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A head shop in Winnipeg's West End is offending some people with its aboriginal name, Miigwetch. In the Anishnaabe language, Miigwetch is the word for thank you. The shop sells drug paraphernalia, such as glass pipes, and some aboriginal people are far from thankful to be associated with those items. "Our language is sacred to us. I don't want our language to be a part of any drug culture," said Robert Sinclair, who was with his 11-year-old daughter when she spotted the shop's sign on Notre...
More than 50 projects on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior are underway to not only clean-up pollution hot spots, but to return the Great Lakes to their natural state. The federally-funded Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will continue through 2014, unless Congress decides otherwise....
A small neighborhood casino in Southern Nevada has been infringing on the trademarked name of a big Indian casino in Minnesota, a federal judge has ruled....
FORT HALL, Idaho -- Fort Hall has finished work on the first step of a project that could change the face of the reservation....
WASHINGTON — Arizona’s Pima Indian population tripled in the last decade, according to the latest Census figures, but it’s not necessarily because there were more tribe members — just more tribe members filling out their Census forms....
LAC DU FLAMBEAU - The Lac du Flambeau community is bustling Tuesday thanks to a visit from Governor Scott Walker....
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Nebraska Supreme Court terminated a couple’s parental rights to a Navajo child, saying Friday that the parents did not file timely appeals, in a ruling that reversed a decision by a lower appeals court....
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that first nations are exempt from taxes on revenues earned on investments made outside native reserves....
It took only minutes for the thief to smash the windows of five cars, grab what he could and disappear....
Estimated rates of type 2 diabetes and its complications are two to five times higher among Aboriginal adults than the general Canadian population, according to researchers. However, over time, the increase in diabetes incidence and prevalence for status Aboriginals was less than that of the general population....
FORT SMITH, Ark. – With eyes that light up and a smile for everyone, people might say William Elijah Lyon is all heart. However, it’s the 5-month-old’s heart that needs to be replaced and soon....
Delegates to the second annual National Intertribal Youth Summit, held this week at the Santa Fe Indian School, are addressing serious issues facing Native American communities....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities are investigating the death of a veteran firefighter who was reported missing from a blaze on the Fort Apache reservation in eastern Arizona....
More than 150 northwestern Ontario residents who were forced out of their homes by a rash of forest fires in the area have returned to their community....
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. - A man who was holding his young son was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon on the Warm Springs Reservation, an FBI spokeswoman said....
A 24-year-old member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon as he sat in a vehicle holding his young son, who was not hurt. Investigators, including those from the FBI and the Warm Springs Tribal Police, think it was a drive-by shooting....
(SEATTLE, WA) -- A Swinomish tribal member from Skagit County has been sentenced in Seattle to five years in prison for two counts of sexual abuse of a minor, according to the FBI....
He never saw the blow coming because he was driving at highway speed. She hit him as hard as she could in his right temple and sent his glasses flying onto the dashboard. Out of the corner of his eye he saw another blow coming as he hit the brakes and steered the car toward the shoulder. He instinctively threw his arm up to protect himself and deflected the blow; she would claim later that he had “backhanded her....