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Gov. Mark Dayton’s trip to Mille Lacs today to discuss the lake’s walleye collapse and to explore financial and other help for area businesses caught in its downdraft is a positive step. Some will say it’s too little, too late, and that a Mille Lacs rescue visit was needed years ago, if not by Dayton, then by Gov. Tim Pawlenty or, before him, by Gov. Jesse Ventura. http://www.startribune.com/mille-lacs-revival-plan-requires-bold-strokes-from-governor/320223571/...
Call to mind an American Indian lawyer. Whatever image that elicits, it’s unlikely to equal “Ten Indigenous Lawyers,” Nadya Kwandibens’ 2012 black-and-white photo of 10 classy women in an urban alley. Fashionably dressed in leather and denim, stylish silk or a flash of Northwest Coast tribal wear, they are beauties all: women who radiate intelligence, compassion, modernity and the ability to solve any problem. And why not? The notion of an “American Indian lawyer” should inspire such confidence. But given the subliminal stereotypes that linger...
The results of last weekend’s elections in the Catawba Indian Nation are under challenge, with close results in at least two races being contested by losing candidates, one of whom is questioning the conduct of the entire tribal vote. The nation’s election committee this week reviewed challenges to the election results from Jason Harris, an executive committee member who was running for Catawba chief, and from Donald Rodgers, a former chief who ran for secretary/treasurer. Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/news/loc...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. John Hoeven said Wednesday he’s been told by sources that President Barack Obama plans to reject the Keystone XL pipeline after Congress goes into recess in August. Obama’s previous strategy had been to defeat the Keystone XL through endless delays, said Hoeven, R-N.D., but now a decision is anticipated before the end of his term. “That changed here recently and the people we’ve been talking to indicate he’ll actually turn the project down in August after we go into recess,” Hoeven said in an interview with Forum News Se...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The former U.S. attorney in North Dakota decided to take on his former employer by filing a motion Thursday to lift an 11-year-old federal injunction that prevents a man from growing industrial hemp on a South Dakota reservation. Timothy Purdon, who now works for a Minneapolis-based law firm, contacted the U.S. attorney's office in South Dakota several months ago in an effort to allow Oglala Sioux Nation member Alex White Plume to produce hemp, as the tribe legalized the crop in 1998 and last year's federal farm bill a...
Two Independence residents have been sentenced to probation for their role in a multimillion-dollar contraband cigarette network. Craig Sheffler, 45, was ordered to serve six months in a halfway house as part of five years of probabtion. Nicole Sheffler, his wife, was given three years of probation. Both had previously pleaded guilty to charges in the case, and both were sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes in Kansas City. In August 2013, 17 people in eight states and Canada were indicted after a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...
Due to facing hefty fines, the only nursing home on the Navajo Nation is at risk for being shut down. Chinle Nursing Home owes nearly $200,000 because the aged building doesn’t meet the Native American Center for Medicare/ Medicaid Services requirements. The facility, which houses nearly 80 elderly patients, is at risk of shutting down and forcing those elders to relocate off the reservation. Chinle is projected to close down in 2016 but CEO Wayne Claw says if something isn’t done soon the home could close before then. http:...
Most of the recent headlines about indigenous Americans have had to do with a certain D.C. football team, or a surpassingly dumb Adam Sandler movie, or casinos of the kind operated by the fictional Ugaya tribe on "House of Cards." And we're not saying these issues don't matter. But beyond the slot machines, the movie sets and the football fields, there are other problems facing Native communities -- insidious, systemic, life-or-death problems; the kinds of problems it takes years and votes and marches to resolve -- that aren't getting nearly...
(Washington, D.C.) – Leaders of the Northern Arapaho Business Council met with Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in Washington, D.C. to discuss hate crimes and racism in and around Riverton, according to a news release from the Tribe received this morning: “We traveled to Washington to voice the concerns of our tribal members and our own families,” said Councilman Ronnie Oldman. “They listened to our experiences of racism and discussed the shootings with us. We are thankful that senior officials in the Justice Department-Civil Right D...
The U.S. Senate Committee On Indian Affairs held an oversight hearing on the costs of Alcohol and Drug abuse in Indian Country Wednesday. One of the main themes that emerged from the panel discussion was a push to engage Native youth and the need to tap them for potential solutions. Sunny Goggles, the director of the White Buffalo Recovery Program in Wyoming, was one of the panelists. She addressed the impact funding shortages have on establishing effective treatment programs in response to a question from Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North...
The Walker administration is making a sharp turn toward more recognition of tribal rights in civil cases where someone is seeking protection from domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault. Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards in an opinion issued Thursday said that law enforcement officers must enforce tribal protective orders just as if they came from an Alaska court. That includes arresting accused abusers who violate orders to stay away, the opinion said. http://www.adn.com/article/20150730/attorney-general-says-tri...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The cellmate of Rexdale Wayne Henry, a Choctaw tribal politician who died in the Neshoba County jail on July 14, has been charged with murder in the case. Sheriff Tommy Waddell said Thursday that 34-year-old Justyn Schlegel was arrested this week in connection with Henry's death. http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Cellmate-charged-in-jail-death-of-Choctaw-tribal-6415583.php...
Earlier this month, 24-year-old Sarah Lee Circle Bear was found unconscious in a jail cell in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where she was being held for a bond violation. She died in her cell soon after the incident, and her family is reportedly considering legal recourse. Witnesses allege that Circle Bear, a mother of an infant and a toddler, was being transferred to a holding cell when she began crying out in pain, asking for medical attention. The jail staff reportedly told her to "quit faking" and "knock it off" before dragging her body into the...
Linda LeGarde Grover says she can just imagine the painter Eastman Johnson backpacking the North Shore from Duluth and ending up in Grand Portage. That's the picture she gets when looking at the new home of Johnson's 37 oil and charcoal depictions of Ojibwe life in the mid-1800s. LeGarde Grover worked with the American Indian Advisory Committee in recent years to make sure the precious paintings had a safe and permanent home at the Depot, home of the St. Louis County Historical Society. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/featu...
HELENA, Mont. — An 18-year-old Wyoming man accused of robbing and shooting three members of a family after asking for roadside help told investigators he opened fire after one of the victims laughed at him, an FBI agent said in a court filing Thursday. Jason Shane, 51, and Tana Shane, 47, died in the Wednesday shooting in the small town of Pryor, FBI spokesman Todd Palmer told The Associated Press. Their daughter, 26-year-old Jorah Shane, was shot in the back when she tried to run away, and she is recovering in a Billings hospital, the w...
The Park County, Wyoming, Sheriff's Office says Jesus Deniz Mendoza of Worland is being held in its detention center. The FBI confirmed two people were killed and a third injured Wednesday near the town of Pryor on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. http://www.kotatv.com/news/wyoming-news/family-shot-after-offering-help-to-stranded-driver/34440376...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of killing another man during a drug-fueled fight on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is scheduled for a hearing in the fall on whether he is mentally competent to stand trial. Marcel Chase, of Mandaree, is to appear before U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland in Bismarck on Oct. 14. Hovland last spring ordered Chase to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, after defense attorney Paul Myerchin said Chase plans to rely on an insanity defense. www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Competency-heari...
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE NEWS RELEASE -- Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Willard Phillip Maldonado and Austin Henry Phillips were sentenced in Yakima for their involvement in the commercialization of eagles. Maldonado, 41, of Union Gap, Washington, was sentenced to 9 months in custody, 6 of which will be served in home confinement. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza also ordered Maldonado to serve a term of 3 years of supervision and to pay fines and assessments...
STANWOOD, Wash. -- The former police chief of the Swinomish Tribe pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $30,000 from the tribe. Federal prosecutors say Thomas J. Schlicker set up a secret bank account in the name of the Swinomish Police Department, where he worked as chief for 17 years until he was fired in September. Schlicker would deposit checks made out to the police department into this account, then make cash withdrawals for personal use, according to prosecutors. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Former-trib...
Sweat, hydrate, listen up, repeat. That was the cadence Wednesday at the Nix’yaawii community school gym as Nike master trainer Benjamin Monk ran some 40 kids and teens through an intensive body-weight workout. With its N7 ambassador Jude Schimmel, a Nike crew from Beaverton made its way to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation this week to host a community workout and query locals about American Indian culture for its international brand. The purpose of the Nike N7 initiative is to give money back to American Indian and A...
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Chairman Brian Cladoosby today responded to allegations of impropriety made against the consulting firm Blue Stone Strategy Group, other tribal leaders and Cladoosby himself by Nikishna Polequaptewa, a former employee of the firm. “I learned yesterday of the allegations Mr. Polequaptewa has made against his former employer, me and other tribal leaders I respect. I have never met Mr. Polequaptewa to my knowledge, nor have I ever received any compensation of any kind from Blue Stone Strategy Group or anyone at B...
