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CASS LAKE — With a new head coach and revamped program, the Cass Lake-Bena football family hopes to see drastic improvement in the upcoming seasons. The Panthers have lost their last 15 games, their last win dating back to Sept. 6, 2013, they managed to score six points all of last season. But this year, with the help of new head coach Bryan “Beef” Sathre, the team has a fresh start and is already seeing results. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/3818312-area-football-cass-lake-bena-beefing-football...
FOSSTON, Minn.—Five people were arrested with more than $350 worth of methamphetamine Tuesday in Fosston, Minn., according to court records. Four of the five individuals were charged with drug crimes in Polk County District Court and made their first appearances in court Thursday: James Alan Hanson, 35, of Fosston; Michelle Kathryn Maruska, 37, of Bemidji; Jessica Ann Holm, 27, of Fosston and Julia Gloria Holm, 25, of Fosston. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3817917-police-arrest-five-fosston-meth-bust...
ALBERT LEA – The sparkling water that made Fountain Lake a source of local pride for decades is long gone, replaced by odorous algae, murky sediment and embarrassing fish kills on beaches in the heart of town. This southern Minnesota city, known as “The Land Between the Lakes,” became so desperate a few years ago that local authorities quietly treated the lake before each Fourth of July with copper sulfate, a chemical that carried surface scum to the lake bottom, out of sight from summer tourists. http://www.startribune.com/...
Minnesota lawmakers are expected to introduce legislation next year to curb payday lending, but finding a fix won’t be easy. Legislators previously proposed limiting to four the number of payday loans consumers can take out, but the effort failed after Payday America, the largest such lender in Minnesota, spent more than $300,000 to kill the bill. Payday lenders also opposed efforts to cap interest rates, arguing that rate and loan caps would wipe them out entirely. The state Commerce Department shows the average annual interest rate on t...
Tyren McGruder, a working-class single dad, has emerged from the debt trap of payday loans thanks to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Church members decided to do something in 2012 when a couple of payday lenders moved into their East Lake Street neighborhood. “Holy Trinity always has been very social-justice and community-oriented,” said Phil Jury, businessman and church member who started to study the payday situation with other congregants. “We felt if we could develop a working alternative to these lenders, then we could more easily press...
Roughly one in 10 Minnesotans comes from Swedish ancestry. That’s about a half-million people who identify as Swedes — ranking fourth behind Minnesotans of German, Norwegian or Irish origin. Of all those Swedes, Jacob Fahlstrom came first. Born around 1795 in Stockholm, the well-to-do blond kid boasted both a good singing voice and a good case of wanderlust. He would become a cabin boy, shipwreck survivor, fur trader, canoeing mailman, Ojibwe translator, ax-toting woodsman, blacksmith striker, Methodist preacher and early Minnesotan with a spl...
Still burning from the January rejection of its long-sought Kenosha casino, leaders of the Menominee tribe will find out this week whether tribal members want to tap a new vice to help it find economic bliss — growing and selling marijuana. The approximately 9,000 members will vote Wednesday and Thursday in a two-question advisory referendum asking whether the Menominee should legalize marijuana on their reservation for medical and/or recreational use. If either question is approved, tribal legislators would begin the process of writing o...
The mistrust Native Americans have long harbored toward the federal government has gone to another level in Navajo territory land, where residents angrily scoff at the Environmental Protection Agency's assurances its accidental mining spill won't foul the key San Juan River floodplain they depend on for their lives and livelihoods. EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy rushed to the region this week in the wake of the spill at the defunct Gold King Mine near Durango, Colo., to announce that the river system that includes Cement Creek and the Animas, San...
Thanks to the Morongo Tribe and a golf tournament, 800 low-income children are fully kitted out with new shoes, plus backpacks of school supplies to jump-start their semester in the fall. “Morongo wants every child to start the new school year ready to learn, grow and succeed in the classroom,” said Morongo Tribal Council Member Damon Sandoval in an August 6 statement announcing the annual donation. “It's wonderful to see the excitement in the kids’ faces and to know that the tournament has helped relieve some of the financial stresses facing...
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was chased off of Navajo land by a group of activists who are angry over the Gold King Mine spill, which has contaminated river water in the Animas and San Juan Rivers. According to Native News Online, a delegation including McCain and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) was visiting the Navajo Nation’s capital in Window Rock, Arizona in observance of Navajo Code Talkers Day on Saturday. Navajo Code Talkers were Navajo Native Americans who worked for U.S. Intelligence during World War II. The Navajo language proved to be too c...
ALBANY, New York — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law authorizing St. Regis Mohawk tribal police jurisdiction to include the Hogansburg Triangle, adjacent to the reservation in northern New York. Sponsors say it's needed so courts won't dismiss traffic stops and arrests by tribal police officers in that area outside the state-recognized boundaries of the reservation. The law authorizes the State Police superintendent, who currently certifies tribal officers with state authority on the reservation, to certify them with additional authority to e...
CARDSTON, Alta. -- A fire on a southern Alberta reserve has destroyed a college that started out as a residential school. Flames engulfed the Red Crow College building early Friday, but there were few details from Blood Tribe emergency officials. The building near Cardston was the former St. Mary Residential School from 1926 to 1975. The college was founded in 1986 as an adult education centre. http://www.pinchercreekecho.com/2015/08/15/red-crow-college-destroyed-by-fire...
Larry Yepez was on the porch of his home in Midpines, on the edge of Yosemite National Park, early Wednesday around 4 p.m., when the black bear attacked him. The bear got on top of the Vietnam vet and left puncture wounds and cuts all over his body, including his face and neck. “It was terrifying,” he told ABC 30. “I really didn’t know if i was going to make it out or not. He was on top of me.” However, Yepez was able to fight the bear off and make it back inside his home. He says he got a helping hand from his best friend: his Yorkshire...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jemez Pueblo doesn’t have a casino. But pueblo leaders have found a moneymaker estimated to generate up to half a million dollars a year: the traffic ticket. Over the past year, Jemez Pueblo police officers who have been commissioned by the state of New Mexico have cited thousands of non-Indian drivers into tribal court for traffic offenses. At the same time, the pueblo has sought and obtained money from a state law enforcement protection fund that prohibits recipients from ticketing non-Indians into tribal court. htt...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sioux Falls Police are searching for multiple suspects after an early morning stabbing that sent one person to the hospital, and injured another. Police responded to Gilberto's for a report of a stabbing shortly after 1:00 a.m. Officers found two men who had been assaulted. One man had a non-life threatening stab wound to the back, and the other had injuries to his face and head. The stabbing victim was taken to the hospital for his injuries. http://www.kdlt.com/news/local-news/early-sunday-morning-stabbi...
The Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association (GPTCA) is composed of the sixteen elected Tribal Chairpersons and Presidents of the sovereign treaty tribes and nations located in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Our organization was formed to protect the Treaty rights of its member tribes, to advocate for common tribal goals and to insure that the Federal Government lives up to its legal obligations and trust and treaty responsibilities. All sixteen of the member Tribes are located within the Great Plains Service Area of the United S...
As Native American tribes are struggling to cope with a toxic spill caused by an Environmental Protection Agency contractor that turned a river in Colorado orange, a letter from a retired geologist has emerged, that warned of the risk a week beforehand. A contractor for the EPA released some three million gallons of toxic mining sludge on August 5 while attempting to clean up an abandoned mine near Silverton, Colorado. The waste flowed into Cement Creek, and has since contaminated the Animas River, San Juan River, and the Colorado River in...
American Indian history includes plenty of injustice on the part of the United States government. Native children ripped from families and placed in boarding schools. Tribal designations and land stripped away. Tribal languages outlawed. Indians relocated or killed such as the approximately 300 who died in the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee. The ugly trail of dominance and disrespect still stirs up plenty of anger in Indian Country. Recent sessions in Mission were not about reliving past atrocities, however, but rather on moving forward...
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA — Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker, Deputy Chief S. Joe Crittenden and eight Tribal Councilors pledged today to preserve, protect and defend the Cherokee Nation Constitution as part of their oath of office for the coming four year term. They also vowed to promote the culture, heritage and traditions of the Cherokee Nation. More than 1,000 people filled the Sequoyah High School gym Friday to watch the swearing-in of the elected leaders and hear Chief Baker vow to continue to improve the lives of Cherokee N...
Six outgoing Cherokee Nation Tribal Councilors had in their final Tribal Council meeting Monday. The councilors are members whose terms expired, or who gave up their seats to run for other elected positions. Speaker Tina Glory-Jordan, Deputy Speaker Janelle Fullbright, Secretary Jodie Fishinghawk and Tribal Councilor Lee Keener were honored before Monday night’s meeting. Outgoing Tribal Councilors Cara Cowan Watts and Julia Coates were not present. In other business, the Tribal Council approved submitting an application for a diabetes grant t...
KELLER – In a joint effort, Colville Tribal Police, with assistance from Northwest Drug Task Force, U.S. Border Patrol, Tribal Natural Resources Enforcement and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, seized 8,500 marijuana plants at a grow-op in a densely forested campsite here Wednesday. The plants held an estimated street value of $8.5 million and was consistent with operations run by a “vast Mexican network” and was “difficult to detect,” officials said in a press release to the Tribal Tribune. “Grows like this cause damage to our tribal lands,” an...
The Neskonlith Indian Band in British Columbia has issued an eviction notice to the mining company responsible for last week’s massive tailings pond breach before a similar mine is developed on their land. Chief Judy Wilson says Imperial Metals, through its subsidiary Ruddock Creek Mining, is seeking approval for a mine in their territory but accuse the company of failing to protect lands and point to the Mount Polley tailings pond breach Aug 4. “(Mount Polley) could have been prevented if Imperial Metals had proper risk assessment and man...
A 120-mile round trip separates voters in Lame Deer from voting early and registering late, and Lame Deer is among the closest places on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation to Forsyth, the seat of Rosebud County. But the asphalt on Montana Highway 39 is just one way to measure the distance. “This journey has geographical and historical distances,” said Tom Rodgers, a tribal issues activist, member of the Blackfeet Nation and Jack Abramoff whistleblower. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2015/08/14/montana-votin...
A federal Inspector General’s office has rapped a popular American Indian mortgage program, alleging lax underwriting. But the guarantor of the loans, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs, has pushed back hard against that assessment. The HUD Inspector General has alleged ONAP’s Office of Loan Guarantee “did not provide adequate oversight of the Section 184 program, resulting in an increased overall risk to the program, including guaranteeing 3,845 loans totaling more than $705 million that we...
A Mohawk man is facing a hefty fine and jail time…. After he was found transporting a truck load of cigarettes through southern Ontario. But as APTN’s Delaney Windigo tells us now – he’s got a plan on how he’ll fight those charges. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/08/14/mohawk-man-facing-fine-and-jail-time-for-transporting-tobacco/...
