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PINE, Idaho — Firefighters were kept on high alert with a chance of thunderstorms in the forecast Tuesday that could pose problems as crews fight a fast-moving wildfire near a remote Idaho hamlet where residents have been evacuated ahead of a big blaze....
Dusten Brown turned himself into authorities at a tribal court hearing today in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, according to Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/12/custodial-interference-dusten-brown-turns-himself-150833...
WASHINGTON -- About 200 environmental activists gathered in front of the State Department Monday morning to protest the proposed expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline through the midwestern United States....
AMHERST — Before Kendall Scott participated in the first Native Tribal Scholars program, she aspired to work in a hair salon....
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2013 -- -Executive Director of Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) Decries Intimidation Tactics against Legal Businesses- Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/12/5643545/nafsa-directs-new-york-superintendent.html#storylink=cpy...
New York State’s top prosecutor filed suit on Monday against an online lender that offers short-term loans at interest rates of more than 300 percent, the latest warning shot in a sweeping battle by state authorities to enforce local interest rate caps....
WASHINGTON—A new study published Monday by the University of New Mexico confirmed that the name of the Washington Redskins is only offensive if you take any amount of time whatsoever to think about its actual meaning. “When you hear or say ‘Redskins’ in the abstract, it’s completely harmless, but we’ve discovered that if you briefly pause to remember it’s a racial slur for an indigenous group wiped out by genocide over the course of a few centuries, then, yeah, it’s awful,” said lead researcher Lawrence Wagner, adding that only if you allow...
In the early 1990s an affiliation of Cochrane, Kapuskasing, and James Bay’s OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) detectives were assigned to investigate one of the largest claims of sexual and physical abuse against children in Canadian history. The testimony they amassed by talking to hundreds of survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany Ontario was horrifying. The investigation provided 7,000 pages of stories that wouldn’t be out of place in memoirs of concentration camp survivors, or of individuals trapped in a country where...
The father of a Cherokee Indian girl at the center of an adoption dispute turned himself in to authorities on Monday but refused extradition to South Carolina....
ANCHORAGE, AK. – Alaska Native rights advocates say they are disappointed in the bill Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) introduced Aug. 1, for equal protection of indigenous family members under the recently approved federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)....
Recently, after South Dakota's genocidal snatching of Native children received wide publicity, one of the state's newspapers saddled up and charged out in the best cavalry style of the Old West cinemas to protect the circled wagons of the Department of Social Services (DSS)....
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – American Indian Movement West, better known as AIM-WEST, is asking for a support of solidarity to demonstrate at the Oakland Coliseum when the Oakland A's play the Cleveland baseball team beginning on Friday, August 16 at 7 pm pdt....
SAN FRANCISCO area American Indians know how to protest. Two generations ago, they were on Alcatraz Island protesting and bringing attention to broken treaties and deplorable living conditions of American Indians in the United States....
PAWHUSKA, Okla. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office will not prosecute and issue formal charges against the former Pawhuska Indian Village Five-Man Board members, announced Osage Attorney General Jeff Jones Aug. 6....
The buzz downtown makes it clear that Santa Fe Indian Market 2013 is headed our way....
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul Frank, in partnership with the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), is pleased to announce the debut of its first ever collaboration with four Native American designers during Santa Fe Indian Market this week. The fashion collection will be showcased during a panel and event held at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Friday, August 16 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The "Paul Frank Presents" collection will also be...
When the design company Paul Frank threw a powwow themed party, a lot of people were offended. But rather than just issue an apology, the company teamed up with Native American designers for a new line. Guest host Celeste Headlee finds out more....