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GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The Minnesota legislative session doesn't resume until March, but two DFL party leaders are making rounds this week in the state's northwestern corner looking for public feedback. Rep. Paul Marquart, D-Dilworth, called the previous session a "missed opportunity" for economic development in the state's rural areas. "There was expected to be this great focus on Greater Minnesota ... and so there were all these great expectations, but in the end, there was great disappointment," he said. http://www.bemidjip...
WILLMAR, Minn. – With nearly 3 million turkeys normally born each month at Willmar Poultry’s hatchery, the chorus of chirping never ceases. Even for the bird flu. Still, like the poultry industry as a whole, the lethal virus has left its mark here on one of the nation’s biggest turkey hatcheries. Production is currently down 20 percent because the flu hit the breeder farms that provide the eggs. With fewer eggs in the system, Willmar is producing fewer poults — or baby turkeys — to ship to farms. So, it’s harder to restock after the H5N2 fl...
An embattled former Minneapolis department head is facing fresh allegations of harassment and discrimination in a new federal lawsuit rife with accusations of sexual misbehavior. Former deputy Lisa Dressler filed the suit against her boss, Rocco Forte, who served as the director of emergency preparedness and one of the most powerful officials in City Hall until he abruptly resigned in 2011. www.startribune.com/former-mpls-emergency-preparedness-chief-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/321507541/...
Amid all of the changes taking place at Target Corp. in the last year, executives of the Minneapolis-based retailer used its annual vendors summit to rally its partners around its transformation and announce some new digital initiatives. “We’re going to need your partnership and collaboration, and we’re going to need to take it to another level,” Brian Cornell, Target’s chief executive, told the group of about 700 vendors at the Minneapolis Convention Center Tuesday. http://www.startribune.com/target-execs-ask-suppliers-to-e...
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton relented Tuesday to months of demands she relinquish the personal email server she used while secretary of state, directing the device be given to the Justice Department. The decision advances the investigation into the Democratic presidential front-runner's use of a private email account as the nation's top diplomat, and whether classified information was improperly sent via and stored on the home-brew email server she ran from her house in suburban New York City. http://www.startribune.c...
Members of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council held a short regular meeting on Monday during which six members, attending their final session, gave short farewell addresses. Counilors Julia Coates, Cara Cowan Watts, Lee Keener, Jodie Fishinghawk, Janelle Fullbright and chair Tina Glory-Jordan will officially vacate their seats when new members of the council are sworn in on Friday. Due to the change of membership and the previous regular meeting being less than two weeks prior on July 30, there was no new business on the final agenda. However,...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye announced that he intends to take legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the massive release of mine waste into the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado. Begaye made the announcement Aug. 8 at the Shiprock Chapter House, which was packed to capacity with concerned community members living along the San Juan River. http://nhonews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=17041&TM=30411.28...
Farmers, towns and tribes slammed water intake gates shut as a sludge-laden plume from a Colorado mine spill rolled down principal rivers in the desert Southwest on Monday, prompting local officials and families to demand answers about possible long-term threats from heavy metals borne along by the spill. Colorado and New Mexico declared stretches of the Animas and San Juan rivers to be disaster areas as the orange-colored waste stream estimated to be 100 miles long churned downstream toward Lake Powell in Utah after the spill Wednesday at the...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Russell Begaye stared into a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, watching as yellow water contaminated with heavy metals poured out and raced down a slope toward a creek that feeds rivers critical to survival on the nation's largest Native American reservation and in other parts of the Southwest. At the Gold King Mine, Begaye, president of the Navajo Nation, couldn't help but see the concerned faces of his people — the farmers who no longer had water for corn crops and the ranchers who had to scramble to get their cat...
On July 18, James “Sonny” Goggles Jr., 50, and Stallone Trosper, 29, were sleeping on green floor mattresses inside a drug and alcohol detox facility in Riverton, Wyoming. The men, both members of the Northern Arapaho tribe, were at the Center of Hope to get help with alcohol addiction. Just before 4:30 p.m., Roy Clyde, a 32-year-old Riverton city parks employee, walked into the center through a back door. He passed staff members as he made his way to the area where Goggles and Trosper lay. A few moments later, he pulled a .40 caliber sem...
The Spokane Tribe has its first woman tribal chair, Carol Evans, selected by the business council in a recent election. The former vice chair of the council, Evans said in a press release she intends to continue the tribe’s development in hospitality and recreation, and further explore renewable energy. The tribe has proposed a casino, hotel and retail shopping area on land it owns on the West Plains near Fairchild Air Force Base, which has received approval from the U.S. Department of Interior but the gambling facility must still receive a g...
IGNACIO, Colo. (AP) - Southern Ute Indian Tribe elders are behind a recall effort aimed at members of the Tribal Council and its chairman. The Durango Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1gZLLZa ) Chairman Clement Frost and five council members have been targeted, including Alex Cloud, Amy Barry, James Olguin, Mel Baker and Tyson Thompson. The elders have blamed the council for a lack of job opportunities, poor communication and misguided investments, among other grievances. They also claim that the council has forgotten the history of the Southern...
The Chemehuevi Indian Tribe has filed a federal lawsuit alleging San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies are racially profiling tribal members and targeting them for traffic citations on their reservation, without the jurisdictional power to do so. The lawsuit was filed on July 30 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of the tribe and tribal members Chelsea Lynn Bunim, Tommie Robert Ochoa, Jasmine Sansoucie and Naomi Lopez. It names as defendants Sheriff John McMahon, Deputy Ronald Sindelar, District Attorney Michael Ramos, County C...
A Northwest Territories man who had an eight-centimetre knife in his back for three years after a stabbing is now suing the Stanton Territorial Hospital, the Sahtu Health Authority and a team of doctors for negligence. Billy John McNeely was stabbed repeatedly in the back, neck and shoulder in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., in 2010. In 2013, after several trips to the hospital for back pain, it was discovered the knife blade from the stabbing was still in McNeely's back. He is asking for more than $110,000 in damages for loss of income and quality of...
At the request of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Bureau of Reclamation is delegating authority to enforce federal laws on Reclamation lands within the exterior boundary of the Colville Reservation to certified Tribal police officers. The delegation of authority does not include enforcement of any hunting, fishing or boating regulations. Colville Tribal Police will join other law enforcement organizations around the Grand Coulee/Lake Roosevelt area to enforce civil laws and expand law enforcement presence around Lake...
A new study shows Canadians being treated for HIV can expect to live longer. But some groups are lagging behind. "The differences are between men and women, those that have a history of injection drug use and those that don't, and then First Nations people as a whole," said Dr. Robert Hogg, lead researcher of the study from the Canadian Observational Cohort Collaboration. Hogg, a senior scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said the study concluded that people with HIV, on average are living 16 years longer than they did in...
State standardized test scores released last month show that the learning gap between black and white students in the Duluth school district continues to widen. In math, the gap grew by more than four points, although it remained about the same in reading. It widened in both subjects between students who receive special education services and those who do not, but narrowed slightly between white students and Native American students. The Duluth School Board Tuesday was presented with a breakdown of 2015 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment...
Gabriel Whiteduck has been sober for seven years, and credits his passion for song and dance and traditional teachings for helping him heal from addiction. Powwow culture was a means for positive expression, at a time in his life when his outlook was dark. "When I first came into powwow, I was suffering from addictions - drugs and alcohol," said the 33-year old, in a recent interview with the Cree Radio CBC. "It was a way to put that down and take up something. I picked up the drum and dancing, I was able to really apply myself positively."...
(Sequim) – Emergency state money is coming to help salmon in the Dungeness River. Yesterday the state Department of Ecology released nearly 75-thousand dollars to the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe. The tribe will use the money to monitor and address fish stranding and blockages in the river. http://www.konp.com/local/10925...
Lacrosse may be most popular among East Coast schools with high tuition rates and even higher opinions of themselves -- here's looking at you, Duke and Johns Hopkins -- but the sports roots can be traced back to Native American tribes that played a version of the sport. That's why Nike designed its latest line of Lacrosse gear in tribute to the sport's cultural history. Meanwhile, our correspondent tries the sport on for size -- and it goes much like you'd expect. http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/style-points/201508/new-nike-...
