Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The Semiahmoo First Nation — which has been on a boil water advisory for the past 15 years — has finally struck a deal that will provide potable water and sewer services for the community. Chief Harley Chappell signed an agreement this week with the City of Surrey at a council meeting. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/semiahmoo-first-nation-water-surrey-1.4761039...
The federal government's plan to purchase Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure still faces a potential spoiler in the form of a U.S. national security review — setting up the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump could veto the deal. According to the purchase agreement, obtained by CBC News, the completion of the deal is contingent in part on getting clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, a U.S. inter-agency committee chaired by Trump's treasury secretary, Steven M...
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who has long worked on behalf of sex trafficking survivors, has just introduced a new bill with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would establish an advisory committee to combat human trafficking of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. The End Trafficking of Native Americans Act's proposed committee would include local law enforcement, tribal leaders, advocacy organizations, and at least one Native American survivor of human trafficking who could make recommendations to the DOI and the DOJ. It...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Native American activist accused of raping unconscious women and recording the assaults on video in Seattle and Santa Fe has been arrested after police in New Mexico issued a warrant for his arrest, according to online jail records. Redwolf Pope, a lawyer who has been described as having served as a liaison for elders, veterans and legal representatives during oil pipeline protests in North Dakota two years ago, was taken into custody late Tuesday night in Arizona by Phoenix police. He was being held at the Maricopa...
Mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses in the Indigenous population, new research has shown. The research from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Simon Fraser University was presented at the 2018 AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. It showed that the strains of HIV in Saskatchewan have high levels of immune-resistant mutations compared to ones in other areas of Canada and the United States. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/hiv-saskatchewan...
After 10 years, 30 nominees and decades of discovery, the first National Native American Hall of Fame will induct 12 honorees in October. Arizona’s Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat as a member of U.S. military, is among those who will be celebrated. Many of the inductees, such as Olympic star Jim Thorpe, astronaut John Herrington and Maria Tallchief, the first Native American to be a prima ballerina, are well known and have been lauded with awards and honors. http://www.knau.org/post/native-ame...
THE United States was days from its centennial when the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought. In June 1876 the Seventh Cavalry, led by the flamboyant General George Armstrong Custer, was vastly outnumbered in what was then Montana Territory by warriors of the Lakota and Cheyenne people; the soldiers were slaughtered to a man. The bloodbath was nicknamed Custer’s Last Stand, but in truth it was the last stand for the people of the great plains of North America. Custer’s death made the American government more determined to drive the cou...
