Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Sorted by date Results 26 - 45 of 45
BILLINGS, Mont. – The All Nations Indian Relay Championships will take Billings by storm in three weeks time! Indian Relay fans will converge at the MetraPark Grandstands Sept. 17-20, 2015, for four days of relay excitement as well as fun, cultural activities for the entire family. In addition to the featured Indian Relay races, audiences will experience three bonus races each day, all leading up to the championship relay races on Sunday. The top 30 teams representing 15 Indian nations will compete for more than $75,000 in money, prizes and t...
North St. Paul, Minnesota (August 27, 2015) – Today Berwald Roofing and Sheet Metal Company issued this statement following the death of one of its employees and injury of another at the US Bank Stadium construction project in Minneapolis: “One of our employees injured at the stadium work site early yesterday morning has been released from the Hennepin County Medical Center. He suffered a deep cut on his leg, requiring 48 stitches and staples. Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Berwald employee Jeramie Gru...
Dan McGrath and his organization’s people are the shoe leather and the passion that could carry Hillary Clinton to victory here. McGrath’s progressive activist group, TakeAction Minnesota, has more than 60,000 e-mail addresses and 15,000 dues-paying members from every congressional district in the state. His 35-person team aggressively walked precincts four years ago and is widely credited for the sound defeat of of the photo ID amendment that was on the state’s ballot in 2012. http://www.startribune.com/clinton-pulls-in-big...
RED LAKE FALLS – A marching band and a gaggle of beaming local officials greeted Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham on Thursday when he arrived in Red Lake County, the very place he had dubbed the nation’s ugliest a week earlier in his newspaper. His visit, arranged by local business owner Jason Brumwell, set off a wave of civic pride as the people of Red Lake County prepared to show off the dairy farms, winding riverways and prairie towns Ingraham had slighted. “I’m really glad to be here,” Ingraham said as he met Brumwell...
NISSWA, Minn. – Indian treaty rights activists picked a small amount of wild rice from Hole-in-the-Day Lake on Thursday in a protest blunted by an unasked-for permit from the Minnesota Department of National Resources (DNR). The DNR surprised the group by issuing a one-day special permit to sanction the so-called “en masse” harvest, defusing any conflict for an event that had been widely anticipated and heavily covered by the media. But the activists vowed to return Friday and for many days to come to provoke a court challenge to the state...
General Mills will remove artificial colors and flavors from its fruit snacks, a particularly colorful product and a favorite with kids. The move comes two months after General Mills announced it would phase out artificial colors and flavors in cereal, its biggest U.S. product line. Axing artificial colors and flavors is part of a food industry trend toward “cleaner” labels free of ingredients that aren’t natural, or don’t look that way. Consumers are showing an increasing wariness over processed food, a negative for packaged food sales....
The state’s top wildlife officials will adopt an array of new strategies for Lake Mille Lacs in an effort to solve the problems that forced an abrupt halt to walleye fishing there in July. Next year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will ask the Legislature for money to launch a pilot fish-stocking program and hatchery so it can be ready to boost the young walleye population if that’s necessary down the road. It will ask the federal government for a permit to kill fish-eating cormorants to reduce pressure on small fish. And it wil...
Minnesota’s bear season opens Tuesday amid upbeat expectations. Though hunter numbers will be low again, many believe a good season is ahead. That’s because the bear population seems to be on the upswing. Also, natural bear foods have been in only average or short supply for much of the summer. Together, these factors could draw good numbers of bears to hunters’ baits. “Some of my baits are going gangbusters, and one isn’t,” said Dick Reese, vice president of the Minnesota Bear Guides Association “That tells me that in some areas bears are fin...
CHELAN, Wash. — Firefighters were holding their own against the largest wildfire on record in Washington state, even as rising temperatures and increased winds stoked the flames. The National Weather Service had issued a red-flag warning earlier in the day for the fires near Okanogan, saying weather conditions had the potential to spread the flames. "All the lines are holding," Bernie Pineda, spokesman for the 450-square-mile fire, said Thursday afternoon. http://www.startribune.com/firefighters-holding-their-own-against-gia...
The sight of 166 American Indian women and girls paddling across the calm waters of Lake Calhoun in the early hours of Saturday morning represented an intersection of past, present and future. Clad in brightly colored life jackets, the women ranged in age from 9 to 70 and came from tribes in Iowa, Nebraska, Canada and elsewhere. They put in their silver aluminum canoes on the south beach and paddled north in the direction of the shops, bars, restaurants and high-rises of Uptown. They tread on wh...
WATERLOO — Seneca County has the right to impose property taxes on land owned by the Cayuga Indian Nation, but the law does not allow for a mechanism to collect those taxes. That legal quandary appeared headed for the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 until the law firm that formerly represented the county failed to file a leave to appeal to the nation’s highest court. http://www.fltimes.com/news/article_1f7a3230-4bef-11e5-b1ef-7b6498e4af2f.html...
SCHURZ, Nev.—The three organizers from the Clinton campaign had traveled all the way to this small town nestled between jagged mountains and broad plains in ultra-rural Mineral County, more than 350 miles from Las Vegas and 100 miles from Reno, to meet with five people on a Native American reservation. With a small circle of folding chairs in the Walker River Paiute Reservation's Agai-Dicutta ("Trout Eaters" in the Paiute language) Community Center, the room was set up like any other organizing meeting: Handwritten posters hung on the wall, w...
SPOKANE — The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld a lower court ruling in a long-running lawsuit by non-tribal gas-station owners challenging gas-tax compacts negotiated in the past decade between the state and Indian tribes. The Supreme Court ruled that non-Indian gas station owners failed to prove that the payments to the tribes, which total about $30 million a year, were not refunds for taxes paid on motor-vehicle fuels. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/supreme-court-upholds-deal-on-tribal-gas-stati...
A state of emergency will remain in place at Grassy Narrows First Nation until the community gets answers about the chemicals found in its tap water, says deputy chief Randy Fobister. The First Nation, also known as Asubpeechoseewagong, is located about 100 kilometres north of Kenora, Ont. and has been under a boil water advisory for more than a year, but new concerns are emerging about the extent and longevity of the problems. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/grassy-narrows-first-nation-declares-emergency-over-bad-...
NISSWA, Minn. – The new battlefront for Minnesota's Ojibwe bands is clean water, and a tribal group is asserting wild rice harvesting rights on public waters. A confederation of Native American leaders, known as 1855 Treaty Authority, plans to engage the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources in a legal tussle to test the limits of that treaty. "When the Ojibwe signed over millions of acres of land in that treaty of 1855, they never ceded or gave up the right to hunt, fish and gather," Sandy Skinaway, the chair of the Sandy Lake Band of O...
Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan wants the attorney general to issue an opinion about tribal officers giving non-natives tickets on state easements. Lujan told both city and County leaders, Aug. 19, he believes Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police traffic stops amount to a shakedown of the non-native citizens stopped for traffic violations along State Road 68 and US. 284/85. http://www.riograndesun.com/articles/2015/08/27/news/doc55de2f9adf341543279473.txt...
Those who claim Native American ancestry are invited to be part of a world-renowned photographer’s display. Carol M. Highsmith, who boasts the sixth-largest photo collection at the Library of Congress, is pictorially honoring America’s first peoples’ descendants. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday inside the Colorado Building at the Colorado State Fairgrounds, descendants of Native Americans will be photographed by Highsmith. See more at: http://www.chieftain.com/news/3882654-120/native-colorado-community-descendants#sthash.llsqG...
The worst wildfire season in Washington state history could be particularly devastating to the people who have lived here between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains since long before the region became part of the United States. Like other communities in the rural hills and valleys here, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation — 12 tribes forced onto a reservation in 1872 — are fighting to protect their lives, homes and businesses. Yet while most are battling to confine the blaze to the wildlands outside their com...
MILLE LACS LAKE — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday it will create a new fisheries staff and cool-water hatchery dedicated specifically to the recovery of the Mille Lacs Lake walleye fishery. DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr announced it. Walleye fishing was closed Aug. 3 on Mille Lacs after anglers neared safe-harvest levels agreed to by the DNR and eight Native American bands covered by an 1837 treaty. http://www.wctrib.com/news/state/3827123-dnr-will-add-fisheries-staff-and-hatchery-facility-mi...
HELENA (AP) – A Wyoming man has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting a Montana husband and wife who stopped to help what they believed was a stranded motorist. A new grand jury indictment includes death as a possible punishment if 18-year-old Jesus Deniz Mendoza of Worland, Wyoming, is convicted of murder in the July 26 deaths of Jason and Tana Shane. Their daughter, 26-year-old Jorah Shane, was wounded while trying to run away. Investigators say the family stopped to help a man who claimed to be having car trouble in Pryor. They say Deniz d...
