday morning when a 42-year-old man walked onto the dance floor and opened fire with a handgun, shooting his estranged wife, her male dance partner and her sister, according to police....
A man opened fire at Muckleshoot Casino near Auburn early Sunday after finding his estranged wife on a crowded dance floor with another man, police said. Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/07/25/1757574/casino-gunfire-leaves-7-injured.html#ixzz1T8R2DmE5...
Thunderstorms dumped hail Sunday night in Emerado and Grand Forks and damaged trees in Marshall and Polk counties of northwest Minnesota. Hail of 1.75 inches in diameter fell near Fisher and Goodridge, Minn., and Larimore, N.D.Hail half an inch to near 1 inch fell in Emerado, N.D., and Grand Forks. Large tree branches and some mature trees were downed around Crookston, Fisher, Goodridge and McIntosh, Minn. Tin was blown off a roof near Goodridge, Minn. In Crookston, a door was blown in at the Hugo’s grocery storv by winds estimated at 50 to 7...
