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ANNAPOLIS, Md. August 19, 2015 – When it comes to enjoying the outdoors, stand up paddleboarding (SUP) has led the nation in growth with a 38 percent increase in participation from 2013 to 2014, according to the Outdoor Foundation’s 2015 Outdoor Recreation Participation Topline Report. But as these human-powered watercraft become more common in crowded harbors, busy waterfronts and other navigable waterways, sharing the water with both recreational boats and commercial vessels requires paddlers to up their safety game. With many of its hal...
ADA, Okla. - The search is underway for actors to perform in a tribal production, which will be performed Saturday, Oct. 3 during the Chickasaw Nation Annual Meeting and Festival. The Chickasaw Theatre Company will host open auditions for the living history plays (short vignettes) from 5-9 p.m., Monday, Aug. 31, at the Chickasaw Nation Arts & Humanities Black Box Theatre, 201 N. Broadway, Ada. The vignettes, dramatized from Chickasaw historical events include: Civil War Wives, Brides Cost One Thousand Dollars and Chickasaw Lighthorsemen. The au...
Three prostitution cases have been thrown out this month by Hennepin County judges and the Minneapolis city attorney, who said Minneapolis undercover police investigators went too far. The officers’ sexual contact with the female suspects also drew a sharp denunciation from the county’s chief public defender, Mary Moriarty. “Do citizens want officers behaving in this manner?” Moriarty asked Wednesday. http://www.startribune.com/prostitution-case-dismissed-because-minneapolis-undercover-officer-inappropriately-touched-woman/3...
A $255.8 million government claim on the estate of the late billionaire banker Carl Pohlad has been quietly settled for a fraction of the initial amount the Internal Revenue Service demanded. The Pohlad family resolved the IRS case for $36 million, including a penalty of $1.8 million and interest of $5.3 million, according to documents filed in U.S. Tax Court earlier this summer. The settlement appears to validate the family’s contention for the past two years that the IRS greatly overvalued Carl Pohlad’s interest in the Minnesota Twins. Bef...
As Target Corp. continues to draw more shoppers and sales, the Minneapolis-based retailer has been slipping in some of the basics — such as keeping items in stock. Chief Executive Brian Cornell pointed out several operational challenges heading into the latter part of the year, after the company on Wednesday reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results. “Over time, Target has developed an incredibly complex supply chain built to serve an outdated, linear model in which products flowed from vendors through distribution centers to sto...
WASHINGTON – Even at her own wedding, Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar writes in her new book, she weathered bromides about one day running for president. In “The Senator Next Door,” an autobiography Klobuchar penned without a ghost writer, she writes about her trajectory from a middle-class Plymouth upbringing to the U.S. Senate, with stops along the way at Yale University and the Hennepin County attorney’s office. Klobuchar’s autobiography, which hits bookstores next week, is at times unflattering about her own family. http://ww...
TWISP, Wash. — Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died after their vehicle crashed and was likely caught by flames as they battled a blaze Wednesday in Washington state, authorities said. Four other firefighters were injured. The casualties came as firefighters on several fronts fought against raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state. The accident occurred near the town of Twisp, the National Forest Service said, relaying information from Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers. http://www....
RED LAKE, Minn. — Members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa are voting on whether to allow alcohol sales at its casinos in Thief River Falls and Warroad. The voting takes place Wednesday at community centers in Red Lake, Redby, Little Rock and Ponemah. Alcohol would not be served on the Red Lake Reservation and the Seven Clans Casino Red Lake....
Lawyers for the federal government are to be in court today to persuade a judge to force five First Nations to open their books to the public. The reserves are protesting the government's transparency law, which since last year requires all First Nations to post their salaries and audited financial statements online. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt has said the legislation makes financial information more accessible to band members and leads to "more effective, transparent and accountable governance, as well as stronger, more...
MANDERSON— With recent shifts in policy at all levels of government and an ever softening position amongst the general public about the criminalization of marijuana, one Oglala Lakota citizen is again reigniting his efforts to grow and manufacture hemp on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For more than ten years Oglala Lakota citizen, Alex White Plume, has lobbied tribal, state, and federal officials to grant him the right to grow and manufacture industrialized hemp. Although the tribe has been open to hemp farming in the past the federal g...
White Earth doesn't want another oil pipeline. Some 100 people turned out to a community center on the White Earth Indian Reservation Tuesday night for one of 11 public hearings across the state on a pipeline replacement project proposed by Enbridge Energy. The Calgary-based energy company wants to re-route a 50-year-old oil pipeline known as Line 3 from its current path along Highway 2 to the proposed Sandpiper pipeline corridor, which will likely run near White Earth. The project requires a certificate of need from the Minnesota Public...
A search for a missing 18-year-old woman is ramping up on a small island just east of Ladysmith, B.C. Island District RCMP Cpl. Darren Lagan says additional resources from Vancouver Island's integrated major crime unit are being sent to Penelakut Island, south of Thetis Island, in the Gulf Island chain. Delores Brown was last seen on the island, formerly known as Kuper Island, on July 27 and was reported missing two days later. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/delores-brown-search-ramps-up-on-penelakut-island-b...
Native American protestors chased after Senator John McCain as he left the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. The protestors oppose a federal land swap with Resolution Copper Mining, which they say will pollute the environment and violate VPC http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2015/08/19/31996239/...
BISMARCK — A request by the Three Affiliated Tribes council for a federal investigation into former tribal chairman Tex Hall took another step forward Tuesday. Three tribal council members, acting as a judicial committee, approved a resolution proposed by Citizens for Change that will be presented to the full council at its meeting Sept. 2. The resolution calls for the U.S. Attorney to investigate Hall’s financial relationship with a man facing federal murder-for-hire charges and the former chairman’s potential abuse of tribal trust. http:...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Family members of a Crow Creek Sioux Tribe woman who's been outspoken about the state's handling of Native American children in foster care are questioning whether her arrest on a 13-year-old charge was politically motivated. But a spokeswoman with the South Dakota Attorney General's Office says the arrest of 54-year-old Janice Howe of Harrold is simply a case of authorities finally catching up with someone who has been able to evade an old warrant. http://www.newscenter1.tv/news/local/Family-questio...
A new Statistics Canada report paints a disturbing picture of the quality and length of life for aboriginal people in this country. It finds First Nations adults have more than twice the risk of dying under the age of 75 from avoidable causes than non-aboriginal people. Many are hoping the report will send a message during this federal election campaign. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/first-nations-adults-more-than-twice-as-likely-to-die-from-avoidable-causes-1.3196496...
HAYS-LODGE POLE, Montana—When Aloha Shortman asked her sixth-graders to find Italy on a world map during a social studies lesson last August, they couldn’t do it. One student’s finger landed on Brazil. Others grew bored and restless. Shortman quickly shifted gears, searching for a way to make a lesson on the Roman Republic relevant to a group of American Indian students in a remote Montana community. “What about the Law of Twelve Tables?” she asked, referring to the foundational Roman legislation. “What does this remind you of, in our culture...