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WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe announced the tribe has officially begun to access and exchange critical law enforcement data with national crime information databases, a step forward in joint federal-tribal efforts to strengthen community safety, solve crimes, protect law enforcement and provide efficient services to local governments, such as pre-employment background checks. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe, located near Tucson, Arizona, is one of 9 tribes to participate in the initial User Feedback Phase of t...
Strengthening Native American Communities and Economies Deadline August 23 Apply for Grants for Nutrition Education Aimed at FDPIR Recipients (Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations) First Nations Development Institute (First Nations), under its new “Nutrition Education for Native American Communities" project, will provide grants to Native American communities interested in starting or expanding nutrition education programming for Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) recipients. The deadline for applications is T...
Sen. Patty Murray D-Wash, is "just ecstatic" about the prospect of working with a possible President Hillary Clinton on expanding access to early-childhood education, she said in an interview here during the Democratic National Convention. The two share a passion for the policy. Murray, a former preschool teacher and the top Democrat on the Senate education committee, pushed hard for the inclusion of the Preschool Development Grant program in the Every Student Succeeds Act. But it sounds like she's optimistic that she might be able to go even...
Reductions in teaching staff made as part of the Lawrence school district’s budget for next school year will likely mean larger classes for students in several grades. In order to account for the reduction of 17 full-time classroom teachers, district administrators increased the classroom threshold in third grade by two students and the teacher-student ratio at the middle schools by one student. District leaders say that while keeping classes as small as possible is preferred, the reduction to the teaching staff was necessary to help balance t...
Rural school districts in the U.S. are plagued by many obstacles when it comes to providing a quality education. But a new report says progress has been made over the last decade and stands to continue, largely through the expansion of broadband internet and a recent recognition by government officials that rural schools need increased flexibility to make the most of what they have. "From large agricultural areas in Arkansas to Indian reservations in Montana, rural schools share a common characteristic: They are called to do more with less,"...
California law lays out a straightforward admissions process for charter schools: charters, like all public schools, essentially must admit any student who wants to enroll so long as there’s space. But "at least” 253 of the state’s 1,200 charter schools ask students and their families to jump through extra hoops before letting them in, according to a report the ACLU and Public Advocates released Monday. For instance, 22 charter schools in California ask students to prove they have strong grades or test scores before letting them in. In other...
Nebraska’s first K-8 virtual school recently got the blessing of the Omaha school board, while Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Mark Evans gave assurances that the online program would avoid the pitfalls that have dogged virtual schools in other states. With the board’s unanimous approval last month, the OPS-run Omaha Virtual School will open this month. In its first year the program will be open only to home-schooled students in grades K-8, providing them a mix of face-to-face instruction and online lessons. OPS plans to hire four tea...
WASHINGTON — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as "unfit" and "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party's nominee, declaring "There has to come a point at which you say 'enough.'" While Obama has long been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involvement in the presidential race. Obama questioned whether Trump would "observe basic decency" as president, argued he lacks e...
Ana Ruano and her daughter Julissa Escobar lingered near a Minneapolis airport arrivals gate, held each other and wept. That day in late June, they met for the first time in 13 years. Escobar, 21, is among eight people who arrived in Minnesota in recent months through a new program to reunite Central Americans living in the United States with their children. The Obama administration launched it in response to a surge in unaccompanied minors from the region crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials tout the program as an orderly alternative to...
One person was shot and killed in Alexandria, Minn., on Tuesday by undercover Bureau of Criminal Apprehension officers during an investigation into the solicitation of minors, authorities said. Details were scarce on the incident, which happened Tuesday afternoon in the 300 block of 4th Avenue E., according to the Alexandria Police Department. During the undercover operation, two BCA agents fired their weapons, and one person was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were hurt. The suspect has not been identified pending notification of...
A stranger broke into a woman’s Minneapolis apartment near Lake Calhoun and began raping her as she slept, according to charges. Davon Allen, 34, of Bloomington, was charged Monday in Hennepin County District Court with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and burglary in connection with the assault on July 23. Allen was booked six days later and remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail. According to the criminal complaint: The woman told police that she awoke to find a man she didn’t know having sexual intercourse with her in her bed. When the...
Nobody was interested in spending the time or the negative energy to give Mike Freeman any flak at the baker’s dozen of National Night Out block parties Hennepin County’s chief prosecutor visited on Minneapolis’ North Side on Tuesday. A few months ago, it was a different story, when the county attorney decided that his office wouldn’t seek criminal charges against two Minneapolis police officers in connection with the November shooting death of Jamar Clark. For weeks before and weeks after Freeman’s call, protests were held in some of the sa...
Frances Traphagan has been battling weight issues her whole life. For years, the south Minneapolis mom struggled to balance work demands and motherhood. After every pregnancy, her weight problem grew. Her habit of eating on the run also tipped the scales in the wrong direction. Finally, at 240 pounds, the 5-foot-3 Traphagan chose to have bariatric surgery at the Hennepin Bariatric Center and Obesity Program at Hennepin County Medical Center in downtown Minneapolis. http://www.startribune.com/why-are-women-losing-the-battle-o...
WASHINGTON — An internal Federal Aviation Administration report more than three years ago urged greater safety oversight of the hot air balloon tour industry, but agency officials ignored the warning and later rejected similar recommendations from a federal accident investigations board. The November 2012 report, written by an FAA safety official, strongly urges agency officials to impose the same level of oversight to the commercial balloon industry as is applied to airplane and helicopter tour companies. The report cites a high balloon t...
It’s arguably one of the more controversial issues in Indian Country-the case of the Freedmen-descendants of former slaves looking to gain citizenship into one of the major tribes in Oklahoma. Cherokee Freedmen have waited more than two years on a decision from a federal judge telling them whether they can be citizens of the tribe. Invisible Nations Allison Herrera brings us this first story in a three-part series about the issue. The heat of an Oklahoma summer hangs heavy outside the Martin Luther King Junior center near downtown Muscogee. A...
Tribal members gathered on the state Capitol grounds Tuesday to protest the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline’s Missouri River crossing as lawmakers met to address a budget shortfall left by a drop in price of the very oil the pipeline project would carry. “I just hope that the lawmakers listen,” said Joye Braun, of Eagle Butte, S.D., an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Camp of the Sacred Stones members have vowed to continue their fight against the 1,172-mile pipeline proje...
Commissioners of the inquiry into the disproportionate number of indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or gone missing in Canada will be given broad scope to examine any potential factor of the tragedy, including the Indian Act. The terms of reference of the long-awaited probe, and the names of the five commissioners, will be announced early Wednesday morning by Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett, whose Liberal government campaigned on a promise to hold the inquiry that the former Conservative government refused to...
Families of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls from across Canada have arrived in Ottawa to hear how the federal government will convene an inquiry into their lost loved ones. Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett will announce the roles and responsibilities of the chief commissioner and five other commissioners on Wednesday. The $40-million inquiry will have broad powers, and commissioners can compel witnesses to testify. They will travel from coast to coast to hear testimonies. https://www.thestar.com/ne...
WINDOW ROCK - The 23rd Navajo Nation Council applauded a July 29 announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice will review the local investigation into the shooting death March 27 of 27-year-old Loreal Tsingine, a member of the Navajo Nation. "The Navajo Nation Council is elated that the United States Department of Justice has made the decision to review the investigation into the shooting death of Loreal Tsingine by Officer [Austin] Shipley," said Navajo Nation Council Speaker LoRenzo Bates. "While Maricopa County may allow Officer Shipley...
Wharton’s Jeremy Tobacman and Ohio State’s Creola Johnson discuss proposed changes to the rules governing payday loans. The payday loan industry, long criticized for its predatory tactics targeting desperate consumers, is under new scrutiny by the federal government. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed regulations to tighten several loopholes that are exploited by payday lenders and to curb some the issues with repayment of the loans. In many cases, consumers are borrowing money against their paychecks and expected to pay bac...
PINE RIDGE --A citizen of the Oglala Sioux Nation feels that his rights were violated after the Bureau of Indian Affairs seized more than 250 of his cattle over a dispute regarding grazing rights. Curtis Temple has raised cattle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for decades on the same grazing units monitored by the BIA and on privately owned lands in his possession located near each other on the north end of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As part of planning process leading up to a potential Tribal National Park, Temple lost the lease...
Authorities on Tuesday began investigating the fatal shooting of a man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Todd Little Bull died after being shot between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, said FBI spokesman Jeff Van Nest. Further details on the victim and the incident were not immediately available, he said. The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation together with officers of the Oglala Sioux Tribe police and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/man-dies-from-fatal-shooting-on-pine-rid...
BISMARCK – Recent changes to North Dakota’s voter identification laws have placed an “undue burden” on Native Americans and other voters, a federal judge ruled Monday in ordering the state to put its 2012 voter ID laws back into place. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland granted a preliminary injunction requested by seven members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa who sued Secretary of State Al Jaeger in January claiming the voter ID laws are unconstitutional and discriminatory. “Although most voters in North Dakota either possess a...
“The majority of the kids I went to school with are dead,” says Manny Jules, “because of the experience they had, the abuse.” Jules, 63, is the former chief of the Kamloops band of First Nations in British Columbia. As a child, he attended a residential Catholic school, where he remembers students experiencing physical, sexual and emotional abuse while separated from their families and community. This trauma, shared for decades by Native American youths across Canada and the United States who were sent to Catholic schools, is at least in part...
BISMARCK -- Overcrowding, meth and black mold were among the issues pushed forward as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro met with tribal leaders in Bismarck Tuesday to discuss housing challenges on reservations in the state. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., invited Castro to the Northern Plains Housing Summit at the Ramada Inn to hear from tribes about an overall lack of housing as well as a need to test home environments for amphetamines. “What I heard today is that we need to look at sometimes barriers that exist in o...
