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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Striking informal miners in Bolivia kidnapped and beat to death the country's deputy interior minister on Thursday after he traveled to the area to mediate in the bitter conflict over mining laws, officials said. Government Minister Carlos Romero called it a "cowardly and brutal killing" and asked that the miners turn over the body of his deputy, Rodolfo Illanes, who holds the formal title of vice minister of the interior regime. Illanes was "savagely beaten" to death by the striking miners, Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira t...
NEW YORK — In a new project with National Geographic, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to project himself into virtual reality — in this case, a 360-degree representation of Yosemite National Park. The 11-minute VR video , narrated by Obama, is one part paean to the wonders of America's national parks and one part warning of the threat posed by climate change. It's also a testament to how powerful VR can be when done right. National Geographic joined Facebook's Oculus Studios and VR specialists Felix & Paul Studios to pro...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Donald Trump has unleashed the "radical fringe" within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists, dubbing the billionaire businessman's campaign as one that will "make America hate again." Trump rejected Clinton's allegations, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them. The ping-pong accusations come as the two candidates vie for minorities and any undecided voters with less t...
After hours of ringing alarm bells in national GOP circles over whether Donald Trump is in danger of not getting on Minnesota's presidential ballot, the Trump campaign says everything is in working order and voters will have a chance to cast their ballot for the brash tycoon in November. As of this morning, Donald Trump's name did not appear on the sample ballot on the website of Secretary of State Steve Simon. Michael Brodkorb, a former GOP political operative and Star Tribune blogger, reported on Twitter last night that the Republican Party...
MORTON COUNTY — While hundreds are settling in for the long haul at an encampment to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Thursday that the pipeline developer, Energy Transfer Partners, does not yet have a written easement to build the pipeline on corps property. Corps spokesman Larry Janis said the easement is still under review, though the agency did issue Section 408 permission in late July that allows the easement to be written. “They can’t build the project by accessing corps property from west...
In Washington today, District Judge James E. Boarsberge said he will not issue a decision on a legal challenge by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dakota Access, LLC, the private firm behind a nearly $4 billion oil project Native people say will destroy their land and cause unprecedented damage to human, plant, and animal life in the region. From Native News Online, on the judge's decision late Wednesday: He indicated that the central legal issue is whether or not proper tribal consultation occurred...
NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. — Dakota Access Pipeline opponents prepared Thursday to continue camping near the Missouri and Cannonball rivers while legal groups said they're looking for new ways to challenge the pipeline. Honor The Earth, an environmental rights group that opposed Enbridge's Sandpiper Pipeline in Minnesota, is now focusing efforts on the Dakota Access Pipeline and looking for potential legal challenges to file, said Tara Houska, national campaigns director. Houska said there could be more complaints filed in addition to the S...
Native American activists have said they are still hopeful they can halt the construction of a controversial oil pipeline that will run from North Dakota to Illinois, after a federal judge said he needed more time to decide whether indigenous rights were violated when the project was approved. Judge James Boasberg of the US district court said he will make a decision by 9 September on whether to stop work on the pipeline during tribal leaders’ lawsuit against the US army Corps of Engineers for approving the Dakota Access project. The p...
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians are standing side by side with other protesters in a growing effort by Native American tribes to stop an oil company from building a major pipeline across the Missouri River in North Dakota. The protests, which succeeded this month in halting work on part of the pipeline, are being compared to some of the most momentous events in American Indian history, and the Diocese of North Dakota has rallied behind the cause. It issued a statement Aug. 19 in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Presiding Bishop...
CIBECUE, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) - State and local law enforcement have eradicated and destroyed thousands of marijuana plants that were found on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, a DPS helicopter crew spotted the illegal crop south of Cibecue on August 19. The White Mountain Apache Tribe Police Department also received a report that two armed men confronted a tribal member near the illegal crop. A multi-agency team was then put together to hike to the cultivation site. That's where they uprooted...
California’s ban on suction dredge mining for gold, a technique that extracts minerals from riverbeds while dumping residue that can include toxic mercury, was unanimously upheld Monday by the state Supreme Court. The use of the high-pressure underwater vacuums, mainly in mountain and foothill waterways, has been regulated by the state since 1961 and prohibited since 2009. Brandon Rinehart, who holds a federal mining claim in the Plumas National Forest, challenged the ban. He argued that the state’s rules effectively prohibit gold mining in...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Ten former Navajo Nation lawmakers have been sentenced for their involvement in misusing the tribe's discretionary fund. Former Navajo Nation Council Speaker Johnny Naize, who served as speaker from January 2011 to September 2014, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery in official and political matters for issuing $36,550 to other delegates in exchange for the same amount being given to his family. On Wednesday he was ordered to pay the full amount in restitution, The Daily Times reported (...
SANTA ANA PUEBLO – A grand slam, after all, should always represent a big hit. Last week’s Notah Begay III event certainly was the case. The inaugural New Mexico Grande Slam Charity Golf Tournament drew a field of nearly 200 players, numerous big-money sponsors, a former NBA All-Star, good food and golf, and plenty of smiles. https://www.abqjournal.com/832773/begays-tournament-generates-100k-in-charitable-proceeds.html...
Two fifteen-year-old Native American women went into the hospital for tonsillectomies and came out with tubal ligations. Another Native American woman requested a “womb transplant,” only to reveal that she had been told that was an option after her uterus had been removed against her will. Cheyenne women had their Fallopian tubes severed, sometimes after being told that they could be “untied” again. For many, America’s history of brutal experimentation on people of color is perhaps best summed up by the Tuskegee Experiment, in which doctors l...
The school year begins at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations high school in Thunder Bay, Ont., much the way it ended last spring, despite a coroner's inquest into the deaths of seven students which issued 145 recommendations in June. School starts on Thursday, welcoming students who flew to Thunder Bay earlier this week from their remote First Nations where there are no high schools. Seven First Nations students died in Thunder Bay between 2000 and 2011. A coroner's inquest wrapped up in June, issuing recommendations for keeping Indigenous...
Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd. says it is “reviewing the implications” after a U.S. judge ruled it must pay an aboriginal group $8.25-million (U.S.) in costs. Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation – which is comprised of 12 indigenous groups and located across the border in Washington State – brought a lawsuit against Teck in 2004 and alleged hazardous substances from its Trail, B.C., smelter were disposed of in the Columbia River. The group’s reservation borders that river. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lon...
Two men from a northern Manitoba First Nation have discovered they were likely switched at birth at a federally run hospital 40 years ago. It's the second possible case of infants being switched at birth in 1975 at the same hospital, the Norway House Indian Hospital. In this latest case, the two were born three days apart. DNA tests confirmed that one man was raised by the biological mother of the other. Both live in Norway House Cree Nation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/switched-at-birth-norway-house-hospital-seco...
A Pilbara police officer has been charged after an internal investigation confirmed they drove two Aboriginal teenagers to the outskirts of town and dumped them there to walk home. The officer is one of three involved in the incident, with loss of confidence proceedings commenced against the trio, who remain stood down from their duties. http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-police-officer-charged-for-dumping-aboriginal-kids-on-outskirts-of-town-20160826-gr22ki.html...
Four members of the Yaakswiis Warriors — whose members are part of the Ahousaht First Nation — were arrested this week after protesting a fish farm operation north of Tofino. "We were protecting our water and our land," said Lennie John, who drove up to the Dixon Bay fish farm — operated by the Cermaq Group — in a "tin can boat." "I put my boat where they were going to put the barge down, and they wouldn't halt. I asked them to stop, and they told me to stay off their channel, that it was their channel." http://www.cbc.ca/ne...
Wildlife managers in northeast Washington are removing a wolf pack known as the the Profanity Peak Pack following a number of cattle kills. The state faces opposition from tribes and pressure from locals as they proceed. Cowlitz tribal elder Roger Dobson said the extermination of the pack violates Native American treaty and religious rights. “Our sacred animals are our religion,” Dobson said. “They are a part of us they are a part of our beliefs.” http://nwpr.org/post/washington-state-faces-backlash-all-sides-over-wolf-killi...
Former Shoshone-Bannock Hotel Events Center manager Cody Ray Blackman pleaded guilty Thursday to the theft of money from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Blackman, 33, of Salem, Oregon, was terminated from his position as manager Nov. 20, 2014. On Jan. 10, 2015, he withdrew $2,500 from an account belonging to the Hotel Events Center without authorization, kept the proceeds and spent the money on personal items. Blackman recently repaid the money to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. The charge of theft from a tribal organization is punishable by up to...